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Regarding The Obamacare Decision
Tweet This PostI didn’t mean to post on that particular issue today, but as I was running through the Daily Brief archives looking for something else entirely, I found this entry from nearly a year...
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Oddly Industrial
Tweet This PostWe’ve driven past this, a number of times on our way to and from New Braunfels … ever since we discovered the scenic back-road that lets us bypass the highway … We always wondered what...
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Friday Historical – Nat Love, the Cowboy Rock Star
Tweet This PostNat Love, who was born into slavery in Tennessee in 1854, went west to Dodge City after the Civil War and cadged work as a wrangler and cowboy. He was already a pretty good rider and...
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The Strange Case of l’affaire du Poulet Filet
Tweet This PostYep – when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro … Here we are, shaking our heads in amazed disbelief that now a fast-food chain purveying tasty chicken entrees, distinguished among...
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Update – Chick-fil-A
Tweet This PostThe daughter unit was working today, so we waited and had late-lunch, early dinner. The local Chick-fil-A nearest us was jammed, even more than it was last Saturday, and the line of...
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Musings on L’Affaire du Poulet Filet
Tweet This PostTaking it into my head to go to the local Chick-fil-A last Wednesday was another one of those odd things, like getting involved in the Tea party which happened because of a friend. In...
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In the Post
Tweet This PostI’ve been thinking for a while – based on my own use of the service – that the good old US Post Office is something well past its best-if-used-by date. Oh, no – not that it should be...
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At the Nueces Commemoration Ceremony
Tweet This PostThe bugler was there … …Curiously bridging the gap between the 19th century and the 21st.
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In Perfect Comfort
Tweet This PostWe were in Comfort this last Saturday … no, that doesn’t mean we were comfortable, exactly – just that we were in Comfort, Texas – a nice little town about an hour’s drive north from...
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History Friday – Snowbound
Tweet This PostA few years ago, I was offered an opportunity to review a new movie about the Donner Party – which turned to be one of those arty flicks, with some moderately well-known actors in the...
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History Friday – American Century Mass Cas
Tweet This PostI can pretty well figure out the source of my interest in 19th century American history; some of it can be blamed on the Little House Books of Laura Ingalls Wilder. But the larger...
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RuiNation
Tweet This PostSo a little over six weeks to go until Election Day; I guess we can call this the final heat. Texas is pretty much a red state stronghold, although there are pockets of blue adherents...
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History Friday – From Ancient Grudge
Tweet This Post“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” When I was deep in the midst of researching and writing the Adelsverein Trilogy, of course I...
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A Little Something for the Boyz Who Like Airplanes
Tweet This Post A ‘Twin Mustang’ on static display at Lackland AFB. There is quite a comprehensive collection of historic aircraft lined up along all four sides of the parade grounds, where the...
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Archive Post: Borderland
Tweet This Post(From the archives of the Daily Brief – a meditation on living in the borderlands. Business is suddenly jumping for the Tiny Publishing Bidness, and I suddenly have a lot of editing to...
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Archive – Oh!! Christmas Tree!
Tweet This Post(From the old SSDB archive – a reminiscence about the search for the perfect Christmas tree, December, 1981.) It really takes a gift to find yourself on a soggy-wet mountainside in on a...
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Metropolis
Tweet This PostIt’s been most unsettling, over the last month or so, watching as the ship of state powers straight towards the reefs of financial meltdown, while the Dems and Pubs – establishment...
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History Friday – Renaissance Man
Tweet This PostAmong those brawling, restless borderers drawn to Texas like a trout going upstream during the tumultuous decade of the 1830s was a tall, ambitious and somewhat eccentrically skilled...
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The Controversial CTC Report
Tweet This PostCross-posted from Zenpundit.com The Center for Combating Terrorism at West Point released a report on domestic terrorism that raised hackles for a number of reasons. Despite the...
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It’s a Matter of Trust
Tweet This PostAs the old Billy Joel song goes; that is, a fair portion of a civil society is built on trust. Or at least – a large portion of the citizens in that society not only trust each other,...
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