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Editorial: At 250, beckoned to our racist beginnings

June 29, 2026June 29, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Call them Justice Roberts and the Colonials. “Original intent”? Truly, they are of another era. When the butter churn was high-tech. When whittlin’ and fiddlin’ were …

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Editorial: Winner of this war? Big Oil, of course

June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young For the last four months, every time I gritted my teeth to refuel the car, I recalled a memory from three years ago: “Biden did this” stickers slapped …

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Editorial: Mind-eating parasite spreads Big Lie

June 15, 2026June 15, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young “Parasite (n): organism that lives on or in another organism (its host) and benefits by taking nutrients at the host’s expense.” Such life-sucking lifeforms are the …

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Editorial: ‘No conflicts of interest,’ say MAGA robots

June 9, 2026June 9, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Nothing could be more debasing than to have fighters extract blood from each other on the White House lawn while fat cats urge them on. Or …

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Editorial: Paxton is just the right amount of slimy

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Ken Paxton. What can you say? To start out, say he can lie with the best. And by “best,” you know who that is. That would …

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Editorial: ‘A big fish in a fetid, shallow pond’

May 26, 2026May 26, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young As aggressively as they eat, they aren’t good eating. Filet one. I dare you. Their innards have the consistency of a wrestling mat. And the aroma. …

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Editorial: Secretary Google and his quack laboratory

May 18, 2026May 18, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Define “we,” Mr. Secretary. The secretary of health — standing behind the president, who was nearly awake — stepped lively to field a question about the …

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Editorial: ‘Useful idiots’: news media edition

May 11, 2026May 11, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Before getting to what a brazen billionaire has in mind for CBS News and CNN, let’s talk about Stephen Colbert. Colbert’s show goes off the air …

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Editorial: Republicans earn new initials with race politics

May 4, 2026May 4, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young In January, unless something happens akin to a New York Jets’ Super Bowl victory, the U.S. House of Representatives will have no black Republicans. And a …

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Editorial: Turning Point USA chose its master

April 27, 2026April 27, 2026 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Baylor University’s Waco Hall is cavernous. At 2,200 seats, it can make one feel grand or small, depending on the moment. The grand: Art Garfunkel sings …

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