THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

The cop who was murdered Friday morning at a Wal Mart in North Austin apparently was just doing his job, not knowing that the apparently-drunken customer whom store employees had summoned him to confront was armed and ready to kill. The case of the unarmed East Austin man who was killed by another Austin officer Thursday [...]

Yep, one more post about Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012. I didn’t know this guy, who was born the year I fought in Viet Nam, but I loved his takedown of ACORN. I didn’t know until I read a few of his obits that he helped create the Drudge Report, which was first in exposing the Clinton-Lewinsky [...]

“Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel George D. Wolfe Jr., of Ligonier, [PA], passed away at his home Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. He was born Jan. 14, 1934, in Gettysburg, to the late Rev. George D. Wolfe and Vernie Warner Wolfe…. “George was a husband, a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a brother and a friend, but [...]

The SOPA the greedy pols are about to pass, for the benefit of the Hollyweird types who have lined the politicians’ pockets with bribes, could make this among the last few posts I link to copyrighted material. Why? “The fine print of the law says sites that distribute copyrighted content could be subject to summary [...]

The Hollywood director was already famous for his movie Lifeboat when, in 1945, he joined a group of documentary filmmakers accompanying the American and British soldiers who liberated the more than 200 camps the Nazis devoted to murdering 11 million people—6 million of them Jews. The “carnage and desolation” has “to be seen to be [...]

The imagined population bomb of the past quarter-century explodes, peopling the planet with far more mouths than it can feed and increasing carbon footprints until they plaster every available surface, the resulting global warming raising sea levels, burning up crops, etc. That’s the Green fantasy, which pols like because it allows them to tax and [...]

Think American school shootings, stabbings, and general violence leading to death are a modern phenom? Think again. Not counting Indian “warrior” raids on schools, first recorded in 1764, the first recorded one was in 1871, in La Grange County, Indiana. There were just six more in the Nineteenth Century. Then things really picked up. The [...]

It’s bad enough to learn that a friend has died, but even worse to find that he died six years ago and you didn’t know it. Douglas S. Godbey Douglas S. Godbey, age 55, passed away Saturday, December 17, 2005. Doug was born in Dallas to JJ and Louise, where he was raised with his [...]

I should have written this already. Like back at the first of the month. When Mr. B. officially walked out of his fifth grade classroom, took about ten steps and was out the north-side door of the school and the door closed behind him on its pneumatic valve. Sigh. Thunk. Forever. He says he won’t [...]