IN 1999 -- a lifetime ago, it now seems -- four Kingwood High School students, young women, started robbing convenience stores. They called themselves the "Queens of Armed Robbery."
Continue reading "JUNE 25 / David Edgar Hancock (March 26, 1970 - June 25, 2000)" »
BECAUSE everyone needs a rural hometown, I lend you mine. From Garrison in the News, May 28, 2009:
Obituary, "Jimmy Carrell Simms."
Funeral service for Jimmy Carrell Simms, 57, of Garrison was held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 25, 2009 at First Methodist Church, Garrison with Rev. Jean Ferraro officiating.
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IF DEMOGRAPHY is destiny, it is the destiny of young men in China to be very, very lonely. The one-child policy plus gender-specific abortion -- a curiously neutral label for scraping little girls out of wombs -- equals China with a reported surplus of 32 million men under the age of 30.
Continue reading "JUNE 9 / Supply and demand at work in China's marriage market" »
Editorial, "Plea for dialogue," Houston Chronicle, May 20, 2009:
[President Obama] recounted a letter he had received after winning the Democratic presidential nomination from a doctor who described himself as a pro-life Christian.
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FROM Garrison in the News, March 26, 2009:
- Every week GITN features a page-one picture of Lexie Nichols, a beautiful preschooler who has endured and prevailed -- week by week -- over cancer. This week she is pictured smiling broadly in a flower-girl dress. "Proverbs 15:13 reads, 'A happy heart makes the face cheerful.'" (Cutline)
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DAVID Edgar Hancock was born on March 26, 1970. Here is something I wrote about him nine years ago.
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THE KIPP schools started in Houston. A new book (Work Hard. Be Nice.) tells the story and explains the success. The secrets?
Continue reading "MARCH 18 / New book on KIPP schools" »
WANT TO SEE what a conversation on race really looks like? Then click through to Stuart Taylor, Jr.'s, response to AG Eric Holder's race-baiting jeremiad of early February. Samples:
Continue reading "MARCH 2 / "Back atcha, Mr. Holder": Stuart Taylor edition" »
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
Continue reading "FEBRUARY 26 / Back atcha, Mr. Holder" »