Author: Texpat
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Tuesday Rape of the Wild High Country – Open Thread
When I first headed to California in November 1971, my companions and I stopped at the Joshua Tree National Park. It was quite an experience and there is no other place like it. Joshua Tree is a hauntingly beautiful American desert, part of the Mojave, and I was mesmerized by its mystical aura. I’ve always…
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Weekend Big Pharma, the New Cosa Nostra – Open Commentary
Even a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell, famously declared in 2009: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.” Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson exposes the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry for decades.…
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Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You – Open Comments
Christopher Rufo and Christina Buttons at City Journal Beginning last year, a large influx of Venezuelan migrants, some of them members of the notorious Tren de Aragua street gang, reportedly had “taken over” a series of apartment buildings in Aurora—and unleashed terror. Last month, Venezuelan migrants were allegedly implicated in an attempted homicide, an arrest…