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9-05-09	Special Story Misses the Mark What would you do?....you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?
8-01-09	Pastor's Conviction for Preaching Challenged The case against an American arrested for talking in public about Jesus in Norway has been appealed to the European Court of Human Rights by an attorney who says the resulting decision will have a major impact on the rights of freedom and expression.
5-02-09	Miss California Finds Her New Cause Miss California may have lost a pageant, but she's not sorry. She has won a cause.
3-22-09	Homeschool-Denying Judge Sets Case on Mom's Sabbath The judge who ordered a North Carolina homeschooling mother to place her children in public school demanded all objections to his order to be filed today – the day the mom in the case observes the Sabbath. Judge Rips Homeschool Mom's Choice of Churches A North Carolina judge under fire for ruling in a divorce dispute that three children must attend public schools against their mother's wishes has cited critics of the mother's choice of churches in his ruling, calling their condemnation "credible." Homeschool Play Has Elevated When most people picture a homeschool basketball league, thoughts of two pick-up teams running up and down the court in mismatched jerseys come to mind.
3-07-09	The Big 21st Century Children's Book Banning: CPSC Rulings on Lead in Childrens' Books ~ Perspective of One Book Restorer and Conservator I love (but do not idolize) old books. I have just a few of my Grandfather's old schoolbooks. They would be banned now... Librarians Fight to Get Children's Books Exempted from New Lead Rules The new federal law designed to protect children from dangerous exposure to lead continues to have repercussions far beyond the toy and paint industries. Carolyn Meadows Nominated for NRA Board by Tim Lambert In the late 1990's I had the privilege of serving Texas Republicans on the Republican National Committee. During that time I met several staunch conservatives from around the country who were willing to take a stand for freedom and conservative causes that were not popular with the Republican leadership. One of those friends was Carolyn Meadows from Georgia. She and I served together in several leadership positions from the Southern Region on the RNC and I got to know her quite well. She is strongly pro-life and a staunch defender of the Second Amendment. In fact, she has been nominated again to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association (NRA). If you are a member of the NRA, I would strongly urge you to vote for her as she will be listed in the March NRA magazines.
2-28-09	An 87-Year-Old's Economic Survival Guide by Chuck Norris An old Spanish proverb says, "An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy." I believe that value holds, in or out of a recession. And seeing as my 87-year-old mother lived through the Great Depression, I think her value (and that of those like her) will increase through these tough economic times because her insider wisdom can help us all.
9-27-08	Baylor University Survey Reveals Americans' Attitudes about God, Churches When someone at the 3,000-member NorthWood Church in Keller is hospitalized, another member often makes it to the bedside before NorthWood’s pastoral staff. Prayer Request for Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany In the next days there are some more meetings concerning the legalization of homeschooling in Baden-Wuerttemberg, and I would like to ask you to pray for those meetings.
9-20-08	The ABCs Of Home Schooling For a growing number of American students, "homework" is two words, not one, and a classroom is the one place they're not likely to be, because when it comes to education, for these students and their parents, there's no place like home.
9-2-08	War Clouds Building in the Epicenter by Joel Rosenberg Wars continue to rage in the Middle East, as rumors of another catastrophic war - this time between Iran and Israel - continue to grow.
8-16-08	Bush, Cheney Increasingly Critical of Russia Over Aggression in Georgia The White House stepped up its criticism of Russia for escalating the conflict in Georgia, with President Bush warning Monday that Russia's "disproportionate response" is unacceptable and Vice President Cheney adding that the crisis threatens long-term relations between Moscow and Washington. Russia Presses Into 2nd Front in Georgia Russian armored columns entered the western Georgian city of Senaki and briefly seized a Georgian military base on Monday after issuing an ultimatum to Georgia to disarm its troops along the boundary with the separatist territory of Abkhazia.
6-28-08	12-Year-Old Grounded for Too Much Internet Use Gets Punishment Overturned in Court A Canadian court has overturned a father's punishment for his daughter after she refused to stay off the Internet, his attorney said Wednesday.
6-07-08	Parroting the Democrats by Robert Novak In Scott McClellan's purported tell-all memoir of his trials as President Bush's press secretary, he virtually ignores Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage's role leaking to me Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA employee. That fits the partisan Democratic version of the Plame affair, in keeping with the overall tenor of the book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception."
5-31-08	Subway Bans Homeschooled Kids from Essay Contest Subway -- the multi-national fast-food sub-shop giant -- has shot themselves in the foot. Again. The goal of their latest promotion was to win the loyalty of parents of grade school-aged kids -- to increase market share, revenue and profits. It was supposed to be a simple exercise in business marketing and promotion.
5-24-08	Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas When Sam Houston was still hanging his hat in Tennessee in the 1830s, it wasn't uncommon for fellow Tennesseans who were packing up and moving south and west to hang a sign on their cabins that read "GTT" – Gone to Texas.
4-26-08	Divorce, Unwed Parenting Cost Taxpayers Billions Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, according to a study conducted by Georgia State University economist Ben Scafidi.
3-22-08	Black Church Summit Will Not Be at TCU Black Church Summit sessions will not be held at Texas Christian University as scheduled because of security concerns triggered by a controversial award to be given to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, TCU said in a statement Wednesday. TCU Distances Itself from Divinity School's Award TCU has dissociated itself from an award to be presented by Brite Divinity School to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., a retired Chicago pastor whom critics have accused of promoting racism in his sermons. Movie- Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed View a trailer from a movie that explores the raging battle between evolutionists and creationists.
3-08-08	The Republican Justices Dissented from the Dred Scott Decision by Michael Zak In his inauguration address, Democrat President James Buchanan hinted that he had been tipped off that the Supreme Court would soon render a decision he believed would settle the question of slavery in the territories. Two days later, on this day in 1857, the Supreme Court did indeed announce its infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford decision.
2-02-08	Church Invokes Special Rights in Effort to Build Parking Lot Austin's Save Our Springs ordinance has met many legal and political challenges in the 16 years since it was enacted to protect water quality in the Barton Springs watershed, but a recent lawsuit might present the law its toughest foe yet: organized religion.
1-26-08	Sex Ed: Education or Propaganda? The last four decades have seen a significant shift in the philosophy behind sex education in America’s public schools. Prior to the sexual revolution, human biology and reproduction, hygiene, and marriage were the focus of sex education. In essence, this approach was grounded in particular moral virtues, namely biblical. Frontline Blogger Covers War in Iraq With a Soldier’s Eyes Michael Yon was not a journalist, and he wasn’t sure what a blogger was. He had been in uniform but not in combat, and he wanted to keep it that way. He went to Iraq thinking he would stay for a month, and maybe find a way to write about the war after he got home. Creationist Institute's Master's Science Degree Proposal Creates Debate A Dallas creationist group's proposal to train science teachers has unleashed a flurry of mixed opinions from Nobel laureates, high school teachers, ministers and scientific researchers.
1-19-08	Study Finds Big Decline in Abortions The most comprehensive study in years of abortion in America underscores a striking change in the landscape, with ever-fewer pregnant women choosing abortion and those who do increasingly opting to avoid surgical clinics. CIA Places Blame for Bhutto Assassination The CIA has concluded that members of al-Qaeda and allies of Pakistani tribal leader Baitullah Mehsud were responsible for last month's assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and that they also stand behind a new wave of violence threatening that country's stability, the agency's director, Michael V. Hayden, said in an interview. Mohler's New Book Advocates Exit Strategy from Public Schools A seminary president and recently announced candidate for president of the Southern Baptist Convention says in a new book that Christians should have an exit strategy from public schools.
1-05-08	New York Times Hires ‘Neo-Conservative’ Columnist William Kristol, one of the nation’s leading neo-conservative writers and a staunch supporter of the Iraq War, will become an Op-Ed page columnist for the New York Times. He will write a weekly column beginning Jan. 7. He is the editor and co-founder of the Weekly Standard, the leading neo-conservative political magazine in the country. He also appears regularly on the Fox News Channel and quit his role as columnist for Time magazine this month. Conservative Courts Likely to Be Bush Legacy After nearly seven years in the White House, President Bush has named 294 judges to the federal courts, giving Republican appointees a solid majority of the seats, including a 60%-to-40% edge over Democrats on the influential U.S. appeals courts.
12-29-07	Conservative Activist Hurt in Highway Crash One of Texas' leading social-conservative activists was badly injured in a holiday crash, apparently involving a drunken driver. Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Bhutto Assassination During a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, the nation’s leading opposition figure, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated by a suicide attack. Al Qaeda claims responsibility for the act, which also killed 20 other people, according to former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao.
11-03-07	The Evangelical Crackup The hundred-foot white cross atop the Immanuel Baptist Church in downtown Wichita, Kan., casts a shadow over a neighborhood of payday lenders, pawnbrokers and pornographic video stores. To its parishioners, this has long been the front line of the culture war. Immanuel has stood for Southern Baptist traditionalism for more than half a century. Until recently, its pastor, Terry Fox, was the Jerry Falwell of the Sunflower State — the public face of the conservative Christian political movement in a place where that made him a very big deal.
	Study on 'Dropout Crisis' Shows Just How Badly Schools are Failing Unlike the Halloween and Día de los Muertos horrors, there is nothing cute about "Locating the Dropout Crisis," a study Johns Hopkins University researchers released recently.
10-27-07	GOP Congressman Bobby Jindal Wins Louisiana Governor's Race U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal easily defeated 11 opponents and became the state's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction, decades after his parents moved to the state from India to pursue the American dream.
	Justice Interrupted: Clarity Denied in Holy Land Foundation Mistrial What a disappointment yesterday's mistrial in the Holy Land Foundation federal trial was. What the public wanted was clarity and closure in this long-running case, which Dallas first began to learn details of years ago in the groundbreaking reporting of this newspaper's Steve McGonigle. What the jury delivered after 19 days of deliberation – and an additional four-day delay in unsealing the verdicts – was confusion.
10-20-07	Hurricane Fears Cost Homeowners Coverage It is 1,200 miles from the coastline where Hurricane Katrina touched land two years ago to the neat colonial-style home here where James Gray, a retired public relations consultant, and his wife, Ann, live. But this summer, Katrina reached them, too, in the form of a cancellation letter from their home-insurance company.
10-13-07	Consol CEO Says Coal "Whipping Boy" for Greens The coal industry has become the "whipping boy" of environmentalists who fail to come up with realistic alternatives for energy, the head of one of America's biggest coal producers said.
9-29-07	Tax Laws Used to Stop Adult-Business Owners For all of Al Capone's sins and transgressions, he did at least one thing of everlasting value to law enforcement: He failed to pay his taxes.
9-15-07	Crockett Letter Might Not Be Worth the Paper It's Written On Historical document experts are raising doubts about the authenticity of a letter supposedly penned by Alamo hero Davy Crockett, which the state said this week it hopes to buy for $550,000.
	State to Seek Experts to Authenticate 'Crockett' Letter Retracting a statement claiming "99.9 percent" certainty that Davy Crockett penned a letter it plans to buy, the state's historical commission said Monday it will begin seeking expert advice by next week.
9-08-07	Texas Buys Crockett's Last Letter for $490,000 A letter believed to be the last written by Texas war hero David Crockett has been acquired by the Texas Historical Commission for $490,000, officials said Tuesday.
9-01-07	CNN’s God’s Christian Warriors Leaves Viewers… Scared One of these days, CNN will have to dispense with the ominous music it uses for Christian documentaries and go for the full effect, using the Jaws soundtrack.
8-25-07	Round Rock District Is Sued Over Student Prayer A Washington-based group has sued the Round Rock school district, saying its practice of allowing students to vote on having prayers at graduation ceremonies is unconstitutional.
	A Capitol Prayer Alert Iraq and its future continue to be a prayer priority. Last month I challenged each of you to ask God to direct the steps of our political leaders away from partisanship and shortsightedness and impart to them a sense of the enormity of the choices we face in this volatile part of the world. We are at a crossroads.
8-11-07	South of Baghdad, a Cautionary Tale U.S. troops had nicknamed the suspected insurgent "George Clooney" because of his handsome mug, but he wasn't so pretty after members of his own Sunni tribe shot and wounded him, then turned him over to the Americans.
	Dad Crusades Against God in School Among many parents at Rosemeade Elementary, he is viewed as a nuisance.
	Intent of School Day's Moment of Silence Debated Arguments over a lawsuit challenging Texas' minute of silence law opened in federal court Tuesday in Dallas with the plaintiff revealing a new suit, this time against the state's pledge.
	Top Hispanic Republican backs Noriega for Senate One of the top Hispanic Republicans in the nation says he cannot support U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in the next election because of the position Texas’ junior senator has taken on immigration reform.
8-4-07	High-Scoring Enlisted Given Top Historically, the experience of home-school graduates with the military has been one of recurring difficulty. This is largely due to the military being unwilling to see home-schoolers as individuals, preferring instead to use traditional high school diplomas from public or private schools as the only acceptable standard for enlistment.
	TEA Grants Schools a Grace Period on Ratings Texas school districts can count their blessings today when the state announces the annual campus performance ratings.
	Students Must Remember 'God' in Texas Pledge Texas students will have four more words to remember when they head back to class this month and begin reciting the state's pledge of allegiance.
	CPS Removing Fewer Children from Homes The number of abused and neglected children removed from their homes is down almost 50 percent in Dallas County from the first half of last year as Child Protective Services places more children with relatives and steers their parents to counseling.
	The Baghdad Diarist, ‘Shock Troops,’ and Fabrications Left-leaning The New Republic (TNR) gained new notoriety in recent weeks by publishing of a trio of columns by the “Baghdad Diarist,” an American soldier who was serving in Baghdad and who wrote under the admitted pseudonym “Scott Thomas.” The stories written by Thomas were shocking and distasteful, telling of actions by soldiers in his unit, such as the exhumation of children’s skeletons (and the wearing of one of their skulls “like a crown”), the purposeful running over of dogs with armored vehicles, and the ridiculing of a female contractor for her disfigured appearance, which was purportedly caused by an IED blast.
	Attacking the Messenger: Left Unhinged by Fox News "If Home Depot is serious about protecting the environment, they must stop advertising on Fox -- a network that consistently spreads misinformation about and denies the existence of global warming," says a petition on www.foxattacks.com.
7-28-07	White's gold Being the mayor of Houston has been a political dead end rather than a springboard to bigger and better things. None of the city's top elected officials has gone on to win a seat in Congress or a statewide office.
	Maverick Leads Charge for Charter Schools Steve Barr, a major organizer of charter schools, has been waging what often seems like a guerrilla war for control of this city’s chronically failing high schools.
	UT grad files federal complaint against university A Washington-based watchdog group led by a University of Texas graduate filed a complaint Friday with the U.S. Department of Education about UT's use of race in its admission decisions.
	Texas ranked No. 1 in teen birth rate A newly released study on the well-being of children says Texas had the highest teen birth rate in the nation in 2004, a ranking that the Lone Star State may not want to brag about.
	Watts Gets Support from Hidalgo County Leaders Some Hidalgo County leaders said Thursday they will back U.S. Senate Democratic exploratory candidate Mikal Watts in his bid to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn next year.
7-20-07	Small Businesses Up in Arms Over New State Tax A Texas-sized tax revolt is percolating as small-business owners are hit with sticker shock from the new state business tax.
7-14-07	TEA's internal strife grows The Texas Education Agency has taken on a remarkable resemblance to a soap opera over the last week – with claims of mistaken identity, whispers about vendettas and a traditionally tight clan pulled apart.
	Virtual school on the way to reality Texas has a new school that could allow students at even the smallest campuses to study rarely offered subjects such as Chinese and advanced physics
	White House Debate Rises on Iraq Pullback Some aides to the president want to forestall Republican defections by announcing an intention to gradually withdraw American troops.
7-06-07	Bush Commutes Libby's Prison Sentence President Bush yesterday commuted the 30-month prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, just hours after a federal appeals-court panel said the former White House aide could not remain free on bond pending an appeal.
	President Bush Steps Up to the Plate for Libby If there were ever a classic example of a fall guy, it is Lewis “Scooter” Libby. This man had served honorably for years in many roles including Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff. Then, after a witch hunt, he was convicted and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for his role in the infamous CIA “leak” case. Conservatives called for President Bush to pardon Libby, but the White House was slow to respond. Now, after many long months, Libby can breathe a sigh of relief.
	I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network - a series of British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology - I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.
	Living Today—That They May Have Life Tomorrow: Texas Right to Life Statewide Conference Join us for an intense weekend with Pro-Life experts! Register today to attend the Living Today—That They May Have Life Tomorrow Conference to be held at Rice University in Houston on July 21^stand July 22^nd. Learn to live your life today to protect the innocent lives of tomorrow!
6-30-07	Justices Limit Use of Race in School Policies With competing blocs of justices claiming the mantle of Brown vs. Board of Education, a bitterly divided Supreme Court declared Thursday that public school systems can't seek to achieve or maintain integration through measures that take explicit account of a student's race.
	The Other Thing Reagan Said in Berlin Western leaders searching for a long-term strategy to defend our civilization from fundamentalist Islam ought to reread the speech President Reagan delivered at the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this month.
	Venable: Legislators Hid Behind Reagan Though Ronald Reagan's name is invoked often in the Texas Legislature, precious few legislators champion Reagan's vision.
	GOP Preps for Talk Radio Confrontation House Republican lawmakers are preparing to fight anticipated Democratic efforts to regulate talk radio by reviving rules requiring stations to balance conservative hosts such as Rush Limbaugh with liberals such as Al Franken.
	High Court Upholds Dismissal of Indictment Against DeLay The state’s highest criminal court today affirmed the 2005 dismissal of a felony indictment against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and two associates.
	Democrats Hope to Replicate Success in Dallas Here Democrats in Harris County have been eyeing Dallas County since last November, when their counterparts recaptured every countywide seat. The locals hope to mirror that success here.
6/12/2007	Does Reform Matter? Look at Texas A report by David Hendricks in the San Antonio Express-News offered hard data on the changes that have occurred in Texas since voters in 2003 gave the thumbs up to a state proposition capping lawsuit awards in medical malpractice cases.
	Remembering Ronald Reagan *June 11, 2007--Was Twenty Years Ago Tomorrow...* ...that Ronald Reagan, standing at the Brandenburg Gate, issued his famous challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!" The line was written by our friend Peter Robinson, who will speak tomorrow at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California.
	U.S. Spends Average $8,701 Per Pupil on Education The United States spent an average of $8,701 per pupil to educate its children in 2005, the Census Bureau said on Thursday, with some states paying more than twice as much per student as others.
6/8/2007	Possible Foe Matches Cornyn's $3.8 Million War Chest The Democrat considering a challenge to Republican Sen. John Cornyn has given his campaign $3.8 million of his own money for the primary campaign, according to documents filed with federal election officials.
	Real ID Dropouts Leave Security Holes Defying Uncle Sam, four states have passed laws refusing to comply with federal rules to make state-issued driver's licenses more secure, casting further doubt on the future of the 2005 Real ID Act.
6/6/2007	Bush Raps Putin on Democracy President Bush yesterday escalated the war of words with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that the Kremlin's leader has "derailed" democracy and moved his former communist nation away from reforms that once promised freedom for its citizens.
	For Some, Antiabortion Is All or Nothing As they gathered Tuesday for a national strategy session, antiabortion activists faced an unexpected revolt in their own ranks.
	Pop Quiz: How Should TEA Protect School Testing System? Perhaps the state's top education officials were too embarrassed and sickened at signs of rampant cheating on 2005 statewide tests. Perhaps that's why they didn't risk a follow-up analysis to see if the problem persisted for another year.
5/25/2007	Memorial Day: More than Just a Holiday On Memorial Day, I wonder how much thought people will give to the fact that 1.8 million soldiers have died serving our nation since 1775.
5/18/2007	Red State vs. House Republicans After the voters slaughtered House Republicans this past November, most people expected some period of introspection and house cleaning among the GOP. Having seen Duke Cunningham (R.-Ca.), Tom DeLay (R.-Tx), and Mark Foley (R.-Fl.) resign over various indictments and accusations, people thought the Grand Old Party had lost its way.
5/17/2007	Energy Independence Democrats, seething at the injustice of gasoline prices, have sprung to the aid of embattled motorists. So resolute are Democrats about defending the downtrodden, they are undeterred by the fact that motorists, not acting like people trodden upon, are driving more than ever. Gasoline consumption has increased 2.14 percent during the last year.
5/15/2007	Planned Parenthood Exposed by Student Reporter Following an outbreak of lawsuits that Planned Parenthood is illegally concealing the age of minors and failing to report incidents of statutory rape, the nation’s largest abortion provider has threatened civil action of its own against an 18-year-old female student at UCLA.
5/14/2007	Traditional Values Down, But Not Out First of a three-part series The midterm elections that swept congressional Democrats into power sparked fresh obituaries for the religious right.
5/10/2007	Carl Leubsdorf: Democrats Starting to Set Their Sights on Cornyn For the first time in years, Democrats think they can wage a competitive Senate race in Texas when John Cornyn seeks a second term next year.
5/8/2007	Report Claiming Parent-Taught Drivers at Risk Is Skewed The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) claims that its recent study suggests that Texas teen drivers taught by parents are far more likely to be involved in serious crashes. To come to that conclusion, TTI must manipulate the data of its own study and overstate the concern.
5/7/2007	A French Lesson for Republicans by Newt Gingrich BERLIN, Germany, May 7 -- Callista and I are in Europe this week for a conference on innovation in health care. More about our trip to Berlin in a minute, but first the big news in Europe this week isn't in Germany but in France.
5/4/2007	Grassroots Organizations Fight for Right to Run Ads The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in challenges to the campaign finance reform law.
5/3/2007	Sonograms Before Abortions Endorsed Women undergoing an abortion in Texas would be required to have a sonogram first under a bill passed by the Senate on Wednesday over protests from critics who say the measure is meant to harass those women.
4/30/2007	Barney and Friends Liberals launched a full-blown attack on family values yesterday, introducing and debating bills that could significantly change America's criminal and employment codes.
4/29/2007	Politicians Rate a Medal for Hypocrisy re: Pfc. Lynch As the deputy commander at United States Central Command from 2001 to 2003, I represented the military in dealing with politicians regarding the capture and rescue of Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch in Iraq, and thus I can speak with authority about what really happened after her maintenance convoy got lost near Nasiriya in 2003 and she was taken prisoner.
4/25/2007	The Partial Birth Abortion Ban and Its Popularity The pro-abortion* wing of the Democratic Party has relied on the courts for so long, it seems they forget that laws can be repealed. Ruth Marcus' editorial in the WaPo is representative of this mentality.
4/24/2007	Is Pre-K Necessary? Right? Moms Do It Better How many tax-funded studies are needed before parents comprehend that farming their children’s education out to strangers in institutional settings may be harmful to their kids’ social skills?
	Reid Between the Lines Yesterday, we reported that the self-proclaimed "pro-lifer," Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), a seven-time supporter of the partial-birth abortion ban, made disparaging comments about the Court--and specifically Justice Samuel Alito--after the ruling.
	Religious Schools Help Close the Achievement Gap For forty years, the federal government has sought to close the “achievement gap” by increasing federal involvement in and spending on public education.
	TWC Offers Tips for Employers, Teens as Summer Hiring Nears Thousands of jobs will soon become available for teenagers hoping to gain valuable work experience as employers begin hiring for the busy summer months. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) reminds employers, workers and parents to familiarize themselves with state and federal laws, as well as safety regulations that address child labor issues.
4/21/2007	Cornyn Questions Attorney General on Imprisoned Border Patrol Agents Just a heads-up, at yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Senator Cornyn raised the issue of the imprisoned Border Patrol Agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. You can access an audio file of the Senator’s exchange with the AG at this link: http://src.senate.gov/public/_files/radio/cornyn041907m.MP3. As you may recall, Senator Cornyn has requested a Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of this case, but it has thus far been delayed by Senate Democrats.
4/18/2007	Free Speech at Risk: A Free Congress Forum on the Fairness Doctrine Conservatism survives and continues to evolve no matter who holds the majority in Congress or lives in the White House. Our essays and panel discussions on "The New Conservatism" have been honing the finer points of theory and practice for several years.
	Taxpayer Dollars and Embryonic Stem Cell Research Without any apparent sense of irony, many newspapers last week ran adjoining stories about human stem cells.
4/17/2007	The Awfulness of the Income Tax So here we are as usual this time of year, fuming and fretting and rummaging for choice epithets about income tax and the urgent, the unquestionable, the unimpeachable need for tax reform. We always talk this way in April. And it never comes to anything but talk.
4/15/2007	Democrats Eye Senate Race He's not up for re-election until 2008, but Democrats are already fielding potential contenders to try to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.
4/5/2007	Pratfall in Damascus House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad
	Gen. Pelosi’s Gift to our Enemies It is frankly astounding to me that people aren't making a bigger deal of the colossal impropriety of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's unauthorized trip to Syria. Where is the outrage?
3/29/2007	Dems Resurrect Tax-and-spend Ways The new Democratic majority today begins dancing the next phase of the tax-and-spend minuet in the House of Representatives. Following the example of their Senate brethren last Friday, House Democrats will adopt a budget resolution containing the largest tax increase in U.S. history amid massive national inattention.
	Earmark Monitor's Exit Baffles, Troubles GOP The federal agency that tracked pork-barrel spending during the 12 years of the Republican congressional majority has discontinued the practice since Democrats took power, riling lawmakers suspicious of the timing and concerned about the pace of fat being added to bills.
	Star Parker: Politics of Ultrasound South Carolina appears close to becoming the first state to require that women considering an abortion view an ultrasound image of their fetus before deciding to undergo the procedure.
3/28/2007	House GOP Seeks to Shield 'John Doe' House Republicans yesterday surprised Democrats with a procedural vote to protect public-transportation passengers from being sued if they report suspicious activity -- the first step by lawmakers to protect "John Doe" airline travelers already targeted in such a lawsuit.
3/22/2007	State police take children from parents. Their crime? They were home schooling their daughter. How would you feel if a group of 15 fully armed police officers walked into your home, grabbed your 15-year-old daughter, and left without telling you where they were taking her?
3/21/2007	Attorney Firing Precedent George W. Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales are taking a lot of heat from Democrats lately for allegedly discharging some U.S. attorneys for political reasons.
	Family Hangs in the Balance of New Budget As you fill out this year's IRS paperwork, enjoy your family tax breaks. If the new Senate leadership has its way, they may be among your last.
3/20/2007	Bush to Fight Democratic Subpoenas President Bush yesterday warned congressional Democrats that he would "oppose any attempt" to subpoena White House officials involved in the firing of eight federal prosecutors last year.
	DeLay Blasts GOP Colleagues Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's just-published memoirs skewer his former comrades in the historic 1994 Republican Revolution for squandering the victory through useless and ineffective leadership.
3/19/2007	Power to the People I could tell right away this wasn’t going to be your average Washington D.C. anti-war protest.
3/16/2007	Funds Sought After Firings Democrats smell blood -- and campaign cash -- in the uproar over the Justice Department's firing of eight federal prosecutors last year.
3/15/2007	Court Rediscovers 2nd Amendment, Liberals Fear Other 'Rights' May Soon be Found Tragedy struck leftists all across America last week when a federal appeals court reviewing the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, ruled that the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed upon by the District.
	Dozens in GOP Turn Against Bush's Prized 'No Child' Act More than 50 GOP members of the House and Senate -- including the House's second-ranking Republican -- will introduce legislation today that could severely undercut President Bush's signature domestic achievement, the No Child Left Behind Act, by allowing states to opt out of its testing mandates.
3/12/2007	Showdown at the Constitution's Last Frontier Most presidential elections contain an issue that acts as a third gunman, ultimately stacking the odds against one of the main two combatants.
3/8/2007	Fitzgerald's Folly There are lies and there are memory lapses.
	The Lost Scandal Denis Collins, a Washington journalist on the Scooter Libby jury, described sentiments in the jury room reflecting those in the Senate Democratic cloakroom …
3/6/2007	Global Warming Labeled a 'Scam' With a packet of claims that are almost certain to defy conventional wisdom, a television documentary to be aired in Britain this week condemns man-made global warming as a myth that has become "the biggest scam of modern times."
	Moderate Republicans Revive Republican Leadership Council Moderate Republicans said Tuesday they are reviving a group aimed at winning over the political center that deserted the GOP in the 2006 midterm elections.
2/27/2007	Libby Trial Reveals Media Hypocrisy The newly eventful jury deliberations are grinding ahead in the trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Simultaneously, the mainstream media is preparing its post-mortems.
2/22/2007	Remembering George Washington's Birthday On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.