Unca Darrell

JULY 11 / The Economist on Texas and California

I'LL COME back soon with a review of the contents, but the cover art for this week's Economist ("America's future: California v Texas") is too good to hold for later.

JUNE 15 / Once more: The Chronicle doesn't much like Texas as it is

TEXAS IS in better shape than most other states. While people move out of California, New York, and other tax-and-spend-and-regulate jurisdictions, people move to Texas. We must be doing something right, right?

I don't have time to do a full takedown, but look at last Thursday's Chronicle editorials. They offer typical examples of how clever people think the only thing wrong with Texas is that it's not California or another more enlightened state.

JUNE 10 / Soundtrack for 42 years

 

A, weh, uh, weh, uh, well,

The little things you say and do

Make me want to be with you.

Rave on, it's a crazy feelin',

And I know it's got me reelin',

when you say, "I love you."

Rave on.

JUNE 8 / Like desperadoes

TODAY we kick off intimations-of-mortality week with "Desperadoes Waiting for a Train," performed by Waylon, Willie, Johnny, and Kris, off Highwayman (1985). 

One day I looked up, and he's pushin' eighty,

And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin.

To me he's one of the heroes of this country,

So why's he dressed up like them old men,

Drinkin' beer and playin' moon and forty-two?

JUNE 1 / We're No. 5! We're No. 5!

HOW FREE is Texas?

Fifth among the fifty states, according to a February report by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University: Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom. 

MAY 22 / Chronicle says something nice about the free market . . .

. . . in India.

[India's election, which removed communists from the governing coalition] frees the Congress Party to offer even more robust support of the country's innovative, sophisticated free-market economy.

MAY 18 / More on Ted Cruz

Mark Hemingway, "Cruz Control: A Republican Star Rises in Texas," nationalreview.com, May 4, 2009.

APRIL 22 / More Garrison in the News

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)

APRIL 18 / Once more into the breach

THE BUSH-CLINTON Coastal Recovery Fund is still banging the tin cup. Today would be a good time to give a few bucks. Then hug your kids.

APRIL 17 / More from "Garrison in the News"

FROM Garrison in the News, January 29, 2009:

PAGE ONE: Jo Ann Barton, "January Joys and Sorrows," a profile of Bro. Travis Lunsford and wife Lavernie. The heart of the story is an account of the death of their son.

Darrell Lunsford was shot and killed while on a traffic stop. [He] found marijuana in the trunk of the . . . vehicle. The three suspects then jumped Constable Lunsford and shot and killed him with his own service weapon.