Author: proudtexan

  • Everything is Bigger in Texas!

    Author Unknown There once was a blind man who decided to visit Texas. When he arrived on the plane,he felt the seats and said, “Wow, these seats are big!” The person next to him answered,”Everything is big in Texas.” When he finally arrived in Texas, he decided to visit a bar. Upon arriving in the…

  • When Are We Going to Forgive?

    by Julia Robb I’ve been writing about Texas history for the Heart of Texas Blog because it’s important for Texans to know how the past shaped our culture. If you stick with me in the coming weeks, I’ll tell you all I can about the good, the bad and the ugly. In the meantime, I’m…

  • “Dead Last” – The Label That Plagues Public Education in Texas

    by Jon Williams Every day, seemingly without exception, somebody from inside or outside of Texas sends me a message or posts to our FaceBook page the so-called “fact” that Texas is dead last in education and we need to “stop bragging” until we get that fixed. Of course “education” is a broad term, and it…

  • Texas and the Comanche Nation

    by Julia Robb Matilda Lockhart’s nose may not have started the Comanche wars in Texas, but it’s fair to say the condition of Matilda’s nose escalated the Comanche war from skirmishes to a furnace of death and destruction. And the Comanche wars created Texas culture. If we are a tough-minded people, it’s because Texans fought…

  • CSCOPE: The illusion of helping Texas school children

    by Alice Linahan   On Monday evening in Carthage, Texas, the ladies of WomenOnTheWall.org were invited to a symposium to discover what is behind CSCOPE, an online technology curriculum that is in 75% of school districts in the state of Texas. What was uncovered is that CSCOPE has major issues from who is behind it,…

  • Parents told to pay to see CSCOPE

    Controversy over Texas program that described Tea Party as terror escalates by John Griffing   A controversial school curriculum management system in Texas that once included a description of the Boston Tea Party as terror, and has referenced Islamic terrorists as freedom fighters, now has been found to be trying to charge parents hundreds of…

  • Why I Oppose the Internet Tax Bill

    by Senator Ted Cruz . Basic tenets of economics dictate that when you tax something, you get less of it. That’s why it’s incomprehensible that the U.S. Senate is moving to raise taxes on one of the brightest sectors of our struggling economy. . The Internet is a thriving ecosystem of entrepreneurial freedom that should…

  • Admiral Chester Nimitz at Pearl Harbor

    Really interesting, and I never knew this little bit of history: . Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes. I went into a small gift shop to kill time.  In the gift shop, I purchased a…

  • My dear fellow Texans: A personal letter to everyone who reads this website

    by Julia Robb I’m writing this message to you in the form of a letter because it is very personal to me. My blog, “The Real Reason Texas Rebelled Against Mexico,” was printed yesterday in the Heart of Texas Blog. In the last paragraph, I wrote Hispanic Texans fought with Anglo Texans against dictator Santa…

  • The Real Reasons Texas rebelled against Mexico

    by Julia Robb Critics blast Texas for rebelling against Mexico in 1835. Oh, the poor Mexicans! The Texans stole their land! They don’t know what they’re talking about. The Mexican government invited Anglo-Americans to settle in Mexico to help develop Mexico economically. Mexican officials also wanted settlers as a living shield between the northern Mexican…

  • Pentagon Moves to Court-Martial Christian Soldiers

    by Ken Klukowski The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense. … Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis.” . The statement, released to Fox News, follows a Breitbart News report on Obama…

  • The Pigs and the Scale

    by Brent Beasley Here’s a little something I wrote this morning in honor of STAAR testing:  The farmer wants his pigs to be fat. Of course he does. The fatter the better. He became concerned when he realized that, even though he fed them all the same, some pigs were fatter than others. The problem,…