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I find this very interesting reading, so let's keep it going if you agree. It only takes a few days on the Internet and this will have reached 75% of the public in the U.S.A. Seniors need to stand up for what is right, not what the politicians want or big Corporations want. The corporate controlled AARP is fighting tooth and nail to get illegal aliens Amnesty and all the benefits that Americans have been taxed for. Social Security and our country is in trouble now, what do you think will happen to it when over twenty-million non-taxpayers are made...

FORT HOOD, Texas – The base commander at Fort Hood says soldiers who witnessed a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire at the Texas post. Lt. Gen. Robert Cone told NBC's "Today" show on Friday that suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, made the comment, which is Arabic for "God is great!" before the rampage Thursday that also left 30 people wounded.

Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings funded a pornographic anti-Christian art show now on display at Harvard University. Mass Resistance reported: If you want to know what Americans can expect in public schools, look no further. Kevin Jennings is Barack Obama’s “safe schools” czar in the US Department of Education. He’s also the founder of the national homosexual group GLSEN, which sets up “gay straight alliance” clubs in high schools and middle schools across America. GLSEN is officially supported by the Massachusetts Legislature. Jennings is also a former member of the radical homosexual group “Act Up”, and he contributed to...

I don’t have to look very far to see how Texas is transforming. Twenty five years ago, visiting my grandmother in the sleepy town of Round Rock, my biggest worry was hitting one of the five or six traffic lights in town. Now that I live in the same area, I can barely recognize the place. It’s currently the fastest-growing city in America. And Round Rock isn’t unique. Looking at a survey of the fastest-growing cities in the country, one notices that a dramatic number of them are in Texas. McKinney has nearly doubled its population since 2000. Houston, Austin,...

Officials at the University of Texas at Austin are defending their actions following a minor confrontation between school officials and members of the Young Conservatives of Texas that has left the latter group decrying censorship. On Tuesday, YCT members took aim at a Diversity Training Program taking part on campus as part of the annual Summer Orientation program for incoming freshmen students. YCT contends that such diversity programs represent a radical agenda that devalues the individual and tries to indoctrinate students in a group consciousness system that many students may not wish to be a part of. Members showed up...

Roger Penske, owner of the second-largest U.S. auto retail chain by revenue, has emerged as a potential buyer for General Motors Corp.'s Saturn brand, people familiar with the situation said. Mr. Penske is chief executive of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Penske Automotive Group, which operates 300 dealerships in the U.S., U.K. and Germany. It is second in revenue in the U.S. to AutoNation Inc. A Penske spokesman declined to comment. GM on Monday said it hired Stephen Girsky, a former Morgan Stanley analyst and one-time adviser to departed Chief Executive Rick Wagoner, to review offers from potential buyers. The auto maker,...

The United Nations may face earth-shattering medical malpractices lawsuits in the near future. Why? Apparently, evidence, can be proven through a simple Google search, revealing that only one doctor employed at the UN Medical Services Division (MSD) in New York City is licensed to practice medicine in the state of New York. SNIP// Ms. Kane also noted that all staff members of the UN MSD were cleared of any wrongdoing with the exception of an alleged whistleblower who may have released information about criminal activities linked with the narcotics scheme to the public. Kane is quoted in the video as...

A popular wartime (and indeed thereafter) song, Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You, words by Thomas Hoier and music by Jimmie Morgan in 1915. Recorded on Edison Records by Walter Van Brunt aka ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay_Z5adiMG8

The Texas Senate today gave final approval to a measure that would allow persons holding concealed handgun licenses to carry firearms on Texas public college and university campuses. The legislation now moves to the Texas House where it has strong bipartisan support. The legislation passed despite strong opposition from student government and leaders at the University of Texas and some other schools. Many students, nonetheless, have advocated for concealed carry on campus following the Virginia Tech massacre.

State Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston) used a procedural motion to block HCR 50, the state sovereignty reaffirmation resolution, Tuesday evening. The move blocks a bipartisan effort to protect state and individual rights from federal government usurpation. The procedural motion, known as a point of order, requires the bill to go back through the House State Affairs Committee, then the House Calendars Committee. If it passes again without another point of order, it then moves to the Senate, where the clock is ticking on House measures.

The Texas Legislature gave final approval on Monday to a cut to its business margins tax aimed at reducing the burden the tax places on small businesses.The legislation, House Bill 4765, raises the exemption to the tax from $300,000 to $1 million. The margins tax was passed in 2006 as a replacement to the outmoded franchise tax, which was so ineffective that five out of six Texas businesses were not paying it. But the new tax soon became a large burden on small business. Calls to reform it were so great that a key Democrat shoved aside multiple Republican bills...

The Texas Senate has passed a measure to require that all Texas schools base their grading systems on merit alone. The measure comes in the wake of revelations by teachers and others that some schools had instituted grading systems where no one fails. The Senate Education Committee and Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott found that “minimum grading policies” in some school districts were preventing teachers from assigning grades they believed students deserved.

Social Studies curriculum group had tossed out traditional American history to make room for left-leaning agenda The Texas State Board of Education on Wednesday came down with a reprimand on its social studies curriculum working group after a draft proposal of the group’s new curriculum came to light showing a series of far-left changes that education bureaucrats wanted to install in place of the traditional Texas social studies curriculum.

Brownwood Taxpayers On April 15 from 11am to 1:30 pm Angry taxpayers will gather in front of the offices of Wendlee Broadcasting to protest the out of control spending of OUR MONEY by the federal government. We'll sign letters and petitions to send to the president and members of congress. Join us at 600 Fisk Ave. in downtown Brownwood for a lunchtime rally on Tax Day!

In American history and government classes across this country, we still teach our children that our founding fathers demonstrated genius both in articulating the inalienable rights belonging to each person in our Declaration of Independence, and then in preserving those rights in our Constitution. Their sole and emphatic purpose in imposing a system of checks and balances among the three branches of the federal government was to prevent the accumulation of power; and in imposing a system of federalism between the national and state governments to prevent the usurpation of authority rightfully belonging to the states or to the people....

MADERA January 9, 2009 5:44am • Calls it temporary • ‘Unfavorable market conditions’ cited Pacific Ethanol Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) of Sacramento says it is shutting down its ethanol plant in Madera. The West Coast-based marketer and producer of ethanol says it expects the shutdown of its 40 million gallon per year ethanol facility to be temporary. “Extended unfavorable market conditions for producing ethanol has prompted Pacific Ethanol to suspend operations beginning Jan. 12,” the company says. The ethanol industry has been hard hit by the decline in gasoline consumption. The Central Valley plant is the second large ethanol facility to...

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:38:30 EST Subject: Send to your congressman LOL THE JOB - URINE TEST > > (Whoever wrote this one deserves a HUGE pat on the back!) Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't...

THE FUTURE is not always a mystery. My crystal ball channels future TV shows, like this one from Jan. 20, 2009. . . Chris Matthews: "Welcome to this special edition of 'Softball.' We are live at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., where Barack Obama has just been sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts. The judge was surprised when the 44th US president then gave him a fist-bump, a manly half-hug, and a high-five." Tom Brokaw: "Chris, have you read the advance text of the inaugural address?" Matthews: "Yes. And just reading it sent a tingle up my leg, then...

Eleven decapitated bodies have been found outside the city of Merida on the Yucatan peninsula, heightening fears that Mexico's recent descent into violence has reached even heavily protected tourist areas. All the bodies showed signs of torture and were tattooed with star signs and the letter “Z”, suggesting that they had fallen victim to the country's growing drug war, which has left more than 2,700 dead so far this year. Merida is a popular stop-off point for tourists on their way to visit the Mayan pyramids at Chichen Itza. On the other side of the Yucatan peninsula is Cancun, a...

To understand changes in the political map, we naturally tend to look for contemporary explanations. But American political alignments are not written on an empty slate. Beginnings matter, and the civic personalities of states tend to reflect the cultural folkways of their first settlers. So I was not startled when I compared state poll results in this election with the results of the 2004 election and found patterns that reflect the surges of historic internal migration. For this year's polls, I used the results from FiveThirtyEight.com, which discounts results based on its estimates of pollsters’ accuracy and the recentness of...