Above: Texas Rangers parade down Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, circa 1916. Photograph: Courtesy Robert Runyon Photograph Collection. Life and death on the border: effects of century-old murders still felt in Texas. Many reporters have described the recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas as the worst modern-day massacre of Mexican-Americans in American history. The qualifier … Read more
The current occupant of the White House has been referred to by this writer as: The 2016 Popular Vote Loser (Hillary Clinton received almost three million more votes from the people) The KKK endorsed Candidate (because they supported him in 2016) Individual One (stemming from the Michael Cohen case) Tiny (Stormy Daniels description) Well, the … Read more
Representative Kenny Marchant of Texas announced on Monday that he plans to retire, becoming the fourth Republican House member from Texas in recent weeks to head for the exits rather than face re-election in 2020 in a state that is rapidly becoming more competitive. A Fourth Texas Republican Congressman Will Retire in 2020: Rep. Marchant, … Read more
Today is the 216th day of the year. There have been 251 mass shootings so far this year. There were four in the last week in California, Mississippi, Texas, and Ohio. That means that there has been, statistically speaking, more than one mass shooting every day. There have been 2,191 Mass Shootings since the horrific … Read more
FBI Director Christopher Wray recently testified before a Congressional hearing that White Supremacists are a major cause of domestic terrorism. Most domestic terrorists come from the white supremacist, anti-abortion, anti-government, and militia movements. Last Sunday, a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, an annual summer festival in the city of Gilroy, California, located … Read more