Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱

Believer. Husband. Father. Golfer. Foodie. Spurs, Astros, Broncos. Most improvements aren't. No beans in chili.

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

The key to successful cage diving with a great white shark is that the diver is in the cage and the shark is not in the cage.

[TheBigDave @LiVe2DaNceATL]

Holy moly😲😲

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@4golfonline Fantastic. Well done.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@DocD19 @NUCLRGOLF Exactly

[Chris Walker @WalkerATX]

I'm telling everyone who asks here in France that I'm from Texas.

European wine snobs love to turn up their noses at American wine, but they conveniently forget that their precious vineyards would be literal dirt if Central Texas hadn't bailed them out. Back in the 1800s, a nasty root-eating bug pushed the French wine industry to the brink of total extinction until they came begging the Lone Star State for help. Today, a whopping 80% to 90% of all grapevines in France are physically spliced onto the rugged, subterranean roots of the stubborn Central Texas Mustang Grape. Because those nasty bugs are still chilling in the European soil today, French grapes cannot survive on their own. Every single bottle of overpriced French wine you buy is a total hybrid—delicate European fruit up top, riding piggyback on a tough-as-nails Texan bodyguard down below.
The French really ought to be writing "thank you" notes to the rocky, sun-baked hills of Central Texas every single day. While roots from other states withered and quit, those Central Texas vines had spent centuries surviving brutal droughts and limestone dirt, making them completely immune to the bugs. In 1887, thousands of rugged Central Texas cuttings were shipped across the pond, and French farmers had to slice open their fancy vines and glue them onto Texas muscle just to keep from going belly up.

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@ericmetaxas Nuts. Why traffic in this nonsense?

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

You’re telling me that Nina Totenberg formed a half-assed opinion about the work of the Supreme Court, based on a set of fashionable false assumptions, and without checking the details first? I refuse to believe it.

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@jpodhoretz He seems...upset. My goodness.

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@1776Carolina3 Terrific book. Bully!

[Henshi @HenshiG]

She was just five weeks old when her parents fled their bombed-out village in North Vietnam. By age six, she was on a plane to Israel. By twenty, she was a radar spotter on the Lebanese border, scanning for Hezbollah threats. Today, Ai Lien Luong Phung owns four kosher restaurants in South Florida. This is her remarkable story.

Born in Hai Phong as the youngest of four and the only girl, Ai Lien came into the world amid the Vietnam War. Her Vietnamese mother and ethnic Chinese father fled repeated bombings, eventually escaping communist persecution after the fall of Saigon. Ethnic Chinese families faced brutal targeting, so her parents sold everything and moved first to China, then to a crowded Hong Kong refugee camp — a family of five sharing one bunk bed. Their eldest son was forced to stay behind, serving in the Chinese army for ten long years.

In 1978, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin — haunted by the Holocaust-era rejection of Jewish refugees — ordered diplomats to offer asylum to Vietnamese “boat people.” Israel welcomed about 366 refugees. Ai Lien’s family was part of the final group accepted, reportedly the very last one.

They settled in Sderot. The cultural shocks were immediate: they mistook toilets for washing basins and soap for butter. On her first day of school, her mother dressed her in donated pajamas, not realizing they weren’t day clothes.

The family adapted through hardship — her father worked in Chinese restaurants since Israel didn’t recognize his acupuncture expertise, her mother juggled jobs including housekeeping. Multiple moves followed: Beersheba, Haifa, Tiberias. The children helped support the household; one brother left school at 17.

At 18, Ai Lien volunteered for the most dangerous posting in the IDF. She served as a radar spotter on the Lebanese border and later at the Kerem Shalom crossing. After her service, she met her husband Trieu (also of similar background) while working at a Chinese restaurant in Herzliya. They married five years later and lived in Tel Aviv.

Then a bus bombing near their home changed everything. Trieu insisted they leave for safety. In 1998, they moved to the United States, leaving behind her aging mother and brothers, who remain deeply rooted in Israel.

Today, Ai Lien has built a thriving life in South Florida through resilience, hard work, and faith — a living testament to Israel’s compassion and the power of new beginnings.

Full original article: https://t.co/xHNKpuxQzw

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@VodkaPundit @iowahawkblog Lucy is President of an HOA. She just put a 1,500 word post in the neighborhood group chat on the rules for fireworks and outdoor parties “as we prepare to celebrate our freedoms.”

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@VodkaPundit @iowahawkblog Pig Pen ended up starting a trash company. Sold to Waste Management and got rich. Charlie was his office manager but didn’t “embrace” the new corporate culture.

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@FreddyLA7 @ally32250 @GordonRamsay Well done. Come back to Texas again. We would love to host you.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

I don’t really know what I think about this case (which was statutory, so, once again, it’s in Congress’s hands), but Barrett is clear and brilliant, and it is good that her decisions are written so tightly. The intellectual quality of this Court is unusually high.

[Publius @OcrazioCornPop]

Trump, 2018: "Haiti is a sh!thole country."

Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a great, truly beautiful country. Trump is a r*cist!"

Trump (& SCOTUS), 2026: "Temporary means temporary, Haitians have to return home to their great, truly beautiful country."

Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a sh!thole country. They must be allowed to stay forever."

CHECKMATE, LIBTARDS.

WHY ARE HOLLYWOOD LIBS LIKE THIS?

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@Bob_Janke The Big and Tall store.
Safari Collection.

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

"Gracie has rounded ears and was recently captured on a game camera west of town." I'm not sure that her ears are what stands out.

A giraffe is loose in Texas, and there's a $5,000 reward to find her https://t.co/kj6gWB798h via @chron

[Shirokuma @shirobruin]

@KTVU I’ve never seen anyone unironically and literally use the broken window fallacy.

Incredible.

[Cory Fale @CoryFale]

@KTVU "Economics in one Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt.

You will feel stupid after reading chapter 1, but that is ok. That is where progress starts.

For everyone else, I hope you find the Original Post a complete fallacy of logic... Because it is.

[Jonathan Miles 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Jmiles_HTX]

@FreddyLA7 I-10 between San Antonio and Kerrville? Great drive.

[Seth Mandel @SethAMandel]

Dems should invite Bibi to give a speech to a joint session of Congress against the Iran deal