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Preparation for community protection
By Dr. Jerry Andrew Taylor We must stop being afraid of our neighbors. We have to love them enough to organize with them, listen to them, be educated alongside them, and join them in transforming anger into disciplined moral energy. Our emotions contain both positive and negative energy. Rage is energy. The question is not simply whether rage exists; the question is what we are going to do with the rage bubbling up as a potentially disruptive force in our society in this hostile political season.
How to keep caring in a careless society
By Dr. Jerry Andrew Taylor We are learning how to survive in a society where caring for one another has become enormously challenging. Sometimes life feels like rush-hour traffic where everybody is blowing their car horns, speeding up fast and then standing on their brakes to stop every thirty seconds. The gauge on patience is running very low, while the temperature gauge of toxic anger is running very high. One wrong move can turn an accident into an incident of road rage.
Services for Ellis Miller
A large crowd was in attendance at the Homegoing Service of Floyd Ellis Miller II, held on Friday, September 4, 2026, at Highland Church of Christ. Some individuals who were unable to attend the service requested that we post it. We do not have video, but we do have audio, along with transcripts of the portions that are not on audio. Participants are listed in the order they spoke.
When racism follows its own logic: The road toward genocide
By Dr. Jerry Andrew Taylor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once observed that the logical conclusion to racism is genocide. Those words were not spoken to frighten people or to make a dramatic point. They were spoken as a moral warning. King understood that ideas have consequences. What begins as a false belief about the value of another human being does not remain an idea forever.
A failure to connect
By Dr. Jerry Andrew Taylor We are living through a heavy and weary season in our nation and throughout the world. Amid ongoing chaos and confusion, many people are starving for simple human connection. We pass one another like silent ships moving through dark water at midnight. We look at faces but rarely enter the hearts behind those faces. We speak to one another, yet seldom in ways that truly reach into each other’s hearts.
Sinners: Political Vampires
By Dr. Jerry Andrew Taylor I was fortunate enough to be among citizens of Abilene who attended a recent showing of “Sinners,” starring Michael B. Jordan, at the historic Paramount Theatre. The movie was a powerful rendition of a chilling account of the old folklore about mysterious, long-toothed creatures known as vampires. As I sat among the crowd of about 250 people, I began to think about how many vampires might actually be moving among the general population today in disguise.
Big News for Oklahoma: Private Education Tax Credit has been Expanded
Cheerful news out of Oklahoma today as Speaker Kyle Hilbert’s House Bill 3705 has been successfully passed through the States House. Originally passed in 2023, the Parental Choice Tax Credit was designed to provide $5,000 to $7,500 in tax credit to parents whose children attend qualifying private schools and a credit of up to $1,000 for parents of homeschooled children. Now the passing of HB 3705 would raise the overall program from $250 million to $275 million.
An Inside Job
By Dr. Jerry Andrew Taylor/West Texas Tribune There is an old warning that still echoes across time. Abraham Lincoln once said that America would not be destroyed from the outside. If it falls, it will be by its own hand. Not by invasion, but by unraveling quietly, from within. That truth now stands before us, asking to be seen. Every citizen, no matter their background, carries a responsibility not just to live in this nation, but to care for it. To ask hard questions.
New York’s Budget’s “Creative Policy” Means Array of Tax Hikes
As the New York State legislature puts the pieces together for their newest budget, lawmakers are floating around the idea of several new tax policies which are being labeled as “innovative”, however, they are simply there to cover the growing budget gaps as productive citizens and businesses flee. As New York Rep Charles Lavine said himself, the current pressure from the fiscal climate has opened up a world of new proposals that lawmakers may want to stay away from.
Local Government Take Over of Electric Utilities is a Shockingly Bad, but Widespread Idea
Across the country, there have been recent campaigns to push municipalization, driving debates and votes about the policy and who ultimately pays for it. Beneath the surface, it becomes apparent that this is a mess of fiscal risks and transparency and accountability issues. Municipalization schemes can cost billions of dollars in order to purchase existing infrastructure and much more money to maintain that infrastructure as well. Who ends up footing the bill? Taxpayers.
Lawmakers, Guns, and Money: Maryland Proposes New Gun Tax
A proposed bill would chip away at the Second Amendment rights of Maryland residents with an 11% excise tax on firearms and ammunition, taking aim at gun owners who cannot seem to catch a break. Senate Bill 118, would impose an 11% excise tax on essential items for hunters and ordinary gun owners in Maryland. Lawmakers claim that the money collected from this tax would be put toward a wide array of gun safety programs. However, Maryland can certainly find this money elsewhere.
Florida House Launches Fleet of Property Tax Reform Proposals for 2026 - Americans for Tax Reform
With property tax elimination discussion stirring a number of states, the Florida House majority released a number of reform proposals following in-depth committee hearings. House Speaker Daniel Perez announced the ambitious set of proposals that could alter how local governments levy property taxes, giving Florida voters the final say at the ballot box next year.
Republican hegemony and dogmatic governance are harmful to Tennesseans | Opinion
Republicans use dominance in state government to punish and disenfranchise marginalized groups. Jerry Taylor Guest columnist Jerry W. Taylor is an attorney in private practice in Nashville, and an adjunct professor of business law at MTSU. Republicans control all three branches of Tennessee state government. They hold the governor’s office, a “super majority” in the General Assembly, and four of five seats on the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Firearms regulation and protecting 2nd Amendment rights not mutually exclusive | Opinion Original
We can unite to combat the scourge of mass shootings and murders that are carried out mostly by individuals with legal possession of assault-type firearms. Jerry W. Taylor Guest columnist The United States holds a special if not unique status among nations in its mandated right of private gun ownership guaranteed by the Second Amendment to U.S. Constitution.
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