The student editors of the Journal of Law & Civil Governance hosted their annual banquet on Saturday. Texas Supreme Justice Evan Young and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James Ho provided remarks, reflecting on the Texas Constitution and on the critical role of the judiciary.
Bill Mahomes, a member and past chairman of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, was honored Saturday as the Distinguished Aggie Lawyer in 2026 by the Texas Aggie Bar Association.
In introducing Mahomes, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman described him as one of the nation’s best bond attorneys and a person of “steadfast character and unwavering faith.”
Aggie class of ’69, Mahomes graduated from University of Texas law school in 1972. He is ”Of Counsel” and a former partner at the Bracewell law firm in Dallas.
He is pictured with his oldest daughter, Lauren Mahomes Cerney, left, and wife, Pam Mahomes.
Photo Credit: Specialties Photography, Inc.
A recent statement by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez illuminates the Marxist ideology which continues to take hold of American politicians. Here are my thoughts.
I don’t care what is animating or annoying you, I don’t care what your political persuasion might be, invading a church is unacceptable and is a violation of religious liberty.
Third‑party testing revealed Vital Farms’ eggs are about 23.5% linoleic acid, similar to or higher than canola oil on a percentage basis.
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This is so insane
Texas Rep Steve Toth showing Democrats went on the house floor for over 2 hours to argue that people who move into your home illegally while you go on vacation, should be allowed to stay
Yes, this is real
“This bill seeks to keep squatters out of our House. Democrats have fought for two hours for the right, I don't even know how to say this. For the right of people that don't belong in your house to stay in your house in the event that they you leave for a month or two and a squatter goes in and takes your house over. Democrats are fighting for the ability of those people to be able to stay in your house.
Most jacked up thing I've ever heard.”
Despite the hours of Democrats demanding people shoud be allowed to move into our home when you leave, luckily the bill passed
Statement from Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
On the UK House of Commons Vote to Permit Abortion Up to Birth
With sorrowful indignation, I condemn the vote by the UK House of Commons to permit abortion up to the moment of birth—a decision so barbaric, so devoid of conscience, that it defies the very notion of civilization.
This is not legislation—it is legalized slaughter. It is the cold, calculated permission to tear innocent children from their mothers’ wombs at the threshold of life. What kind of nation, what kind of people, look upon a fully formed child and call her disposable? What kind of parliament declares open season on the most vulnerable and calls it “choice”?
Let us be absolutely clear: this is murder. Euphemisms cannot cleanse this evil. The vote in Westminster is a grave offense against Almighty God, a moral descent into depravity, and a sign of a society that has lost its soul.
Saint John Paul II warned us:
“The acceptance of abortion in the popular mind, in behavior and even in law itself, is a telling sign of an extremely dangerous crisis of the moral sense, which is becoming more and more incapable of distinguishing between good and evil.”
(Evangelium Vitae, no. 58)
And the prophet Isaiah cries out again in our day:
“Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness … that justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.” (Isaiah 5:20, 23)
To the faithful in the UK: you must resist this with every spiritual and moral force at your disposal. To be silent now is to be complicit. To the priests and bishops: you must preach, you must act, you must protect the little ones! No excuse, no delay.
The measure of a nation is not its wealth, but its mercy. And a nation that slaughters its unborn on the altar of convenience has chosen death.
May God have mercy on the United Kingdom. May the Blood of these innocents cry out to Heaven—and may the faithful never cease to defend them, until this darkness is cast down.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.
The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.
Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.
Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.
No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.
This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.
All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.
The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.
How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.
The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.
Trump refused the deal and look what happened.
Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.
They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.
It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.
They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.
Catholics…STOP using contraception in any form, don’t debate or consider just STOP.
If you long for a renewal of our nation and our world, STOP committing this mortal sin and opening your marriage, your family and our world to evil.
If you have already embraced this critically important truth, THANK YOU, I urge you to evangelize every person you know on the evil of contraception.
If we want our nation under God, if we want a culture of life, if we want peace in our world we must STOP ignoring God’s Law regarding the very beginning of life.
If you are wavering talk to a couple who does not use contraception, hear about the beautiful blessings following God’s Law brings.
If you just aren’t sure read Humanae Vitae, it isn’t long but it is full of God’s Wisdom. You can access it easily just by typing HUMANAE VITAE (Human Life) into any search engine.
We need renewal in our world, let us found this renewal in God’s Law regarding life.
Remember your last end when you tacitly support abortion on demand tomorrow in the voting booth.
You will have to make an account to God and to a host of unborn children one day, whose slaughter you collude with when you empower the abortion cartel.
A newborn baby was recovered from a dumpster in Houston, Texas.
He survived.
"The child appeared to be fresh out of the womb, with his hair wet, his skin pruned and his umbilical cord still attached."
This is what happens when we dehumanize children, in and out of the womb.
IVF is the flip side of the contraception coin: Contraception is sex without babies; IVF is babies without sex. Both separate what God has joined together. Both are wrong. Only the Catholic Church as an institution maintains moral sanity on these issues.
If the Church were the evil anti-sex organization her libertine critics make her out to be, she would love to have found a way to have babies without the carnal pleasures of the marriage bed. But, being bound to the truth taught her by her Bridegroom, she maintains her insistence on the “one flesh” procreative union of matrimony (cf. Gen. 2:24, Matt 19:5-6, Mark 10:8, Eph. 5:31).