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Texas is known for being a fossil fuel producing leader. According to the State Comptroller, our state is the largest producer of oil in the USA (43%) and natural gas (25%). But Texas is not solely a fossil fuel leader. Additionally, 26% of the nation’s wind energy is produced in Texas with large solar installations on the rise. Indeed, if Texas was a country, it would rank 5th in the world in wind energy production behind China, the United States, Germany and India.
Read moreAs owning digital property becomes the norm, estate plans need to employ new strategies.
Read moreBig Tech lawyers are riding high. A Delaware judge recently delivered a lengthy memo trampling the American justice system and supporting Big Tech’s longstanding efforts to crush smaller entrepreneurs.
Read moreThere were more homicides in the U.S. in 2021 than in the previous 20 years, according to an article in The Washington Post by two prominent professors of criminology, Dr. Aaron Chalfin and Dr. John MacDonald.
Read moreYour television blares out the warning: “A lion is loose in the neighborhood. Watch out, he is a killer.” Immediately posses are organized, guns are passed out, and the neighborhoods are searched for the killer. Then others, opposing the TV warning, try to defuse the incident: “That cat is just a little pussy cat. Feed him some milk and he is just a little kitten”.
Read moreBecause critical race theory is the most divisive doctrine ever to threaten America's schools, it has spawned a great parent revolt, which has turned ordinary moms and dads into extraordinary heroes.
Read moreThere’s an old hymn we’ll sing in church every now and then called trust and obey.
Read moreThe South of the United States, from early 1800s through turbulent growth amid the Jackson and Polk regimes, up to and including the 1860s, can be simplistically described as a racio-regional police state run by a small number of oligarchic plantation and business owners in each of these states. Lower classes--enslaved blacks and poor whites-were kept subservient and largely dependent on cotton, the eventual main economic driver during that century and much of the next. I stated in my previous column that the particular system of controlling people and money over this entire time and region can also be labeled an early emanation of what we now call fascism. Granted this is a more-than-fair mouthful to swallow, please allow me now to explain how and to what extent this overall arrangement I have labeled fascistic existed and prevailed well past the mid-1900s, before anyone had ever heard the term and before the conditions developed to the extent we faced during the 20th century and now again in the 21st century.
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