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Thinking Out Loud:

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If you’re finding it increasingly difficult to recognize the country you live in now, it can at least in part be attributed to failing to understand something Henry David Thoreau once said: “You have to think for yourself, or others will think for you...”. It wasn’t any great new epiphane, rife with groundbreaking new insights, but a simple truth, rooted in plain common sense of the sort that is sadly lacking these days.

Musings by Marilou: Just Stop and Listen

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I remember my father telling my brother and me never to discuss religion or politics with anyone, and I have done my best to heed his advice. Of course, Dad was also the one who said, “Extended family members are like fish. They both begin to smell after five days.” He posted the sign one year at our family reunion; not everyone thought it was funny.

Sam Holbrooks: Thinking Out Loud: Shorts

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Tesla Cybertruck Coming to Texas

Thinking Out Loud: BLM’s War on the Family

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In the Sunday, July 12 edition of the Seminole Sentinel, part of Thinking Out Loud was inadvertently omitted. We are rerunning it in it’s entirety. We apologize for the error.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

Sam Holbrooks: Thinking Out Loud: Shorts

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The Smithsonian’s Racist Document

State Capitol Highlights

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AUSTIN — COVID-19 turned aggressive to the point last week that the Department of Defense activated U.S. Army and U.S. Navy medical task force teams and assigned them to Texas at Gov. Greg Abbott’s request.

June Texas unemployment rate falls to 8.6 percent

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AUSTIN -- The Texas economy added 243,900 private sector positions over the past month. In June, Texas saw a decrease in the state unemployment rate to 8.6 percent. This is the second consecutive monthly decrease and the lowest rate since March 2020 when the Texas economy was initially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Texas is below the national rate of 11.1 percent.

Musings by Marilou:

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When a co-worker appeared with a box filled with puppies last summer, all common sense was drained from my brain. I must have momentarily forgotten about our sly and unpredictable cat Shadow and Nola, our extremely jealous German Shepherd. Oh, and don’t exclude our one-winged duck, Daffy.

Thinking Out Loud: BLM’s War on the Family

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The family is a God-ordained mechanism, a sacred unit that has formed the foundational building blocks of every society since the beginning of time. It is a source of strength and security, where typically Mom admonishes her kids to be careful and kind, and Dad says go for it, and take your lumps when it goes wrong. It's nature and nurture, and boldness when it's needed.