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Scottish refugees began arriving in North America after the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The English victors dismantled the clans, imprisoned many surviving participants of “The Rising” and drove others from their farms and homes. These Scots were drawn to the English colonies that offered economic opportunities for the tenacious, not just the titled. They were survivors, people who better understood life as a game of chance mixed with creativity, skill, and timing. The newly arrived Scottish refugees, immigrants, and the James family of this story were people whose character was forged on the anvil of adversity. This diverse group of Scots enriched the culture and helped make America a beacon of freedom.

The perpetual conflict between good and evil is the most frequent narrative of human history, beginning with the myth of Pandora or the story of Adam and Eve. Every generation since has wrestled with the same ancient dilemma. A new challenge arose when a homicide investigation in rural Southern Maryland revealed a plot against the federal government begun by John Wilkes Booth over a century before.

El pueblo de Santa Morena se ubicaba en una llanura árida al suroeste del Rio Bravo. Estaba aislado y destinado a convertirse en otro de los pueblos abandonados que salpicaban el lado mexicano de la frontera en Texas. Sin embargo, a la llegada de una joven maestra, Doña Ruth Tejada, asignada erróneamente a la inexistente escuela de Santa Morena, el futuro de la aldea dio un giro positivo. Ella se convertiría en el catalizador que lograría la unión de los residentes del pueblo en una lucha contra la ignorancia, la corrupción y el abandono. Sus batallas eran a veces agradables, a veces dolorosas y a veces divertidas. Pero Doña Ruth usó la sabiduría, la tenacidad y el valor poco común para mostrarles el camino.

In 1929, a group of politicians gathered in Mexico City for the purpose of putting an end to the divisive and lethal power struggles by fusing their new political party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), with the Mexican nation-state. The PRI ruled Mexico for over 80 years. During its time in power, the PRI became a symbol of corruption, repression, fiscal mismanagement, and electoral fraud. The party’s kleptocratic successes were based on the tactics used by the infamous King Herod of Judea. The methods used to accomplish the PRI’s political rise became known as Herod’s Law: Do unto others before they do it to you.