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Texans to Rally for Their Second Amendment Heritage Austin, TX: There can no longer be any doubt: the Second Amendment, our Right to Keep and Bear Arms, is under the greatest attack in American history since 1776. Concerned Americans from across Texas and surrounding states will be converging Sunday, April 22, 2001 in Austin, Texas on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol from 12:00 Noon to 3:00 PM to let their voices be heard. The rally is being organized by Alex Jones, Director of Texans for Freedom, and is sponsored by Texas State Rep. Suzanna Hupp, R-Killeen. Confirmed ...

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Late Sarurday afternoon, Feb. 10, we went to the local muffler shop. It was closed, so we went around back and "borrowed" a discarded muffler from the trash bin. Today we sent the muffler to Senator Tom Daschle, along with the following letter. ********************************************************* Senator Tom Daschle United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Daschle: I hope the automobile muffler included in this package will catch your attention long enough for you to read this letter. Throughout my 30 year career, the IRS has confiscated a substantial portion of my income, which Democrats like you then use to buy ...

On January 27, a group of UNT students allegedly waved a Confederate Flag in front of a group of prospective students in the student union. The Dallas Morning News article which described this event was posted on Free Republic at Dallas Morning News story here The university administration subsequently threw the Kappa Alpha Order off campus for five years. The outcome of this situation at UNT raises two questions: 1. Why is no due process of law afforded to the accused in university-run kangaroo courts? 2. Why is there a double standard in the application of penalties for the "crime" ...

United Way misses campaign goal Fund-raising total 12.1 percent short of mark By Peter Passi and Scott Thistle News Tribune staff writers The United Way of Greater Duluth has fallen shy of its 2000-2001 fund-raising goal. The group, which provides charitable funding to 41 agencies serving the needs of people in and around Duluth, announced Wednesday that its most recent campaign raised $2 million -- 8.8 percent less than the previous year, when contributions totaled $2.175 million. The United Way had aimed even higher. Its goal was to raise $100,000 more than it did during the 1999-2000 campaign, but the ...

ASK THE QUESTION..... Having a need to get about $500 worth of air duct cleaning done in our home, we called a number of local vendors to get bids. The lowest bidder seemed honest, and checked out OK at the local Better Business Bureau. The work is scheduled to be done tomorrow. But we hadn't ASKED THE QUESTION. So we asked it. MR. VENDOR, WHOM DID YOU VOTE FOR? Our country is in a ideological war. It did not end with W's election. It will not end any time soon. The forces of evil are more determined than ever to ...

On Wednesday, the Census Bureau released its State Tax List, which ranked the 50 states according to per capita state tax paid. Today, the POA (Portrait of America) poll was released, telling us, state by state, whether Bush or Gore is leading. Mapping these two sets of data against one another was an extremely interesting exercise, which tells us once and for all that Democrats love high taxes, Republicans favor low taxes. The five highest taxing states ALL favor Gore. All states (14) which favor Gore are in the top 28 taxing states. In those top 28 taxing states, 14 ...

It is Sunday afternoon, October 1. Twenty-some folks stand along the north side of Belt Line Road, between Plano Road and Yale in Richardson. They hold pro-life signs, with messages such as "Abortion Hurts Women" and "Life: The First Inalienable Right". A few in passing cars signal support, most are indifferent. This is Richardson's "Life Chain". It is repeated today in about 12 other Dallas Metro communities, and is part of an international movement in which hundreds of thousands of prayerful pro-life individuals participate. Patty Sherrod's sign reads "Adoption is an Option". She is the Director of Project Gabriel, a ...

GLAAD is presently pressuring two of Dr. Laura's major advertisers - Pillsbury and International Home Foods (maker of Chef Boyardee foods, Gulden's Mustard, Pam Cooking Spray, and many other products) - urging them to drop sponsorship of "Dr. Laura." Both companies recently began advertising on the television show after Paramount lowered advertising rates to enlist new advertisers. You may contact these companies and respectfully thank them for their sponsorship of Dr. Laura's television show through the following venues: The Pillsbury Company Phone: 612-330-4966 (State that you are calling regarding the "Dr. Laura" television show. I called today and was told ...

Responding to relentless pressure from homosexual radicals, United Way organizations around the country are considering discontinuing funding for the Boy Scouts of America. However, there are some signals that public opinion is squarely on the side of the Boy Scouts. The Washington Times recently wrote, "As for the Scouts, as this newspaper reported Sept. 4, membership and revenues are at all-time highs, with the San Francisco Bay Area Council ironically leading the nation in membership growth. That a vote to strip the Boy Scouts of their 84-year-old federal charter failed in Congress Sept. 13 by an overwhelming 362-12 margin is ...

Folks might want to think again before buying stuff at Barnes & Noble..... ******************************************************** This week, I visited the Barnes & Noble bookstore at the Richardson Square Mall. At the mall side entrance there is a large display which promotes their new "Close the Book on Hate" program.......recommended books for parents and children to read and discuss. Sounds good. "Close the Book on Hate". A clever title, due to its "intimidation factor". It implies that anyone who disagrees with the program condones hate. However, a look at the Barnes & Noble website reveals that at least five of the thirteen ...

August 30. This morning we are parked at a truck stop off Interstate 80 at York, Nebraska. We are waiting. In a few minutes, we will rendezvous with the Grim Reaper. This story begins up in the northeast corner of Nevada, in the tiny town of Jarbidge. For generations, its residents have travelled a county road that runs along a stream and thru a canyon, to a favorite camping and picnic area. But in 1999, the U.S. Forest Service closed the road by bulldozing tons of dirt and rocks, after concocting a "need" to protect an endangered species of trout ...

A couple days back I read a Freeper post, "Barnes & Noble becomes Politically Correct". The post was about a new B & N children's program, "Close the Book on Hate". Curious, I visited the Barnes & Noble store at Preston Road & Beltline in North Dallas. At the entrance they had a large display which promotes their "Close the Book on Hate" program.......recommended books for parents and CHILDREN to read and discuss. Sounds good. Until one looks further and finds that at least five of the thirteen "children's" books on their list openly promote homosexuality: 1. "Daddy's Roommate" (ages ...

"Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete, all states will recognize a single, global authority…National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all." Were these words uttered by some bureaucrat deep in the bowels of a foreign, socialist think tank? Wrong. They were spoken by the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton-Gore Administration. He is Strobe Talbott, who is Madeleine Albright's top deputy in the State Department........ During the first week of September, the United Nations will conduct its Millenium Aseembly in New York City, to restructure the United Nations in preparation for world government. You may ...

We joined up with the Grim Reaper convoy in Lincoln, NE this morning. Proceeded to Des Moines for an evening rally on the Capitol grounds. Tomorrow we will continue on..... Rollin'.....Rollin'.....Rollin' to another rally at the Baptist Church of ROSELAWN, INDIANA, south of Chicago, starting at 6:30 p.m. ALL CHICAGO, INDIANA, AND NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS FRREPERS have an opportunity to show your support for the folks in this convoy. Geez, one of the women in this convoy has driven, alone, all the way from Medford, Oregon. Attend the rally in Roselawn.... Take Friday off and accompany the convoy to London, Ohio, ...

HEADS UP.....THE POWER OF THIS ARTICLE IS NOT DESCRIBED BY THE TITLE. The article describes how today's environmental movement resembles that of the Nazis in Hitler's Germany. It describes how citizens are fighting environmental tyranny, using the SOS-SOD rally as the example. It is a patriotic, inspiring article. A must read for all FREEPERS who have been following the Shovel Brigade and the Stewards of the Darby....click on the URL.

".....THE MMM RALLY IS OVER, AND THOUSANDS OF ITS ATTENDEES LINE THE CURB AND HECKLE US AS WE WALK BY.... 'I HOPE YOUR CHILD IS KILLED BY A GUN', SHOUTS A FROTHING MOMMY....." ****************************************************** Sunday, May 14. Mother's Day. On the Mall in Washington, D.C., it is a beautiful spring day. The Million Moms March (MMM), actually a gathering of about 100,000, is the center of attention. A hundred thousand mommies. A grassroots, spontaneous get-together on the National Mall. It conjures up an image of loving, motherly women, tenderly holding adoring children. Look again. The Million Moms March is a ...

From the anti-gunners website...... Spotlight Chats: One Year After the Granada Hill Shooting. Discuss Gun Control: How Far We've Come And Where We Need To Go. Join Donna Dees Thomases founder of the Million Mom March, Michael Beard, President of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and Marie Carbone, Director of Federal Legislation at Handgun Control and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence on Thursday at 9 pm ET for a live chat.

FT. WORTH CITY COUNCIL SIDESTEPS GUN SHOW MEASURES By Ginger D. Richardson Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH -- A divided City Council incensed a crowd of nearly 400 last night by tabling two resolutions involving background checks at gun shows at city-owned facilities. The 6-3 vote came after nearly two hours of deliberation and was booed by those who supported the checks and those who opposed them. Many immediately berated council members for not taking definite action. Councilwomen Wendy Davis and Becky Haskin and Mayor Pro Tem Ralph McCloud opposed tabling the resolutions. "It's reprehensible," Davis said. "I was disgusted ...

Would you like to do something to stop the radical environmentalists' attempt to destroy our rights? But couldn't get to Jarbidge? And can't get to Darby? Well, here is a chance. Up in northerneastern Minnesota, a group called the Friends of the Boundary Waters, a Sierra Club-like group of environmental activists, is trying to place new limitations on the rights of local home and resort owners to access the chain of lakes upon which their property resides. The "Friends" are opposing a Forest Service plan which will allow these owners continued motorized access to the Moose Lake chain of lakes. ...