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OPINION
DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 PAGE 2
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The most recent poll from the Pew Research
percent of Democrats are concerned that their
It was advice that was short on lofty prose but
ing the individual plaintiffs’ rights and avoiding
Cancer is terrifying. It has
The “only time I ever knew Tim
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Wes Beall
PRESS ROOM
Nancy Harris
BOOKKEEPING
Hughes Ellis
SPORTS EDITOR
Joy Slaymaker
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
facilities that match the biological sex they were
assigned at birth.
Service’s termination of Planned Parenthood’s
provider agreements likely violates federal law.
Sparks ordered the plaintiffs and defendants
R-Brenham, is awaiting a hearing by the Texas
Senate’s State Affairs Committee.
MARK
SHIELDS
midst of it.
As “(h)is body broke and, at
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the party makes major changes, we will remain
in the minority.”
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Carnegie Was Wrong.”
But in fairness to the man, Emanuel has
never lost an election, and he was the totally
engaged chairman of the Democratic Congres-
its “amazing stained glass win-
dows.” They started, he said, as
“piles of broken colored glass, all
of which seemed useless and with
no purpose. But then the mas-
ter took these pieces and formed
them into something no one could
have anticipated ... So it is with
our experiences in this life. Many
of these are times of happiness
and contentment, but others are
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good from suffering, a good that
national Democratic Party, the embattled mayor Also, you have to be for something — have a we may not completely see in this
of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, who is so abrasively vision — and Democrats “must stop bickering” life.”
antagonistic he could provoke a punch in the among themselves. Fuerst went on to talk about
nose from the saintly Mother Teresa. If Emanuel It was advice that was short on lofty prose but “great European cathedrals, spe-
wrote a book, the working title would be “Dale long on practical experience from one Democrat cifically his favorite, Chartres, and
who knows how to win.
Mark Shields is a veteran political commentator and
columnist distributed by Creators Syndicate Inc.
© 2017, Creators Syndicate Inc.
Federal judge sides with Planned Parenthood
Texans who rely on Planned Parenthood as a
medical care provider won’t have to seek those
services elsewhere, pending an upcoming trial.
In the lawsuit titled Planned Parenthood et al.
v. Texas Health and Human Services Commis-
sion, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks of Austin on
Feb. 21 granted a preliminary injunction to pre-
vent the Texas Department of Health and Human
Services from eliminating funding for Planned
Parenthood in the state’s 2017-18 budget.
“There is no legitimate public interest in allow-
ing Texas to complete its planned terminations
(of funding) based on the current facts,” wrote
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T"^ ack before kids sports — with their pricey
|-< equipment, expensive coaches and sum-
-L-Jmer camps — had become a major Amer-
ican industry, American boys, when playing
pickup basketball on a neighborhood court,
would simply separate themselves into compet-
ing teams, the Skins (without their T-shirts) and
the Shirts (with their T-shirts).
American political parties, in trying to figure
out what to do after badly losing a national elec-
tion, generally follow a similar pattern of split-
ting between the Shirts and the Skins.
The Skins’ argument goes like this: “We lost
because we wavered and strayed from our par-
ty’s core beliefs and founding values. What we listeners that if “you don’t win, you can’t make
must do now is obvious. We must, without com- the public policy.” How would he, the architect
promise, recommit to our party’s true faith and and engineer of the most recent big Demo- ment of God’s grace;
return to the glory days.” cratic House victory, begin? First, “create a farm
The Shirts disagree. “We lost,” they explain, team” of Democratic candidates who can win in
“because our party had become smugly self- competitive Republican-leaning congressional pus paper, The Irish Rover. In
satisfied and failed to adjust to changing times districts. it he talked ahout being 10 years
and a changed electorate. Forget the purist ideologue and enlist instead old and seriously ill in a hospital.
That delusional overconfidence meant the “Iraq War vets, football players, sheriffs, busi-
party had failed to see, let alone reach out to, nesspeople.” Why? Because such candidates will
voters who had been on our side but who now enable Democrats to “take (thorny) cultural of my bed. I would fall asleep at
felt an attitude of snobbish estrangement from issues off the table.” What about congressional night with the sure confidence
the party’s elites and experienced the pain of redistricting where the GOP has used its state that the Lord Jesus was watching
their families’ declining circumstances. Unless legislative majorities to draw favorable districts? over me, that I was not alone and
Emanuel: Completely support turning redis- that all would yet be well. Now
tricting over to a commission or to the courts, some four decades later, this same
Early returns indicate the Skins are energized where Democrats have a chance of getting a Lord Jesus walks with me and my
and ascendant in this year’s Democratic Party, more even break. family. He helps us to bear this
How about opposing President Trump? very heavy cross. He reminds us
Center reports that only 20 percent of Demo- Remember that “time is not the incumbent that we are not alone, and that all
crats think their party will “go too far in oppos- party’s friend. Time is the opposition’s friend, will yet be well.”
ing President Trump,” whereas a combative 72 Slow. Go slow.” About the cancer inflicted
Encourage dissension across the aisle. “Wher- upon his body and the lives of his
party “will not do enough” to oppose Trump over ever there’s a disagreement among Republi- wife and children, he said: “Suf-
the next four years. cans,” be on one side. If the president is for fering is an evil. But God permits
Let’s hear a case for the Shirts that comes from Russia, then be with John McCain and Lindsey it because He can draw forth great
one of the more disagreeable characters in the Graham for NATO.
Also, you have to be for something — have a
and Democrats “must stop bickering”
Other Voices
Trump making good on
promises to coal miners
educing harmful regulations and bringing back blue-
in collar jobs were major themes of Donald Trump’s
-Lx. presidential campaign. Now he is following through
on those pledges.
President Trump signed legislation repealing an Inte-
rior Department rule finalized in the waning days of the
Obama administration that restricted the amount of coal
mining debris that may be dumped into nearby streams and
required greater remediation of such areas. The regulation
was only finalized in December, though it had been in devel-
opment for seven years.
The coal industry claimed that the rule was superfluous
and would cost thousands of jobs in an industry already deci-
mated by both government regulation and market forces,
including the rise of cheap natural gas and declining demand
from China.
“In eliminating this rule, I am continuing to keep my
promise to the American people to get rid of wasteful regula-
tions that do nothing — absolutely nothing — but slow down
the economy, hamstring companies (and) push jobs to other
countries,” Trump said during last Thursday’s White House
signing ceremony. Compliance with the rule would have cost
the coal industry more than $50 million a year, he added.
Trump’s actions mark a significant departure from the
administration of President Barack Obama, which seemed
to make good on a very different kind of promise regarding
the coal industry. “So if somebody wants to build a coal-
powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them,
because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that
greenhouse gas that’s being emitted,” Obama told the San
Francisco Chronicle in 2008. An estimated 83,000 coal jobs
were lost and hundreds of coal mines were shuttered during
his administration, which often imposed costly regulations
through the Environmental Protection Agency and others
that hurt the industry.
Such issues have now put many red-state Democrats
in awkward positions. “Ten Democratic senators will face
re-election fights next year in states where Trump won; of
those, five hail from states where he won by double digits,” a
recent RealClearPolitics article noted.
As the Republican Party continues to make good on
promises to roll back Obama-era regulations, especially
those concerning core Democratic issues like the environ-
ment and Obamacare, it will be interesting to see if the pro-
gressive resistance movement will strengthen or wither away
like the Occupy movement.
— Orange County Register
Today In History
Today is Tuesday, Feb. pound near Waco, Texas,
28, the 59th day of 2017. when Bureau of Alcohol,
There are 306 days left in Tobacco and Firearms
the year. agents tried to arrest Branch
Today’s Highlight in Davidian leader David Kore-
History: On Feb. 28, 1917, sh on weapons charges;
The Associated Press report- four agents and six David-
ed that the United States had ians were killed as a 51-day
obtained a diplomatic com- standoff began.
munication sent by German In 1996, Britain’s Prin-
Foreign Minister Arthur cess Diana agreed to divorce
Zimmermann to a German Prince Charles. (Their
official in Mexico; the “Zim- 15-year marriage officially
mermann Note,” which had ended in August 1996; Diana
been intercepted and decod- died in a car crash in Paris a
ed by Britain, proposed a year after that.)
German alliance with Mexi- In 1997, in North Holly-
co and Japan should the U.S. wood, California, two heavily
enter World War I. (Outrage armed and armored robbers,
over the telegram helped after bungling a bank heist,
propel America into the con- came out firing, unleash-
flict.) ing their arsenal at police,
On this date: In 1844, bystanders, cars and TV
a 12-inch gun aboard the choppers before they were
USS Princeton exploded as killed.
the ship was sailing on the Today’s Birthdays:
Potomac River, killing Secre- Actor Gavin MacLeod is
tary of State Abel P. Upshur, 86. Singer Sam the Sham is
Navy Secretary Thomas W. 80. Hall of Fame auto racer
Gilmer and several others. Mario Andretti is 77. Actress
In 1986, Swedish Prime Bernadette Peters is 69.
Minister OlofPalme was shot Nobel Prize-winning econo-
to death in central Stock- mist Paul Krugman is 64.
holm. (The killing remains Comedian Gilbert Gottfried
unsolved.) is 62. Actor John Turturro
In 1993, a gun battle is 60.
erupted at a religious com- — Associated Press
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Les Linebarger
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
A shining
example at
life’s end
Timothy
Fuerst recently
died after a
fight with can-
cer. He was a
father, hus-
band and pro-
fessor of eco-
nomics at the
University of
Notre Dame.
I never met
him, but simply reading about
him makes me want to be a better
person. You might have the same
experience.
What first got my attention
about Fuerst was a tribute letter
that a colleague wrote in a campus
paper, The Observer. The author,
sional Campaign Committee fellow economics professor Joe
in 2006, when his party final- Kaboski, described Fuerst as “a
ly took back control of the good friend, a brilliant economist,
House from the Republicans, an energetic teacher, a wonderful
who had maintained a major- colleague and a dedicated and lov-
ity since 1995. ing father and husband,” the usual
So Emanuel’s recently heartfelt terms used in mourning
offered advice to the Demo- a good person. But Kaboski con-
crats, delivered to an audi- tinued: “But that doesn’t capture
ence at the Stanford Graduate it. There was something different
School of Business, deserves about him. ‘Special’ would under-
a hearing. state it: There was something
Always practical (“I don’t noble, something holy about him.
go to moral victory speeches”), he reminded To me, he was almost a sacra-
ment: a visible sign of Christ in
our community, and a true instru-
- — »
Just before Christmas, Fuerst
was interviewed by another cam-
one school district from get-
ting hired by another district.
“We have to remove any
possible obstacle to identify filled with great sadness and suf-
teachers or educators with fering. But the master takes all of
this problem and pull their these pieces, both good and bad,
license,” said Sen. Paul Betten- and makes something truly beau-
court, author of Senate Bill 7. tiful for God. ”
SB 7 also would: Obviously, those are the words
• Create criminal penal- of a man of faith, in the truest
ties for any superintendent or sense, tried and tested. The Mardi
principal who fails to notify Gras parties happening right
the state of cases of sexual around now and the subsequent
Sparks. “Instead, the public interest favors enforc- misconduct involving teachers; Ash Wednesday and Lent obser-
Automatically revoke the teaching certifi- vances are more than mere ritu-
disrupting the health care of some of Texas’s most cate of any teacher on deferred adjudication for als. They’re windows into a big-
vulnerable individuals.” sexual misconduct or on the sex offender registry; ger picture, making some sense,
Sparks found an injunction would ensure Med- and albeit mysterious, of what we see
icaid recipients in Texas “will continue to have • Require school districts to enact polices and around us and how we live in the
access to medical care at their chosen providers” training addressing contact between students and
and the Texas Department of Health and Human teachers on the Internet and social media.
NOTED TEXAS jurist Jack Pope of Austin 6-foot-6, resembled a skeleton
died at age 103 on Feb. 25. toward the end, ... it only made
uiuulu Luv piaiiiLino anu Born in Abilene in 1913, Pope helped estab- his great soul shine through even
to work out a schedule for presenting arguments lish formal judicial education for Texas judges, more,” Fuerst’s colleague Kaboski
within 30 days. The court will then schedule a fought for a voluntary judicial ethics code when wrote. Even during chemothera-
trial date. judges had none and fought again to make that py, Fuerst researched, published
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expressed code mandatory and enforceable. He served for and taught and advised,
disappointment in the ruling and said he plans to 38 years as a district court judge, court of appeals
file an appeal. justice and on the Texas Supreme Court, the taken some greats of late, famous
THE TRUMP administration has reversed last two as chief justice. His judicial tenure, as and obscure, inspirations to the
last year’s Obama administration move to allow a whole, was the longest of any Texas Supreme world and inspirations to their
transgender students to use the bathrooms and Court justice.
locker rooms of their choice. As a court of appeals justice, Pope’s reas-
The civil rights divisions for the federal justice sessment of water rights conveyed by Spanish supernatural peace amidst the
and education departments on Feb. 22 issued a and Mexican land grants changed Texas water pain. Their courage is a witness
joint “Dear Colleague” guidance letter reversing law forever. As chief justice he forged a way to for us all, to something more, to a
the controversial move last May. guarantee income to finance legal assistance for better aim for life than the way we
In late August, a Fort Worth federal district the poor. Concerned with double litigation in often go about our days.
court enjoined nationwide enforcement of the the same case, he won legislative support for
Obama administration’s directive. statutory changes to thwart “forum shopping” for to make someone unhappy was
Meanwhile, Senate Bill 6 by Lois Kolkhorst, favorable judges. when he suffered with cancer and
SOME 122,606 OF Texas’ 2016 high school eventually died,” Kaboski wrote,
graduates took at least one Advanced Placement Upon reading about Timothy
The state legislation, considered a high prior- Program exam during their high school careers, Fuerst, it’s hard not to be drawn
ity by Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Pat- according to Texas Education Commissioner to pray for his family, and pray
rick, would require transgender students to use Mike Morath. also that we might resemble him
Morath said the total amounts to 38.7 percent on our best and worst days.
of Texas’ graduating class. The national percent-
THE SENATE Education Committee on Feb. age is 36.2. , ^an Lopez is editor-at-large
----- o ° of National Review Online. She can be
Ed Sterling is Director of Member Services with Austin- contacted at klopez@nationalreview.com.
©2017, United Feature Syndicate Inc.
and obscure, inspirations to the
communities. Others are fight-
ing valiantly while discovering a
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