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Missive #422 Published 7 January 2025

I could not find any book promos for this book and there are very few customer reviews. Not a very popular book today, just lucky that it is still available at archive.org as part of of the Mainstream Of America series. It is a good history of the Southwest including Texas which some people consider part of the Southwest. The author writes popular history, a broad genre of historiography, that takes a popular approach, aims at a wide readership, and usually emphasizes narrative, personality and vivid detail over scholarly analysis. Much better than the academic historians.

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Missive #421 Published 6 January 2025

That didn't take long. Last Friday I posted that military veterans would be called the terrorist in this country and that same day Fox News reported this:

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell argued that Americans should look to their fellow citizens, specifically U.S. military personnel, and not illegal immigrants, as instigators of terrorism within the U.S. in a segment Thursday.

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Missive #420 Published 5 January 2025

Continuing The Anti-Federalist Papers

Brutus XVI
by Robert Yates

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Missive #419 Published 3 January 2025

68. Nasruddin and the Thief’s Shoes...

Did you happen to notice that the drone scares that were front page NEWS for about a week suddenly just went away. I don't know if the drones went away but the lame stream media is no longer reporting anything about them. I suspect it was a government operation trying to drum up some support for a war against Iran. When that proved to be a dud they just let it fade away. Now we have 'terrorist' attacks in the United States again. This time by men that were, or are, in the Army; just like the leftists said would happen. We need more laws against anyone that is now in or has been in any branch of the US military — look for it to come.

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Missive #417 Published 30 December 2024

This book was published in 2009 and everything the author said then is still true today only worse. I don't see anything being done with or to the Fed until the dollar collapses as the reserve currency. Then maybe.

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Missive #416 Published 29 December 2024

Continuing The Federalist Papers.

Federalist No. 37
Concerning the Difficulties of the Convention in Devising a Proper Form of Government
Author: James Madison
To the People of the State of New York:

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Missive #415 Published 27 December 2024

67. The Thief and Nasruddin’s Rooster

Nasruddin heard squawking from the henhouse during the night. “It must be a thief,” he thought, and he ran outside, where he found a man creeping away from the henhouse.

By the light of the moon, Nasruddin could clearly see a rooster’s tail-feathers sticking out from under the man’s cloak.

“Give me back my rooster, you thief!” shouted Nasruddin.

The man stood up straight and answered back, “Sir, please believe me! I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.”

“And do you think I’m going to believe you,” Nasruddin replied, “or am I going to believe the rooster’s tail-feathers?”

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Missive #414 Published 26 December 2024

Lavender is a writer of western history but in this book he has concentrated on the fur trade in the middle part of America. He does provide some history of the move into the Rocky Mountains but mostly as it involves Ramsay Cooks, the main character in the book. A good read.

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