Remember the Alamo
The version of the Alamo story that I knew prior to visiting the mission still standing in San Antonio, involved a vague idea that some Texans died defending a fort against a Mexican army....
Author: Charmaine Yoest
Learning from the men who know how to win
From the Army Ranger Field Manual: 1-3. Fundamentals of ranger operations. a. The success of an operation by a ranger unit depends on the observance of the fundamentals of the US Army’s AirLand Battle...
Austin Art Museum Update
I’ve heard from the Executive Director of the Austin Art Museum, Dana Friis-Hansen, who wrote to say she is sending the refund for our entry fees, and apologized quite nicely for the “bad experience”...
Memo to Condi Rice
There are few issues in politics which inspire greater emotion than abortion. And Condi Rice put herself right (or wrong as the case may be) in the fray by telling the Washington Times earlier...
Putting the shag back in shag rugs . . .
Seen around town, Austin, Texas: Keep Austin Weird. Found out what that meant. The quest for cultural enrichment for the Penta-Posse continued with a stop at the Austin Museum of Art. Instead, we found...
Babes on Bourbon Street
Made a quick stop through the Big Easy on the way to Austin. Hit Cafe du Monde for coffee and beignets and then headed to Bourbon Street. Several people warned me about the seamier...
9-11 24/7: Pro-life by National Geographic
The abortion industry should be afraid, very afraid. Back in 1995, Naomi Wolf shocked her friends in the abortion movement by writing in the New Republic that they needed to come up with a...
Oh, Grow Up Petra Pan!
A former editor of Ms. magazine, Suzanne Braun Levine, has a new book out, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood. Sorry, but these women can’t seem to make it into...
Hillary's lavender look
Viewed today along I-81 in Tennessee — giant billboard, stark white lettering on a solid black background: One nation under me — God Welcome to the red-states! A few miles further down the road,...
Westward Ho!
We got up at 0-dark-thirty this morning, put the Penta-Posse in the truck — still in their pajamas . . . and headed West. I am attending a Liberty Fund conference this weekend in...
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