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  • Washington Targets Texas

    Last week, the United States House of Representatives passed the supplemental appropriations bill (H.R. 4899).  While the American public has become accustomed to Congress adding unrelated riders and pork spending to federal bills, Texans may be surprised to learn that congressional members added an amendment that specifically targets Texas by making particular demands on our [...]

Washington Targets Texas

Last week, the United States House of Representatives passed the supplemental appropriations bill (H.R. 4899).  While the American public has become accustomed to Congress adding unrelated riders and pork spending to federal bills, Texans may be surprised to learn that congressional members added an amendment that specifically targets Texas by making particular demands on our [...]

Landmark Legal Foundation Files Amicus Curiae Brief In Support of Arizona Immigration Law

Landmark Legal Foundation has filed a detailed Amicus Curiae (Friend of the Court) Brief in support of the State of Arizona and its recently enacted law requiring suspected illegal aliens to produce proof of their legal immigration status. Read the Brief…

NAACP Direct Tie to Black Panthers

In the past 24 hours, more than a few pundits and writers have noted that the NAACP resolution accusing Tea Partiers of racism is hard to swallow when the NAACP seems unconcerned with the New Black Panther voting intimidation case. Their points would be valid by analogy only. Their points are even more valid, though, [...]

Why Martin Luther King, Jr was a Republican

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the [...]

Tea Party Preempts NAACP

The NAACP has apparently decided  to call 20 million American patriots “racists” for advancing liberty and economic opportunity. Their evidence?  Attendance at a Tea Party–anywhere, anytime. Specifically, according to the Kansas City Star (via Jim Hoft): The resolution, scheduled for a vote as early as Tuesday by delegates attending the annual NAACP convention in Kansas [...]

America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians

This video was found at http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/01/025329.php Per that website: This video doesn’t exactly represent our point of view–we never fell for Obama’s “hope and change” scam–but it does speak for many millions of Americans. It’s nicely done. We’ll see a lot more of this kind of populist calling of Democrats to account between now and [...]

Tax Increases that will Take Place in 2011

Following are some of the tax increases that will take place in 2011, from Rush Limbaugh broadcast on 7/8/2010: (1) …Personal income tax rates will rise. The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate [...]

Documentary exposes how Obama’s political machine engaged in voter fraud

‎”As she was approaching the building, one of the young men yelled to her – ‘If you are not here to vote for Obama, then go home, cause you are not voting here today’ and she turned and walked away. The pain that I felt because of the battle fought so African Americans could vote [...]

Dodd-Frank Financial Bill (Formerly Finance Reform)

Where it is: Since it passed both the House and the Senate, the bill is back in Senate Conference Committee, but does not have enough votes to come out.  Senator Hutchison has voted against it every time, she has gotten a lot of calls from her constituents opposing this bill, other senators (including Senator Cornyn [...]

Information on Supreme Court Nominee, Elena Kagan

Some info on Kagan: (1) From “Point of View” (6/28): “If the American people come to understand how far left this nominee is, there will be little support for her confirmation. Former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork has said that if Kagan is confirmed “you will have a court that is much more to the [...]