The phrase “The chickens have come home to roost” is an idiom that, simply put, means the consequences of one’s actions are catching up to them. Only five months into President Biden’s presidency, in June of 2021, Texas Senator John Cornyn defied the majority of Texans’ position on the Second Amendment by co-authoring Senate Bill 2938 with liberal Democrat Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.

This week marks a day of infamy for the city of Lampasas. Most people don’t know it, but on May 1, 2004, the Lampasas Economic Development Corp.

In his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, President George Washington reached a stirring conclusion: “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.”

The explosion of violent antisemitic protests on college campuses is just the latest in a series of self-inflicted black eyes for higher education in the United States. In March last year, a group of students at Stanford Law School shut down a talk by federal Judge Kyle Duncan, screaming vulgar epithets and refusing to allow him to speak.

The terrorist Iranian regime’s unprecedented recent attack on Israel -- which included 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles -- is an unambiguous act of war under international law.

Father God, we call to Your remembrance the commitment that the Pilgrims made to You. You brought them from bondage and guided them to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where survival was possible. You sent Squanto, a native man, to teach them survival skills. During terrible hardships, You were their source of strength. Honor goes to You and remembrance to them with the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth. May “we, the people” take heed to the lessons on the monument for national survival.

The structure of the American government was designed by the Founders to prevent raw majoritarianism: the three branches of government and their checks and balances, the allocation of power between the state and federal governments, constitutional limits on the federal government’s power, the differing composition of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and the Electoral College.

The ancient Chinese military theorist Sun Tzu taught that a battle is won before it is fought because it is won by choosing the terrain on which it will be fought. If former President Donald Trump and other Republicans on the ballot this fall want to win, they must choose the proper terrain.

Back on May 30, 2023, after then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy cut a deal with President Joe Biden to suspend any limit on the federal debt through all of 2024, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised the deal as an act of “responsible” government.

California’s $20/hour minimum wage for fast food workers went into effect this month, and the early results are negative. Companies affected by the law are laying off workers, putting off needed capital improvements and raising prices. Some are closing their doors altogether or opening restaurants only in other states. Keep in mind that these companies already have dealt with post-COVID-lockdown business losses, homelessness, crime, retail theft and loss of customers as people move out of the state’s most populous cities. When I posted a critical Washington Examiner article on my Facebook page, a friend remarked that he understood the objections, but something needed to be done to address the problem of affordable housing for the working poor in California. The sentiment “We have to do something” drives disastrous decisions. Sentiment isn’t sense. Feelings aren’t facts. Politicians exploit voters when emotions run high. They get elected on facile promises to “solve” deeply entrenched problems. And then, when they enact policies that worsen those problems (and create others), they protest that their intentions were good. That’s not good enough.