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OPINION
DAILY NEWS
Sunday, May 7, 2017 PAGE 4A
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District office
1121 ESE Loop 323,
Suite 206
Tyler, TX 75701
Main: (903) 561-6349
Fax: (903) 561-7110
U.S. Senator
Ted Cruz
U.S. Senator
John Cornyn
517 Hart Senate
Office Building
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Main: (202) 224-2934
I MEAN,
BEFORE
TAKEOFF
I particularly enjoyed Wemple’s first ques-
tion: “Please condense the argument that Ste-
phens makes in the piece.”
Wemple’s a clever fellow. I’m sure he under-
state Rep.
Travis Clardy
District Address
202 East Pilar, Room 310
Nacogdoches, TX 75961
936-560-3982
Fax: 936-564-0051
East Texas
District Office
Regions Bank Building
100 E. Ferguson Street
Suite 1004
Tyler, TX 75702
Main: (903) 593-0902
Fax: 903-593-0920
KATHY FINLEY, wife of Raye
Finley, describing the destruction of
her home that had been in her hus-
band’s family since 1964 when his
grandmother once owned it.
LEE MERRITY, attorney for a
family in Balch Springs, concern-
ing the false report given by the
police who shot 14-year-old Jordan
Edwards and the possibly discrimi-
natory motive behind the shooting.
The officer has since been released
from the force.
TIM KELTY, Henderson city
manager, during Tuesday’s public
hearing on proposed changes to
zoning ordinances. The remaining 5
percent, he said, could be handled
through requests for variances and
other measures.
Joy Slaymaker
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Staff
Les Linebarger
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Nancy Harris
BOOKKEEPING
Hughes Ellis
SPORTS EDITOR
Wes Beall
PRESS ROOM
Congressman
Louie Gohmert
2243 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Main: (202) 225-3035
Fax: (202) 226-1230
(866) 535-6302
gohmert. house. gov
INTERIM POLICE CHIEF DAVID
PUGHES, a responding officer at the
scene, said concerning the shooting
of a paramedic who was administer-
ing first aid to a gunshot victim in
Dallas when he, too, was shot.
DON KIRKPATRICK, Van Zandt
County Judge, describing the torna-
does that raked across three East
Texas counties. These counties were
Canton County, Van Zandt County,
and Henderson County.
East Texas
District Office
305 S. Broadway
Suite 501
Tyler, TX 75702
903-593-5130
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currents of the Trumpified right. What better
way to inaugurate his new column than with a
splash, earning back some populist street cred
by making liberals set their hair on fire and caus-
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torical demands, of having the
same hashtags.”
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I—I pulled the paramedic
X Xout, placed him in his
squad car and drove him to
Baylor hospital. We believe
... that as a result of those
actions, that paramedic’s life
was saved. It was just a simple
dispute between two neighbors
that escalated into a shooting.”
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I tree start to rocking. Next
X. thing you know, it’s on the
house and now we have no
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ing an (alleged) onslaught of
canceled subscriptions? All
the while, he invited hordes of
conservatives to defend him
and mock his critics.
As a fellow columnist, I
doff my cap to you, sir.
It wasn’t hard to trick lib-
erals into going offsides. In
the past, Stephens was a more
GOLDBERG acid-tongued critic of climate
change research. But the col-
umn in question was a model
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Letter to the Editor
To the Editor: all, be sure the victim goes without a limp. Or
The following article was written by columnist expect to be sued.
Paul Han ey many years ago but still rings true “The police officer must know every gun,
today. It is entitled “What ARE Policemen Made draw on the run, and hit where it doesn’t hurt.
Of?” He must be able to whip two men twice his size
“What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, and half his age without damaging his uniform
is once the most needed and the most unwanted, and without being ‘brutal.’ If you hit him, he’s a
It’s a stingily nameless creature who is ‘sir’ to his coward. If he hits you, he’s a bully. A policeman
face and ‘fuzz’ to his back. A policeman is a com- must know everything — and cannot tell. He
posite of what all men are, mingling of a saint must know where all the sin is and not partake. A
and sinner, dust and deity. policeman must, from a single strand of hair, be
“Buried under the frost is this fact: less than able to describe the crime, the weapon, and the
one-half of one percent of policemen misfit the criminal — and tell you where the criminal is hid-
uniform. That’s a better average than you’d find ing. But... if he catches the criminal, he’s lucky;
among clergy! He must be such a diplomat that if he doesn’t, he’s a dunce. If he gets promoted,
he can settle differences between individuals so he has political pull; if he doesn’t, he’s a dullard,
that each will think he won. But... if the police- The policeman must choose a bum lead to a dead
man is neat, he’s conceited; if he’s careless, he’s end, stake out 10 night to tag one witness who
a bum. If he’s pleasant, he’s flirting; if not, he’s saw it happen — but refused to remember. The
a grouch. policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a
“He must make an instant decision which diplomat, a tough guy and a gentleman. And, of
would require months for a lawyer to make. But... course, he’d have to be a genius... for he will have
if he hurries, he’s careless; if he’s deliberate, he’s to feed his family on a policeman’s salary.” Sup-
lazy. He must be first to an accident and infal- port your local lawman.
lible with his diagnosis. He must be able to start Rand Cates
breathing, stop bleeding, tie splints and, above Henderson
Other Voices
A welcome dialogue
on campus speech
T t seems there’s no escape from a showdown between far-
I left and far-right activists. They’ve made California, and
X. UC Berkeley in particular, into a sort of ground zero for
a battle of words — and sometimes more than just words.
While free speech and political correctness are the hot
buttons, something even broader is at stake. Americans are
anxious and uncertain about whether we still have what it
takes to practice politics together in a face-to-face way, not
just as members of contending teams or tribes, but as fellow
citizens. But, in spite of the many grievances surrounding
prior street clashes and the complicated cancellation of an
address by Ann Coulter, the latest encounter between polar
opposites at Berkeley has given Californians and Americans
a good look at our better angels.
As campuses have become fraught, paralyzed places, the
gatherings at Berkeley have raised the question of whether
a better social education will have to be found elsewhere,
or at least outside the auspices of our institutions of higher
learning.
To be sure, while some agitators and provocateurs have
a vested professional interest in seeing crowds pushed to
the breaking point, if not beyond, too many colleges and
universities have spent years tying themselves into the kind
of emotional and political knots that beg for a cathartic
moment, however angry, to cut people loose.
“Correctness” today too often means far more than
observing the right political pieties. It pushes deep into the
intimate details of students’ and others’ lives, hearts and
minds, taking on an authoritarian cast that isn’t diminished
by administrators’ sense that justice or sensitivity might
demand it.
Meanwhile, everyday Americans, often possessed of
relatively extreme or unusual opinions, have found a way
— absent organized violence from “antifa” anarchists — to
sidestep the toxic cloud of campus anxiety and take one
another as they find them: as human beings who share deep
concerns that America has wound up at a crossroads where
politics as usual can’t continue without breaking down.
Theirs is a spirit and a practice that ought to be second
nature to administrators and students on any campus —
certainly at Berkeley, where the contemporary’ free speech
movement began in earnest during wildly more troubled
and dangerous times.
If colleges and universities can no longer provide stu-
dents — and the rest of us — with a basic model of free citi-
zenship, we’ve learned in the past week not to lose hope that
we can still count on one another to deliver.
— Orange County Register
Today In History
Today is Sunday, May 7, at Allied headquarters in
the 127th day’ of 2017. There Rheims (rams), France, end-
are 238 days left in the year, ing its role in World War II.
Today’s Highlight in In 1954, the 55-day Battle
History: On May 7, 1942, of Dien Bien Phu in Viet-
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Jona- nam ended with Vietnam-
than Wainwright went on ese insurgents overrunning
a Manila radio station to French forces.
announce the Allies’ surren- In 1977, Seattle Slew won
der of the Philippines to Jap- the Kentucky Derby, the first
anese forces during World of his Triple Crown victories.
War II. In 1984, a $180 million
On this date: In 1789, out-of-court settlement was
America’s first inaugural announced in the Agent
ball was held in New York Orange class-action suit
in honor of President George brought by Vietnam veterans
Washington, who’d taken the who charged they’d suffered
oath of office a week earlier, injury from exposure to the
In 1915, a German U-boat defoliant.
torpedoed and sank the Brit- In 1992, the latest addi-
ish liner RMS Lusitania off tion to America’s space shut-
the southern coast of Ireland, tie fleet, Endeavour, went on
killing 1,198 people, includ- its first flight. A 203-year-
ing 128 Americans, out of the old proposed constitutional
nearly 2,000 on board. amendment barring Con-
In 1939, Germany and gress from giving itself a
Italy announced a military midterm pay raise received
and political alliance known enough votes for ratification
as the Rome-Berlin Axis. as Michigan became the 38th
In 1945, Germany signed state to approve it.
an unconditional surrender — Associated Press
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Columnist Stephens stirs up climate of anger
FBI he last weekend of April delivered one of
I the more enjoyable spectacles of 2017. It
X> wasn’t Donald Trump’s tent-revival rally
in Pennsylvania. Nor was it the cotillion of self-
congratulation known as the White House Cor-
respondents’ Dinner. It wasn’t even the People’s
Climate March, which begged for some Monty
Pythonesque splinter factions — the March for
People’s Climate, Climate Marchers for People,
whatever.
No, the most amusing show over the weekend
was the collective case of the vapors across the
liberal left establishment over Bret Stephens’
first column at the New York Times on the perils of restraint that when read by non-ideologues
of certainty, particularly on the topic of climate and non-combatants must have seemed utterly
change. reasonable, even a tad banal. Stefan Rahmstorf,
Until recently, Stephens was a columnist for a prominent German climate scientist, wrote a
the Wall Street Journal. But as that august opin- lengthy, sanctimonious letter explaining why he
ion page made peace with the reality of a Trump was canceling his subscription to the New York
administration, Stephens held out like one of Times. Nothing in the letter addressed anything
those Japanese soldiers who didn’t get word that Stephens wrote in his column.
World War II was over (a position I can sympa- The Washington Post’s Eric Wemple found
thize with somewhat). The scuttlebutt is that’s it hard to constrain his dismay. “May it suffice
why he jumped ship — or was pushed — to the to say, however, that the many, many people
New York Times. who care passionately for the planet found it
So what was so funny? an exercise in climate-change denialism.” He
First, there was the substantive reaction. badgered New York Times editorial page editor
Stephens wrote that the “warming of the James Bennet, demanding to know, in effect,
earth since 1880 is indisputable, as is the human why Stephens didn’t write the column Wemple
influence on that warming.” The work of climate thought he should.
scientists is “scrupulous,” Stephens insisted, and
he went on to clarify that he does not “deny”
climate change.
The reaction? A Slate headline captured it
well: “Bret Stephens’ First Column for the New stands Stephens’ point about the dangers of
York Times Is Classic Climate Change Denial- certainty, particularly based on sophisticated
ism.” mathematical models that have been proven
When someone says that he is not denying wrong in the past.
climate change and concedes that it’s real, that is What I think sailed past Wemple and so
“classic climate change denialism”? Huh. What “many, many people” was Stephens’ subtler
words do we have left for people who call the point about the sanctimonious condescension of
whole thing a hoax? In civil debates, when some- people who claim to be motivated solely by their
one concedes much of your premise, the proper passionate care for the planet.
reaction is not to scream “liar!” or “heretic!” Stephens’ sin isn’t dishonesty, it’s heresy.
And that brings me to the second, and more He’s refusing to concede that one group of
amusing, thing about all of this. You’ve been people has a total monopoly on defining not just
trolled, people. the problem but the acceptable responses to it.
Recall that Stephens is said to have left the Such dissent is not a crime against science; it’s
Journal because he was swimming against the a threat to a guild. And the guild took the bait.
Jonah Goldberg is an editor-at-large o/National Review
Online. Lou can write to him in care of this newspaper or by
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