As time passed, and months and years went by, it became increasingly obvious that Mueller had found no collusion. And it seemed obvious from the beginning that there would be no collusion, because why on earth would the Russians want Trump in the White House when they could have had Hillary Clinton? But despite the lack of evidence, progressives really believed that there would be collusion discovered. Somehow.

Further to @brianwatts satirical piece on Jordan Peterson’s latest book, let us not forget the inherent danger of any form of censorship.

Above all, remember that in 1823 the German-Jewish author Heinrich Heine wrote: “Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende Menschen.“ (Where you burn books, you will finish by burning people). 

As the Civil War drew to a close, a Texas frontier awash with millions of almost worthless, hard-twisted, wild-eyed cattle looked north to find a source of ready cash. The popular image is of the long drives toward the newly built railroads beginning to stretch across the middle plains of Kansas where a $4 Texas bovine would bring $30 to $40 for shipment back to more eastern slaughterhouses.

And it is certainly an accurate image since thousands of Texas cattle made their way to a series of Kansas railheads beginning with Abilene in 1867 and stretching to Dodge City later on. But many didn’t stop there and were headed north for the northern ranges. In fact, the first of these post-Civil War herds to land on the northern plains to be grazed was driven to Montana in 1866 by Nelson Story who used his earnings from a gold strike to outfit a Texas herd that would become both food for miners and seed stock for one of the first cattle ranches in Montana.

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I just got back from another trip to Capital City…ahem, D.C., and as it is every time, I had that “stranger in a strange land” feeling. I was in the area for the graduation of my nephew from Officer Candidate School, United States Marine Corps at Quantico. That part of the trip was amazing! Nearly 300 young men and women completed OCS and 231 of them were immediately commissioned as 2nd Lieutenants in the USMC, including my nephew. If you want to contemplate hope for our future as a country, just think of these hearty young officers. Please pray for them all and their chain of command. (The idea that Beto would be the commander-in-chief of such fine young Americans is stomach turning! He’s not fit to take my nephew’s Taco Bell order!)

My nephew is the “sheepdog” that Chris Kyle described…a natural leader of young men (he was captain of his college baseball team for two years) and a protector, always a helper, with a big heart. Our family is so proud of him!