The Texas Rangers have a history as racist as any organization in the country. That a baseball team is named after them and that they are still around today is a problem that very much needs to be solved. Growing up in Monahans in the...
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It's certainly true that the Washington *spit* Redskins and Cleveland Indians badly need to change their names. But let's not sleep on one of the most offensive names in all.
This is the grave of Ralph Yarborough. Born in 1903 in Chandler, Texas, Yarborough received an appointment to West Point, but dropped out, deciding to go into teaching instead. He.
This is the grave of Mark White. Born in 1940 in Henderson, Texas, White grew up in Houston and attended Baylor University in Waco. He then received his law degree from Baylor in 1965. He started a law practice in Houston, but very ambitious, was...
This is the grave of Dan Moody. Born in 1893 in Taylor, Texas, Dan Moody's father was a local political leader and his mother was a school teacher. He went.
I had long associated anti-vax idiocy with the body purity section of the left. Most of us know people like this or know people who know people. I could tell.
Meryl Woo Rice, right, takes part in an abortion rights protest near the Capitol on the opening day of the second session of the 109th General Assembly, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) This is going to be bog-standard Republican doctrine...
Texas, once again, leading the way in horrible. Last week, the Supreme Court blocked Texas from executing a Buddhist inmate, Patrick Murphy, stating that he was entitled to have a.
There's another movie celebrating the Texas Rangers, The Highwaymen with Costner and Harrelson. It looks pretty bad and reviews are not great, but the bigger point is that the celebration.
This is the grave of Stephen F. Austin. Born in 1793 in Wythe County, Virginia, in 1798 the family moved to eastern Missouri, which was the extreme frontier at that time, really well beyond where most whites would go. But his father Moses Austin had...
This is the grave of James and Miriam Ferguson, better known as Pa and Ma Ferguson. James Ferguson was born in 1871 in Salado, Texas and Miriam Wallace in 1875.
This is the grave of J. Frank Dobie. Perhaps the greatest of all Texan mythmakers--and that's a high bar!--James Frank Dobie was born on a ranch in Live Oak County,.