A Rangers season without Jeff Banister and Steve Buechele ?

No way back after these losses

After the Rangers’ 12-4 opening-day loss to the Chicago Cubs, it makes you wonder how the fans can deal with the losses of manager Jeff Banister, coach Steve Buechele and player Adrian Beltre.

Expect 110 more losing games.

We need a legal stop sign here

I am a 1977 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, and I think red-light cameras are a violation of rights.

Several years ago, I got a red-light camera ticket in Hurst. I appeared for trial in front of the judge, and she found me guilty after I showed I clearly had stopped before making a right turn on red.

After the pseudo-trial, I tried to appeal. But Hurst said I had to appear in person with $75 cash. (My law firm’s check is accepted in every other court in Texas.)

I called Hurst Mayor Bill Souder and told him these cameras are for corporate profits and take work away from police departments. He was sympathetic but reluctant to part with a revenue source that requires few city resources.

Kudos to state Rep. Jonathan Stickland for leading the fight against these hideous, unconstitutional, private-profiteering red-light camera corporations.

Irony almost too thick for words

I recently received an email from Rep. Kay Granger. In it she accuses some of using irresponsible language in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation:

“Words matter. They can be used as an accelerant to stoke the flames of emotion or they can be used to de-escalate violence and promote peace. I have watched the words of some in the media and leaders of the (Democratic) Party used to incite hatred and anger. It is unacceptable.”

I agree with the congresswoman that words are important and I, too, am disconcerted by some of the language I have heard recently. But during the past two years, President Donald Trump has on innumerable occasions told untruths to the American people, and on an almost daily basis he mocks and disparages individuals or groups he doesn’t like.

Granger has been strangely silent.

I expect stronger leadership from my representatives in Congress.

Electoral College protects us all

Recently, there was a letter to the editor advocating abolishing the Electoral College. The reasoning was that if the popular vote had been used, our current president wouldn’t be under a cloud of allegations of potential criminal conduct.

Unbelievable. That would have made Hillary Clinton president. The only reason she wasn’t already prosecuted was a biased FBI investigation.

If she had been elected, the Benghazi scandal, destroying evidence and lying under oath, among other things, would have been revisited. Hopefully, they will be anyway, along with the conduct of former FBI Director James Comey, former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page.

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton knew what they were doing with the Electoral College. They wanted small states to have a say in the presidential election — hence, the term, “United States of America.”

I will put the intellects of the Founding Fathers up against those of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders and other prominent Democrats any day of the week.