Jim Terry column
Jim Terry has worked in Republican grassroots politics for 40 years. Terry was an administrative assistant to a Republican elected official in Dallas for twenty years. In 1996, he ran for and was elected to Justice Court 2 in Dallas County where he served eight years. Contact Jim at tr4guy62@yahoo.com
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April 9, 2024
The two worst times of the year for most Americans are the day they receive their property appraisal notices for taxation purposes and April 15, when income tax . . .
Jim Terry
October 18, 2023
The hot news item in early August 2023 was that consumer credit card (CC) debt in the United States had reached an all time record high of $1.03 trillion. This . . .
Jim Terry
September 15, 2023
In 1985, a musical version of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn opened on Broadway. The music and lyrics were written by country musician Roger Miller. The work . . .
Jim Terry
August 11, 2022
Texas homeowners have received the bad news from their appraisal districts; the appraisal review boards are overwhelmed for another year; and the issue of Texas . . .
Jim Terry
January 20, 2022
MY OPINION
After a regular session and three special sessions of the Texas State Legislature in 2021, I am greatly disappointed in the lack of urgency by the . . .
Jim Terry
December 2, 2021
On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case revolving around a law the . . .
Jim Terry
October 10, 2021
During the 1980s, sixty-one people were killed and 186 were injured in school shootings. Schoolhouse violence didn’t begin in the 1980s. In 1840, in . . .
Jim Terry
June 18, 2021
I recently had a discussion with a woman, a liberal Democrat, who said she believes a woman should be able to control her body. The discussion was about . . .
Jim Terry
May 11, 2021
In 2013, the world learned that the Obama/Biden Administration had been using the Internal Revenue Service to punish conservative organizations applying for tax . . .
Jim Terry
April 4, 2021
You probably remember scenes in old movies where the big man in town enters a restaurant or nightclub and tells the waiter, “I’ll have the usual.” Because . . .
Jim Terry
March 5, 2021
Open Doors USA is an organization which monitors Christian persecution around the world and advocates for believers in Jesus the Christ who are under . . .
Jim Terry
March 2, 2021
From 1950 to 1957, Texas suffered what many have called the grandfather of all droughts. It was the worst drought in Texas recorded history. A joke at the time . . .
Jim Terry
February 4, 2021
While Democrats decry law enforcement and push for more de-funding of police departments, last night, my neighborhood learned how necessary these people are.
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Jim Terry
January 17, 2021
In 1918, Miguel Martinez, an immigrant who fled Mexico during the revolution, opened a restaurant in Dallas. He named it El Fenix, after the mythical Phoenix. . . .
Jim Terry
January 14, 2021
Virtue, morality, religion – characteristics acclaimed by three of our founding fathers as necessaryfor the success of the nation they helped found. Could . . .
Jim Terry
January 11, 2021
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are . . .
Jim Terry
October 6, 2020
“How old would you be if you don’t know how old you are?”— Satchel Paige
I ran across a post on Facebook the other day which read:
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Jim Terry
September 9, 2020
The Morris chair was an early style of reclining chair and first sold by Morris & Company, a British firm, in the late 1860s. The chairs, with backs that . . .
Jim Terry
July 26, 2020
In 1833, Thomas Drummond, a naturalist from Scotland, came to Texas to catalogue native plants. Among the many plants he discovered was the Malvaviscus arboreus . . .
Jim Terry
March 23, 2020
In an attempt to salvage the economy which has been bashed by the Saudi Arabia oil war with Russia, compounded by the China generated Coronavirus pandemic, . . .
Jim Terry
March 4, 2020
My grandmother's photograph album contains a snapshot made around 1945. Six youngsters pose on a sawhorse in order from youngest, that is I, to oldest, a cousin . . .
Jim Terry
December 23, 2019
Wired Magazine is a publication which focuses on technology and how it affects us. Several years ago, Jonathan Liu offered a piece in the publication titled . . .
Jim Terry
January 5, 2019
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. – Lenny Bruce
Former congressman and House Majority Leader Dick Armey . . .
Jim Terry
November 26, 2018
A few days ago I visited Yad Vashem, which in Hebrew means "a monument and a name," The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem. It is a sobering . . .
Jim Terry
October 12, 2018
I'm a member of the Silent Generation. That is the one immediately preceding the Boomers. I came along near the end of the Silent Generation, after the United . . .
Jim Terry
September 22, 2018
According to the center for Immigration Studies, as of May 30, 2018, seven states, and 167 cities and counties have declared themselves sanctuaries for purposes . . .
Jim Terry
July 24, 2018
James Clapper is offended that President Trump has threatened to remove Clapper's security clearance. John Brennan said President Trump committed treason in his . . .
Jim Terry
June 6, 2018
My daughter recently asked me if I had any cheesecloth. I thought for a moment and said I believed I had some and asked her why she wanted to know. She told me . . .
Jim Terry
June 1, 2018
In 1957 I was in the eighth grade. The teacher of our mechanical drawing class announced midway through class one day that a small nut was missing from the . . .
Jim Terry
March 8, 2018
With politics thick in the air this year and mid-term elections coming up, many people have talked about the need for term limits for members of Congress. This . . .
Jim Terry
November 27, 2017
Several years ago, while in New York City, my wife and I went to an off-Broadway theater to see a musical which took us back to our youth. The show, The Million . . .
Jim Terry
October 25, 2017
I recently fired off this letter to my congressthing and my two senatorthings. Probably not a good choice of words. OK. I recently mailed off this letter to my . . .
Jim Terry
September 10, 2017
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, a Democrat, recently said that Confederate monuments are propaganda. If that is the case, they are propaganda of the supporters of . . .
Jim Terry
July 26, 2017
The Democratic Party. The party of: slavery, racism, hatred, the Ku Klux Klan, anger, tyranny, rebellion, socialism, progressivism, communist sympathizers, God . . .
Jim Terry
May 8, 2017
If you find yourself with nothing to do and you have a strong constitution, go to the Social Security Administration website and read the debates on Social . . .
Jim Terry
October 11, 2016
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
– George Orwell, 1984
Donald . . .
Jim Terry
October 9, 2016
My wife and I visited Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2001. It was not my first visit. In 1972 and 1980, I was there on political business, which didn't leave . . .
Jim Terry
September 14, 2016
Liberal bias and false reporting of news has had a negative effect on America's news industry. The number of newspapers in America has declined; newspapers have . . .
Jim Terry
August 29, 2016
In early August, Americans were reminded what Chris Cuomo of CNN said in 2014. Several internet sites ran the video clip of Cuomo telling viewers how the media . . .
Jim Terry
August 12, 2016
During its 108 year history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been looked up to by most Americans-most law abiding Americans.
Just as he has . . .
Jim Terry
July 31, 2016
Last week at the Republican National Convention, three speakers described how they had lost loved ones at the hands of illegal aliens. And, all three speakers . . .
Jim Terry
October 20, 2015
Two news items the past week brought to mind how our government works for us. Or, doesn't work for us.
First, the Social Security Administration announced . . .
Jim Terry
June 18, 2015
We left Charlotte and headed west to Texas. On our way my wife indulged me a desire I have had for many years – to see the little town of Dayton, Tennessee.
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Jim Terry
May 30, 2015
One of my favorite hymns is the old southern gospel "Precious Memories." That seemed to be the theme of a road trip my wife and I returned from a few days ago . . .
Jim Terry
October 30, 2013
I once posed the following question to a group of Christians during a discussion on tithing: How can you believe that God can forgive your sins and save you . . .
Jim Terry
October 21, 2013
Every Texan knows, and most Americans know the story of a small group of heroes who waged a battle on principle. These principled men did everything they could . . .
Jim Terry
September 18, 2013
Seems like every time the president speaks the veracity of his pronouncements are called into question.
A recent example of the president's actions straying . . .
Jim Terry
July 14, 2013
When I was a young man searching for political direction, an older fellow, a co-worker and lifelong Democrat, explained the difference in the two major . . .
Jim Terry
June 26, 2013
Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Sorry Ben, there are other things in this world . . .
Jim Terry
June 20, 2013
The flood of radio propaganda sponsored by a group calling itself Americans for a Conservative Direction (ACD) brings to mind the Emerson quote, "The louder he . . .
Jim Terry
April 26, 2013
Suppose Senator Marco Rubio came home after a busy month in Washington to find some strangers in his home. Suppose the strangers were poor, homeless family . . .
Jim Terry
April 17, 2013
The Washington Examiner recently reported that Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is now bellyaching about his and the Democrats' Commucare, supposed health care . . .
Jim Terry
March 1, 2013
Several years ago a North Texas sheriff appeared before the commissioners court of his county to ask for increased funds in his budget to hire more patrol . . .
Jim Terry
December 18, 2012
The end of the year has finally come, and not too soon. For years I have sent out a family newsletter to our friends at Christmas. This year, I have no good . . .
Jim Terry
October 20, 2012
The second presidential debate is behind us, and, as we knew would happen, the mainstream media has proclaimed the incumbent president the winner.
When you . . .
Jim Terry
September 2, 2012
Clint Eastwood was a surprise speaker at the Republican National convention Thursday night. What's more, Clint's talk was a surprise as he interviewed President . . .
Jim Terry
August 18, 2012
I have been at the Texas Gulf Coast for a few days with the family, relaxing on the beach and stuffing myself with shrimp. While I have been a mountain lover . . .
Jim Terry
June 29, 2012
I don't know whether to be angry with Justice Roberts, as are many conservatives, after his vote with the liberal justices on the Supreme Court declaring . . .
Jim Terry
December 29, 2011
You will often hear politicians running for U.S. Congress or president say, "The system is broken and we need to fix it." We heard that from candidate Obama and . . .
Jim Terry
October 25, 2011
In the political rhetoric now being spit out by the candidates for president, one topic is receiving little discussion.
One of the most egregious laws, and . . .
Jim Terry
September 28, 2011
I am not a Rick Perry apologist. I don't believe he will be in the running by year's end. But he doesn't seem to be able to handle the question raised about . . .
Jim Terry
September 14, 2011
The president, in his jobs speech the other night, cited Warren Buffett's article last month in the New York Times urging the government to extract more taxes . . .
Jim Terry
September 8, 2011
A study conducted by researchers at Columbia University in New York and Oxford University in England was released a few days ago. The report said that by 2030 . . .
Jim Terry
June 17, 2011
I attended the fifty year reunion of my graduation from Dallas South Oak Cliff High School over the weekend. It was a two day event with a reception Friday . . .
Jim Terry
February 23, 2011
What goes around comes around. Somewhere along the way in America's experiment with democracy, has the U.S. Congress begun to act like the British Parliament of . . .
Jim Terry
November 21, 2010
A couple of years ago my son-in-law recommended a procedure for airline security. As a passenger enters the secure area before boarding a flight, he or she must . . .
Jim Terry
October 9, 2010
Lindsey Graham, the faux Republican senator from South Carolina, justified his vote to confirm political activist and non judicial experienced Elana Kagan to . . .
Jim Terry
September 16, 2010
I thought it ironic that I received a telephone solicitation from the National Republican Senatorial Committee ( NRSC) the very night Tea Party supported . . .
Jim Terry
July 27, 2010
(Last in a series about a two-week road trip across America)
Before wrapping up our visit to Watkins Glen we drove twenty miles south to Corning, New York to . . .
Jim Terry
June 26, 2010
Schuyler County, New York is a beautiful area of the state. Watkins Glen, our ultimate destination and the county seat, sits at the south end of Seneca Lake, . . .
Jim Terry
June 15, 2010
We crossed into Indiana and passed through Gary. The town was founded in the early twentieth century by United States Steel and has produced a number of notable . . .
Jim Terry
June 4, 2010
As I left home on this two week road trip, I grabbed a cap from my collection. It was my University of Texas 2005 National Championship cap. I wear it . . .
Jim Terry
May 27, 2010
The muddy Mississippi waters swirled beneath us. Grass, twigs and other debris zoomed past on a swift current southbound. Tree limbs whirled in eddies while . . .
Jim Terry
May 21, 2010
Traveling with a three-year-old kid is much different today than it was when my children were that age. Today, children are confined in car seats; they don't . . .
Jim Terry
May 11, 2010
A few days ago I returned from an almost two week road trip across the United States. It was not a Travels With Charley voyage, but I observed several things . . .
Jim Terry
October 13, 2009
I have listened to conservative radio broadcasters mock President Obama's Nobel prize for several days and read editorials in some papers decrying the award. I . . .
Jim Terry
July 21, 2009
"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker." — Plutarch
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee missed an . . .
Jim Terry
November 4, 2008
More than a year ago, Senator Joe Biden described his future running mate, Senator Barack Obama, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is . . .
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