The Fire That Time

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Texas Monthly - By Pamela Colloff - Mar. 31 (Special Report) - Life in the Branch Davidians' austere two-story wooden dormitory revolved around strict discipline, healthy eating, physical labor, and rigorous study of the Bible. But in the summer of 1992, the group caught the attention of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms after a UPS driver reported delivering a package of dummy grenades to Mount Carmel. Koresh and other Davidians, who had been earning income for the group by working at weekend gun shows, had built up an arsenal of weapons, as well as an inventory of MREs (meals ready to eat), gas masks, and paramilitary gear that they called David Koresh Survival Wear.

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Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Texas Monthly - By Michael Ennis - Mar. 08 (Special Report) - Call it the War Between the Megastates. This conflict burst into the national headlines on May 17, 2001, when then-governor Gray Davis told reporters that California, reeling from chronic blackouts and the bankruptcy of his state's largest power company, was "literally in a war" with "price gouging" Texas energy producers....For the most part, however, Texas versus California has been a cold war, a simmering ideological feud between two great powers. And we're talking about real global power, not the quaint, old-fashioned states' bragging rights....It's on the high end of the intellectual achievement scale that Texas runs a distant, even alarming, second. California racks up patents at more than twice the per capita rate of Texas, and the University of California System produces four times as many patents as the University of Texas System. But the figure that should blanch the face of every Texas leader is the margin that California holds in venture capital, probably the best measure of how the markets value our high-end human resources.

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