A Guest Column on Free Speech and School Prayer in America
A column contrasts street preachers with public prayer at high school football games. It argues free speech allows preaching and listening choices, but school prayer is inappropriate compulsory practice. The author favors private prayer and criticizes turning worship into public spectacle, noting crowds can walk away.
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Austin
Guadalope Street
Buddy
America
Santa Fe Isd
Texas
Madelyn O'Hair
Supreme Court
Jesus
God
Crop insurance reform pace gains as budget talks extend
House and Senate staff advance line by line toward a final crop insurance compromise with a projected 8.15 billion dollars for 2001 to 2005. The plan presumes federal expenditures to nearly double in 2001 with producers benefiting from higher subsidies. An additional 5.5 billion for FY2000 disaster relief and 1.6 billion for FY2001 are authorized, with funds to be spent by October 1, 2000. Richard Newman becomes TBWEF Abilene HQ Chief Administrative Officer, bringing USDA experience. Boll weevil trapping enters sixth year as PCG and Texas Extension monitor 1,000 traps in 27 High Plains counties and publish weekly data. eradication zones show declines except Northern and Southern zones awaiting fall referenda.
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Congress
Shawn Wade
House
Senate
Conference Committee
House of Representatives
High Plains
Reflections on Easter and the risen Jesus
Sunday Easter message emphasizes the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the core reason for celebration. It contrasts fear with joy, notes the empty tomb, and urges readers to believe, check the evidence, and share the joy by inviting others to a new life in Christ.
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Jesus
Galilee
Christ
Buddha
Mohammed
Confucius
Jesus Christ
Lord
God
Talk of Texas political parleys and Texan lore
Jack Maguire surveys Texas history and quirky legal notes from Davy Crockett to Galveston piracy. Highlights Crockett in Texas, Anson Jones debt humor, a fighting cock ruling, Lafitte’s early Galveston, five one-town counties, Odessa meteor crater, and a wry El Paso Bible note.
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Jack Maguire
Davy Crockett
United States
Texas
Tennessee
Congress
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Crockett
Whigs
Martin van Buren
Johnson
Davy
Mexico
Sam Houston
Houston
William B. Travis
Alamo
Anson Jones
Republic of Texas
Washington-on-the-Brazos
Galveston
Jean Lafitte
Galveston Island
Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda
Lafitte
University of Texas Medical School
James Monroe
U.S
Yucatan
Crane County
Crane
Crockett County
Ozona
Loving
Mentone
Schleicher
Eldorado
Sutton County
Sonora
Odessa
Ector County
America
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