The nation doesn’t need another McCarthy-like hysteria

When we have the report, it won’t end

I write this at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, March 24, before the disclosure of any details of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on whether President Donald Trump colluded with the Russians. I predict the controversy will not go away, but will be heightened by the report as the two factions pick and choose findings to believe or discredit as they support their preferred political positions.

Just as the controversy over President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and college records persists, so will the Trump-Russian collusion charges. Facts don’t matter in extremist partisan politics.

Hang on to your hat. The ride is only going to get rougher.

There’s still one big question out there

Well, apparently special counsel Robert Mueller doesn’t know either, or if he does, he’s following Department of Justice guidelines and not telling. (March 25, 1A, “Mueller sees no collusion, stops short of exoneration”)

So, can somebody, anybody, tell me why President Donald Trump acts as if he is subservient to Russian President Vladimir Putin?

Wrong regardless of the party

We have been lectured for decades about the dangers of allowing folks such as Sen. Joe McCarthy to run rampant over Hollywood stars and other citizens who might have been doing nothing more than standing in a different philosophical place.

He was relentless. He was wrong. The Democrats were on the right side of that one.

One could wish that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report would settle things just a bit. But, no — all it will do is provide a pause while the socialist Democrats move the goalposts again.

Instead of McCarthy, it will House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Reps. Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler and Sen. Chuck Schumer who will lead the charge to take back that to which they think they are entitled.

I don’t mind if socialist Democrats are wrong. I just don’t want to see them point fingers and scream “McCarthyism” at folks who take issue with their political agenda.

Good luck with that.

No more property taxes for this

So, according to a commentary in the March 17 Star-Telegram, Dallas Cowboys legend Roger Staubach and 43 other successful businesspeople — many of whom are millionaires, I am sure — want us taxpayers to fork over more than $1 billion because we now have more students with higher needs than a decade ago. Really? (5B, “Texas must fund schools, literacy for future workforce, prosperity”)

A news story on the front page March 18 said that Fort Worth Independent School District’s student population now is 62 percent Hispanic, many of whom do not, of course, speak English as a first language. (“Fort Worth students urged to use holiday to follow in Huerta’s steps”) Ergo the poor performance statistics.

Solution No. 1: Send any Hispanic immigrants who broke our immigration laws back to where they came from.

Solution No. 2: Have the 44 authors of the column who want all of this pony up $27 million each to pay for it.

The majority of our current property taxes already go to school funding. As a disabled retired U.S. Army enlisted man who never had any children enrolled in any Texas school, I think property taxes are already breaking our backs.

Enough is enough.