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Thursday, May 2, 2024

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  • Slouching Toward Totalitarianism

    By Mark Pulliam |
    Amidst all the other tribulations visited upon these United States in 2020, we find ourselves—like a frog in the proverbial pot of boiling water—immersed in the suddenly-ubiquitous delusion of wokeness. With startling abruptness, concepts and terminology previously at the periphery of popular culture—“white privilege,” “systemic racism,” “unconscious bias,” and the like—have become household terms. Once seemingly limited to the fever swamp of academia, and even then mainly confined to a few humanities disciplines, the death of George Floyd catapulted the long-simmering (and frequently-ridiculed) rhetoric of wokeness into the headlines. Without warning, fringe organizations like Black Lives Matter unexpectedly became mainstream—complete with corporate sponsorships and celebrity spokesmen.

  • Energy company loses appeal against legal firm after it failed to pay from settlement agreement

    By Charmaine Little |
    Judgment against Amerijin Energy, LLC in a lawsuit over fees for representation with Ashby, LLP was affirmed in the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas on March 31.

  • EEOC sues oil drilling company for racial discrimination

    By Michelle Keahey, East Texas Bureau |
    MARSHALL - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against Sandia Drilling in an effort to stop the company from allegedly committing racial and national origin discrimination against its workers. 

  • Drilling company employees sue over racially hostile work environment

    By Michelle Massey, East Texas Bureau |
    MARSHALL-Three employees of a Texas drilling company are suing their employer claiming the supervisors regularly and frequently use racially degrading terms.