Category: Uncategorized
-
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…
-
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,…
-
Jackie Robinson, “42”, and Texas
by Melvin Edwards Jackie Robinson had two Texas connections. First, he was court martialed while serving in Fort Hood in Killeen. (He was acquitted, though admittedly “guilty” of refusing to give up his seat on the military bus. He was “Rosa Parks” 10 years before she was.) A couple of years later, he…
-
Look at Texas for a second with me, will you?
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be. As soon as anyone anywhere…
-
George W. Bush Presidential Library Dedication
by I Am A Texan Staff The George W. Bush Presidential Library will be dedicated on April 25th, expected to be in attendance are all 5 living US presidents, the first time the most exclusive club have met since January of 2009. Asked about his legacy in an interview with USA Today, President Bush…