Opinion

This week we will explore the second and third statements that came out of the Protestant Reformation. The statements we will explore this week are affirmed by the first statement we explored last week, Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone).

A year after the first COVID-19 shutdown, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act, the $1.9 trillion coronavirus legislation that has little to do with coronavirus at all.

While justified criticism about President Biden’s border fiasco rages on, an interesting and significant legal action has gone largely unnoticed.

Now that spring weather finally arrived across the state, many Texans are preparing for spring cleaning. Not so fast, advises Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service integrated pest management specialist Janet Hurley who says pest management should be high on the list of cleaning activities.

Dear Neil: We have had zoysia for 12 years, and have been very satisfied. However, for the past few years, a dead spot has been showing up. It is creeping down the hill in spite of my applications of a lawn fungicide as recently as just a few days ago.

You can’t escape politics anywhere now, not even in America’s once great pastime, baseball. A pastime, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is “something that amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably.” Boy, did the Pittsburgh Pirates accomplish that for me most of my early life.

This is almost too easy but I can’t resist. I was going to write a column about President Biden’s dog, Major, biting people, also among the lowest of the hanging fruits. “President’s dog a Major pain.” It writes itself.

This week we will be exploring the first statement to come out of the Protestant Reformation - Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone).

As the border conditions worsen, concerned Americans wonder where and when the crisis will end. If left unchecked, President Biden’s existing come-one, come-all policy will allow about 1.2 million illegal immigrants to settle in the U.S.

I need someone to tell me what’s happening. Not a tinted version of events but what’s really happening. I make the request because mainstream (if there is such a thing) news outlets seem to fundamentally disagree about what’s important.