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On January 20th, Texas Governor Rick Perry is scheduled to turn over the governorship of the state to fellow Republican Greg Abbott, who won the recent election. Rick Perry is the longest-serving governor in the history of Texas. Recently, Governor Perry was interviewed on Newsmax, and he talked about Texas’ border with Mexico. For […]
My family and I have safely returned from our annual Christmastime visit to Mexico, and it was a good visit. Christmas, the celebration of the incarnation and birth of Christ, is special everywhere it’s celebrated. The essence of the holiday is the same, though you’ll find it expressed differently in various cultures throughout the world. Christmas, called Navidad in […]
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In 2005, I was deployed to Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard, 36th Infantry Division. Our unit was sent to Iraq two years after the initial invasion. In 2005, the American and coalition troops deployed there were engaged in various aspects of what could be described as occupation duty. Iraq had plenty of violence […]
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On March 31st, 2014, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a U.S. Marine vet/reservist, accidentally drove into Mexico with three weapons and ammunition. Tahmooressi was arrested and jailed. As an American who resided many years in Mexico, I believe that Americans should respect the laws of Mexico. However, I think that Mexican authorities ought to be able to […]
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Rick Perry is considered a potential candidate for president in 2016. A number of factors might make one think that he’d be a good Republican standard-bearer in what is likely to be a tough election. Perry has political talent, and his position as governor of Texas is a great platform to deal with national […]
Texas Governor Rick Perry has called up the National Guard to be deployed on the state’s border with Mexico. As a veteran of the Texas Army National Guard myself, I have confidence in the Texas National Guard, but not much confidence in Governor Perry. To put it in a nutshell, Rick Perry is a […]
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Here’s a great example of hypocrisy. The Mexican Foreign Ministry is throwing a hissy fit over Texas Governor Rick Perry’s supposed “militarization” of the border by his deploying the National Guard there. And yet, as I’ve documented in a previous article, the Mexican side of the border is already militarized, by the Mexican military! […]
The invasion of illegal aliens from Central America continues. It’s a humanitarian disaster and a threat to our national sovereignty. Obviously, the Obama administration is facilitating it, but where is the GOP? If the Republican leadership were seriously opposed to this, wouldn’t they be doing more to stop it? That tells you something. […]
A porous border, besides being a security threat, an economic threat, a political threat and a cultural threat, is also a health threat. That should be obvious. An Arizona TV station recently ran an informative video about the health threat on the border, specifically the Texas border. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog […]
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Once again, an American has been arrested upon entry into Mexico, due to weapons charges. This time it’s Andrew Tahmooressi, a Marine with PTSD who accidentally drove into Mexico with a few weapons in his car. What occurred and how does it fit into the big picture? And how long will Sgt. Tahmooressi be […]
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