Tag: I Am A Texan

  • The Niceties of Texas

    by Philip M Cruts . The State of Texas has always been known for her friendly people. I never knew anywhere else was different until I went to New England to see my wife. I walked into a store and asked the clerk how she was doing and I received the strangest look. I could…

  • Big Trees Have Emotional Benefits

    by Boyd Taylor . There is finally an explanation why people who live in older neighborhoods with large trees have less stress than those in new subdivisions, and it is not because people in the older areas tend to be wealthier and their neighborhoods more expensive. A City of Austin arborist says big trees have…

  • CSCOPE or C-SCAM?

    By Peggy Venable . CSCOPE is among the most controversial topics in the Lone Star State. Surprisingly, many Texans have never heard of it. . CSCOPE is a curriculum management system that has been sold to more than 850 Texas public, private and charter schools. It was developed by a division of the Texas Education…

  • HOW TEXAS WENT DOWN IN FLAMES

    by Julia Robb . Sam Houston told us not to do it. And Houston was the sitting governor when he opposed Texas joining the Confederacy, as well as hero of San Jacinto, twice President of the Republic of Texas and a former U.S. (TX) senator. Joining the Confederacy would ruin the state, Houston warned, then…

  • When Are We Going to Forgive?

    by Julia Robb I’ve been writing about Texas history for the Heart of Texas Blog because it’s important for Texans to know how the past shaped our culture. If you stick with me in the coming weeks, I’ll tell you all I can about the good, the bad and the ugly. In the meantime, I’m…

  • Texas and the Comanche Nation

    by Julia Robb Matilda Lockhart’s nose may not have started the Comanche wars in Texas, but it’s fair to say the condition of Matilda’s nose escalated the Comanche war from skirmishes to a furnace of death and destruction. And the Comanche wars created Texas culture. If we are a tough-minded people, it’s because Texans fought…

  • CSCOPE: The illusion of helping Texas school children

    by Alice Linahan   On Monday evening in Carthage, Texas, the ladies of WomenOnTheWall.org were invited to a symposium to discover what is behind CSCOPE, an online technology curriculum that is in 75% of school districts in the state of Texas. What was uncovered is that CSCOPE has major issues from who is behind it,…

  • Parents told to pay to see CSCOPE

    Controversy over Texas program that described Tea Party as terror escalates by John Griffing   A controversial school curriculum management system in Texas that once included a description of the Boston Tea Party as terror, and has referenced Islamic terrorists as freedom fighters, now has been found to be trying to charge parents hundreds of…

  • Why I Oppose the Internet Tax Bill

    by Senator Ted Cruz . Basic tenets of economics dictate that when you tax something, you get less of it. That’s why it’s incomprehensible that the U.S. Senate is moving to raise taxes on one of the brightest sectors of our struggling economy. . The Internet is a thriving ecosystem of entrepreneurial freedom that should…

  • Admiral Chester Nimitz at Pearl Harbor

    Really interesting, and I never knew this little bit of history: . Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes. I went into a small gift shop to kill time.  In the gift shop, I purchased a…

  • My dear fellow Texans: A personal letter to everyone who reads this website

    by Julia Robb I’m writing this message to you in the form of a letter because it is very personal to me. My blog, “The Real Reason Texas Rebelled Against Mexico,” was printed yesterday in the Heart of Texas Blog. In the last paragraph, I wrote Hispanic Texans fought with Anglo Texans against dictator Santa…

  • The Real Reasons Texas rebelled against Mexico

    by Julia Robb Critics blast Texas for rebelling against Mexico in 1835. Oh, the poor Mexicans! The Texans stole their land! They don’t know what they’re talking about. The Mexican government invited Anglo-Americans to settle in Mexico to help develop Mexico economically. Mexican officials also wanted settlers as a living shield between the northern Mexican…