Essays about Texas

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Friday, January 1, 2021

Post-Modern America is as vicious and dysfunctional as Victorian England, the Weimar Republic, and 17th century France

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If you get your news from network television, you are being bombarded by commercials about prescription medicines and financial services.  T...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Happy New Year! Your middle-class status has been revoked and a college degree will not get you reinstated

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 As 2020 comes to a close, you may think 2021 will be a better year. And if you are among the nation's wealthiest Americans, things look...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

The $900 Billion COVID-19 relief bill: Did Santa Claus forget you this year?

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  Congress passed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill yesterday.  It is almost 5,600 pages long, so most of our national legislators weren...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Living the good life with Fielden Poolaw: The Merchants Club, two quarts of Coors, and a teen hop

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Several teenagers in my hometown struggled with alcohol when I was growing up, but I only knew one: Fielden Poolaw, a classmate of mine at A...
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Friday, December 18, 2020

Mosley v. Educational Credit Management Corporation: "It's not personal. It's just business."

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The U.S. Department of Education and Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC), DOE's ruthless sidekick, don't want anyone t...
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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Mendenhall v. Navient: Idaho bankruptcy judge grants a family man a partial discharge of student loan debt totally more than $400,00.

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Mendenhall v. Navient Corporation : A $76,000 student-loan debt grows fivefold In 2007, Steven Mendenhall obtained a bachelor's degree i...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Small private colleges are going down: Don't get trapped under the rubble

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 Inside Higher Education carried a story today about major cuts being made at three higher education institutions. Marquette University, a ...