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Interestingly, the "Cowboys" of Cochise County, Arizona, was a real gang of outlaws operating out of Tombstone, a real town. It's famous of course because of the legendary gunfight at OK Corral in 1881, between Wyatt Earp and his brothers, and members of that gang, who identified themselves by...

Her name is Maria Georgieva, and I have known her for over 20 years. I last saw Mimi in 2008 just after I began writing at RedState. Their baby, Georgi, was only two or three then. Now her children are 20,18 and 14. For Many Easters I would send...

I first wrote this in 2010, as notice to Democrats that they were running with outlaws, and certain laws apply when they do do that. Well, today, ten years later, the Democrats have all acknowledged that they know they’re running with criminals, and now several "blue" Democratic governors, have...

In all likelihood, yes. But there's a good reason, even an honest reason. So he can dispose of it if he handles it honestly. And quickly. The media, especially New York Times and Washington Post, are fretting almost daily that Trump is ignoring the "experts" or that other "experts" worry...

Below is a piece by Carol Brown and published by American Thinker, Apr 29, 2020. I add an editorial comment here, for it is not just an historical comparison of deadly viruses, but both are within living memory for our Vietnam Generation... and for those of us in our 60s-and-70s...

I'm getting very tired of that male bedroom voice over the radio, and sometimes on television, a suave male fitting that radio voice, pushing some restaurant chain, or maybe a local medical group, or box store, with those calming words, "Remember. We are all in this together." No, we're not. We...

"Long Black Veil" was written in 1959 by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin. I first heard it on a Kingston Trio LP around 1963. We had a folk group in those days, and in our neck of the woods, deep mountain Appalachia this sort of song touched a central...

I started out with a piece on applying logic to fact-finding from a by-gone historian's persective and ended up with this. I thought it was an easy subject. Bias can distort any opinion. But it is not supposed to alter discernible facts. First consider that Conservatism is itself a bias, just...