The War with Mexico played a key role in the growth of the US. It officially started on 13 May 1846, when Congress overwhelmingly voted in favor of President Polk’s request to declare war on Mexico in a dispute over Texas. Under the threat of...
On 1 Mar 1917, the text of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the US and Germany, was...
May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, is the date of the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Seguín. Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day, the most...
Let’s see: there is violence along the Arizona-Mexican border every day; today a US Border Patrolman was shot and killed while patrolling. What in the world do we have to do to get the attention of the executive branch of the US Government...
Gee. Everything on the news focuses on the war between the Mexican drug cartels and the Mexican government. Of course it’s spilling across the border into the US. Why isn’t anyone asking why we aren’t working hard to seal our...
The aerostat is a Persistent Ground Surveillance System (PGSS), which provides our local battlefield leaders with a 24-hour-a-day “eyes-on” capability, to survey and closely monitor the battle space, and any possible enemy activities; it uses high...
Let’s see. Our country is very regularly invaded by armed criminals from Mexico; they kill Americans. It is the duty of the federal government to secure our borders and our people. The president and his party control both the House and the...
Mexican President Felipe Calderon received praise from liberals for falsely claiming Arizona’s new immigration law uses racial profiling, but that wasn’t the only baloney the Mexican president peddled during his state visit. He said we...
I gained this information from Minuteman Project Founder and President Jim Gilchrist.br /br /There has been a heightened feeling of nervousness in the air in Miracle Valley with the new rash of murders now taken place in Naco Mexico. A new drug...