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Juneteenth 1900 Texas

June 19, 2024 – 7:55 pm

The above photo was taken in Texas thirty-five years after the morning of June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived on the island of Galveston to take command of the more than 2,000 federal troops recently landed in the department of Texas to enforce the emancipation of its enslaved population and oversee […]

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God’s Army So What

February 4, 2024 – 10:14 am

Last week a couple of dozen SUVs and pickups departed from Virginia for Texas to protest against the relentless waves of migrants overwhelming the southern borders. Their numbers have grown to a few hundred for a gathering of God’s Army in the small Rio Grande town of Quemado -population 162- were the words “Join the […]

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Bobby B BADD By Peter Nolan Smith

January 28, 2023 – 8:52 am

Gather round my friends And I’ll tell you a tale. About a young man no one knew so well. A drifter dropping off a southbound train. Happy to be out of Amarillo. Bobby B BADD A beat-up black suit covered a scarecrow body. A hundred and fifty-four pounds soaking wet. He bent over to a […]

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Lucky’s Night 1955

December 6, 2022 – 11:24 pm

Lost another job today And my empty pockets don’t help Can’t say the future’s mine But the past wasn’t mine too. So as always I’ll live on account Jamie was there the night I rolled 300 And all she managed to say, “It musta been fixed.” Leaving me all alone. So I took the prize […]

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The Legacy Of Europa

February 13, 2020 – 6:30 pm

The night skies over Italy in 1610 were unsullied by the light overdose of the 21st Century. Galileo Galilei pointed a 20X telescope into the stars, while standing atop of rooftop at the University of Padua. The astronomer spotted a single moon orbiting Jupiter, but the next evening he divined that they were two not […]

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