US History - Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 2)

Diamonds (and the Waco Fire) Are Forever

30 years ago today, the Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco, TX went up in flames. 78 Davidians including their messianic leader, David Koresh died in the conflagration. For 51 days, hundreds of reporters from all over the world covered the siege, standoff, and fire. It was surreal.

Women's Issues

Women’s History Month: At War with the Law

Today’s discrimination against women has an origin and fair laws and decency were not freely given or guaranteed. Sexist, racist, homophobic creatures make laws, run for office, teach our children, and are in our places of work.

Women's Issues

Women’s History Month: Inspiring Change from the Inside, Forcing Change from the Streets

There's a structure of organizational norms created by a ruling class with little regard for human rights, fairness, or equity. Long ago, these women did both to move the needle toward fair and equitable treatment.

Journalism

My War Story

As the Anglican Archbishop of East Jerusalem - a Palestinian Christian - Samir Khafiti told me on this trip, “For people here, the Bible is like yesterday’s newspaper. They are fighting battles that go back centuries.”

Conspiracy theories

American Coup: The Day Democracy Died

“American Coup” is the true story of a pivotal moment for the United States. It’s the tale of how an ambitious young man from the Hill Country aligned himself with economic, intelligence, and military forces to kill a president in order to replace him. LBJ was complicit in the killing of JFK...

national politics

Another U.S. Civil War: Is it Inevitable or Avoidable? What Do the Clues of Today Tell Us?

"With a landscape divided by racial, religious, or ethnic lines, civil wars are most often started by the groups that had once been dominant and are in decline. A major trigger for a group in decline is losing a series of elections..."

US History

Last Flight of the Texas Raiders

The tragedy in Dallas should cause some introspection and rule changes.

Texas History

The Boys of Praha

"In the space of 12 months and nine days, Praha gave up most of its youth -- and nearly all of its future -- to confront unimaginable forms of evil on faraway continents."

US History

My Celebration for Labor Day

It took a labor union movement to protect workers from abusive conditions. It always takes a movement to wrestle basic rights and decency from the reluctant hands of those in power. Labor Day has been celebrated in the U.S. and Canada since 1894.

national politics

Two Nations Under God?

In my mind, conservative extremists are a potential danger to me and my family, and I'd rather not live next door to pro-gun-toting racists who ignore the truth and follow their political reps with cult-like allegiance in matters of race, economics, the environment, and personal health.

national politics

Fourth of July Reflections

"Stop your non-productive whining. Yes, there has been a series of giant steps backward. It is NOT, as thousands of tweets would have you believe, “the lowest point in our nation’s history” nor “the end of our republic” nor, for that matter, is it the worst of anything in our American past."

US History

What Does America Want?

"Bradley Freeman was a 19-year-old freshman at Mississippi State University in Starkville when he enlisted in the U.S. Army and became a paratrooper. He knew that America was worth fighting for. Freeman, who passed a day before July 4th, would be the last of the "Band of Brothers." "

Black History

Juneteenth: A Celebration of Humanity

If this is difficult to read about, just imagine how it was for those who lived it.

US History

Drinking with Doc Holliday

Doc was a man who did not need a myth. His life was equal to the epic expansion of the West and the rule of the gun when law was unavailable.

US History

For Memorial Day, A Letter from the USS Portent

The ship under my great-grandfather's command had a terribly apt name. Remembering the lost, and his own premonitions of doom.

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