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** TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2026
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Let us determine that we shall not allow the state to be our master, but that we shall be the masters of the state. The long road of history is lined with the ruins of those states which bought the souls and the wills of their peoples by the lure of a granted security, and then led them to ruin by the same mirage. The world does not need one more such ruin. It needs a people who will be really secure and enduring, as far as mortal life is possible -- secure and enduring because each member or society is a person who accepts his and her responsibilities as duties, and asks only that the state act to keep the avenues of freedom open.
– Russell J. Clinchy, The Freeman [November 1980]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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January 27, 2026 My Experience with Dallas County DA Henry Wade ([link removed])
I was recently reading an article about a black man in Texas named Tommy Lee Walker who was convicted of murder and rape in 1953 and executed less than three years later. It turns out that Walker was innocent of the crime and actually had ten witnesses establishing an alibi for him. The article pointed out that the Dallas County Commissioners ...
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