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Don't know if it's the 16th amendment that did it but there was a time when we could only vote for our congressman. The party nominated Senators and Presidential not-so-wannabes. You look at the Senators that keep getting reelected and like most of us it's a joke. Under the old rules we would have gotten Jeb. Maybe not. Walker would have been good. Trump would have never seen the light of day.

Jack D. Young, the pickup driver accused of causing Wednesday’s highway crash in Uvalde County that killed 13 congregants of a New Braunfels church, said he had been texting behind the wheel, a witness said today. “He said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I was texting on my phone,’” said Jody Kuchler, a welder from Leakey, saying he spoke to Young, 20, while he was still pinned in his wrecked truck after the collision.   “I told him. ‘Son do you know what you just did?’ He just kept saying, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry,’” recalled Kuchler, 55. He said Friday that...