THE TRUTH OF SELFGOVERNANCE BENEATH THE TOPSOIL OF THE MODERN TEXAS FRONTIER

While there is plenty of news in this week’s edition, the focus of what follows is the thread that stitches together history and future: America will celebrate its 250th birthday this week.

Hushed discussions regarding what to do about government control had been circling since the Stamp Act of 1765, but that all changed when a relative nobody named Thomas Paine published Common Sense on January 10…