Moorethink

California investors plan $14M Marriott near SpaceX launch site in Brownsville The project reflects Brownsville’s hotel boom as SpaceX launches attract about 11,000 visitors per test flight to the city.

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Autumnal Texas

A Soldier's Duty “The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they’re following orders or not.

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They appear to be less than subtly putting their hands back out with an alms cup to dear leader.

Can new media company fix South Texas' misunderstood reputation? “There’s more to us than just immigration and this false narrative that we are an area of chaos."

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What the River Remembers (Below is a rework of a piece I wrote several years ago about the border, Mexico, “Black Jack” Pershing, and politics, an earthy mix of incompatible parts.

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Mississippi Yearning “The flower that smiles today, tomorrow dies; all that we wish to stay, tempts and then flies.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Pretty certain most Americans couldn't answer half of these questions being put before new immigrants. www.borderreport.com/immigration/...

The arc of the online universe is short, and it bends toward idiocy.

The Way We Were We put Scotty at first base because he was unable to really run.

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I’m convinced.

I’m in a sports bar not pissing distance from the Mexican border and grown-assed adults are wearing pro football player jerseys and screaming at the TV and, as usual, I feel like I’ve landed on another planet amidst a different species.

Trust and Us America has become a country where children cannot trust their parents when they tell them they will be safe at school.

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New football season's stupidest color commentary line: "They're going to need to have really good eye discipline in this situation." Huh? How about watching what's happening? Jaysus.

“I have never wished another man dead but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” - Clarence Darrow

Hey Doc - I owe you an email. A bit overwhelmed of late. Update to follow soon.

Texas just turned Ivermectin into an over-the-counter drug. May every Greg Abbott supporter and Magat buy a bushel and use it liberally.

To Look for America "What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?

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It’s being as naive as Trump to think Putin will meet with Zelensky.

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Autocrats in Alaska "Who can live with this consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?” - Allen Ginsberg, “The Fall of America: Poems of These States”

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The Texas Template "Texas has a long tradition of expanding democracy, for whites, for landowners, for the wealthy, while systematically excluding everyone else.

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Awesome, dood!

Banana Republicans The idea was steeped in silly optimism.

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Another Man Without a Country “There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it.

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This is how it's supposed to be done. Scottish newspaper published today.