Category: history

The Davy Crockett Craze

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Fess Parker, TV's Iconic Davy Crockett, Dead at 85

Fess Parker: His ship came in.

Born on a mountain-top in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free…

–The Ballad of Davy Crockett

The height of the craze was in 1954, after which we are told it tapered off (https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/the-davy-crockett-craze). But you couldn’t prove it be me!

With the fad supposedly over, and me eight or nine years old, it still had scads of momentum. Here are some of the “merch” items that I gave my parents no peace until I owned them:

Davy Crockett marionette, Davy Crockett T-shirts, Sunday color comics, comic books, Davy Crockett plastic figures, Davy Crockett record albums, Davy Crockett moccasins…

Walt Disney had ignited a major cultural movement without intending to. He cried all the way to the bank.

Star Fess Parker got tons of mileage out of his coonskin persona.

Yeesh! If it was this intense in 1957, when I was old enough to get blown away by it, what must it have been like in the middle of 1955?  (“Everything was Davy Crockett,” says my wife.

Going, Going… When Is ‘Gone’?

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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PREMIER: UK’s Starmer Stumbles to His LOWEST Popularity Levels Ever, With 68% Disapproval of His Government and Only 13% Support

Thirteen percent–yes, 13%–of British voters say they approve of the job being done by their current premier, Keir Starmer. Thirteen percent. How the devil did this guy ever get elected in the first place? Sheesh. Richard III was more popular than this Labor Party twaddler.

Among Starmer’s more unpopular actions, we find, in his first 400 days, let in 50,000 migrants, freed 26,000 convicted criminals (way what?)… but it would be tiresome to continue.

Will the United Kingdom still be here in 2050? Where are the Britons going to go after they’re pushed out of their homeland… by aggressive Muslims aided and abetted by police forces who act like they were put on this earth to chase the Britons out of Britain. 

Time is running out, Brits. This won’t be the first time you were conquered by an alien nation. But it’s fair to ask, “How many chances do they get?”

Democrat Strategy: So Simple!

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Is the Alamo still in Texas?

I don’t think we appreciate, yet, the subtle brilliance shown by Texas Democrats in absconding from the state before a vote can be taken on a current redistricting bill. It really is quite clever! “Heads we win, tails you lose.”

Now, if they find themselves in the minority in any issue before the Texas legislature, they can simply run away–and presto, no quorum. No vote. They can always come back to vote on bills that they like. For all practical purposes, they are always running the show, always in charge, no matter which party won the last election. It’s only the public that gets disenfranchised. The party they actually voted for will never have a quorum.

“We’re the defenders of democracy!”

Anybody got a barf bag?

What a Change in the Spirit of Texas

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Compare and contrast this bit of Texas history with today’s current events.

The freedom fighters in Texas had one cannon, just one, in the town of Gonzales; and they had a flag that defied  Santa Ana to “Come and Take It.” The Mexicans, despite their overwhelming numbers, took the town but couldn’t take the cannon. The video will tell you the rest of the story.

Fast forward to 2025! After first invoking the primordial battle cry, “Come and Take It,” Texas Democrats… ran away. Upped stakes, scarpered, chickened out. No whisper of “Remember the Alamo.” Were they fleeing to save their lives? No: they were fleeing to avoid a quorum on a redistricting vote. And once they saw which way the wind was blowing, it was “Run away! Run away!”

A couple of them have since come back from skulking in Chicago. Legislators are supposed to legislate, not panic when it seems the vote won’t go their way. The governor has threatened to keep them out of the legislature for refusing to do their duty and carry on their proper function.

Yo, Texas! Are you proud of these doozies? [Yes, I did write about this earlier. I just can’t get over how shameful it is.]

‘The Lost River of Eden’ (2015)

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I thought I’d re-run this post, because I hadn’t read it in years and when I read it just now, it fascinated me all over again.

The Lost River of Eden

The Bible preserves knowledge that would otherwise be lost. Genesis tells us of the rivers of Eden, one of which flowed into Eden after crossing most of what is now Saudi Arabia. There is very solid evidence for this–although the river dried up around 2,000 B.C. at the latest. Satellite technology opened the door of discovery.

How much else is “lost,” but actually preserved in Scripture?

Probably a great deal more than we might think.

Now It’s Radioactive Wasps

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Radioactive Wasp Nest Discovered Near South Carolina Nuclear Weapon Facility

Just when you thought it was safe to hang around a Superfund site…

They don’t know, for sure, where the radioactive waste came from, but there it was, sitting cheek by jowl with a “nuclear weapons facility” from the 1950s–and there was the nest, full of radioactive wasps. Authorities had to spray them, cart them away, and dispose of them as radioactive waste.

Does anybody know what happens if you’re stung by glow-in-the-dark wasps? It sounds like the premise for a 1950s horror movie.

Are there any more radioactive wasps’ nests around? That’s another thing they don’t know. Someone will have to look.

Be careful, whoever you are.

Please Don’t ‘Help’ Us Anymore!

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Louis Sockalexis: Cleveland baseball all-star

Once upon a time they were the Cleveland Spiders. Then along came Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian, who became the star of the team in the 1890s. He died in 1913, but fans still loved him and the name of the team was changed: all hail the Cleveland Indians (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/meet-indian-slugger-liberals-insulted-forced-cleveland-indians/)!

For a hundred years they were the Indians. Bob Feller! Larry Doby! Lou Boudreau! The list could go on for quite a ways. But no: a few years ago, they changed it to “Cleveland Guardians.” [Barf bag break] Because somehow it was disrespectful to native Americans to honor them and memorialize their achievements. Honk if that makes sense to you.

President Trump says “MAKE THE INDIANS GREAT AGAIN.” And the former Washington Redskins football team, while we’re at it. It’s always hard to know when he’s just jerking liberals’ chains.

Anyway, there is a movement to restore the Indians’ name. We’ll see what comes of it.

NOTE: Jonathan Jones, author of the column referenced above, is a native American who finds the condescension and the name-changing equally revolting.

‘Teachers’ Erase Jews from Holocaust

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NEA Prez Randi Weingarten: Public Enemy No. 1?

The National “Education” (LOL) Assn., America’s largest teachers’ union, has done it again.

They have a new handbook that lays out the teaching of the Holocaust with no mention of the Third Reich’s attempt to wipe out the Jews–only “different faiths” (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4330508/posts).

Your school taxes at work!

Haven’t we had enough of teachers’ unions by now? They call it “public schooling.”

The time has come for a mass exodus from the public schools. The unions are wedded to Far Left Crazy, and they aren’t going to change.

Come on, Jewish parents! How much of this do you have to take before you’ve had enough?

Global Warming, Eh?

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Dadburned SUVs! If it ain’t global warming, it’s an ice age!

I thought all the world’s glaciers were supposed to be melting due to [impolite sound] “global warming,” aka “climate change.” But at the same time, “earth’s most dangerous (?) glacier is gaining ice” (https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/earth-most-dangerous-glacier-gaining-ice/).

Three glaciers seem to be merging into one in the Karakoram Mountains of central Asia. Scientists say they don’t know why.

Y’know, we did have ice ages once upon a time, the last one ending some ten thousand-plus years ago. No more woolly mammoths, no more sabretooth tigers. And fossils tell us of several ice ages at various times in earth history, going back practically to the beginning.

So some glaciers are melting… and some are not. It’s starting to sound like the Pleistocene Epoch (cave men, et al). Could it be that ice ages have always featured in earth’s history and our peerless leaders can’t make it stop? That they’re just using the threat of climate change [another impolite noise] to gain more control over us, and more wealth and power for themselves?

Oh, heck no! Right?

Obama… Arrested???

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Dream on, brothers; dream on.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard showed, conclusively, that Obama knew about the “Russia hoax” and personally tried to push it.

President Trump Sets Internet on Fire with Video of Obama Getting Arrested by FBI Agents and Tossed Into Jail

Here’s what happened (or didn’t happen). Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a pile of documents from December, 2016, proving that Obama himself, with some of his closest advisers, knew about the ‘Russian interference’ hoax and were personally involved in spreading it over the Internet.

[Gee, it sure looks like Obama’s getting arrested! But of course that will never, never, never happen. Some of his playmates might wind up in the Big House, though.]

Do we now have a country in which the president can do anything he pleases, without fear of consequences? Or does that just apply to Democrat presidents?

It’s going to be very stressful to find out.