Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Dueling headlines of Jared from Subway pleading guilty, and the Ashley Madison hack pretty much summed up what the next 10 years would be like. 

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• We now have a date for the reopening of the Wise County Courthouse although I think the renovation workers over there are going to have to hustle to make it happen.
  
  
  
•  Top ranked high school coaches salaries in DFW area.
  
  
  
• That list came from this article. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• While we are at it, here are the top superintendent salaries.
  
  
  
• A 15 year old sophomore.
  
  
  
• Up until a few years ago, it was a no-brainer that this silly law was unconstitutional.  Let's now see if the judge's ruling holds up. 
  
  
  
• As expected, the call came down from on high and Texas finally complied. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• With Ken Paxton trying to unseat John Cornyn as senator, we've got an open race for a new Texas AG.  And we have a new contender for that opening this morning:
  
  
  
• After listening to the alleged victim, I'm kind of skeptical of this claim.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm sorry, say what?
  
• Pete Hegseth, J.D. Vance, and Stephen Miller, Trump's authoritarian policy maker, had a photo-op yesterday at Union Station in D.C. where troops have been brought in under the guise of reducing crime. Side note: Where's the pocket on Miller's suit jacket?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Twenty members of the Defense Department's JAG Corps are set to begin working as special assistant U.S. attorneys — federal prosecutors — in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia next week. Those two jobs are not the same.
  
  
  
• Just the Chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party making a casual anti-Muslim and threatening post yesterday.
  
  
  
• For some reason, the Republicans are mad at Cracker Barrel for a logo change?. 
  

  

  
  

  
• Religion news: Overnight, Dr. James Dobson, of Focus on the Family fame, has died. 
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