Tex's Place

By Stephen Sorace Cartel violence that erupted across Mexico left 25 Mexican National Guard troops and more than two dozen criminal suspects among the dead following the killing of Jalisco New Generation cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, officials said Monday. Mexico Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said the troops in Jalisco were killed in six separate attacks following the killing of Oseguera Cervantes during a shootout inside his home as the Mexican military attempted to capture him. He also said some 30 criminal suspects were killed in Jalisco and four others were killed in Michoacan. García Harfuch added that a prison guard, an agent from the state prosecutor’s office and a woman whom he did not identify were also killed. The U.S.  provided intelligence support  for the Mexican operation that resulted in the death of the cartel leader, who was known as "El Mencho." Mexican Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla said Monday t...

By Jesse Stiller Legendary actor Robert De Niro cried while espousing alarmist rhetoric about President Donald Trump to MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace during a Monday episode of “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace.” Wallace  asked  De Niro why he was “always about lifting up everybody” around him during the  podcast . The actor, who has played  mobsters  and  hitmen , immediately became emotional when answering and attacked Trump for supposedly trying to ruin the United States. WATCH: “You have to lift people up. You have to bring them together. Period. You can’t divide people. You can’t win that way. It’s a no-win situation. And look what we have,” De Niro said. “Look who we have there. It’s almost like a destiny to have this thing there attempting to destroy this country and maybe not even understanding why. So it’s up to us to protect the country.” “You weren’t supposed to make me cry,” Wallace said. De Niro also called on individua...

By Bob Hoge A couple of years ago, it looked like the leftist effort to destroy Donald Trump was working. He was  debanked by JPMorgan Chase , state and federal lawsuits were piling up like pancakes, and former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s attack dog, former Special Counsel Jack Smith, brought two major cases against the then-private citizen: one concerned election interference, the other classified documents. But a funny thing happened on the way to losing the Oval Office, the House, and the Senate. Many of the cases — like Fulton County, Georgia district attorney Fani Willis' indictment for alleged election interference — fell apart, and not only did the Left fail to bring down Trump, but he now serves as their president. There was new humiliation to report for Smith on Monday, however: a federal judge  blocked the release of his final report  on the classified documents Trump had supposedly illegally stored at his home, Mar-a-Lago: A federal judge on Monday a...

By Sister Toldjah The fact that we even have to have a "debate" about the wisdom of voter/photo ID at this point is entirely due to Democrat/media fearmongering on the matter, something we repeatedly saw here in North Carolina in the years just before a voter ID bill was passed was signed into law (2013), and for roughly a decade after, as Democrats kept the issue mired in the courts. It's something that had widespread support here in NC at the time, and across the nation, in fact.  And despite the Democrats' best efforts, it maintains broad, bipartisan support among voters to the tune of  83 percent  as of 2025. "I don't think you have 83 percent agreement on almost anything, so that's phenomenal support," my colleague Nick Arama  correctly observed  in response to the polling numbers.  But, desperate to keep illegal immigrants voting for them, Democrats have proclaimed that voter/photo ID would "disenfranchise" minority voters, includ...

By Ben Smith For nearly a century, New York City mayors have attended the installation of a new archbishop. Through war, fiscal collapse, crime waves, and cultural upheaval, they showed up. Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not. Cardinal Timothy Dolan says the new mayor excluded Catholic clergy from his Jan. 1 inauguration and then skipped the installation of Archbishop Ronald Hicks, Dolan’s successor. Dolan did not downplay what that meant. “So far, we were ticked off that he didn’t. I was ticked off he didn’t invite me to his inauguration. You know, most of the time the Archbishop of New York, among other religious leaders, gets invited. I was ticked off that he didn’t have he had few, few, few, few, few Catholics on his transition team. Okay? And then I was really ticked off that he didn’t show up at the installation, my successor. That defied precedent, the mayor not showing up to the installation.”  The word is precedent. The tradition of mayors attending the archbishop’s installa...

By Stephen Green "This is AI slop. It is impossible that Newsom actually said this," social scientist  Charles Murray  posted in response to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest ham-fisted attempt at connecting with voters outside his state. "Right?" Murray added, and you could practically hear him begging for it not to be true. "Holy God in heaven please tell me that my black brothers in Christ can look at the world's stupidest white man and understand that he is a bad person," my old X acquaintance  Political Math  added. My Townhall colleague  Amy Curtis  noted, "It's just like when Joe Biden said, 'Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.'" Deny all you like, but yes, as  Chad Prather  explained, "Gavin Newsom told a black audience that he’s just like them because of his low SAT scores and inability to read." Newsom made his "I'm like you... I'm a 960 SAT guy" commen...

By Streiff The left is engaged in an all-out attack on the policies of the Trump presidency. However, most of those attacks are not aimed at policies, per se; they are aimed at specific people and agencies. For instance, the nation remains in favor of getting rid of illegals, but, thanks to lies perpetrated by the left and their stenographers in the media, they are becoming dissatisfied with how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are operating. Krisit Noem and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., are the targets of personal attacks. JD Vance has had his faith, his wife, and his marriage attacked. In fact, it seems that the more successful an administration official is, the more unhinged and deranged the attacks. Few members of President Trump's cabinet have had a greater impact, and undergone more scurrilous attacks, than Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. When Hegseth was nominated to his current position, the U.S. military was swirling in the toilet bowl. The services were controlled ...

By Zachary Mettler Colorado legislators support requiring courts to consider whether parents embrace a child’s ‘gender identity’ in determining custody. Colorado’s Democrat state legislators want to force transgenderism on parents, requiring them to affirm their child’s “gender identity” or risk losing custody. Radical lawmakers introduced “Concerning Legal Protections for The Dignity of a Minor” ( SB 26-018 ) on Jan. 14, and the  Senate Judiciary Committee   passed  the bill, referring it to the full Senate on Feb. 18. In its intended form, the bill  requires  courts to consider whether parents embrace their child’s “gender identity” when determining custody. Courts must favor parents who support their child’s “preferred name and pronouns” and push their child to receive harmful and damaging “transgender” drugs, hormones, and surgeries. The bill states courts must “consider whether the parties recognize the child’s identity as it relates to a pro...

Good morning!     This is your daily forum to share what you've heard, what you've learned, and what you know, and just shoot the breeze.   Have a wonderful day my friends.   -Tex