I hope I am not the only reader who noted the sad irony of these two articles on the same page of the Statesman.
Paxton is so concerned about women’s “safety” in locker rooms and changing rooms.
Can he not see the connection between uninsured Texans and safety?
Women, girls and even men, would feel a lot safer if they had comprehensive, affordable healthcare that couldn’t be taken away from them.
To all parents: Your children, young or old, will be the future of this country.
When they reach the age that they start thinking critically about what America has gone through in the Trump era, are you prepared to answer this question?
What did you do to try and stop this great country from becoming something other than a land of the free?
I send this to all of you, not as a threat, but as an invitation to change.
This is your country, don’t let them take it away from you.
The letter writer argued that students without legal status should not be eligible for in-state tuition just as students from Arkansas or Germany would not be.
Those Texas Dream Act students live in the state and pay state taxes — sales, gasoline, property (as part of their rent if they are renters, on their property if they own it).
Investing in young Texans, whatever their citizenship or immigration status, can bring benefits to the state and is only fair.
The political cartoon by artist Lisa Benson uses the hammer and sickle symbol on a wrecking ball on which the word socialism is written.
I get that many think socialism and communism are the same, and especially repugnant as ideologies of longtime adversaries of the U.S. The cartoon follows a recent speech by President Donald Trump to a Christian group where he launched what is evidently the most recent midterm election strategy of aligning Democrats with communists.
I suppose, because of this, the symbol in the cartoon struck a nerve.
Like words, symbols matter.
I want to believe people will start to reject such obvious fear- and hate- mongering.
It is a false premise that those who don’t support Trump are anti-Christian. The only danger our beliefs pose to one another is if we let others make us believe that.