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Obama Repeats '90 Percent' Stat for U.S. Guns Recovered in Mexico The White House stands by the president's use of the word "recovered" in describing the role firearms smuggled from the U.S. play in Mexico's drug war. By Major Garrett FOXNews.com Sunday, April 19, 2009 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- What's the difference between "recovered" and "traceable" when it comes to firearms seized in Mexico's bloody war against drug cartels? The White House says none. But that's a distinction with a difference, even if President Obama used the words interchangeably last week to talk about the role firearms smuggled from...

"I decided not to bring Bo today," President Obama said this morning as he prepared to speak about taxes. And why was he not bringing the family's new six-month-old Portuguese Water Dog? "Because he stepped on my economic speech yesterday," the president joked. With that, the president talked about tax day, making the argument that April 15th will be less painful for most Americans because of his actions. "I know that April 15th isn't exactly everyone's favorite date on the calendar," he said as he stood in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, flanked by nine American taxpayers. "But it is...

DALLAS -- A judge blocked the Texas Department of Public Safety on Thursday from continuing to enforce new rules that prevent some legal immigrants from obtaining driver's licenses and identification cards. State District Judge Orlinda L. Naranjo in Austin issued a temporary injunction and found DPS acted outside its scope of authority when it adopted the policy last year. "This case is not about illegal immigrants obtaining driver licenses, it is about legal residents who have been denied or have been threatened a denial of a driver license," Naranjo wrote.

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House Democrats are laying the groundwork for another major immigration debate later this year, despite the risk that it could prove politically destructive for their party. Moving broad legislation that would put millions of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship seemed politically impossible until fairly recently and may still end up too hot for Congress to touch. Yet Obama sent a signal this month to Hispanic Democrats that he is still committed to the cause and that he plans to host a White House immigration summit before the end of May. That has bolstered the hopes of the legislation’s...

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison filed papers today establishing an exploratory committee to run for Texas governor in 2010.

It caused some controversy, but it was supposed to. Now, one man is headed to municipal court for burning a Mexican flag in protest in front of the Alamo. The city is charging 46-year old David Bohmfalk with burning without a permit, even though no one gives permits to burn a flag. "I was raised to respect my country," Bohmfalk said. All the rallies and talk of amnesty for undocumented immigrants in May 2006 lit the fires of patriotism for Bohmfalk, he said. "I just got angry," he said. "I decided I had to do something, make my statement, and...

The house smells of ammonia and lemon. The children are doing homework. An unwatched TV spews animated Spanish and a breeze wafts through the window. Two undocumented residents and three U.S. citizens -- their children, who were born here -- live in this household in an eastern suburb. Since their arrival from south-central Mexico three years, another three families, also undocumented, from the same pueblo have followed them. Last week, millions of immigrants marched to protest proposed federal legislation aimed at cracking down on undocumented residents. But for these families in Pittsburgh, legislative proposals lose their immediacy when the utility...

The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas in General Convention at the town of Washington on the 2nd day of March 1836. When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression. When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas- Two people were convicted of alien smuggling Tuesday in a case that began when a migrant in the Texas brush promised a dying 18-year-old he would return his body to Mexico. Maria de Jesus Ojeda, 36, of San Benito, and Jose Geronimo Mendez, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant, were found guilty of transporting and harboring aliens and conspiracy to transport and harbor aliens. Both face up to life in federal prison and a maximum $250,000 fine. The men were arrested following an investigation that began when a migrant from El Salvador turned himself in and led immigration officials to...

  The Goliad Massacre   Around 6:00 a.m. on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, after being held captive for one week, Fannin's men were told to gather up their things. They thought that they were going to the Port of Copano and then on to New Orleans. They were happy and singing. They knew that Colonel Fannin had returned from the Port of Copano the previous day. What they didn't know was that at 7:00 p.m. the pervious evening, Colonel Portilla had received word directly from General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna to execute the men. About an hour...

15 minutes ago U.S. National - AP WASHINGTON - Twenty-seven Americans have been abducted in Mexico's northern border region over the past six months and two have been killed, the State Department said Thursday. Spokesman Richard Boucher cited those numbers in defending an alert to American citizens about the risks of traveling in the area. Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez had said the State Department public announcement, issued Wednesday, exaggerated the danger. Boucher said he was aware of the Mexican objections but added that the administration believes it is important to inform Americans about security along the border. "We're...

Whites no longer the majority in Texas Associated Press White non-Hispanics are no longer the majority in Texas for the first time since the 1800s, according to a Census Bureau survey released today. The survey said whites stopped being the majority as of last year. The bureau also released statistics that showed Texas joined only Illinois and North Carolina in having a poverty rate that measurably increased while income decreased in 2002-03. State demographer Steve Murdock said the two trends are related as economic woes have slowed white migration from other states. Most of Texas' population expansion since 2000 has...

<p>AS if embattled Disney chief Michael Eisner didn't have enough problems with insurgent stockholders, he's probably reaching for the Maalox if he's read early reviews of "The Alamo," which opens nationwide next Friday starring Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton.</p>

Carter, a DRT member, ran the shrine's $5.2-million budget and 86 employees. The daughters aren't behaving very sisterly. Custodian of the Alamo for 99 years, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas is a group of women whose politics can be as contentious as the 1836 battle that led to the fall of the Shrine of Texas Liberty. Last week, it unceremoniously fired one of its most active and visible volunteers. Kathleen Carter, the DRT's face at the Alamo since May 2001, was relieved of her position as chairwoman of the Alamo Committee on Friday after a meeting of the...

166 years later, Texas recalls the Goliad massacre Historic battle helped gather support for cause against Mexico 03/24/2002 By NATALIE ORNISH / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News There likely isn't a Texan or an American who hasn't heard the famous cry, "Remember the Alamo!" But what about Goliad? It will be 166 years ago Wednesday that 342 Texians, most of whom had been surrendered by Col. James W. Fannin seven days earlier and held in the presidio at Goliad, were killed by Mexican soldiers. The Goliad massacre came 21 days after the fall of the Alamo, amid...