“Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us,” wrote Dr. Benjamin Rush. Rush was one of the leading scientific and medical minds of the colonies, alongside Ben Franklin.

Why, in 2026, are we still fighting for rights already won — the right to vote, equal pay, the Equal Rights Amendment Congress refuses to recognize as ratified?

Alan Turing, perhaps, did as much to personally win World War II as anyone alive then.

Children are doing without in the richest country in the world. Now that is a real disgrace.

In 1789, President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton, already a successful lawyer, banker, and veteran as the first Secretary of the Treasury.

Over the last three and half years our elected County Judge has learned little from the people he has served in Fannin County.

Alexander Hamilton, whose influences include savings bonds, newspapers, and even the U. S. Constitution, pushed through new and controversial ideas to a skeptical nation that still impacts America more than two centuries later.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) authored the following op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman arguing that closing the Texas Republican primary would be a mistake for the party and our nation's democratic republic.

Sam Rayburn once observed, “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible,” said Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Such words describe the life of Gen. William O. Darby, a hero of World War II.

After reading your latest editorial, I think you are right, Judge Cunningham...."It's just politics."

“I must study war and diplomacy so that my children may study mathematics and science so that their children may study art and philosophy.” - John Adams