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America's biggest ranch, which is larger than New York City, goes on sale for $713million in Texas The Waggoner Ranch is the largest contiguous ranch in the United States spanning six counties in Northern Texas Listing marks end of decades-long court battle among heirs of cattle baron W.T. Waggoner who founded it in 1923 The estate includes the 510,000-acre ranch with two main compounds, hundreds of homes and 20 cowboy camps Also included are hundreds of quarter-horses, thousands of cattle, 1,200 oil wells and 30,000 acres of cultivated land It reportedly falls within 'super asset class', akin to selling the...

After 16 days of denials by Laredo law enforcement and local officials regarding a Mexican drug cartel takeover of a Laredo area ranch, a Texas police blotter proves the alleged incident did in fact happen and that multiple agencies responded to the scene of a seized U.S. ranch. Think about it for a moment. One of the most brutal drug cartels operating in Mexico crossed the U.S. border and took a ranch from its lawful owner. Intimidation has arrived along the southern border. The police blotter tells the story of the events that unfolded on July 23rd; “On Friday 7-23-10...

There's no doubt about it. The president misled us about the war. He misled us about how long it would take. He misled us about how much it would cost. The president's unfairly maligned critics have been completely vindicated as the war has degenerated into a complete disaster, a chaotic mess that destroys lives, threatens to empty the treasury and - as an added bonus - makes the problem it was originally intended to fix far worse than it was before. It's time for the president's supporters to drop their partisan defense of the indefensible, admit they've made a mess...