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GOVERNMENT POLICY
Sanctuary sayonara on hold
Source: www.sacurrent.com, Gschwartz, 3/31/2009
Certain Texas legislators have been busy jockeying for position to introduce controversial bills that would target illegal immigrants, but they’ve got only two months left to pass such legislation or they’ll have to wait until 2011
American kidnapped, business torched
Source: www.mysanantonio.com, Todd Bensman, 1/25/09
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Laredo businessman Alan Gamboa thought his rental property was being used to house rank-and-file workers from the U.S. Consulate.
But when drug cartel hit men raided the house in October, then last month torched his nearby communications and home-security shop and kidnapped his brother, Ricardo, Gamboa figured out that the tenants weren't who they seemed to be.
McCain backs request to send troops to U.S.-Mexico border
Source: www.dallasnews.com, TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News / Friday, March 27, 2009
WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain voiced support Thursday for sending more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, putting more pressure on President Barack Obama on the issue. Gov. Rick Perry asked Washington last month for 1,000 National Guard troops, to free up local police and sheriffs, and federal border, immigration and customs personnel. In McCain's home state of Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer has also asked for troops. In light of those requests "and the continued escalation …
House Bills 254 & 261: Round ‘Em Up
Source: www.texasobserver.org, Reeve Hamilton, 3/9/09
On Feb. 18, Texas Employers for Immigration Reform held a debate between Reps. Leo Berman, a Tyler Republican, and Rafael Anchia, a Dallas Democrat. Afterward, Harry Joe, an immigration lawyer with the Dallas-based Winstead firm, approached Berman with questions about legislation he had discussed. The exchange took a turn for the worse, within earshot of a Dallas Morning News reporter.
Texas lawmaker takes aim at illegal immigrants
Source: PATRICK McGEE, www.star-telegram.com, 3/8/09
A decorated combat veteran. A conservative Republican right before Ronald Reagan burst onto the scene. And the Texas Legislature’s fiercest opponent of illegal immigration. That’s Leo Berman, a 10-year member of the Texas House, representing Tyler, and a former member of the Arlington City Council. A strong foe of illegal immigration, Berman, 73, has eight bills aimed at discouraging people from coming to the United States, or at least Texas, illegally. His legislation spells out a tough stance, seeking to stamp out illegal immigration through several means.
Mexico, Mafias and Baggy Borders
Source: www.humanevents.com, by Chuck Norris, 03/25/2009
Do you ever wonder how we can conquer the Middle East but can't close our own borders? In the news just this past week was this small sampling of headlines: "Locals, Feds Prepare for Any Escalation of Mexican Border Violence"; "(New Mexico) delegation asks for border task force"; "Texas lawmakers angered by border security money being spent in other regions"; "U.S. Sues Railroad Over Smugglers"; "Border drain open for hours before 8 entered it."
Missouri retracts report linking militias, 3rd party candidates
Source: www.mclatchydc.com | Jason Noble | Kansas City Star | Mar 27, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Highway Patrol this week retracted a controversial report on militia activity and will change how such reports are reviewed before being distributed to law enforcement agencies. The Highway Patrol also will open an investigation into the origin of the report, which linked conservative groups with domestic terrorism and named former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin.
EDUCATION POLICY
Hiding from Robin Hood Means Other Texans Will Have to Pay
Source: www.texasrepublicnews.com, Brent Bullock, 4/3/09
There are those who like Robin Hood, and those that don't. Some see theft from the rich as a path to equality. We're seeing more and more "economic justice" in our nation. I'm still looking for the "just" part of it. Texas is notorious for its Robin Hood school funding system. Property rich school districts have to pay the state, so the state can re-distribute the wealth to the property poor districts.
BISD worries over Chapter 313 money
Source: www.jacksboronewspapers.com, Monday, March 30, 2009
Bryson Independent School District’s Chapter 313 agreement may be on the line, Superintendent Jack Coody told trustees during last week’s board meeting.
“They’re trying to monkey in our abatement business,” Coody said. “That’s something we definitely have to watch.”
We Win!! Shocking Reversal: Censorship Fails, “Examining All Sides” of Science Carries the Day
Source: http://texaslegislativeupdate.wordpress.com, Jonathan Saenz, Free Market Foundation, March 27, 2009
VICTORY FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM, REJECTION OF CENSORSHIP - call it “strengths and weaknesses” or the new language “examining all sides”, this is a huge victory for school students and validation that the people of Texas and the State Board of Education reject censorship in the classroom and embrace open and critical discussion in the science classroom.”
ECONOMIC POLICY
CAGW Names Rep. Barney Frank March Porker of the Month
Source: www.cagw.org, March 2009
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) its March 2009 Porker of the Month. The chairman, having somehow eluded this dubious award in the past, finally delivered enough of Barney’s blarney to be recognized, appropriately, on St. Patrick’s Day.
It's official, Dem budget to 'redistribute income'
Tax hikes to hit $250,000 earners, 'maybe even going further down'
Source: www.wnd.com, April 01, 2009 | WorldNetDaily | Larry Haas
The nation needs to face the fact that income will be redistributed and health care rationed under a federal budget plan moving through Congress at the behest of President Obama, according to an official who served under President Clinton.
Wall Street climbs on economy, bank rule and G20
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com, Thursday April 2, 2009 | Edward Krudy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rallied for a third day on Thursday as more data pointed to a stabilizing economy and changes to an accounting rule were seen as shoring up the volatile financial sector in the short term.
RELIGION
Religious liberty violators finally named
Source: www.erlc.org, Mar 30, 2009
WASHINGTON—Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a long-overdue list of the world’s worst violators of religious liberty four days before the end of the Bush administration and failed to add any countries recommended by a federal commission.
SOCIAL POLICY
State-mandated divorce counseling would be too little, too late for most
Source: www.dallasnews.com, Jacquielynn Floyd, Friday, April 3, 2009
How's your marriage? No, seriously, because if you're not feeling the love, a man from Pampa wants to help you. More specifically, he wants the government to help you. The man is state Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, the government is the state of Texas, and the "help" is a particularly officious brand of interference in your private affairs.
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Half-Pure Religion and the Unpopularity of the Poor
Source: www.christianstandard.com, Mark E. Moore, 4/5/2009
Jesus’ half-brother asserted, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” (James 1:27). A cursory glance at the Gospels suggests that Jesus would agree with his sibling. After all, he spent as much time doing good as he did teaching us about being good.
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