Outnumbered ten to one, with the promise of death even if the defenders surrendered, Texas legend holds that Travis laid out the dire situation that faced them, and their options were few and grim.
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A Line in the Sand Marks the Man
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Poll Watching: Monday 09/12/2016
Source is realclearpolitics.com, taking the last 7 polls, and dropping the highest and lowest as outliers. An average is taken of the remaining five polls.
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Patriot Day: Never Forget
How different would our world be today if that calm morning had not come? How different would we be if we still lived in the shadow of Tuesday, September 11th, 2001?
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A Short Word: The 3 Reactions to Trump
There are three types of reactions to Trump by Republicans and independents on the right, and, unfortunately, most of them betray the character of our Founding Fathers.
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The Ides of March
While Buchanan, Trump, and Limbaugh pretend at a benign brand of Nationalism, they know that waving American Flags and singing the National Anthem will do less than nothing to improve trade or immigration issues, and that's why they aren't saying what they aren't saying.
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In the Shadow of Terror’s Reign
In the fanatical heights of the Revolution, the Jacobins abandoned all middle ground positions, embraced absolutism to whatever political fever suited them at the time, and betrayed the very principles they claimed to be defending.
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Conservative Party Now, Seriously
So what is going to happen? If anything is going to happen at all, we will need a functional, "big tent, firm foundation" political party that represents the values of enough Americans to gain political efficacy, in the next four to eight years.
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Economics Speed Round: September 2016
Coupled with a broad base slow down in production and construction, we still appear on track for a recession starting in 3rd quarter or 4th quarter 2016, though it does not appear to be a traditional recession.
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The Bulwarks of Western Civilization
The Crusades were a long overdue, albeit imperfect, response to four centuries of millions of Christians being murdered, raped, and enslaved by Islamic Jihadism and cemented the Western European identity.
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A Short Word: Sitting for Freedom
To compel others to violate their conscience simply because it is "nationalist" carries the poisonous stink of Mao's Communist Party loyalty patrols.
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Halls Echoing with the Tears of Children
When fundamental cultural questions become intractable, violence is the fundamental language spoken by all people, at all times, everywhere.
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A Short Word: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat
I could spend days going through the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of tweets these lunatics spewed forth, but it only takes one to sum the movement up nicely.
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A Short Word: Dragging It Out
At this point, there can't be anyone rational that still believes anything that comes out of Donald's mouth. Seriously, can there be?
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A Short Word: America’s Grievance Culture
At the heart of both of these ridiculous victim ideologies is the same bizarre question: Is one man harmed by another man if he is poorer than the other?
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A Short Word: Americanism
To the first generations of American citizens, personal virtue, especially in the leaders of the day, was often more important than their political beliefs.
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49 Seconds That Changed Nothing
Ask yourselves, friends and foes alike, who earnestly unloads a truck while wearing a $5,000.00 suit jacket in the middle of August in a Louisiana bayou country?
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A Short Word: Simple Mathematics
Here's the bad news for Donald and his insufferably ignorant supporters: the polls aren't wrong.
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A Short Word: Smoke and Mirrors
It's not enough to know how many jobs are being created and how fast the economy is growing, because that's just smoke and mirrors.
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A Short Word: A Civilizational Problem
When it is clear that our police officers are no longer patrolling civilized city streets but a paved wilderness where the law is seen as a hostile threat, should the state continue to impose itself on people who have so rejected society that they can no longer see any benefits of remaining part of it?
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A Short Word: The Dirty Truth About Immigration
We have been duped into believing that the government, with a motion of Congress and the signature of the President, can change the very economic laws of supply and demand with no negative consequences whatsoever.
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A Short Word: What Comes Next
Newsflash, our Natural Law rights to speech, to religion, to assembly, to association, to contract, to keep and bear arms aren't granted to you by the United States Constitution, friends.
Liberty is For The Win 