UNCA D no longer subscribes to The Houston Chronicle. I have long objected to the newspaper's hard-left progressive voice on politics, economics, culture, and religion. Still, I would have kept buying the paper, but for the editorial board's decision last year -- in lockstep with progressive elites on the coasts and campuses -- to mock and condemn Christians and other religious believers for daring to offer prayers in response to crises of the day. Live-and-let-live gave way to our-way-or-the-highway. The board's contempt for traditionalists and conservatives was no longer hidden.
One item in my bill of particulars against the Chronicle's editorial board was its years-old antipathy toward traditional American holidays.
For years, the Chronicle has demeaned the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and other rites from the calendar of America's civic and religious traditions -- often by silence, other times by hijacking the day to whine about one triviality or another.
Never, ever did the modern Chronicle simply celebrate, happily, noisily, and [unself-consciously], with its readers. That would have gone a long way toward creating a bond between the newspaper and those it purports to serve: "We may have our differences on one issue or another, but [on] this day let's put them aside and celebrate the ideas and values we share."
This year the Chronicle still could not help from soiling its editorial on Independence Day with another predictable diatribe against President Trump. Still, for the first time in my recent memory, the editors said the right things about . . .
