The ugly truth is that while Americans, especially those in the white establishment, shake their heads and maybe even shed some tears over the 10 Black people gunned down in Buffalo over the weekend in another apparently racially motivated attack, we’re growing accustomed to the virulent white supremacy that may have driven it.
We renew our support for the Student Journalist Free Speech Act, a bill in the New York state Legislature that would protect young people’s right to express themselves in school-sponsored publications.
Imagine a successful small-business owner who wants to run for Congress. To jump-start his campaign, he might lend it some money. Once fundraising gets going, it can pay him back. But the law says donations arriving after Election Day may repay only $250,000 of candidate debt. If the businessman loans his campaign more than that amount, he’s taking a real financial risk.
Dear Abby: My husband’s job brings him a great deal of unhappiness, but he doesn’t want to quit. He has been a high school Spanish teacher for 13 years. It’s the only career he’s ever known. There have always been ups and downs, but the problems over the past few years seem to be that the majority of kids at his school, and the school environment in general, has become increasingly apathetic, dysfunctional and lacking in civility.
Dear Dr. Roach: I have a question for your column. What is the number of LDL cholesterol that would necessitate taking statins? I am an active 51-year-old female and weigh 126 pounds at 5 feet, 2 inches tall. I eat a healthy diet and avoid trans fat. My total cholesterol is 260, LDL is 173 and HDL is 67. I have had high LDL since I was a teenager. My blood pressure is 123/77. My general practitioner prescribed a low-dose statin (Crestor 5 mg). My cardiologist said that statins will lower my cholesterol but that it does not ensure I will be protected from a heart attack or stroke.
“What about the rest of the North?” asked McGeorge Bundy, President of the Ford Foundation, back in the 1970s. Following policy, he and the other officers were considering yet one more sizable grant to help the troubled Native Americans of Alaska.
Despite its odd title, the Texas Railroad Commission is all about regulating the oil and gas industry. Given 2021’s Snowmageddon’s power grid failure and a possible energy crisis due to a scorching summer, the commission could use a disruptor to the old ways of doing business.
Republican politicians, including some of the party’s top leaders, openly espouse versions of a white supremacist conspiracy theory holding that an orchestrated effort is underway to displace white Americans. A recently published poll found that almost half of Republicans believe that immigrants are being brought to the United States as part of such an effort.
This hot weather has me going a little mad already. Can you all imagine what I am gonna be like come September when the heat really sets in? Goodness I don’t want to think about.
Exodus 20:8-11 ESV I think most of us in western society are pretty exhausted. We have been working long hours, long weeks, overtime, and some of us have been taking vacation pay instead of taking vacation.