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Everything is bigger in Texas, including the Senate stakes

The race for control of the Senate next January is a dead heat. Conventional wisdom suggests the contests in swingy states like Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia could prove decisive. And they might. But it's possible that the fate of the chamber known as the "world's greatest ...

Good progress, bad structure

In 2007, Hugo Chavez sent men with rifles into the Orinoco Belt. They walked into oilfields Americans had surveyed, Americans had drilled and American engineering had made productive and told ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips to take a minority stake in their own work or get out. Those two got ...

Bible Truth or Tradition: What does the Bible say about immortality?

In previous articles, it has been confirmed that the Platonic doctrine of an inherently immortal soul is not taught in the Bible. “The soul that sins, it shall die.” According to the Bible, there is one who alone is immortal and cannot die. “For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,” Deuteronomy‬ ‭32‬:‭40‬. God speaking in first person singular. One person who lives forever. In ordinary grammar, a first person personal pronoun means one person, right? “….he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of Lords, who ...

She followed America’s immigration process, then ICE took her anyway

Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw was nervous walking into her final green card interview, but her husband Terrance assured her that it was all going to be fine. They had done everything the U.S. government had asked of them: completed the required medical and financial assessments, gathered their ...

A recipe for ‘Stone Soup’ and history’s warnings about the economy

The traditional folk tale goes like this: Mid-afternoon one day, a young man showed up at an elderly lady’s house and, when she answered the door, he asked, “Do you have any food? I am hungry and haven’t eaten.” When she replied she did not, he then asked if she had a stone, so he ...

FUTURES FILES

Cotton Collapses A slight improvement in the crop condition report and already sky-high prices triggered a near six cent plunge in December cotton. By Thursday evening, futures were trading at 86.45 cents per pound, a daily change down about 2.79%. On-going drought in much of the cotton growing region and higher crude oil prices should have helped hold prices higher but former cotton bulls ran for the doors, taking profits and then trying to escape near-panic selling. Higher oil prices create higher costs for polyester which is now a major component of US clothing, so the war and higher ...