Essays about Texas

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Thursday, August 7, 2025

It's the Brisket, Stupid: Offset Barbecue and Francis Smokehouse Serve Very Good Texas-Style Barbecue

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Barbecue, like love, is a many-splendored thing. And, like love, it manifests itself in many forms. Memphis barbecue is distinct from Caroli...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Rape Pays Off For Hamas: Canada, France, and U.K. to Recognize a Palestinian State

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  On October 7, 2023 , Hamas terrorists crossed from Gaza into Israel and killed more than a thousand people, mostly civilians. Hamas also r...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Froma Harrop, Queen of Snark, Calls RFK Jr a Crackpot

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 Having lost the presidential election, the Democrats have retreated into sneers, profanity, and snarkiness. Jasmine Crockett is the profani...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

90-second Book Review: Four Winds by Kristin Hannah is a Fine book About The Dust Bowl Years

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 Kristin Hannah's novel, The   Four Winds , published in 2021, is a fine book on the Dust Bowl years in America's Heartland. I like ...
Monday, July 28, 2025

90-second food review: Ode to Jim's Barbecue in Waskom, Texas (and a Shout-Out to T.S. Eliot)

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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first tim...

Downwardly Mobile Millennials Voted for Zohran Mamdani, and That Makes Perfect Sense

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  Zohran Mamdani won the recent Democratic primary in New York City's mayoral race,  handily defeating  Andrew Cuomo , the epitome of th...
Friday, July 25, 2025

"It's so cold that Bill and Hillary Clinton are sleeping together": CBS Cancels Stephen Colbert and It's the End of the World

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For years. I was a big fan of The Late Show  and watched it most nights when David Letterman was the host. When Stephen Colbert took over in...