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While criticizing a recent speech, Ocasio-Cortez took issue with what she claimed was Rubio’s statement that America’s cowboys came from Spain. “My favorite part was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain,” she said in her criticism of Rubio’s speech. “And I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African enslaved peoples would like to have a word on that.” The History Channel reports that America’s cowboy culture stretches back further than America itself, to the era of Spanish colonialism. “Hundreds of years before there was the American cowboy, there was the vaquero,” it says, referring to expert horsemen...

New Yorkers better get their heckling in fast, because Glenn Beck is headed for the Lone Star State. The TV host and commentator recently sold his New Canaan, Conn., mansion, to Maura Abeln Smith, recently named general counsel of PepsiCo, for $3.6 million. The listing agent, Lynne Leonard, confirmed Beck was headed to Texas. "They are going to the Dallas area," Leonard told the Daily News. "They will be renting. It's secure and gated." Dallas-based real estate blogger Candy Evans reported that Beck is moving into the 7,900-square foot estate owned by baseball player Jorge Piedra and Swarovski heiress Vanessa...