David Schussler
In an article published Sept. 23rd on CNN, Congressman Ron Paul correctly stated the problems and causes of today’s financial woes.
As unpopular as Paul is, he continues to invoke a lot of common sense in understanding the state of our economy. Rep. Paul will today confront Fed chairman Ben Bernanke regarding the “bailout package”. […]

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David Schussler
This is a story of a brave American hero Lindsey Carmichael, 2008 Paralympic bronze medalist archer.
Hailing from Lago Vista, Texas, Lindsey has McCune Albright Syndrome, a disease that creates severe weak spots in her bones. After struggling for years in and out of wheelchairs and therapy, Lindsey has attained a goal she has been […]

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Yesterday morning, a Fort Hood soldier (22) shot and killed his commanding officer (a 24 year-old Lieutenant) and himself in front of dozens of witnesses and police officers.   Both soldiers were assigned to 1st Cavalry Division, a division that had just finished a fifteen month tour in Iraq last December and is currently preparing […]

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How often do you read the story of ordinary people who go out of their way helping other ordinary folks in need?
Nope, better to repeat the latest rumor and vilify anyone not in our own group, whether it be right wingnuts or leftwing moonbats.
Yet these stories happen all the time, and perhaps in these days […]

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Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans has announced that he has issued a mandatory evacuation beginning first with the Westbank at 8 am and then the East bank by noon Sunday.
“You need to be scared. You need to be concerned,” Nagin said Saturday at a news conference. “You need to get your butt out of […]

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Just how did Barack Obama (D-IL), a rather undistinguished IL state senator, get elected to the U.S. Senate, and without doing anything noteworthy in that august body, go on to capture his party’s nomination for president before even finishing out his first term in Congress? A combination of heartlessness and happenstance - and some say, […]

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Thursday morning started out as a normal work day I am sure for Cameron Thomas Boone’s mother, as she got ready for work. Apparently she had a lot on her mind as she left for work. She managed to strap her 3 year old son into his car seat in the back seat of her […]

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A Chartered Bus that left Houston Texas carrying 55 people from Vietnamese Martyrs Church out of Houston crashed early Friday morning in Sherman Texas, about 60 miles north of Dallas. It flipped landing on its side in a creek bed killing at least 13 on the bus and sending dozens others to the hospital for […]

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Currently posted on the website of Rep. Lamar Smith, R-TX. is a blog by him referring to the Media Fairness Initiative (MFI). This is an initiative proposed by conservative Representative Lamar Smith in response to what he claims is a biased liberal media. There is no doubt that he is correct as all polls show. […]

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Here in the Philippines food poisoning is a common problem. We eat local veggies, and grow organic veggies that use a chicken manure based fertilizer.
So when we heard that the US was having a Salmonella outbreak from Tomatoes, my husband Lolo ordered our cook to wash the tomatoes well. No use taking a chance.
The outbreak […]

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Denice Franke
Gulf Coast Blue
Denice Franke will introduce you to a range of characters as you listen to the eleven songs on Gulf Coast Blue. There’s an elegant one, and several who’ve been crushed and wounded by circumstance, and taken that in different ways, some who are celebrating, at least one who’s watching. In Franke’s […]

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When PFC Janeesa Marie Lewis, 29, didn’t show up for physical training at her job in Fort Bliss Friday morning soldiers from her unit were sent to check on her at her apartment. When they found no one home, they went to the manager’s office and called the El Paso police. When police arrived they […]

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How this little girl survived what she went through I will never know but I would consider it as a miracle that she is alive today. 18 years ago, Jennifer Schuett who was 8 years old at the time, was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and left for dead with her throat slashed. She was found in […]

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Dallas, TX police found almost half a million dollars worth of cocaine hidden in an undercover police car while cleaning the vehicle’s interior on Wednesday. The nearly fifty pounds of cocaine were found in hydraulically-controlled compartments.
Deputy Chief Julian Bernal, Commander of the narcotics division, found the 2004 Infiniti during a raid at a drug house […]

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In April The State Supreme Courts lifted an unofficial penalty moratorium. They rejected by a vote of 7-2 a challenge by two Kentucky death row inmates who argued the current lethal injection method inflicts needless pain and suffering in violation of a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Texas was the fifth state to […]

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James Kevin Pope was sentenced to 40 life sentences for the sexual assault of three young girls on Wednesday. Pope will serve the sentences consecutively. If it were at all possible for Pope to outlast 40 life sentences, he would have served his time in full by the year 6068.
According to the Parker County DA […]

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I would have you know that google-maps and mapquest and all those other lately-developed methods of scoping out and locating a specific address is a god-send, especially for someone making a living marketing books, or in some kind out outdoor sales, or even just scratching a living doing temp-jobs here and there. How easy is […]

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Today a large group of children were reunited with their parents (some of the parents are themselves very near to being children) at a West Texas ranch. These reunions were wrong, but that is only because the children should have never been taken out of the ranch to begin with.
I have no problem with polygamy […]

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(Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot)
Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, is teaching the business world not to mess with the personal information of Texans.
Using a series of laws that he wrote an essay on, AG Abbot has taken legal action against Radio Shack, CVS Pharmacy and CNG Financial Corporation doing business as as Check and Go […]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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It took some 20 years, but finally Rev. Jeremiah Wright said something that got Barack Obama’s goat: Wright called him a politician. That was the last straw.
Obama was moved to take Wright to task for his lost week-end (rather, the week-end Wright probably destroyed his chances of becoming president) spent dissing all those white voters in MA and […]

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Pregnant lady notices that she is leaking fluid, and promptly heads home to deliver her baby boy.
Except that she was in Texas at the time, and “home” is Anchorage, Alaska.
When asked why she chose to give birth at home, the father, who is best known for the Iron Dog race but who works along with […]

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It’s true! Would hysterical conservatives lie to you about a Godless Muslim Koran-fondling wild man like Scary Barry? A man who doesn’t always wear a flag pin on his lapel? That was mighty careless of him. You’d think the Anti-Christ would be a little more devious than that. Since Christ was clearly a white American, […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog. 
Hilarious and nauseating at once is mankind’s chronic inability to retain wisdom acquired at the cost of much blood, toil, tears, and sweat. This tragicomedy was played out for us in no uncertain terms upon our recent Stateside pilgrimage to one of the more forgotten shrines to the cause of Liberty: the […]

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Since May 2007, Absolut Vodka has been running an ongoing ad campaign created by TBWA/Chiat/Day/New York, “In an Absolut World,” described by The New York Times as:
[A] fanciful, even surreal, place where common sense prevails and just deserts are always on the menu.
On Planet Absolut, for instance, men can get pregnant, the Curse of the […]

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Looks like the folks at ICE have been busy in Texas going after illegal security providers, some of whom, apparently were armed.
Jason Trahan at the Dallas Morning News reports:
A task force led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided more than two dozen mostly Latino night clubs, restaurants, pool halls and other businesses Saturday night, […]

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John McCain (R-AZ) swept OH, RI, TX and VT by huge margins to secure his party’s nomination for the presidency, while Hillary Clinton (D-NY) staved Barack Obama (D-IL) off with double-digit margins in OH and VT and a narrow win in the TX primary (as of this writing, the TX caucuses have not been called, […]

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There’s a poll out there saying that the majority of Americans feel that the press is out of touch, and that the majority get their news from the internet.
Yet this year’s primary elections have managed to have the normal voters smash the preconceived notions of the chattering class, who backed one than another candidate, only […]

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Senator Clinton was civil until she started losing. Obama is answering her, charge by charge. This is not going to be enough. The Clintons have a veritable Kitchen Sink Factory to create weapons to hurl at their opponents. But Hillary’s own tub is full of dirty bathwater. Maybe it’s time for Obama to throw the […]

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Since when does a dying campaign inspire a sudden cash infusion of 35 million dollars?
In a conference call pep talk to contributors, that’s what the sputtering Clinton machine announced Thursday. They claim that in February, they have suddenly received $35 million from 300,000 people, two-thirds of whom were new donors, and that most of the […]

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