Border Fence Failings
In 1846, in the aftermath of the U.S. annexation of Texas, Mexican forces attacked Americans at Fort Brown, Texas, at the Rio Grande River — in part over a...
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Texas Gov. Perry Adds Popular Anti-TSA Groping Bill to Special Session
Texas Governor Rick Perry agreed on Monday to add the wildly popular anti-TSA groping bill to the special session of the Texas Legislature. His decision to call up the...
Texas Gov. Stalls on Calling Up Anti-TSA Groping Bill to Special Session
In his book, Fed Up, Texas Governor Rick Perry observed, “It’s not enough to be fed up. We must act.” Yet at a signing for his tome in New...
Washington Times: “Texas Senators Need to Grow a Backbone”
On Tuesday, May 24, federal agents from the TSA visited the Texas legislature threatening to end air travel in Texas if the hugely favored anti-TSA bill, H.B. 1937, passed....
Anti-TSA Bill Passes Texas House
Late Friday afternoon, May 13, the Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed 138-0 H.B. 1937, which would ban "intrusive touching of persons seeking access to public buildings and transportation."...
Texas Representative Gains Majority Support for TSA Bills
Last November, voters sent a message to politicians — make some changes! So Texas State Representative David Simpson (pictured, left) took it to heart by taking on the Transportation...
Former Miss USA Traumatized by TSA in Dallas
Susie Castillo, 2003 Miss USA and semifinalist for Miss Universe, was subjected to an invasive TSA pat-down in the Dallas airport on April 21 that left her in tears...
Killings in Mexico Reach New Level of Butchery
The April 24 Washington Post reported an update of the findings of Mexican mass graves, revealing a shocking level of butchery employed by the killers. The body count has...
Texas Gov. Perry Preaches State Sovereignty, Seeks Federal Aid
In a move sure to please his conservative constituents, Texas Governor Rick Perry proclaimed the coming Easter weekend as three “Days of Prayer for Rain” in the Lone Star...
More Americans Likely To Die in Border Crossfire
On April 19, MSNBC.com discussed the details of a U.S. State Department report about the increasing number of Americans caught in the crossfire of the Mexican cartel drug wars. ...
Mexican Drug Cartels Operating in at Least 1,286 U.S. Cities
On April 13, All Headline News reported that the influence of Mexican drug cartels operating in U.S. cities is growing because cartel members are becoming residents. Roberta Jacobson, Deputy Secretary...
San Fernando Massacre Overwhelms Mexican Morgues
The grim litany of gang murders, tortures, and outright butchery by drug cartel members in Mexico has rendered the region near the international border almost untenable, and the latest...
Texas Welcomes Nullify Now! in Austin
Saturday, April 16 found the national Nullify Now! tour stop in Austin, Texas, a popular destination for area activists. The vision of the Los Angeles-based Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) and...
Trafficking of Illegals in Texas Leads to Weekend Arrest
Austin, Texas, was the scene of another case of human trafficking over the weekend. Police arrested 39-year-old Felix Lugo Medina (picture, left) on Friday night in a southside apartment...
Nullify Now! Springs Into Austin
“Nullification begins with the axiomatic point that a federal law that violates the Constitution is no law at all. It is void and of no effect. If a law...