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Iron Sharpens Iron

Texas Republican Primary Voters Will Choose Our Senate Nominee Texas Republican primary voters will choose our Senate nominee—not even a President we admire and support. That principle was underscored this morning (March 5, 2026) when President Trump, in a phone interview with POLITICO, leaned toward endorsing Sen. John Cornyn over Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the GOP Senate runoff set for May 26. Trump called Paxton's public stance against dropping out “bad for him,” hinted it might push him “the other direction,” and said an endorsement is coming “pretty soon.” He added he would ask the non-endorsed candidate to step…

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Crockett Was the Moderate Choice

Why Jasmine Crockett Was the Sensible, More Moderate Choice in the Texas Democrat Senate Primary Conventional wisdom has a terrible track record in Texas politics, and it just got another black eye. Back in November and December of 2025, I wrote repeatedly that James Talarico would win the Democrat primary—dismissing Jasmine Crockett's chances against him time and again, based on the racial and coalition fractures I saw clearly in the Texas Democrat electorate. I knew then, as I know now, that Crockett was the more sensible, more moderate choice for a general-election fight—not because her policies were centrist (they weren’t), but…

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Independence Forged in Ink

The Declaration and Constitution at Washington-on-the-Brazos, 190 Years On Picture a raw, unfinished wooden hall on the banks of the Brazos River—leaky roof, dirt floor, the chill of early March seeping through cracks in the walls. Rain drums outside, wagons creak in the mud, and inside, 59 men from across the scattered settlements of Texas crowd benches or stand along the walls. It's March 2, 1836—exactly 190 years ago today—and while cannon fire still echoes faintly from the direction of the Alamo (though the full horror of its fall won't reach them for days), these delegates put quill to paper and…

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Coaching Series: Lou Holtz

Lou Holtz: The Coach Who Built Champions for Life Today, March 4, 2026, the college football world lost one of its greatest teachers. Lou Holtz, the legendary coach who led Notre Dame to the 1988 national championship and inspired generations with his no-nonsense wisdom, passed away at age 89 in Orlando, Florida. Notre Dame Football captured the moment perfectly in their tribute: “Remembering the life and legacy of Lou Holtz.” If you haven’t watched the video yet, pause and take it in—it’s a powerful reminder of the man who didn’t just win games; he changed lives. Remembering the life and legacy…

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Why Talarico Won’t Win Texas

The Preacher Candidate Texas Evangelicals Will Reject in November Calm down, panicans. The national press and the Democratic donor class are already treating James Talarico’s Senate nomination like the second coming of Beto 2.0. Slow your roll. This race is not competitive, it’s not close, and it’s definitely not the “blue wave” moment some folks are hallucinating. Talarico is a preacher candidate selling a version of Christianity that most Texas believers will recognize as straight heresy — and that alone dooms him before the first general-election ad even airs. Let’s start with the theology, because that’s the brand he’s running on.…

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This Is Statecraft

Trump's Masterstroke Against Iran and the Horseshoe Hacks Who Miss It Heed this: What we're seeing with President Trump's Operation Epic Fury isn't some knee-jerk bombing or endless quagmire. It's pure, unadulterated statecraft. This is the 2025 National Security Strategy in full force—a calculated gut-punch to the anti-U.S. axis. It starts with decapitating Iran's mullahs, then ripples out to starve China's oil lifeline and cripple Russia's drone arsenal. We're talking 13-15% of Beijing's crude imports disrupted—the discounted slop Tehran funnels to evade sanctions. Xi scrambles for pricier sources while his green energy fantasies crumble. Simultaneously, it severs the Shahed drone pipeline…

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Draining the Carbuncle

Trump's Bold Surgery on a Festering Global Threat In the annals of medicine, there's an ancient maxim that cuts straight to the heart of decisive action: "ubi pus, ibi evacua"—where there is pus, there evacuate it. This isn't some quaint Latin proverb gathering dust on a shelf; it's a timeless surgical principle, harking back to Hippocratic wisdom, demanding that when an infection festers into a swollen, toxic abscess—a carbuncle, if you will—you don't pussyfoot around with half-measures or endless palliatives. You lance it, drain it, and give the body a fighting chance to heal before the poison spreads and claims the…

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Adieu, Ayatollah

The New York Times Has Been Wrong About Iran for More Than a Century The New York Times has spent more than a century getting Iran wrong—sometimes through outright distortion, more often through a stubborn refusal to see the board as it actually is. Pull up a chair, maybe grab a good cigar if that's your thing, and let's walk through the record. It starts in 1979 and lands right here in late February 2026, with the paper once again sounding the alarm over decisive action while ignoring the century-old machinery that made that action inevitable. 1979: “Trusting Khomeini” – The…

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A Primary Means to Focus Minds

Texas Tremors: Primaries Reshaping GOP Procedural Boldness In the shadowed halls of the United States Senate, where procedural intricacies often eclipse substantive debate, the current impasse over the SAVE America Act serves as a stark reminder of institutional inertia. Drawing from the legacy of Senate gridlock under leaders like Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell—an era that diminished hands-on floor expertise among establishment figures and elevated conservatives as the adept tacticians—we find ourselves at a crossroads. The SAVE Act, with its mandates for proof of citizenship in voter registration and photo ID requirements at the polls, passed the House with bipartisan backing…

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The Finest Use of the Bully Pulpit

How Trump’s 2026 SOTU Was Stage-Managed to Perfection I. Introduction: Turning a Long Speech into a Command Performance Let’s be honest: when a State of the Union clocks in at nearly 1 hour 48 minutes—the longest on record—you expect viewers to start checking their phones halfway through. Yet President Trump’s 2026 address never felt like a slog. The pacing was crisp, the energy never dipped, and the mix of victory-lap confidence, sharp humor, and genuine showmanship kept the room—and the country—locked in from the opening line to the final word. This wasn’t accidental. Every beat, every pause, every camera angle, every…

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