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by E.R. Bills / June 3rd, 2021 It’s ironic that Republicans in Texas are so committed to abolishing abortion. Abortion is their primary Abortion is basically their chief reason for being. Every election season, Republicans try to abort voting rights, especially for Texans of a different complexion. And as much weeping and gnashing of teeth Republicans do about late-term abortion, they would gleefully abort the results of the last presidential election. An inordinate number of Texas Republica...

It’s ironic that Texas Republicans are so committed to abolishing abortion. Abortion is their primary modus operandi. Abortion is basically their chief reason for being. Every election season, Republicans try to abort voting rights, especially for Texans of a different complexion. And for as much weeping and gnashing

A crowd of perhaps 100 people gathered near the coffin on a mild spring day. Friends, family and clergy spoke briefly and read from scripture.  Before and after the graveside memorial for legendary public relations lion Julian Read — advisor to six presidents — at the Texas State Cemetery, admirers, clad in dark hues, mixed among the marble and granite monuments that bedeck Republic Hill, where some of the states founders are buried. Read, who died May 8 at age 93 after a full life, had w...

(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) Folks make a lot of claims about the Alamo so I’ve written a few Alamo-related fact checks recently. Here’s one concerning a recent claim that Santa Anna, the dictator who launched several massacres, had a black regiment fighting in Texas in 1836. He didn’t. On its Facebook page, the Alamo published this note hailing a donation that Bexar County is giving to the project to build the Shrine of Texas Liberty a museum. Topics explored in the museum exhibits will inc...

Stellantis Brings Multiple Exhibits and Driving Experiences to the 2021 Houston Auto Show News provided by Share this article HOUSTON, May 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfa Romeo to showcase the 2021 model-year Stelvio and Giulia, both featuring best-in-class performance and seductive Italian style now coupled with premium interior enhancements 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan offers unprecedented functionality and style for buyers Dodge brand display showcases full lineup of muscle cars and...

Texas Heroes Act seeks to limit role of slavery in battle for independence at the Alamo FacebookTwitterEmail State Rep. Kyle Biedermann, R-Fredericksburg, is the primary author of a bill that seeks to emphasize the grievances listed in the Texas Declaration of Independence at the Alamo, when explaining the causes of the 1835-1836 war for independence from Mexico.Marvin Pfeiffer /Staff photographer Slavery was an underlying cause of the state’s battle for independence, according to scholars, b...

A clash over remembering the Alamo Richard Webner, The Washington Post May 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Members of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, a lineage society for descendants of the states founders, gather beneath the Cenotaph monument on Alamo Plaza in March 2020.Photo by Tamir Kalifa for The Washington Post SAN ANTONIO - The Alamo needs a makeover; on that, at least, everyone agrees. Plaster is flaking off the walls of the nearly 300-year-old former Spanish mission, the most revered...

A clash over remembering the Alamo Updated: May 9 Published May 9 Share on Facebook Print article SAN ANTONIO - The Alamo needs a makeover; on that, at least, everyone agrees. Plaster is flaking off the walls of the nearly 300-year-old former Spanish mission, the most revered battle site in Texas history. Its one-room exhibit space can hold only a fraction of key artifacts. And the surrounding plaza is a tourist circus, packed with novelty shops and a Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum....

Some heroes of the Texas Revolution were enslavers, a neglected piece of history that has helped stall a badly needed overhaul of the revered battle site.

To keyboards! Another media attack has been launched at the Alamo! Hardly a fortnight goes by now between media-left cartoon treatments of the 1836 battle that serves as the crescendo of the Texas Revolution, the brief war that made modern Texas and changed North America. Politico’s latest is no exception, though at least this piece omits the customary John Wayne movie references. Retired journalist Rick Casey’s recent attempt at Texas history, however, serves up the 1960 film for mockery, ...