Category Archives: History

The colonizers

Posted on May 12, 2024 | Comments Off on The colonizers

That’s what the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, protestors on American college campuses call the Israelis these days. Actually, Eretz Israel, Hebrew for the Land of Israel, was the 2,000+ years old birthplace of the Jewish people. Making the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians the actual colonizers, coming late to the party.

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Israel’s 15 ceasefires

Posted on November 6, 2023 | Comments Off on Israel’s 15 ceasefires

Palestinians broke each one.

Via Instapundit

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One more indictment

Posted on August 8, 2023 | 2 comments

One more indictment, Trump says, and he has the ’94 presidential election wrapped up. Heh. That would be four.

UPDATE: Four dropped. This one from Georgia. He’s still feisty.

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Laguna Gloria is still for lovers

Posted on January 3, 2023 | Comments Off on Laguna Gloria is still for lovers

If they can ignore some of the more tasteless modern stuff. Contemporary “art” is for the educated, no longer the masses. Some of it is just plain weird. But Laguna Gloria’s grounds and 1906 villa are quite magnificent. Especially their setting on the shores of Lake Austin. Quiet, treed beauty in the heart of West Austin.

Ten bucks per person these days but there is a cafe.

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Memories

Posted on August 26, 2022 | Comments Off on Memories

Years ago when I was a captain soon to leave the Army, I wanted a job with Associated Press in West Virginia (where I was living at the time) but they turned me down for not enough daily reporting experience. I had only worked for weeklies before being drafted in 1967.

At the same time United Press International offered me a job. But I had to relocate to Pittsburgh. So I took a Charleston, WV TV reporting job instead and eventually got into daily newspapers. Always have wondered what the UPI job might have been like. Not to mention Pittsburgh. UPI apparently still strives for objectivity. While AP has joined the Fake News in harassing Trump.

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The James Ossuary

Posted on August 7, 2022 | 4 comments

JNS was the source of a story I saw recounting a 20-year-old argument over whether a limestone ossuary (bone box) was authentic or an elaborate forgery. If real it authenticates for the first time (other than the New Testament) that Jesus existed. So I got interested. If you’re not, like I am not, a biblical scholar, you may still find it interesting.

“Clearly, if the James ossuary came from the Talpiot tomb, most would agree that the probability of that tomb being associated with Jesus of Nazareth and his family reaches a high level of likelihood,” James D. Tabor

That’s nice, but Jesus’s presence in the Afterlife, as recounted by many Christian NDEers would seem to be proof enough.

Via University of Arizona

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Gettysburg: America’s ‘Love Battle’

Posted on July 4, 2022 | Comments Off on Gettysburg: America’s ‘Love Battle’

The failed Rebel attacks on the Union defensive lines of July 2 and 3 ended with both armies licking their wounds on July 4, while the Southerners buried their dead on the battlefield and mourned their great loss.

Via PJMedia

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