Equipping Saints • Engaging Culture • Examining Claims
Image: Enhanced and colorized photo from the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photograph by E.L.Goff. (Public Domain). He Could Not Read His Warrants — and He Never Got the Wrong Man ❦ ❖ ❦ Prologue: A Tramp on the Red River Road On a worn road in the…
The Tangled Life and Tall Tales of Raymond Hatfield Gardner — “Arizona Bill” (1845–1940) ❖ ————❖———— ❖ On a gray winter morning in 1940, an old man lay dying in the charity ward of a San Antonio hospital. He had no money, no verifiable family, and, the Army insisted, no record of ever having served….
The Improbable Life of Phoebe Couzins — Lawyer, Lawwoman, and the West’s Unlikeliest Pioneer 1842 – 1913 ❦ ❖ ❦ A Star Pinned to a Silent Blouse On a raw December morning in 1913, six mourners gathered at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis to bury a woman the nation had once strained to hear. Inside…
The Man Who Hunted Bonnie and Clyde You know the infamous criminal pair of Bonnie and Clyde, but most people are familiar with little of the man who brought them to justice. While Hollywood immortalized the outlaw lovers in films and folklore, the lawman who ended their bloody spree remained largely in the shadows—exactly where…
The Birth of Patriot Front In the shadow of the chaotic and tragic “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a young, determined figure named Thomas Ryan Rousseau stepped into the harsh light of national attention. A teenager with a history of writing conservative opinion columns for his high school newspaper, Rousseau…
The New York Times (and now, it seems, the Washington Post) have once again shown their flair for the dramatic with their latest opinion piece decrying President Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. The article, dripping with the usual partisan panic, labels Patel as a “loyalist” and an “unqualified choice.” WP: Opinion…
Let’s have that inconvenient talk about Mexico… Here’s the full statement: Mexico City, November 26, 2024 Dear President-elect Donald Trump, I am writing to you regarding your statement on Monday, November 25, concerning migration, fentanyl trafficking, and tariffs. You may not be aware that Mexico has developed a… — Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) November 26, 2024…