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Bulldogs call for packed house for district opener with Leonard Something cool is going to happen this week.

We're going to produce a Howe Bulldogs quarterback roundtable conversation with Jay Skipworth, Chase Fountain, and Austin Haley. Each of these quarterbacks have been the all-time leader in yards at one point. Rick Hanning was scheduled to join the group, but a scheduling conflict will not allow.

This will be produced by Studio42 and partnered with Howe Podcast 101.

It will take place on the H under the lights at Bulldog Stadium. To be released later in the season. ***** The Downtown Howelloween Festival will take place Saturday, October 29 beginning at 6 pm.

The Howe Fall Festival will be held Saturday, October 15 at the Howe Middle School parking lot. ***** A federal judge ruled Friday that Georgia’s election integrity practices requiring voter ID and citizenship checks are legal and constitutional, rejecting arguments of racism and voter suppression from the state’s Democrat nominee for governor, Stacey Abrams, just weeks before Election Day. U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones, an Obama appointee, issued the ruling, after a lengthy trial, handing a major victory to Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who aggressively defended the state’s election integrity laws from a legal assault

by Abrams’ voter group Fair Fight Inc. and other liberals.

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

Bulk Trash Pickup 2nd Friday of each month in Howe.

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Fire Department has full time ambulance for the first time

Howe Fire Chief Robert Maniet stands in front of the first full-time ambulance that will serve the citizens of Howe, Texas. Staff photo.

It’s a historical moment for the City of Howe and the Howe Fire Department. The city has partnered with Texas Vital Care (TVC) on a fulltime ambulance to be stationed in Howe 24/7/365.

area that we coverage, it was time for us to bite the bullet and make our own decisions with this,” said Maniet. “It’s a big step in the future of Howe and the future of our department, citizens, and community.”

Howe Fire Chief Robert Maniet says that having Maniet was excited about this service will signifithe service which began cantly reduce the reat midnight October 1, (Continued on page 2) 2022 and says the citizens of Howe should be proud Republicans to of the commitment the host townhalland city and fire department has made. ice cream social in

HoweThursday The ambulance is a Dodge Chassis with a Braun Ambulance box on The Grayson County it.

GOP is inviting those to come out to a town hall There were some issues and ice cream social on with the previous EMS Thursday, Oct. 6 at Mepartnership which were morial Park from 6pm— not located in Howe and 7:30 pm. Those in attendthe situation led to time ance will be Texas Repissues on emergencies. resentative Reggie Smith and US Representative “The amount of service Pat Fallon.

Octoberlibrary events include pumpkin painting and trick –or-treating The weather is cooling down and the events are the Howe Community Library are just starting to heat up. Wee Readers are held on Fridays at 10 am.

October 7th will see a special visit from the Howe Fire Department to discuss fire safety and see a fire truck. Painting pumpkins will take place on October 14th with the library providing them.

Trick or Treat Safety will be held on October 21 featuring the Howe Police Department. Finish off October with Trick or Treating at the library on October 28, at 10 am.

Children can wear their costumes for this event.

No masks please.

The Bulldogs have become the hottest ticket in town for Friday nights. Photo by Rick Baze.

The Howe Bulldogs have become the turnaround gang of 2022 and the talk of Texoma. With the V lit in four of five games, the pages of the 22-game losing streak are turning brown and brittle as five sophomore defensive starters were not a part of the time spent in the Little Big XII for the past two seasons.

Howe faces the most consequential game at Bulldog Stadium since October 2016 and are asking Bulldog Nation to come out in masses and pack the stadium for the showdown with Leonard who also has a 4-1 rec-

ord. Howe will need to win at least two games in district play to qualify for the playoffs and Howe Bulldogs Head Coach Lance Bryan says that crowd support for this game can make a major impact.

“Our home crowds have been vital to our success this season. The team feeds off the energy and enthusiasm of an electric crowd,” said Bryan. We need a packed house to gain an edge in a huge game with playoff implications.”

Howe’s matchup with

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Keep Howe Beautiful hosting dinner and live auction forFreedom Rock

One of the Freedom Rocks painted by Ray “Bubba” Sorenson II. Courtesy photo.

The Keep Howe Beautiful (KHB) organization will be hosting a dinner and live auction on November 19, 2022 at 6 pm at First United Methodist Church in Howe. It will be a $15 spaghetti dinner followed by homemade desserts. The live auction will begin following the dinner at around 7 pm.

KHB will be the first organization to have a Free-

dom Rock to be placed in Grayson County and in (Continued on page 4)

INSIDE Stop Agenda 21, pg. 6 Lady Bulldogs, pg. 7 Bulldogs standings, pg. 8 Chamber members, pg. 9 City Info, pg. 10 Texoma Patriots, pg. 12 Texas History, pg. 12 Christian, pg. 14 Patriot Pony, pg. 15 Past front pages, pg. 17-24

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Ambulance service

A look inside the new ambulance for the Howe Fire Department. Staff photo.

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staff of the Howe Fire Department.

sponse time.

“We’re no longer waiting for outside sources or outside towns to come in,” said Maniet. “The only time this unit will not be in the town or in the station is if it’s on a call or transporting to the hospital.”

“We’re fortunate enough to have a lot of the guys that already volunteer here work for them fulltime, so it was an easy transition,” said Maniet. “They’re bringing in a few very talented paramedics and EMTs to come over and work our shifts that we have. It will be run like a normal fire station,”

The ambulance service is an annual contract with TVC and the City of Howe. Performance evaluations will be met frequently as well as ongoing training.

Maniet was asked by city officials to think outside the box on a transition to better serve the needs of the citizens in regard to EMS services and steered this effort.

As typical, a person needing the service would have their insurance billed.

A bill not covered by insurance would come from the EMS and not the Howe Fire Department.

“This wasn’t done without Mayor (Bill) French or City Administrator Jeff Stanley.

The partnership includes a combination of staffing from TVC and certified

The Howe Fire Department will also be adding a new fire truck on October 10.

A look from the back of the new ambulance for the Howe Fire Department.

Staff photo.

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Bulldogs

The last time Howe hosted Leonard, Howe lost a heartbreaker in overtime in the final district game of the 2014 season. Howe went on to become bi-district and area champions over the next two weeks. The photo is of Anthony Hawthorne who totaled a season-high 30 carries for 206 yards that night at Bulldog Stadium.

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Leonard seems to be evenly matched and could come down to turnovers and penalties. Howe has had their fair share of both at points in the nondistrict schedule, however, five of the six turnovers for Howe came against Commerce.

The Bulldogs feature the school’s alltime passing leader in Austin Haley who holds the records for passing yards (4,967), passing touchdowns (46), attempts (605), completions (338), completion percentage (56%), interception percentage (3.4%). Howe also features a rushing attack that has already gained more yards in five games (1,160) than the entire total of the 2021 season (964). Leading Howe is running back Antwone Rattler with 625 yards on 83 carries. He averages 7.53 yards per carry with a long of 50.

Ratter has seven rushing touchdowns and two receiving touchdowns.

Haley’s receiving corps is the best he’s had in his four years as Howe’s starting quarterback. Cooper Jones leads receivers with 13 receptions for 324 yards and six touchdowns, but equally as impressive is Ryan Hough and his nine catches for 212 yards and two touchdowns. Haley is an equal opportunity quarterback as he has hit his slot receivers Braden Ulmer and Kolin Murphy 12 and 11 times, respectively.

Ulmer has hauled in 196 yards and

two scores while Murphy has 146 yards receiving.

The Bulldogs are led defensively by 4year starting linebacker anchor Carson Daniels who fills gaps behind a dominant front three of Bryce Crosby, Mahlon Walker, and Charlie Turner who have combined for 100 tackles and eight sacks through the first five games. But the Dogs have been led in tackles throughout the non-district schedule by sophomore Beau Stephens who leads the team with 57 total tackles. Five sophomores including Stephens, Garren Lankford, Ulmer, Turner, and Triston Williams have played outstanding and have answered big questions marks that were asked before the season.

Howe is allowing 21.60 points per game which is the best since the 2015 season—also the last time Howe was in Division II. Commerce scored 35 points off of Howe offensive turnovers, so the defensive numbers could be even better without that costly game. The Bulldogs are allowing 247.60 yards per game which is nearly half of the 463.9 allowed a year ago.

Howe is outgaining their opponents by 173.40 yards per game which is the most since the 2015 bi-district and area champions.

Leonard will pose Howe’s biggest challenge of the season since Com-

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Freedom Rock

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the State of Texas. The rock is to be placed at Memorial Park.

The Freedom Rock (established in 1999) is a large (approximately 60+ton) boulder that will be brought to Memorial Park and is painted in tribute to veterans. The artist, Ray “Bubba” Sorenson II, was inspired by the movie Saving Private Ryan, as well as, wanting to give veterans a unique recognition on Memorial Day. Sorenson paints The Freedom Rock on his own with the tremendous support of family and friends. Sorenson in not commissioned to pain the rock but is able to do so each year with the generous help of donations.

While painting murals across the country, Sorenson had the idea of spreading the message of The Freedom Rock to other small communities and so the Freedom Rock Tour was born.

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Keep Howe Beautiful will also be hosting a Fall Sweep on Nov. 5, 9 am.

Those interested in helping pick up trash in Howe can meet at Summit Gardens that morning at 100 E. O’Connell Street in Howe.

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Howe’s last matchup with Leonard was in 2015 when the Dogs won 34 -13 at Leonard on November 6, 2016. Pictures is Jacob Taylor (51), Triston Matthews (44), and Mike Helpenstell (55). Photo by Michelle Carney.

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merce. Commerce is also the only common opponent between the two schools. Leonard beat Commerce 3231 in week two but there were no turnovers in that game. Take away Howe’s five turnovers that led to points and Howe holds Commerce to 24 points which is eight points less than their average for the season in all other games. Howe is averaging 44.20 points scored per game.

Leonard will be led by freshman quarterback Jacoby LaCook who is a dualthreat player. He has weapons around him on offense such as backs Ja Cory Bush and Brayden Kramer and receivers Cam Armstrong, Ethan Richardson, Trent Newby, and Randy Slaughter.

The matchup to watch is Howe center Mahlon Walker full against Leonard nose tackle Brayden Harris. Harris will be the toughest challenge for Howe’s offensive line so far this season.

Friday’s game begins at 7:30 pm at Bulldog Stadium. The game will be broadcast live at howeenterprise.com

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StopAgenda 21/2030:Action Tools Originally published in the Howe Enterprise, May 4, 2020.

vide guidance, and flexible enough to adapt to circumstances.

Publshed by the John Birch Society.

American counterinsurgency practice rests on a number of assumptions: that the decisive effort is rarely military (although security is the essential prerequisite for success); that our efforts must be directed to the creation of local and national governmental structures that will serve their populations, and, over time, replace the efforts of foreign partners; that superior knowledge, and in particular, understanding of the ‘human terrain’ is essential; and that we must have the patience to persevere in what will necessarily prove long struggles.

The United Nations and its mostly autocratic member regimes have big plans for your life, your children, your country, and your world…. Virtually every national government/ dictatorship on the planet met at the 70th annual General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York in 2015 to adopt a draconian 15-year master plan for the planet…. Officially dubbed “Agenda 2030,” the UN plot, as its full title suggests, is aimed at “transforming” the world. The program is a follow-up to the last 15-year UN plan, the defunct “Millennium Development Goals,” or MDGs. It also dovetails nicely with the deeply controversial UN Agenda 21, even including much of the same rhetoric and agenda. But the combined Agenda 2030 goals for achieving what is euphemistically called “sustainable development” represent previous UN plans on steroids — deeper, more radical, more draconian, and more expensive. (Quote from “UN Agenda 2030: A Recipe for Global Socialism,” TheNewAmerican.com, January 6, 2016) Insurgency in Irregular warfare Irregular warfare is far more varied than conventional conflict: hence the importance of an intellectual framework that is coherent enough to pro-

Insurgency, however, can and will flourish in the modern environment.

The strains created by globalization, by the collapse of weak state structures, by demographic, environmental, and economic pressures, by the ease of cooperation among insurgent groups and criminals, and by the appearance of destructive radical ideologies, all augur a period in which free and moderate governance is at risk.

[Insurgency is the organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify or challenge political control of a region. As such, it is primarily a political struggle, in which both sides use armed force to create space for their political, economic and influence activities to be effective. Insurgency is not always conducted by a single group (Continued on page 7)

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Lady Bulldogs fall to Bonham, Bells

Lady Bulldogs celebrate in Bells Friday. Photo by Alexa Brunner.

The Howe Lady Bulldogs lost to Bonham, 3-0 on Tuesday by scores of 2518, 25-10, and 25-15. Korie Bouse led Howe with 12 assists while Presley Shockey had seven kills and a block.

On Friday, Howe lost to Bells 3-0.

Kendall Griffin had 10 digs and six kills. Bouse had 14 assists and three digs.

Full stats versus Bonham: Jordan Brunner 2 kills Teagan Stubblefield 6 digs Presley Shockey 7 kills, 1 block Korie Bouse 12 assists

Talia Bjorn 1 kill, 5 assists Kendall Griffin 6 kills Emery Snapp 4 kills Kamry Snapp 4 kills Full stats versus Bells: Kendall Griffin- 10 digs, 6 kills Presley Shockey- 2 kills, 2 blocks Teagan Stubblefield- 7 digs Talia Bjorn- 4 digs, 2 aces Kamry Snapp- 2 kills, 2 blocks, 6 digs Emery Snapp- 4 kills, 4 digs Jordan Brunner- 1 kill Korie Bouse- 14 assists, 3 digs Reese Smith- 6 digs

Teagan Stubblefield and the Lady Bulldogs get excited in Bonham on Tuesday night. Photo by Alexa Brunner.

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with a centralized, military-style command structure, but may involve a complex matrix of different actors with various aims, loosely connected in dynamic and non-hierarchical networks. To be successful, insurgencies require charismatic leadership, supporters, recruits, supplies, safe havens and funding (often from illicit activities). They only need the active support of a few enabling individuals, but the passive acquiescence of a large proportion of the contested population will give a higher probability of success. This is best achieved when the

political cause of the insurgency has strong appeal, manipulating religious, tribal or local identity to exploit common societal grievances or needs. Insurgents seek to gain control of populations through a combination of persuasion, subversion and coercion while using guerrilla tactics to offset the strengths of government security forces. Their intent is usually to protract the struggle, exhaust the government and win sufficient popular support to force capitulation or political accommodation. Consequently, insurgencies evolve through a series of stages, though the progression and outcome will be different in almost every case.]

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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 boil-water 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.

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

2021-22 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 %

City of Howe Tax Rate Howe I.S.D Tax Rate Grayson County Tax Rate Grayson College Tax Rate Total (per $100 valuation)

$0.55 $1.33 $0.34 $0.17 $2.39

City of Howe Budget

$4,038,045

Cityofhowe.org City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Bill French City Administrator: Jeff Stanley City Secretary: Regina Harris Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk: Gina Jones (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: Benjamin Fuhr 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 100 E. O’Connell 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

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Texas History Minute The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 has been studied at length by military minds and academics for decades. The naval Ken Bridges officer in charge of the Pacific Fleet in the months before the attack was a Texas native, Admiral James Otto Richardson. As the United States began preparing for war in 1940, Richardson pointed to weak defenses at Pearl Harbor that he feared would lead to disaster.

Richardson was born in Paris in September 1878. After he graduated from high school, he did not immediately attend college. In 1898, he instead received a congressional appointment to attend the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He excelled in his studies, graduating fifth in his class in 1902.

His first assignment was with the Asiatic Squadron helping with naval support of American attempts to suppress a rebellion in the Philippines. He was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet in 1905. He came to command two small torpedo boats in 1907, the USS Tingay and the USS Stockton. In 1909, he was tapped to enter the Naval Academy’s special graduate engineering school, part of the first group of officers selected for this special training and education program. By 1914, he rose to head the Bureau of Steam Engineering, responsible for monitoring the navy’s fuel supply.

Richardson had an honorable record and steadily moved up the ranks. He served as executive officer of the battleship USS Nevada during World War I. He then rose to command the USS Asheville, a gunboat, by 1922 when he led the navy’s patrols of the South China Sea. Periodically, his service was interrupted by further studies at the naval academy and the Naval War College. He commanded the heavy cruiser USS Augusta from 1931 to 1933. While serving as Budget Officer with the Navy Department, he was promoted to rear admiral in 1934.

As Assistant Chief of Naval Operations in 1937, he was at the forefront to the navy’s response to two events that riveted the world’s attention. When famed aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Central Pacific, Richardson helped coordinate the navy’s search operations. He also helped formulate the information and response to Japan’s sinking of an American gunboat, the USS Panay, in China’s Yangtze River. Japan’s invasion of China and steady expansion in East Asia became a grave concern to the United States.

In January 1940, Richardson was named commander-in-chief of the United States Fleet, one of the seniormost positions in the navy, which also put him in command of the Pacific Fleet. In June 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the Pacific Fleet to move its headquarters to Pearl Har-

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bor. Roosevelt believed that the nation must begin preparing for a possible war. He also believed that while Pearl Harbor was still thousands of miles from the Japanese sphere of influence, the presence of the fleet in the Central Pacific sent a strong message of disapproval to Japan and might dissuade Japan from further incursions in the Far East. In the meantime, the United States continued to negotiate with Japan for it to cease its military actions, negotiations that continued until December 1941.

Richardson was respected as an expert on Japanese military tactics throughout the military and by civilian politicians.

He expressed grave fears over headquartering the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, especially since Japan had a history of engaging in sneak attacks.

He looked at the situation from a careful tactical standpoint. Pearl Harbor was a good natural harbor that had been under American control for decades. But Hawaii was more than two thousand miles away from mainland naval bases at San Francisco and San Diego, far from any emergency support, and unprepared for an attack. He brought his pointed criticisms of the situation to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Admiral Harold Stark, the Chief of Naval Operations.

Twice he went to Washington to explain his position in person, to no avail.

Texoma Patriots to discuss power grid issues

The Texoma Patriots are partnering with the Convention of States from Fannin County to bring you the documentary film - GRID DOWN POWER UP .

The organization invites everyone to join them on Monday, October 10 at Schulman’s Movie Bowl Grill in Sherman, located at 110 E. FM 1417.

Doors open at 6. Meeting starts at 6:30. Film starts at 7 p.m.

A winter storm in mid-February 2021 caused many Texans to sit at home without power for days. This incident disrupted our lives and caused loss of life and interruption of business. It could happen again.

Texas Senator Bob Hall will speak. He is a champion in introducing legislation to protect us from such disasters.

He will explain his efforts to protect and harden our Texas grid.

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He pushed for increased air patrols and for bolstering the defenses of the facility. He coordinated with his army counterparts on war game scenarios to practice for a possible invasion, a practice begun by previous Pearl Harbor commanders. He was discouraged when army forces on the island were never able to repel a naval invasion.

Years after World War II, Richardson said that he never believed that a carrier-based attack on the base would happen. He had anticipated a more traditional naval invasion with battleships, destroyers, and landing troops. In 1940, however, the United States still had very few military resources to spare in spite of increasing preparations. In February 1941, Richardson was relieved of command in favor of Adm. Husband E. Kimmel.

Richardson was assigned to the Navy General Board, an advisory body within the Navy Department in Washington. Like the rest of the nation, he was shocked and horrified by the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

He stepped down from the position in October 1942. He spent the remainder of the war working with the Navy Relief Society, a navy charity designed to help sailors and Marines and their families. He also worked as senior member of a special committee to reorganize America’s defenses.

After his formal retirement from active duty in 1947, he lived the rest of his life quietly in Washington, DC, occasionally writing on his naval experiences. In 1973, he released his memoirs, On the Treadmill to Pearl Harbor.

He died at his home in 1974 at the age of 95.

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Q: My husband and I recently visited our son’s family. We live two thousand miles apart and with the pandemic and all, John Rosemond hadn’t seen one another in several years. We were appalled to discover that they—our daughter-in-law in particular—practice “gentle parenting,” which seemed to explain our two grands’ generally disrespectful and disobedient behavior.

When we confronted our son about the craziness in his household, he told us it was his wife’s “thing” and he was going along with it to keep peace. Is it us, or is it “gentle parenting”?

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A: “Gentle parenting” is the latest attempt by parenting progressives to market the same-old, same-old childrearing approach they have been marketing since the late 1960s.

They’ve given it various labels— including democratic parenting, attachment parenting, and indigo parenting—but a farce by any other name is still a farce. When all is said and done, “gentle parenting” is proof of Abraham Lincoln’s famous theorem: “You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

“Gentle parenting,” boils down to treating children as if they are rational, reasonable equals. That significant numbers of adults actually think a constant downpour of love will magically transform a child into a person of that description would be mind-boggling if it wasn’t just one more symptom of these anti-intellectual times. Furthermore, you son’s admission that he is only going along with his wife to keep peace is telling of the fact that in too many an American household, the father has zero say in how the children are being raised. The woman he refers to as “my wife” has all but completely abdicated her proper role. She’s a full-

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time mommy. He would be more accurate in calling her “my children’s mother,” albeit even “my” is questionable from a strictly philosophical perspective.

“Gentle parenting” is driven not by research, which clearly favors traditional, authoritative childrearing, but appeal to emotion. The underlying message: If GP isn’t living up to its promise, the mother must not be doing it correctly, working hard enough at it, bending over suitably when she talks to her child, employing a sufficiently wheedling tone, etc., which is why many a mom has told me that GP put her under tremendous stress and that she was only doing it because it’s what all her friends were doing and if she didn’t, she would no longer be included in play dates and the like. Charming. If a mom doesn’t go along with the crowd, her child will pay the price.

Some moms are getting it. One former GPer recently told me that finding yours truly online and beginning to read this very psychologically incorrect column had liberated her from “the craziness.” She seemed to be holding back tears. Keep in mind that “my” approach to raising children isn’t “mine” at all. It was the norm for thousands of years, to no one’s detriment.

So, moms, listen up: Being liberated from the craziness of gentle parenting is worth being simultaneously liberated from crazy toddler play dates overseen by micromanaging mothers and crazy “My Child Is More Worthy Than Your Child and I’m Gonna Prove It” birthday parties that run into the thousands.

Family psychologist John Rosemond: johnrosemond.com, parentguru.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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I attempt to keep my eyes and ears open to learn about the Holy Spirit and human behavior. In my spiritual journey, the situations I've encountered Dr. Billy Holland through counseling and teaching have graciously allowed me to see the importance of walking in humility through the awareness of God’s presence. I’m not implying that I’ve arrived at a spiritual plateau where God and I float through the clouds together, but I do believe we can be as close to Him as we desire to be. To be honest, the more I discover about His written and specific will, the more I realize I have hardly scratched the surface of pleasing Him. I've learned that our rebellious human nature loves being independent while God is constantly trying to reveal to us how the meaning of life is doing His will. He desires that we snap out of our defiant trance and allow Him to transform our thinking so that He can use us to accomplish His desires.

I’m sure that some of you comprehend what I mean when I declare how difficult it is to keep our carnal will under subjection to God’s still small voice. Even though many do not have a clear understanding, there is a huge difference between religiously knowing about God and knowing Him personally. We realize that it’s possible to drift away from God and fall into a backslidden state but it’s also a reality that we can be deceived about what it means to be born-again. Most everyone has a knowledge of Bible stories but many do not have the burden or discipline to pray, have never studied the Bible, nor have they witnessed or shared their testimony with anyone.

These individuals appear to have everything under control until they are facing a serious crisis and their world is turned upside down.

When someone contacts me for prayer and counseling, the first question I ask is if they can remember a specific time when they surrendered their life to Jesus. Most responses are related to being baptized or attending church as a child. It seems that some individuals are ashamed and avoid talking about

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how they have never lived for Him and now feel guilty to call upon Him because they need His help. Yes, there are times when even the strongest follower of Christ are shaken to their core but generally speaking the reason why people do not have spiritual security and discernment in times of tragedy is because they have drifted away from Him. If we communicate with Him in the good times, we will also be more likely to know what He is saying when facing a battle. If we do not have an intimate relationship with Christ in our daily prayers and worship, how can we expect to know what to do when the bottom drops out? When we are constantly talking with Him, praying, and worshiping Him every day, when adversity comes we will not need to search for Him. We are already with Him. There are levels of advancement with God and He desires that we keep moving closer to Him throughout our earthly existence. Following Jesus includes the responsibility of being a soldier who fights a spiritual war against the kingdom of darkness. If we are not brokenhearted about the world's blatant disregard for the Bible and the lack of a reverential fear of God, then we have already fallen into a state of lukewarmness.

Yes, it’s hard to be different from the culture and to separate ourselves from sin, but learning how to develop a passion to obey Christ is the only way to be filled with His hope and joy. If we refuse to nurture our holy covenant vow with God while we are living on the mountaintop, we will not have enough time to build an intimate relationship with Him when we find ourselves in a dark valley. This is the danger of not taking advantage of making Him our highest priority today because when we are knocked down to our knees tomorrow it’s too late to start building a foundation of faith. The majority of those who are in shock from a crisis become so overwhelmed with confusion and fear they cannot concentrate on anything except their agony. Today is the day to know God personally so that when troubles come (and they will) we can trust Him and hear His voice within the peace and confidence of the Holy Spirit.

Read more about the Christian life 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 903-5325504 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30am - Worship Service 6:00 pm—Potluck Fellowship and Bible Study

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 Stephen 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 Howe Church of the Square 100 E. O’Connell St., Howe, TX 75459 Sunday 10:00 am—Worship Service Summit View Church 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

Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

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Big Brother watching? Government agencies buying cell phone, internet data to track Americans A growing partnership between third party data brokers and law enforcement agencies is raising alarm bells among civil liberties lawyers.

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

Do you remember the Takata airbag recall?

The Takata corporation made defective airbag charges that would explode, sometimes spontaneously, and send pieces of metal shrapnel into the faces and necks of drivers.

In 2014 one young lady died and a dozen more were wounded. That one death prompted the historic record recall of 65 million vehicles in the U.S. and a fine of $200 million against Takata.

Over the next few years more drivers died. 17 in the US and 27 world wide.

Now look at the gene injection for COVID. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, no recall, no admission of responsibility. The deaths continue.

What’s the difference?

The manufacturers have no liability for injuries and deaths from the use of their products. ***** The ending of the annexation ceremony in Moscow was quite impressive.

Western mainstream media has us to believe that morale is dreadfully low in Russia. We’re told their military is crumbling and their economy is in tatters. But video of the annexation ceremony shows a vastly different picture.

Our mainstream media here in the United States is pure propaganda full of lies, illusions, and manipulations. We now can understand why western big tech and western governments banned all social media and news that Russians put out.

Your opinion of Russia is solely based on what the west has told you. This is war in 2022.

used the Fog data for a wide range of investigations, from the murder of

By Aaron Kliegman a nurse in Arkansas to In a little noted trend, law tracking the movements of a potential participant enforcement agencies at every level of government in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the Associated Press reare increasingly buying ported. data from private, thirdparty data brokers on According to Fog, it's Americans' phone and internet activities in order providing a helpful serto track them, often with- vice so law enforcement agencies can better do out a warrant. their jobs.

While proponents say this "Local law enforcement is practice provides critical at the front lines of trafhelp for investigations, ficking and missing percritics argue it poses a sons cases, yet these deserious violation of civil partments are often beliberties that needs to be addressed through legisla- hind in technology adoption," Matthew Broderick, tion. a Fog managing partner, told the AP. "We fill a gap One of the latest revelations about this controver- for underfunded and unsial public-private partner- derstaffed departments." ship came from the ElecOthers see the arrangetronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated ment as a violation of Americans' civil liberties to "defending civil liberand the U.S. Constitution. ties in the digital world."

EFF recently obtained a trove of records through Freedom of Information Act requests on local and state police departments, as well as federal entities, purchasing a cellphone tracking tool that can monitor people's movements going back months in time.

The tool, Fog Reveal, is a product of the company Fog Data Science, which claims it has "billions" of data points about "over 250 million" devices that can be used to learn where people work, live, and associate.

Fog has past or ongoing contractual relationships with at least 18 local, state, and federal law enforcement clients, according to the documents reviewed by EEF. Law enforcement has

"Reporting and a recent investigation by EFF confirms that law enforcement across the country is regularly getting access to our private movements — with the ability to retrace our daily lives — often without a warrant," Aaron Mackey, senior staff attorney for EEF, told Just the News. "This is an end-run around the Fourth Amendment and permits broad surveillance that can sweep up anyone who happens to be near the scene of a crime."

Law enforcement agencies are getting much of this information from data brokers such as Fog, which harvest consumers' location data from app developers and then sell it to the agencies.

Specifically, various smartphone apps request

location access in order to enable certain features.

Once a person grants that access, the app is able to share it with other parties.

Data brokers strike deals with the app developers — or with other data brokers — through various arrangements to obtain the information and sell it.

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Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020 Biden administration gave millions in tax dollars to groups after election, records show. Election Integrity Partnership says it had 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove or restrict content.

By Greg Piper and John Solomon

A consortium of four private groups worked Many private entities, with the departments of such as hedge funds and Homeland Security marketing firms, buy this (DHS) and State to cenlocation data for business sor massive numbers of purposes. However, other social media posts they clients are from the gov- considered misinforernment — namely feder- mation during the 2020 al, state, and local law election, and its members enforcement, as well as then got rewarded with military and intelligence millions of federal dollars agencies. from the Biden administration afterwards, acThe government's interest cording to interviews and in such data extends bedocuments obtained by yond phones to internet Just the News. usage.

The Election Integrity Multiple branches of the Partnership is back in U.S. military have bought action again for the 2022 access to an internet mon- midterm elections, raisitoring tool that claims to ing concerns among civil cover over 90% of the libertarians that a chilling world's internet traffic and new form of publiccan also provide access to private partnership to people's email data, evade the First Amendbrowsing history, and oth- ment's prohibition of er information such as government censorship their sensitive internet may be expanding. cookies, according to documents reviewed by Vice The consortium is comlast week. prised of four member organizations: Stanford The documents reveal the Internet Observatory sale and use of a monitor- (SIO), the University of ing tool called Augury, Washington's Center for which is developed by the an Informed Public, the cybersecurity firm Team Atlantic Council's Digital Cymru and bundles a Forensic Research Lab, massive amount of data and social media analyttogether and makes it ics firm Graphika. It set available to government up a concierge-like serand corporate customers vice in 2020 that allowed as a paid service. federal agencies like Homeland's CybersecuriVice found that the U.S. ty Infrastructure Security Navy, Army, Cyber Com- Agency (CISA) and mand, and the Defense State's Global EngageCounterintelligence and ment Center to file Security Agency have "tickets" requesting that collectively paid at least online story links and $3.5 million to access Au- social media posts be (Continued on page 16) censored or flagged by Big Tech.

Three liberal groups — the Democratic National Committee, Common Cause and the NAACP — were also empowered like the federal agencies to file tickets seeking censorship of content. A Homeland-funded col-

laboration, the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, also had access.

In its own after-action report on the 2020 election, the consortium boasted it flagged more than 4,800 URLs — shared nearly 22 million times on Twitter alone — for social media platforms. Their staff worked 12-20 hour shifts from September through midNovember 2020, with "monitoring intensif [ying] significantly" the week before and after Election Day. The tickets sought removal, throttling and labeling of content that raised questions about mail-in ballot integrity, Arizona's "Sharpiegate," and other election integrity issues of concern to conservatives.

The consortium achieved a success rate in 2020 that would be enviable for baseball batters: Platforms took action on 35% of flagged URLs, with 21% labeled, 13% removed and 1% softblocked, meaning users had to reject a warning to see them. The partnership couldn't determine how many were downranked.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits Congress from passing any laws that abridge free speech, and courts have ruled that prohibition extends to federal agencies funded by the legislative branch.

Participants were acutely aware that federal agencies' role in the effort strayed into uncharted legal territory.

For instance, SIO's Renee DiResta said in a CISA Cybersecurity Summit video in 2021 that the operation faced "unclear legal authori-

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gury, allowing them to track internet usage and access large amounts of sensitive information.

In a letter last week to the inspectors general for the Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security departments, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote that a whistleblower contacted his office concerning the alleged warrantless use and purchase of this data from Augury by NCIS, a civilian law enforcement agency that's part of the Navy. According to Wyden, the whistleblower came to him after filing a complaint through the official reporting process with the Pentagon.

The purpose of Wyden's letter was to request the the agency watchdogs investigate the warrantless purchase of Americans' internet traffic data.

Wyden expressed concern that by obtaining information from thirdparty data brokers and avoiding any judicial review process, government agencies were circumventing the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirements, which are meant to protect against unreasonable searches and seizures.

agree to all an app's terms, they also agree to potentially being surveilled by the government.

Among the largest government buyers of bulk location data is the Department of Homeland Security and several of its agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol.

DHS has paid millions of dollars in recent years to purchase, without warrants, cellphone location data from two companies to track the movements of both Americans and foreigners inside the U.S., at U.S. borders, and abroad, according to a report released by the American Civil Liberties Union in July.

Also in July, the Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration demanding the release of all documents related to DHS' contract with Babel Street, a Virginia-based data mining and surveillance company.

The contract concerns a Babel Street product capable of retrieving and copying data both from online sources and from Last month, the House apps running on the approved changes to next smartphones and other year's military budget devices of billions of requiring the Defense people worldwide.

Department to disclose any purchases of In announcing its lawsmartphone or web suit, Heritage expressed browsing data that would concern about DHS normally require a warworking with private rant. companies to monitor Americans' social media Government watchdogs accounts and the prohave previously adspect of government dressed the issue of war- agencies searching and rants. Last year, for exaggregating the data. ample, J. Russell George, inspector general of the Other federal departTreasury Department, ments and agencies have responded to an inquiry partnered with data brofrom Wyden and Sen. kers. The FBI last year Elizabeth Warren (Dreleased its own contracts Mass.) about the IRS with Venntel, although purchasing location data they were heavily redactfrom data broker Venntel. ed. The documents showed the bureau paid George wrote that IRS $22,000 for a single liofficials said they didn't cense to the Venntel Porneed a warrant because tal. "the information available had been voluntarily For critics, legislation is turned over through indi- necessary to ensure the vidual permissions" in government doesn't inthe apps and devices they fringe on the rights of use. citizens.

The implication seems to be that when people allow location access and

"Law enforcement's exploitation of our private digital data is dangerous

and unconstitutional," said Mackey. "This harmful surveillance is only possible because there is no federal law that ensures that everyone can control their private data. It's past time Congress acted to protect our private information from both private and government surveillance."

Some senators are reportedly pushing for legislation that would limit the ability of law enforcement agencies to buy data to track people's whereabouts without a warrant.

Many of the federal government purchases aren't meant to surveil Americans inside the U.S. In one project, for example, researchers at Mississippi State University used a service provided

by Babel Street to track movements around Russian missile test sites, including those of highlevel diplomats. The U.S. Army funded the project.

The Iowa Air National Guard and U.S. Special Operations Command have also used information from data brokers for operations overseas.

Still, the potential for surveilling Americans has many prominent legal experts concerned.

"The only reason we permit private people to track you for business purposes is because we assume that it won't end up in government hands," renowned civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz told the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show Tuesday.

"If the government wanted to do the same thing, they'd need a warrant. I mentioned they tracked Mike Lindell He was hunting with his friends, and he was at Hardees — how did they find him? Did they buy data?

Or did they have a GPS on him? Or did they track his cell phone? ...

"It's just too much Big Brother. And the connections now between private industry and the government is becoming one of the great issues of the 21st century: Google and Facebook and whether or not Google and Facebook have to take instructions from the government."

Social posts ties" and "very real First Amendment questions."

She joined SIO from a firm exposed by The New York Times for creating "a 'false flag' operation" against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Mike Benz, an ex-State Department official who was slated to be the department's first-ever digital freedom ambassador if President Donald Trump had won a second term, discovered much of the consortium's work in research for his new Foundation for Freedom Online, a nonprofit which advocates for free speech globally while monitoring growing U.S. censorship.

He told Just the News the consortium was the largest federally-sanctioned censorship operation he had ever seen, a precursor to the now-scrapped Disinformation Governance Board and one that is likely to grow in future elections.

"If you trace the chronology, you find that there was actually 18 months' worth of institutional work to create this very apparatus that we now know played a significant role in the censorship of millions of posts for the 2020 election and has ambitious sights for 2022 and 2024," he said.

"Amazingly, there are now so many Ministry of Truth functionaries within the Department of Homeland Security," he added. "There are so many Ministry of Truth tasks, so many Ministry of Truth points of contact, so many different Ministry of Truth, policies for whether to remove something, reduce it, slap a fact checking label on it."

Rep. Andrew Clyde (RGa.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, called the revelations "stunning" and said the 2020 operation amounted to the federal government sanctioning and outsourcing censorship.

"The government knows that they cannot do it by themselves because of the First Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits it," Clyde told the "Just the News, Not

Noise" television show.

"And then they decide to partner with another entity, a private entity. a social media platform or university.

"And then they say, 'Hey, we're going to feed you information that we think is disinformation, or we want to be disinformation. And then you go ahead and you do the deplatforming. You label it as misinformation, or disinformation.'"

Clyde said he expects Republicans to investigate the consortium next year if they gain control of Congress and that he is drafting legislation called the Free Speech Defense Act to address censorship issues.

"This bill would prevent the federal government from labeling anything through a proxy entity, like a social media company, as disinformation, labeling it as misinformation or labeling it as true," he explained. "And then it would also give an opportunity for those people who have been injured by it to take legal action."

Homeland Security, CISA, EIP and the Stanford and UW projects did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment from Just the News.

It wasn't just blogs and individual social media users whose content was targeted for removal and

throttling as "repeat spreaders" of misinformation. News and opinion organizations, including the New York Post, Fox News, Just the News and SeanHannity.com were also targeted.

The partnership's members published the 292page public report in March 2021, though the most recent version is dated June 15, 2021. The launch webinar featured former CISA Director Christopher Krebs, "who led the effort to secure electoral infrastructure and the response to misand disinformation during the election period."

"I think we were pretty effective in getting [platforms] to act on things they haven't acted on before," both by pressuring them to adopt specific censorship policies and then reporting violations, SIO founder and former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos told the launch webinar. (He and Krebs started their own consultancy after the election.)

"Platform interventions" in response to "delegitimization of election results," for example, went from uniformly "non-comprehensive" in August 2020 to "comprehensive" by Election Day, the report says.

The partnership has not drawn widespread attention, however. Congressional testimony Benz's Foundation (click to continue reading)

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