Author: proudtexan

  • FYI (if you’re a teenage girl)

    FYI (if you’re a teenage girl).

  • Real Heroes

    By Jon Williams I’ve heard it said that Axl Rose, member of the band Guns and Roses, said that to become famous one has to only offend as large a group of people as possible. In the 1980s, his band did exactly that. Songs like “One in a Million” rose to the top of the…

  • Shame Shame Shame

    Michael Parks, CEO Crescent Capital Finance Group 11100 Santa Monica Boulevard Suite 2000 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Mr. Parks,                                                                                                        August 18, 2013 Shame on you. Shame. Shame. Shame. As the Chairman of the Board of Directors for El Paso Electric Company, I am very sure that you are aware of the Santa Teresa to Montoya…

  • The Great Dust Bowl of the Texas Panhandle

    Hey! I wanted to come y’all that I had to write a college paper the other day of my favorite place. I currently live in Missouri, but I was born and raised in Texas. I thought I would share my essay paper with you! — By Amy Barnes Jordan The great dust bowl covers a…

  • Fort Hood Shooting Victims Hit With DoD Gag Order

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5yxLN4RlA Common Sense TV Host E.T. Williams shares his thoughts on the DoD’s gag order from Fort Hood’s Warrior Way’s PX parking lot. ———- Click here to request your I Am A Texan Rewards Visa Card. Rewards for shopping at local Texas businesses.

  • Colors of Texas

    by Robin Sallee Texas isn’t usually the place that comes to mind when thinking of beautiful scenery, especially West Texas, but Texans are unique in their ability to see beyond the obvious. Texas has an extremely wide array of browns, yellows and greens with fields, pastures and open ranges sprawling out as far as the…

  • Need a Push at 3 AM

    Author Unknown . A man and his wife were awakened at 3:00 am by a loud pounding on the door. The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger, standing in the pouring rain, is asking for a push. “Not a chance,” says the husband, “it is 3:00 in the morning!”…

  • The Wrong Funeral

    by Kimberly Pardue I was at the funeral of my dearest friend,­ my mother. She finally had lost her long battle with cancer. The hurt was so intense; I found it hard to breathe at times. Always supportive, Mother clapped loudest at my school plays, held the box of tissues while listening to my first…

  • Cowboy Computer Logic

    Author Unknown Cowboys have long seem to have computer logic 150 years before semi-conductors were invented. One can find these modern terms in the notes taken during trail drives and taming the wild west: Log On:…… building camp fire around the chuckwagon. Log Off:…….removing the log as it was time to move down the trail.…

  • The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

    Gregorio Cortez and his brother Romaldo were working as ranch hands at the W.A. Thulmeyer ranch in Karnes County one day when they saw County Sheriff W.T. Morris and his deputies riding toward them. It was June 12, 1901, and life for Cortez would never be the same. Within five minutes Cortez, 25, became a…

  • The Voters “can go to hell and I will go to Texas.” David Crockett

    by Julia Robb   . . David Crockett Don’t call him Davy. David’s political enemies called him “Davy” to make him seem boyish. They never convinced anybody. Dying at the Alamo was just the final scene in David’s dramatic and impressive life. David Crockett was six-foot and handsome, an expert shot with his rifles (he…

  • Silly Laws in Texas

    Laws that probably should never have been written, or should have come off the books a long time ago! When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone. A city ordinance states that a person cannot go barefoot…