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More Salem than Thanksgiving

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Local gun shop sales up 400 percent from 2019

Words no one wants to come to grips with: There are Americans that hate our Constitution, our Republic, and our God. They infiltrated the government, sabotaged an incoming administration, staged a coup, ran a sham impeachment, politicized a bioweapon attack from communist China, rioted, looted, and burned cities down, and then blatantly rigged a presidential election. And they got away with all of it and a portion of the country cheered them on. But the summary is incomplete.

The page will flip. God wins.

It is growing ever so tiresome of hearing that it is a Democrat versus Republican problem in America.

While it may be true that one party seems to be far more corrupt than the other—BOTH parties are corrupt! Those who seek money and power know no allegiances. When all the lies are exposed, those on Team Blue and Team Red will suffer crushing blows and will be thoroughly embarrassed. My advice is to be on the side of righteousness—for truth. None of those qualities typically reside in political parties.

Be on guard for your favorite figures to be in serious trouble—both sides of the isle.

EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

a Jared Coffey, owner of Guns N More on Celtic Road, says his business was searched online more than Dairy Queen.

Jared Coffey, a 39-year-old serial entrepreneur, opened Guns N More at 281 Celtic Road in eastern Howe in April 2018 and as any new small business, began to advertise and market to a new client base. But in March, his business began to skyrocket due to the uneasiness of COVID-19.

“In one day, we did $24,000 (of sales) in March,” said Coffey.

“That was the first day the FBI database was overwhelmed so we had 37 transactions in two hours and all of them denied.”

Due to the FBI being overwhelmed, they contacted gun distributors and told

them to place all orders in delayed status. Coffey said he had items that were in delayed status that he did not figure would otherwise have sold for 15 years.

Coffey and co-owner Alan Austin were processing all down payments and all full orders, FBI notifica-

tions, and customer communications between the two of them. The 37 transactions in that first hour turned into 800 for the month.

“It was crazy,” said Coffey. “It just compounded from there. I was being searched (online) (Continued on page 2)

‘Massive election fraud’ alleged in lawsuits filed in Georgia and Michigan Attorney Sidney Powell said recently that she would “Release the Kraken” and late on Thanksgiving even, she released a federal lawsuit that alleges “massive election fraud” and multiple violations of the Constitution and Georgia’s state laws in the 2020 general election, as well as issues pertaining to Dominion Voting Systems.

The civil action claims that the purpose of the alleged actions was for “illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to make certain the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States.” A similar, separate suit was filed in Michigan.

The 104-page Georgia lawsuit, is a civil suit against Georgia

Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and other election officials and argues “incontrovertible evidence Board of Elections records demonstrates that at least 96,600 absentee ballots were requested and counted but were never recorded as being returned to county election boards by the voter. Thus, at a minimum, 96,600 votes must be disregarded.”

The suit alleges that the Georgia Secretary of State and State Election Board entered into a settlement with Democratlinked entities that violated specific elements of the election code.

The suit asks the court to decertify the election results in

Georgia and impound all the voting machines and software in Georgia for expert inspection by the plaintiffs, among other requests. Plaintiffs include Republican Party nomi-

nees for the Electoral College, Cobb County Republican Party Chairman Jason Shepherd, and the assistant secretary of the state Republican Party, Brian Jay Van Gundy.

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Alan Austin, a Certified Gunsmith with the accreditation from Armorers Courses from all major manufacturers such as Smith & Wesson, Glock and Remington.

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more than Dairy Queen.”

After the initial surge in March, things leveled off, but orders are steadily increasing.

“We sold out the whole shop in three weeks,” said Coffey. “We replenished it and shut down for about three days to re-price and regroup.”

Coffey began to set his alarm at 1 a.m. each day to purchase ammunition online and 4 a.m. each day to purchases guns online to restock the shelves. He would then wake up at 6:30 a.m. to start his other businesses and open the gun shop at 8 a.m.

“It’s kind of been like that, but now it’s only one or so nights a week to get up at 4 a.m. to buy ammo, but that has since stalled.

There’s nothing (to purchase).”

All the creativity of purchasing at odd times and purchasing from Canada and importing items are no longer options as the suppliers are now dry.

“There’s nothing. Buying from the fat guy in Indiana in his basement or whatever is gone. It’s all made full-circle and it’s all gone,” said Coffey. “I have more guns than five Academies right now.”

He says before the election, things looked like they were going to calm down and everyone was stocked up on their ammo, but all things changed after the election.

“No one anticipated all this rigged stuff,” said Coffey. “We all knew it was coming, but we didn’t think they’d get away with it. So, it has since kicked back into gear and the problem is there is 62 trillion allocations on ammunition.

That’s impossible to produce.”

Coffey says producers are stockpiling ammo and not distributing it. Once they reset the allocations, they will then disperse.

“I think that’s going to be determined once we determine who the president’s going to be,” said

Coffey. “But for now, everyone’s just going to have to fend for themselves. It’s the same thing as toilet paper.”

Currently there is no lag for those wanting to purchase a gun.

Coffey says those that pass the FBI forms with a “squeaky clean record” will have no problems.

But if the purchase is on a Friday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., one would be put into delayed status due to the FBI overload.

“There’s three parts of the process—proceed, deny, or delay,” said Coffey. “Delays have been 50-50. Proceeds are typically 90 percent and delays are 10 percent.

Even little old ladies in wheelchairs with a squeaky-clean past is taking three days to get through. But it is speeding up.

The gun purchasing side of things is starting to descend a little bit.

It’s the custom-build side and that’s why we’re so busy.”

He gave the example of someone not necessarily wanting a particular Glock, but it was purchased because it was all that was available. Therefore, that person brings it to Guns N More to custom the Glock.

“We’re the hot rod shop for guns.

It’s what we do,” said Coffey.

“Guns sales is not my forte. It is 21 percent of my bottom line.

That shop (pointing to where 50/50 partner Alan Austin was working) is what makes this money here.”

The shop where Austin works was once a tractor barn but has been converted to a custom gunsmithing shop filled with locker ovens, paint cabinets, and of course Austin and his expertise artwork on guns. Austin is a Certified Gunsmith with the accreditation from Armorers Courses from all major manufacturers such as Smith & Wesson, Glock, and Remington.

He was formerly a Small Arms Artillery Technician for the Army, then attended a two-year college (Lenoir College) for a civilian certification.

All Guns N More practices are era (Continued on page 4)

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Longtime Howe Bulldogs football PA announcer laid to rest Sherman Leon Thornhill was laid to rest on Wednesday, November 25 at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Howe.

Mr. Thornhill was born May 4, 1935 in Sherman, Texas, the son of Sherman and Naomi Thornhill. Mr. Thornhill went to be with the lord on Sunday, November 22, 2020 at Baylor Hospital in McKinney.

Mr. Thornhill graduated from Sherman High School in 1954. Shortly after graduation, he spent 4 years proudly serving our country in the United States Navy. He married Joan Stroud in Denison, Texas on September 2, 1960. He was employed at IBM in Sherman for 17 years and retired from Oscar Mayer in Sherman after 17 years.

For 60 years, he was a faithful member of First Baptist Church Howe where he enjoyed singing in the choir and many were blessed by his God-given talent. He was also a member of the Howe Masonic Lodge. He proudly served his community and school district with a 12-year term on the HISD school board. Mr. Thornhill was also most known for being the “Friday Night Voice of Bulldog Stadium” for the Howe Bulldogs and announced all athletic stadium events for over 30 years.

Mr. Thornhill enjoyed attending any and all sporting events, especially if his children and grandchildren were participating in hunting, fishing, golfing, and playing dominos with friends.

He is survived by his daughter Cindy Freeland and husband, Tom of Early, Texas, son Butch Thornhill of Trenton, Texas, and daughter Anna Anderson and husband, Don of Bells, Texas. Mr. Thornhill proudly has 14 grandchildren and 30 greatgrandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins that he considered his own.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Joan, son Dickie Thornhill, brother Grady Thornhill, and in-laws Herman and

Leon Thornhill at the 2017 Howe Athletic Awards Banquet in 2017. He began public address at Bulldog Stadium in 1982.

Edith Stroud.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at First Baptist Church Howe. followed by burial at Cedarlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Sherman.

The family received friends from 1:00PM to 2:00 p.m. prior to services in the FBC Howe Fellowship Hall.

The service was officiated by longtime friend and pastor Roger Tidwell along with pastor Roy Layman.

Thornhill moved to Howe in 1960 and married his wife Joan in the same year. It didn't take him long to get active with the school considering the couple had four children in school. He was elected to the Howe Board of Trustees in April of 1967 and served 12 years until his children had all graduated from Howe.

Thornhill sold the land behind his home to Howe ISD (under market value) which allowed for the construction of the softball field and expansion of the athletic facility.

Because Mr. Thornhill put the school ahead of his own personal wealth, kids of Howe ISD will play ball on his land for years and years to come.

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dated down to the bluing process.

With top of the line machinery.

They say if they cannot find a part, they will make it. Their chemical processes are industry leading and the attention to detail is renowned.

Coffey also owns Behavior Network, a clinic in McKinney for autistic children and adults. His wife Dr. Amanda Coffey is the clinical director while he serves as operations director. He says they began their business at their kitchen table with nine clients and two girls working for them.

They now have 347 school dis-

tricts, 1,500 clients, 144 employees, and a 20,000 square foot operation.

They also operate a transitional home for when autistic children must leave the clinic and need to go to a state institution or a permanent housing.

“We created a business model for them to go into a home temporarily to acclimate them into that permanent process. So, we own several houses across the state to do that,” said Coffey.

On top of the other businesses, Coffey also produces hay from his property for Tractor Supply.

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump— Biden can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous “80,000,000 votes” were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. When you see what happened in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia & Milwaukee, massive voter fraud, he’s got a big unsolvable problem! 9:56 AM · Nov 27, 2020

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The suit spells out the Smartmatic software in voting machines that were originally designed to manipulate Venezuela elections in favor of dictator Hugo Chavez.

“Chavez was most insistent that Smartmatic design the system in a way that the system could change the vote of each voter without being detected,” claims the suit. “He wanted the software itself to function in such a manner that if the voter were to place their thumb print or fingerprint on a scanner, then the thumbprint would be tied to a record of the voter’s name and identity as having voted, but that voter would not be tracked to the changed vote. He made it clear that the system would have to be setup to not leave any evidence of the changed vote for a specific voter and that there would be no evidence to show and nothing to contradict that the name or the fingerprint or thumb print was going with a changed vote. Smartmatic agreed to create such a system and produced the software and hardware that accomplished that result for President Chavez.”

It goes on to say that the design and features of the Dominion software do not permit a simple audit to reveal its misallocation, redistribution, or deletion of votes. First, the system's central accumulator does not include a protected real-time audit log that maintains the date and time stamps of all significant election events. Key components of the system utilize unprotected logs. Essentially this allows an unauthorized user the opportunity to arbitrarily add, modify, or remove log entries, causing the machine to log election events that do not reflect actual voting tabulations—or more specifically, do not reflect the actual votes of or the will of the people.

An Affiant testified, that while at the Audit, ‘While in Henry County, I personally witnessed ballots cast for Donald Trump being placed in the pile for Joseph Biden. Another Affiant testified, that “I witnessed two poll workers placing already separated paper machine receipt ballots with barcodes in the Trump tray, placing them into the Biden tray. I also witnessed the same two poll workers putting the already separated paper receipt ballots in the “No Vote” and “Jorgensen” tray, and removing them and putting them inside the Biden tray, They then took out all of the ballots out of the Biden tray and stacked them on the table, writing on the count ballot sheet.”

It was announced on July 29, 2019, that Gov. Kemp awarded a contract for 30,000 new voting machines to Dominion Voting Systems, scrapping the state’s 17-year-old electronic voting equipment and replacing it with touchscreens that print out paper ballots.

Stated in the suit, plaintiffs can show, through expert and fact witnesses that Dominion/ Smartmatic Systems have massive end-user vulnerabilities. Users on the ground have full admin privileges to machines and software.

Having been created to “rig” elections, the Dominion system is designed to facilitate vulnerability and allow a select few to determine which votes will be counted in any election. Workers were responsible for moving ballot data from polling place to the collector’s office and inputting it into the correct folder. Any anomaly, such as pen drips or bleeds, results in a ballot being rejected. It is then handed over to a poll worker to analyze and decide if it should count. This creates massive opportunity for purely discretionary and improper vote “adjudication.”

Affiant witness (name redacted for security reasons), in his sworn testimony explains he was selected for the national security guard detail of the President of Venezuela, and that he witnessed the creation of Smartmatic for the purpose of election vote manipulation to insure Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez never lost an election and he saw it work.

“The purpose of this conspiracy was to create and operate a voting system that could change the votes in elections from votes against 45 persons running the Venezuelan government to votes in their favor in order to maintain control of the government.”

Smartmatic is owned by foreign nationals, and Dominion, a Canadian company with its offices such as the Office of General Counsel in Germany.

“Plaintiffs have also learned through several reports that in 2010 Eric Coomer joined Dominion as Vice President of U.S. Engineering. According to his bio, Coomer graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics,” claims the suit. “Eric Coomer was later promoted to Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security although Coomer has since been removed from the Dominion page of directors. Dominion altered its website after Colorado resident Joe Oltmann disclosed that as a reporter he infiltrat-

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On top of all the businesses and waking in the wee hours of the morning, Coffey also manages to volunteer his time to coach baseball and football for the Howe Youth Sports Association.

“The special part is that my wife is a hard worker,” said Coffey.

“She was the 300th Board Certified Behavior Certified Analyst in the country and the 14th P.H.D. in behavior health.”

He said that working directly with CPAs and lawyers to build the behavior health company, he forced himself to do it.

“But now I have 64 bachelor’s degrees, 19 master’s degrees, and five PHDs that work for me and I

have no college degree,” said Coffey. “My grandad always used to say, ‘employ people that are smarter than you, but don’t be outsmarted by them and if you don’t have the money, put your back into it.’”

He says that he and Amanda’s philosophy is to always wear everything on their sleeve, be honest and live debt free.

“We just run a really square business—all of our business models are really squared off,” said Coffey. “She’s talented.”

Coffey spoke very highly of the talent of his co-owner Austin. He said he invested his money into his skillset, and it is currently paying off. A gun shop in Texas is a pretty safe gamble.

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By Heather MacDonald

Coronavirus panic has set America back hundreds of years

Had King James’s Privy Council contained a proto-Anthony Fauci in 1620, there might not have been a Thanksgiving holiday for the current -day Fauci and his peers to cancel four centuries later. The transatlantic voyage that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock would have been unthinkable under the ‘stay safe’ philosophy that now governs American life.

Nearly half the 102 occupants of the Mayflower died in their first year of settlement at Plymouth, sometimes at a rate of three a day. Such a mortality rate was predictable. The earlier outpost at Jamestown, founded in 1607, lost 66 of its original 104 settlers in its first nine months. By 1609, following the also predictable loss at sea of a ship coming to resupply the colony, starvation at Jamestown had grown so dire that residents dug corpses from their graves to eat any remaining flesh, later reported the colony’s first president in 1625.

Other early settlement casualties included the outpost of Roanoke, which simply disappeared. Overall, for every six would-be colonists who ventured across the Atlantic, only one survived, according to one estimate. Trying to establish a new life in the New World was most definitely not ‘safe’.

And yet the voyagers kept coming, driven by something beyond safety-

ism — religious zeal, ambition, passion for discovery, the desire for greater freedom. Those Americans who later spread across the continent, whether as solo explorers or in wagon trains, likewise eschewed a ‘stay safe’ philosophy.

Today, we are strangling American society in order to avoid a risk of death so infinitesimal — roughly 0.001 percent — for the majority of Americans that it would not have registered in any possible costbenefit analysis governing both notable American endeavors and quotidian activities over the last four centuries. Our current Thanksgiving Day mantras — ‘Stay within your pod.

Stay within your bubble. Stay within your household’ (in the words of a University of California, San Francisco, epidemiologist); don’t travel, don’t share food, don’t touch your family members or friends, speak only in hushed tones — make a mockery of the spirit that creates a country and sustains human life.

This present moment is less like that first Thanksgiving celebration and more like the Salem witch frenzy of 1692. To be sure, the coronavirus is real; witches were not. The virus has cost thousands of lives; witches did not. But the fear that has gripped much of the population over the last year, whipped up by sundry experts and authorities, is as disconnected from reason as that emblematic burst of hysteria in colonial Massachusetts and other such panics throughout medieval and early modern Europe.

The shared features of all such contagious fear events include the following: The belief in ubiquitous threat Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has advised Los Angelenos to ‘assume that everyone you encounter is infected’. Under even the most liberal assumptions of undetected community spread, however, only a small fraction of Los Angeles’s population would be infected and currently contagious.

As for the threat of death, most of the population faces none from the virus. The average age of coronavirus decedents is 80, which is four years higher than the average life expectancy for US males in 2018 and just a year under the average life expectancy of females. Most decedents have underlying co-morbities. Up to two-thirds of coronavirus casualties may have died of other causes by the end of 2020. Forty percent of US coronavirus deaths have occurred in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. Sadly, death is already the fate of virtually all residents of such facilities, however much we may understandably try to defer it.

Scapegoats and stigma Public officials have piled onto those intransigents who do not wear masks in the great outdoors, blaming them for the spread. Outdoor mask refuseniks have been screamed at and shamed by citizen enforcers of the

outdoor mask dogma. The media imply false causal connections: ‘Wisconsin health officials reported more jaw-dropping COVID-19 infection numbers Thursday,’ recently reported the Chicago Tribune, ‘as people continued to flaunt recommendations to wear masks’ (emphasis added). But there is no evidence for open-air transmission, absent highly unusual packed settings and prolonged contact.

Transmission, per the CDC’s own contact tracing guidelines, requires a cumulative 15 minutes of close contact with an infected person, overwhelmingly in poorly ventilated, cramped indoor settings. In the outdoors, circulating air disperses any possible viral dose to the point of non-existence, even if most outdoor encounters were not too fleeting to be of concern.

People who have recovered from the virus are shunned as pariahs, despite their lack of infectious status.

Amulets and ritualistic gestures The mask is believed to possess totemic power, even though there is little evidence that its use correlates inversely with community spread or that it protects wearers from infection. A new gesture is being added to the ritual of ostentatious plein air mask-wearing: the supplemental hand defense. In the faculty housing area of the University of California, Irvine, masked walkers now regularly cover their mask with their hands (Continued on page 8)

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if they see an unmasked passerby approach, no matter the large berth each will give the other and their short-lived proximity.

Magical formulas and the arbitrary exercise of government power Once hysteria takes over, any expectation that public officials will act according to reason is discarded. New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio has long set a metric for re-closing the city’s schools: a three percent infection rate among the tested population. He arrived at the number in conjunction with the teacher’s union. How did the mayor and union come up with it?

We don’t know. Is it related to anything real? By definition, no. The evidence is by now overwhelming that children have virtually no risk of dying from the virus, nor do they spread it to adults. A random sample of 16,000 students and staff in New York City schools yielded only 28 positive tests; none of those cases resulted in serious illness or death.

The New York City school system, were it a free-standing community, would be among the nation’s safest places to reside. Nevertheless, the mayor, along with other mayors across the country, has now reshut the public schools, guaranteeing that the academic skills of black and Hispanic children will fall further behind those of whites and Asians. More racial strife and phony charges of systemic racism will follow.

Virginia requires that children from age two onwards wear masks. Such a practice, lacking any grounding in actual science, will likely have crippling psychological consequences.

The rising caseload and the oncoming Thanksgiving holiday have triggered a new explosion of arbitrary government dictates. Oregon’s governor is limiting social gatherings to no more than six people. How did she arrive at that number? By no known body of evidence. If it existed, presumably the six-person ceiling would be universal. But Yolo County, California (where Sacramento is located), has a 16-person cap on Thanksgiving and other gatherings, while Kentucky is limiting Thanksgiving to eight people from two different households. The state of California magnanimously allows a grand total of three households. Before celebrating such relative liberality, note that California requires that the lucky three social units (whose members must of course all be masked) disperse after two hours. That three-household, twohour ceiling applies even if the gathering occurs in a public park, where the chance of transmission is at its lowest ebb.

Without any advance warning, Los Angeles County shut down all outdoor dining on November 23, signing the death warrant for thousands of restaurants and casting thousands of workers back into unemployment.

Restaurant owners had invested thousands of dollars into outdoor heat lamps and other outdoor dining equipment; they will have to throw out thousands of dollars of food.

Los Angeles County has no evidence of any transmission among outdoor diners. It is reacting blindly to a rising case count, even though more than 72 percent of the new cases reported on November 21 were in the lowest risk category — people under 50 — and nearly half of the 34 coun-

ty residents who died of COVID-19 on November 21 (per the usual overinclusive count methodology) were over 80. Protecting those octogenarians does not require wholesale business destruction.

The experts are so confident in their fear-induced hold over the popular mind that they feel no compunction about self-contradiction. The CDC has acknowledged that there is little surface transmission of the virus. Yet it recommends that should someone be so rash as to attend a Thanksgiving gathering outside his home, he must bring his own food and utensils so as to avoid touching his host’s kitchenware. We are regressing further back along the civilizational path to medieval times, when everyone carried around his own spoon on his belt. At least those medieval trenchermen followed the environmentally sound practice of reusing their spoons. The CDC advises that all utensils and plates be thrown out after the Thanksgiving meal, showing yet again that environmentalism is usually just empty virtue-signaling.

The experts fear no rebellion over rules that destroy the very thing that they purport to regulate. Bringing your own meal to Thanksgiving and not even sharing it cancels the spirit of holiday. Thanksgiving becomes indistinguishable from those cheerless ‘family dinners’ where every teenager microwaves his own chosen frozen food and then slinks back with it to the privacy of his bedroom and smartphone.

Fetishes Case counts have been the object of veneration for months, despite their near meaninglessness. The obsession with the case count is an implicit admission that the death rates have been a disappointment, for they are falling rather than increasing. Currently, infections among the young make up the lion’s share of new cases; in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for example, 61 percent of confirmed and probable cases are connected to the university there. Most of these cases among the young are asymptomatic: the infection is so mild that the infected person is unaware he even has it. These infections are being picked up thanks to mandatory testing in college and school settings. It is not just the young, however, that are frequently asymptomatic. Across the entire population, a whopping 40-45 percent of cases are initially unknown to their bearer before a test comes in positive.

A rising case count among the least at-risk population is not something to be feared, since it heralds the approach of herd immunity. Males in the 20-29 age bracket without underlying conditions have 99.9997 chance of surviving a coronavirus infection; females in that age bracket have a 99.9998 survival rate. The risk of death is 630 times higher for individuals age 85 and over compared to 18- to 29-year-olds.

Yet since the start of the pandemic, the media and their bevy of public health sources have histrionically covered case counts, usually on an hourly basis, as if they signaled imminent doom. A curious thing has happened of late, however. We are only now learning that the summer was not a time of crisis, contrary to the daily headlines. That period is now being cast as a halcyon bench(Continued on page 9)

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mark against which the current dark crisis is to be measured. ‘There is a real danger in complacency, and we are seeing the effects of that play out in real time,’ an infectious diseases specialist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School recently told the Washington Post. ‘Across the country, we have begun to see another increase in infections and deaths after a period of time with low transmission.’ Who knew? Neither the experts nor the media let on that we were ever in a period of low transmission.

And despite today’s raging headlines, the current crisis is still largely anticipatory. Los Angeles County’s director of public health, Barbara Ferrer, has been leaning heavily on the promise of future disaster. ‘This much of an increase in cases may very well result in tremendous suffering and tragic deaths down the road,’ she told the Los Angeles Times on November 12. For now, however, the number of hospitals that are severely burdened nationally is small; at least a quarter of all cases now being labeled as coronavirus hospitalizations in the daily media count were likely admitted for other problems and only retroactively classified as coronavirus cases following a positive test. California governor Gavin Newsom has put 94 percent of the states’ residents under another stay-at-home order.

But only six percent of the state’s hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients, up from four percent in early November.

Nationally, the case fatality rate and presumed infection fatality rate continue to drop.

Human sacrifice Almost all the businesses being sacrificed on the altar of coronavirus fear are as innocent as the vestal virgins of old. The public health authorities have no idea what is driving the current spread. They have no hard evidence that outdoor or indoor restaurant meals are responsible; they certainly have no evidence that shopping is responsible. And yet millions of livelihoods are being destroyed in the exercise of inebriating, limitless power. ‘We don’t want you going into restaurants and sitting and eating outside, and we don’t want you going into retail establishments either,’ Los Angeles’s ubiquitous Barbara Ferrer pronounced recently. Ferrer has no basis for stigmatizing retail establishments.

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businesses’. It is not the pandemic that is threatening jobs and businesses, however, political decisionmaking is. COVID is also ascribed a power that it does not likely have.

The New York Times has dedicated a special section to ‘those we’ve lost’ from COVID (ignoring the many more people we lose each day to cancer and heart disease). One alleged COVID casualty was a 101-year-old veteran. We are to believe that without COVID, he would have lived an indefinite number of further years.

An advanced civilization builds towards the future, as the Pilgrims and other New World settlers understood.

It accumulates social and economic capital to be drawn on by individual discoverers and entrepreneurs for further progress. Now, however, we are cannibalizing our economic inheritance, in the fantastical belief that government transfer payments, generated from ever increased debt, can substitute for private economic activity. Our capital, now being recklessly destroyed by arbitrary government fiat, will take generations to rebuild.

We take for granted everything that hard-won prosperity has provided us — well-functioning services (compared to Third World disorder), dependable maintenance, the luxury of choice. We will miss such prosperity when it follows the fate of those millions of businesses whose loss is causing despair, substance abuse, and suicide.

False agency

A mature civilization understands that risk is part of life and that there are higher purposes — even mere sociability — than avoiding death at all costs. No great venture can be accomplished if staying safe is life’s only guiding principle. Now, however, our elites mock courage and perseverance, explicitly repudiating the virtues that built this country. President Trump, upon leaving the hospital after a coronavirus infection, admonished the country to not ‘be afraid’ of the virus, in the Washington Post’s words, and to not ‘allow it to dominate’ our lives.

That imminently reasonable exhortation, once expected in a leader, is still being denounced by public health experts and the media nearly two months later. If Americans do not repudiate this ethic of fear, future Thanksgivings will be even bleaker than this year’s.

The director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, a major purveyor of pandemic panic, claimed in the Wall Street Journal that the pandemic was threatening ‘jobs and

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.

The shaming of heretics and dissenters Neuroradiologist Stanford scientist Scott Atlas and the physician scientists who signed the Great Barrington Declaration have been denounced for challenging the efficacy of economic lockdowns, school shutdowns, and outdoor mask requirements.

Their heresies have been borne out by the evidence.

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ed ANTIFA, a domestic terrorist organization where he recorded Eric Coomer representing: “Don’t worry.

Trump won’t win the election, we fixed that.” – as well as social media posts with violence threatened against President Trump.”

The Georgia lawsuit was mild on attacks against Dominion. Yes, they were mentioned 58 times in the suit, but the focus was on lower-hanging fruit. Gov. Kemp, Secretary of State Raffensperger, and the election board accusing them of breaking laws, cutting deals, and trying to cover it all up.

In Michigan, the lawsuit was filed against Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was similar in nature, but the Dominion Voting Systems was the focus.

There are implications that should not only cast doubt on any jurisdiction that uses the terminals or software but should also make one question the willingness of using the system in their state.

“Election workers illegally forged, added, removed or otherwise altered information on ballots, the Qualified Voter File and Other Voting Records,” Powell’s lawsuit filed late Wednesday and made public on Thanksgiving Day alleged. “Defendants’ egregious misconduct has included ignoring legislative mandates concerning mail-in ballots– including the mandate that mailin ballots be post-marked on or before Election Day -- and critically, preventing Plaintiff’s poll watchers from observing the receipt, review, opening, and tabulation of mail-in ballots.”

This week’s headlines President Trump's campaign legal team announced Tuesday that the legislatures in Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania will soon hold electionrelated hearings. They will be held "in an effort to provide confidence that all of the legal votes have been counted and the illegal votes have not been counted in the November 3rd election," according to a press release.

President Trump's legal team on Wednesday urged the Pennsylvania legislature to hold off on certifying the state's 2020 election results amid allegations of voting irregularities and potential fraud there.

Multiple witnesses as well as Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani earlier in the hearing alleged major voting irregularities in the state, claiming that Republican vote watchers were denied access to oversee the vote-counting process during the state's presidential election.

Also, on Wednesday, the Thomas More Society's Amistad Project announced its latest battleground state litigation, claiming government data indicates that "well over 100,000 illegal votes in Georgia were improperly counted, while tens of thousands of legal votes were not counted."

The same day, it was reported that more than a thousand Georgia voters registered and voted using addresses from postal facilities or businesses that appeared to be residential addresses, according to Matt Braynard, a former Trump campaign official and his team who analyzed voting data from the state.

Also, on Wednesday, a judge in Nevada has set a date in December to hear from Republicans alleging widespread voter fraud in the state.

Judge James Russell of the First Judicial District Court will hear from attorneys representing President Trump's campaign at an evidentiary hearing on Dec. 3, at which up to 15 witnesses may be deposed, Russell said.

President Trump on Wednesday fully pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, bringing to end a tumultuous four-year criminal case that felled the three-star general before prosecutors reversed course and declared they had improperly pursued his prosecution. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about talking with a Russian diplomat during the 2016 Trump administration transition period.

Attorney General William Barr earlier this year asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to allow the Justice Department to drop the case. However, the matter has since been tied up in legal proceedings.

A Pennsylvania data scientist, who is also a veteran of the U.S. Navy, alleged this week that 47 USB cards used in the state during the November 3 presidential election have disappeared. Accordingly, the witness believes that at least 120,000 votes in Pennsylvania should be called into question.

At a hearing on Wednesday in Gettysburg, Pa., Gregory Stenstrom testified as an expert witness on election fraud.

"I personally observed USB cards being uploaded to voting machines by the voting machine warehouse supervisor on multiple occasions. This person is not being observed, he's not a part of the process that I can see, and he is walking in with baggies of USBs," said Stenstrom.

Also, at the hearing it was revealed that with Trump leading PA by 600,000 votes on election night, 570,000 votes were found the next day for Biden, 3,200 for Trump (less than one percent).

On Friday, the Arizona State Legislature scheduled to hold an Election Integrity hearing that will include President’s lawyers Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani.

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough, who ordered Pennsylvania to not certify the results of the 2020 election wrote in an opinion on Friday that the Republicans who filed the related lawsuit will likely win the case.

A lawsuit complaint, filed on Friday on behalf of Wisconsin voter Dean Mueller (pdf), argues that the Plaintiff’s right to a “safe, free, secure and transparent presidential election” was violated “in that his vote has been diluted by the counting of thousands of illegal votes placed in illegal ballot drop boxes across the State of Wisconsin.”

On Saturday, it was reported by the Epoch Times a group that received hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is accused in post-election lawsuits of contributing to constitutional violations in key battleground states.

Voter Integrity Project leader Matt Braynard said Sunday the FBI is asking him for findings from the initiative related to possible illegal ballots in the 2020 election.

On Sunday, an Emergency Order was entered by Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. which stated, “Defendants are ordered to maintain the status quo and are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.”

The freeze of the machines came after a computer forensic expert made the claims that If Georgia uses the same

10 Dominion machines for their Senate runoff in a few weeks, it will effectively overwrite any digital forensic evidence of fraud during the General Election.

Within hours of Judge Batten’s decision, he reversed his course based on the claim that Georgia counties control voting machines. Machines are owned by the state.

Trump’s paths to the presidency 12th Amendment option President Donald Trump's path to 270 is so difficult, the more likely goal for his team is to keep enough states from certifying the election results so Joe Biden falls short of 270 electoral votes Dec. 14.

The system of electing the president is very complicated. It was not designed for a democracy in which we are not. It was designed to be for the type of government which we are—a representative democracy, or also termed, a republic. Therefore, the Constitution calls for the states to choose the presidential electors who then vote for the president. Over time, states have passed laws so that their popular vote would determine their electors, but those are laws— not Constitutional obligations.

Of the six contested states, four of them have Republican legislators (Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona). If one or more decide that the election is fraudulent, they could send what they regard as the legitimate slate of electors (the four Republican led states would most likely send Republican electors). The Democrats would certainly object and file lawsuits and the states with Democrat Governors or Democrat Secretaries of State could send their own slate of electors to Washington which would then add to the confusion.

When Congress convenes on Jan. 6, 2021 to tally the electors’ votes, there would be challenges to the legitimacy of some electors.

It is possible Congressional Republicans could decide that the disputed states should simply not be counted.

This could mean that neither candidate would reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win. If neither candidate gets 270 electoral votes Dec. 14, the Constitution directs the state delegations in the House of Representatives to decide the presidency.

Republicans control the majority of at least 26 of the 50 state delegations in the House, even if Democrats hold a slight majority in total seats. In this scenario, Donald Trump would serve another four years as President of the United States.

Sending the presidential decision to the House would ostensibly disenfranchise half of America, but it is what the Constitution provides with an electoral college short of a majority 270 votes.

Supreme Court option It takes the votes of four of the nine justices of the Supreme Court to agree to hear a case, and a majority to issue a decision.

Three of the justices on the court were appointed to the bench by Trump, though justices do not al-

ways rule in favor of the president who appointed them. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, both Trump appointees, have sided against the president in the past.

Ahead of the election, Trump had predicted that the race would ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court and pushed to get Justice Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the bench ahead of time. Democrats pressed for Barrett to recuse herself from any disputes related to the race, though she declined to commit herself to doing so.

The Supreme Court weighed in on a contested presidential election in the 2000 case Bush v. Gore.

State of Emergency—Department of National Intelligence An executive order signed into existence on September 12, 2018, by President Trump, available at Whitehouse.gov, is entitled, “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.”

In that executive order, President Trump declared a national emergency which is still in play to this day, and the 2020 election was conducted under this state of emergency.

In the executive order, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe has 45 days to determine— in consultation with appropriate agencies—whether “a foreign government, or any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign government, has acted with the intent or purpose of interfering in any election for Federal office.” Second, within 45 days after receiving the DNI’s assessment, the attorney general and secretary of homeland security—in consultation with appropriate agencies—are to send the president and the secretaries of state, defense and the treasury a report evaluating two questions: (1) the extent to which any foreign interference that targeted election infrastructure materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, the tabulation of votes, or the timely transmission of election results; and (2) if any foreign interference involved activities targeting the infrastructure of, or pertaining to, a political organization, campaign, or candidate, the extent to which such activities materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, including by unauthorized access to, disclosure or threatened disclosure of, or alteration or falsification of, information or data.

The document then details the potential measures which could be imposed which include, among others, the blocking of property, restrictions on access to financial institutions, and “any other measures authorized by law.”

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NURSE C.E.R.T.S. 505 Castlegate St. Howe, TX 75459 90.-821-3392 loavamccarthy@msn.com HEATING/AIR CONDITIONING Baker A/C & Heating, Inc. 215 N. Denny St. Howe TX 75459 903-532-6225 bakerac.mark@yahoo.com HOUSING Bainbrook Apartments 511 S. Collins Fwy Howe, TX 75459 (469) 712-4082 bainbrook75459.com Pradera Manufactured Home Park 709 N. Collins Freeway Howe TX 75459 http://praderamhp.com (903) 532-0014 felix@havenparkmgmt.com M&M Properties 901 N. Denny St Howe TX 75459 903-815-9223 marvincurtis2@gmail.com INSURANCE David Morgan Insurance 255 E. Jefferson St, P.O. Box 2105 Van Alstyne TX 75495 http://farmersagent.com/ dmorgan1 903-482-4063 dmorgan1@farmersagent.com Ed Meacham, State Farm 2624 Loy Lake Rd., Suite B Sherman TX 75090 https://www.statefarm.com/ agent/US/TX/Sherman/EdMeacham-3TGY5753JAK 903-892-3923 ed@mredinsurance.com Kathy McGarry, Mayo Agency 215 S Ray Roberts Pkwy, P.O. Box 519 Tioga TX 76271 940-437-2378 kathy.mayoagency@gmail.com Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Darren Foster – Agent 1363 S Waco St Van Alstyne TX 75495 https://www.txfbins.com/ insurance/agent/grayson/ 32707/darrenfoster 903-436-2470 dfoster@txfb-ins.com

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The following information is required to add a telephone number into the "CodeRED" database: first and last name; address (physical address, no P.O. boxes); city; state; Zip Code; and primary phone number. The system works with cellular phones but requires a valid street address. When entering information, please fill out all of the screens because the newest data entered will replace the old data. Sign up by visiting http:// www.co.grayson.tx.us/page/oem.cred

2019-20 Local taxation State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Ad valorem reduction Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total

6.25 % 1.00 % 0.50 % 0.50 % 8.25 %

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$0.57 $1.43 $0.42 $0.17 $2.59

City of Howe Budget

$3,788,977

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ROOFING HIT Exteriors, LLC Howe, TX 75459 972-977-1523 sergio@hitexteriors.com STORAGE Howe Mini-Storage 609 N. Denny St. Howe TX 75459 903-532-7867 amanda.garner@howecpa.com TOWING Adams Automotive & Towing 85 Redden Rd Van Alstyne TX 75495 adamsautotow.com 903-482-5784 Pristine Towing & Roadside Assistance 135 Hodgins Rd. P.O. Box 1672 Van Alstyne TX 75495 (903) 814-8064 VIDEO Summit Media Service PO.O. Box 1197 Howe, TX 75459 www.summitmediaservice.co m 214-843-1495

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City of Howe SECONDS COUNT IN AN EMERGENCY! That's why the City of Howe has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boilwater notice, missing child or evacuation notices). The system is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers a pre-recorded message describing the situations to a live person or an answering machine in the affected area possibly including instructions requiring action on the part of the recipient. Once the situation is remedied, another call will be placed to the area signaling that the issue has been addressed and that normal activities can be resumed.

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Cityofhowe.org City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Bill French City Administrator: Joe Shephard City Secretary: Joy Stevens Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk: Kerri Cheatham (After hours night drop available) Public Works 317 S. Hughes St. Public Works Director: Mickey Phillips Code Enforcement 317 S. Hughes St. Code Enforcement Officer: Bert Dowlen Howe Fire Department 118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency) Fire Chief: Robert Maniet Howe Police Department 700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971 (non-emergency) Dispatch 903813-4411 Police Chief: Carl Hudman Police Sergeant: Keith Milks Economic Development 101 E. Haning St. 903-532-6080 EDC Director: Monte Walker City Council meets third Tuesday at 700 W. Haning St. at 6 pm.

Planning & Zoning Commission Meets third Monday as needed Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation Meets as needed For more information visit the city website www.cityofhowe.org

2020 City of Howe Water, Sewer, Refuse collection rates - one bill $27.15 $7.45 $8.35 $9.30 $9.90 $33.60 $5.25 $13.35 $1.10 $27.15 $33.60 $13.35 $1.10 $75.20 $56.95 $54.60 $13.35 $1.10 $126.00 $98.70 $80.85 $13.35 $1.10 $194.00

WATER Base per 1,000 next 4,000 per 1,000 next 20,000 per 1,000 next 20,000 per 1,000 all over 45,000 SEWER Base per additional metered 1,000 gallons TRASH (solid waste) Base Tax MINIMUM BILL Water Sewer Trash Tax Total 5,000 gallons usage Water Sewer Trash Tax Total 10,000 gallons usage Water Sewer Trash Tax Total

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Texas History Minute The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 horrified the American people. More than 2,000 people were killed in the attack that Ken Bridges wrecked much of the navy’s Pacific Fleet. America wanted to strike back hard to tell Japan that America would not be defeated. In spring 1942, America got that chance with Doolittle’s Raid, a feat helped in part by a number of Texas natives, including pilot Robert L. Hite.

Doolittle’s Raid was named for Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, who devised a plan to strike back at the heart of Japan to avenge their attack on Pearl Harbor. Doolittle commanded a squadron of sixteen B-25 bombers in a surprise raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Word of the impending raid had quietly spread among pilots who jumped at the chance to strike back at Japan. Hite had repeated a story for years that men were offering him up to $500 to take his place. He turned them all down, a patriot determined to do his duty. On April 18, 1942, they lifted off from the crowded deck of the USS Hornet, aiming for targets 800 miles away. The daring raid was later adapted into the famous 1944 film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo starring Spencer Tracy.

While the bombing did little longterm damage to the Japanese war machine, the attack humiliated them. They pulled several fighter squadrons from forward positions to protect Tokyo from further attacks. As the war raged on, this prevented these units form responding to American offensives as Allied forces slowly retook the Pacific region. Americans were thrilled at the success of the raid.

Of the 80 men on sixteen bombers for the mission, thirteen were from Texas, including Robert L. Hite. Other Texans included Thadd H. Blanton of Archer City, a co-pilot, Kenneth E. Reddy of Bowie, also a co-pilot, and John

A. Hilger of Sherman, a pilot.

Hite was the son of cotton farmers outside Odell, Texas, in 1920.

He briefly attended West Texas State Teachers College before enlisting in the army in 1940. He wanted to serve as a pilot but flunked the first physical. In spite of this setback, he gained his certification as an Army Air Force pilot the next year.

Hite’s crew hit a fuel depot and a factory in Nagoya. Of the aircraft, only one landed safely in Allied territory. The remainder were either shot down or crash-landed in Japanese-occupied China. Hite‘s crew was captured and spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp and tortured for the next three years.

After the war ended, he continued to serve. He married his first wife Portia in 1946, with whom he had a son and a daughter. He briefly left the service but returned during the Korean War era before retiring as a lieutenant colonel. In 1955, Hite moved his family to Arkansas where he took a job as manager of a hotel. Here in 1961, he hosted a convention of Doolittle Raid veterans. He went on to manage a series of hotels before his retirement in 1984.

In the years since the war as the World War II generation faded away, their importance to the freedom of the world and appreciation for what these soldiers accomplished grew. The Doolittle Raiders were presented many honors, and Hite himself was inducted into the Texas Aviation Halls of Fame at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston. By March 2015, Hite was one of just three men left alive from the legendary 1942 raid. A White House ceremony was planned for April to honor him and his comrades with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Days before the ceremony, Hite died at the age of 95. He was buried with full military honors and surrounded by family, friends, and a host of well-wishers.

"With a united effort we can make the place in which we live clean, wholesome, attractive. We can make the crowded city dweller homesick to come back to us and real living. We can bring new life, new business, new beauty, to the little towns." - Mame Roberts

Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor. He can be reached at drkenbridges@gmail.com. © 2020 The Howe Enterprise

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God moves in a mysterious way Late one stormy London night in 1763, a man filled with despair was determined to end his life.

He hired a driver to take Dr. Billy him to the rivHolland er and was convinced that if he could only cast himself into the depths of the Thames, his agony could be finally put to an end. He was unwavering in his resolve as he stepped down from the carriage and as it pulled away; he walked through the fog toward the pier and suddenly noticed a strange man sitting there, staring at him as if he had been expecting him. In the awkward silence, he also observed the tide was extremely low and decided that maybe he should try something else. Returning home, the desperate man decided to poison himself with an overdose of laudanum, a potent drug derived from opium. But he couldn’t raise the bottle to his lips. He tried again and again, however each time; it was as if an invisible hand was pushing it away. Finally, he attempted to hang himself from the door frame, but after losing consciousness the rope snapped, and his housekeeper revived him. For reasons he could not conceive, it seemed there was something trying to prevent him from ending his misery. That man was William Cowper, the famous English poet, and this had not been the first time he had contemplated suicide, only to be held back by unknown forces.

Cowper battled depression and felt that he was unworthy in the eyes of God. His parents introduced him to a therapist who was a Christian where he presented the gospel to Cowper and often prayed with him. One day, while reading the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead in John chapter 11 and about faith and salvation in Romans chapter 3, God opened William’s eyes to the reality of the grace and hope which God was offering. Here is what Cowper wrote in his journal about the experience.

“Immediately I received the strength to believe in Christ, and the full beams of the Sun of Righteousness shone upon me. I saw the sufficiency of the atonement He had made, my pardon sealed in His blood, and all the fullness and completeness of His justification. In a moment I be-

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lieved and received the gospel… my eyes filled with tears, and my voice choked with transport; I could only look up to heaven in silent fear, overwhelmed with love and wonder.” He accepted God’s grace, leaving him in awe and filled with joy.

Soon after, he sought a fresh start and moved to a village called Olney where he met another man who had also experienced God’s mercy at a moment of great desperation. It was John Newton, the celebrated Anglican minister who had earned a reputation for the convicting power of his preaching. Cowper moved into a house next to Newton and experienced a sense of peace from Newton’s friendship and care. Newton understood that for the fragile poet’s life to find purpose, writing would need to be a part of his recovery. He encouraged Cowper to turn his creative talents to composing Christian songs, and the two collaborated on a collection of nearly 350 works known as the Olney Hymns. Through the years, countless souls have found spiritual comfort in the beautiful music written by these two men.

Newton is best known for his most famous work, “Amazing Grace” inspired by his miraculous rescue at sea.

Cowper is not only remembered as one of England’s greatest poets but also composed many hymns of his own including, “There is a fountain filled with blood” and “God moves in a mysterious way” which proclaim the merciful intervention of a God that loved him and wanted to save him. Cowper knew first-hand that our journey is filled with constant warfare, and confirms what John Bunyan said referring to this life as, “a valley of tears.” For those who sense that doubt has overtaken hope or maybe you are just feeling sad today, be encouraged to know that God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.

The Lord designed your destiny before you were born which included a very special mission that He is trusting you to accomplish for Him. Do not allow your emotions to deny the joy of God’s truth. A line from God moves in a mysterious way, “For God is His own interpreter and He will make it plain, in His own time, and in His own way.”

Read more about the Christian life and order books for the holidays at billyhollandministries.com.

Local church calendar A Christian Fellowship 150 Fellowship Ln, Sherman, TX 75090 (903) 815-1333 Wednesday 6:30 pm – Potluck Meal 7:00 pm – Worship Service 7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Youth Sunday 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages) 10:30 am – Worship Service 10:30 am – KidZone Children’s Service (5yr – 12 yr.)

Community Bible Fellowship 415 S Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 - 6th grade, nursery available) 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service First Baptist Church Dorchester 11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 Wednesday 6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults and kids eat free) 6:30 pm - Praise service 7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - A.M. Worship Service 5:00 pm - Adult Choir Practice 6:00 pm - Evening Worship First Baptist Church Howe 100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903532-5504 Tuesday 7:00 pm - Bible Study Wednesday 5:30 pm - Kids Choir 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30 am - Kids Church 10:30am - Worship Service

First United Methodist Church of Howe 810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Monday 9:30 am - Care Team Meeting 10:30 am - Pastor's Bible Study Tuesday 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study 11:30 am - Out and About with Pastor Zack 6:30 pm Boy Scouts Wednesday 9:00 am - Wednesday Workers 6:30 pm - Jr. High and Sr. High Youth Saturday 9:00 am - Feed My Sheep (1st and 3rd Sat each month) Sunday 8:40 am - Fellowship and Donuts 9:00 am - Sunday School 10:00 am - Worship service 3:00 pm - Cub Scouts Howe Church of Christ 1205 N Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6441 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes (all ages) Sunday 9:00 am - Bible Classes (all ages) 10:00 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Worship Service New Beginning Fellowship 910 S Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6828 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Sunday 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, women, men) 10:30 am - Worship Service 10:30 am - Kids Church

Times are subject to change. Please check with each church for any possible changes

Verse of the week Revelation 14:7 He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come.

Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

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Guiding your high school senior during COVID Hi Taylor: My son graduates from high school in a few months and I’m trying to figure out the right Taylor advice to give.

Kovar Going out on your own is never easy, and it’s especially hard these days! Any words of wisdom? - Liz Hey Liz: It’s been an unbelievably trying time for young adults.

Fortunately, a lot of the advice I would have offered a year ago still holds true when it comes to college students and finances.

Don’t take out big loans without a plan. The student loan crisis rages on, working its way toward $2 trillion in national debt. The problem isn’t just that young people are taking out loans; the issue is that they don’t have any strategy for repayment. We can’t really place the blame on 18-year olds trying to get a degree, so it’s our job to help them look ahead and set goals. Explain how the interest works, how long it will take to pay back a certain amount of debt, and how those monthly payments can make it really hard to focus on anything else until the balance is paid down. Also, everyone should think long and hard about taking on student debt for remote classes. Nothing wrong with postponing school for a year and saving some cash while we wait for life to get back to normal.

Sniff out free money. It’s always worth looking for grants and scholarships, and not just the traditional ones that pay for fouryear schools. If your son can get the tuition covered for a certificate or associate’s degree, he might get a jump start on his career and still be able to attend a university part-time. A little outside-the-box thinking goes a long

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way when it comes to saving money and preparing oneself to transition into the professional world. Take it from a guy who got most of his education through free audiobooks from the library!

Start saving. Just throwing a few dollars in the bank every week will have your son outpacing the rest of his generation when it comes to saving for the future.

Student loans and changing industries have most people waiting until their 30s (at the earliest) to start saving, so this is the easiest and best thing a young person can do. If he wants to be more active, he can buy some quality stocks and watch his money go to work.

It’s hard to think about the future when you’re that young, but a little financial savvy now could have your son retiring before he turns 40.

If nothing else, make sure you explain how debilitating debt can be. With his whole life ahead of him, taking on excessive loans and running up credit cards can put everything on pause. If he understands that, I’m sure he’ll get the rest of the pieces to fall into place. Thanks for the question!

Legal Disclaimer: Information presented is for educational purposes only and is not an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of any specific securities, investments, or investment strategies. Investments involve risk and, unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed. Be sure to first consult with a qualified financial adviser and/or tax professional before implementing any strategy discussed herein. To submit a question to be answered in this column, please send it via email to Question@GoFarWithKovar.com or via USPS to Taylor Kovar, 415 S 1st St, Suite 300, Lufkin, TX 75901.

Living with children “Are you afraid of your child/ children?” I query folks who testify to children who frequently engage in John flagrant Rosemond antisocial behavior – tantrums, brazen disrespect, and belligerent disobedience being the top three.

I cannot recall an exception to parents – hundreds and counting – answering “Yes.” Therefore, it seems that fear of one’s child and major discipline problems are somehow related. Which came first? I suspect they develop simultaneously. Misbehavior begets anxiety, then downright fear which begets even more outrageous misbehavior, begetting even more paralyzing fear, and so on. If pressed on the issue, I’d say the misbehavior comes first. A toddler’s terribleness is capable of destroying romantic fantasies concerning human nature, rendering parents emotionally traumatized, in one day.

Invariably, the parents are looking for some consequence-based discipline method that can only be obtained from a victim of the ivory tower, but no method is going to work as long as they are afraid. What are they afraid of, anyway? They tell me, in so many words, that they never imagined a child who was loved could act so badly; that they feel powerless in the face of his tyrannical tirades; that they interpret his badness to mean they are bad parents.

They are entrapped in confusion, disillusionment, anger, guilt, selfdoubt, and overwhelming anxiety.

The syndrome is incapacitating. It drives many of these folks to seek the help of mental health professionals whose modus operandi can be reduced to test, diagnose, and medicate. Do things get better? For some, perhaps, but having been there, I long ago concluded that playing it by the book might make things less obvious in the short run but never “sticks.” Furthermore, that sort of formulaic approach usually worsens things in the long

haul.

The “trick,” if you will, is for these parents to grasp the paradoxical importance of not caring. Their problem is that they care what their child thinks and feels. They assign deep philosophical meaning to their child’s outbursts, which are nothing but equal parts dumb and insane. Their new parenting mantra must become, “We no longer care how you feel about the decisions we make, what you think of us at any given moment, how you want things to go around here, and the like, but be assured, if it came down to the last seat in the lifeboat, it’s yours.”

Benevolent detachment in the age of parent-child bonding? Like I said, it’s paradoxical.

The parents need to learn to substitute compassion for fear, anger, guilt, and other emotional responses that lead straight to efforts at negotiation; that is, any and all efforts to pacify the child.

They must be willing, in other words, for things to get worse for a time. There is much truth in the well-known adage.

Compassion? Yes indeed. The child is in pain. There is no such thing as a happy child who cannot stop acting in no one’s best interests, least of all his own.

Under the circumstances, teaching the parents to embody and properly convey authority amounts to a rescue operation.

Proper consequences – making the child offers he cannot refuse, but will anyway because he’s not thinking straight – are part of the recipe but proper consequences absent a proper parental attitude will accomplish nothing in the long run.

As they say about baseball pitching, it’s all in the delivery.

Family psychologist John Rosemond: johnrosemond.com, p arentguru.com.

John Rosemond has worked with families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field of family psychology. In 1971, John earned his masters in psychology from Western Illinois University and was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.

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