Lift a glass today in honor of the glorious Texian victory over the tyrant Santa Anna. It was 172 years ago that the rag tag army that Sam Houston put together defeated the Napoleon of the West in a marshy area along the San Jacinto River.  The victory was Absolut!

The history of the American West was now set in motion. Tyranny and a corrupt and stifling culture was defeated and replaced with the dynamic culture of the Anglosphere. The victory was dynamic because it continues today. 

How do we know this? All you have to do is look at the millions of Mexicans who risk all to claw their way here to work and live. Setting aside the broader issues surrounding Illegal Immigration for the moment, it is an indisputable fact that given a choice, most people will choose freedom, dynamic open market capitalism and a culture that is free of fixed social class and corruption when given the choice. Oh and it does not matter what color, culture, faith  or social class you come from, the Anglosphere is open to all who wish to join.

So, here’s to you Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, Sidney Johnson, Juan Seguin and all the others who took just eighteen minutes to rid Texas of tyranny that wonderful April day in 1836.

P. S.:   Sam Houston is on my list of “Guys I would like to go drinkin’ & hell raising with”.