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Racism in America: The Hyphenated American
2008-07-06 16:39:00 Racism in America : The Hyphenated American There are African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans, Arab-Americans, Native-Americans, etc. And then there are just - Americans. Some of you pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me ?White boy?, ?Cracker?, ?Honky?, ?Whitey?, ?Gringo? or ?Caveman?, and as far as you are concerned, that?s OK, but ... More About: Racism
Sen. Jesse Helms Dies at 86
2008-07-04 23:03:00 October 18, 1921 ? July 4, 2008 Rest In Peace HELMS, Jesse , a Senator from North Carolina; born in Monroe, Union County, N.C., October 18, 1921; educated in the public schools of Monroe, Wingate Junior College, and Wake Forest College; served in the United States Navy 1942-1945; city editor, Raleigh Times; administrative assistant to United States Senators ... More About: Patriot , Obituaries , Conservative , Honor
Independence Day: July 4, 2008
2008-07-04 03:55:00 addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftexasfred.net%2Farchives%2F 1325'; addthis_title = 'Independence +Day%3A+July +4%2C+2008 '; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Independence Day , God Bless America
Death penalty possible in Vermont kidnap case
2008-07-03 17:06:00 BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Federal prosecutors have filed kidnapping charges that carry the death penalty against a Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home. The federal charges against Michael Jacques provide for the death penalty in kidnappings resulting in a child’s death. State and federal prosecutors spoke in Burlington on Thursday as 42-year-old ... More About: Death , Death penalty , Case , Pedophiles
Jazz Singer Opts for *Black National Anthem*
2008-07-03 04:09:00 A jazz singer shocked some Denver residents after replacing the words to the national anthem with those of the “Black National Anthem” during the annual State of the City address this week. Rene Marie was asked to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper delivered the annual address on Tuesday. Instead, she sang the ... More About: Jazz , Singer , Jazz singer
16 Accidentally Wounded by French Military in Shooting Demo
2008-07-02 13:02:00 PARIS ? A military shooting demonstration in southeast France on Sunday left 16 people wounded, including children, when real bullets were used instead of blank ones, officials said. Four of the wounded were in serious condition, including a 3-year-old child, Bernard Lemaire, chief of the regional administration in Aude, said on France-3 television. Fifteen of the ... More About: Military , French , Shooting , Demo
The Castle Doctrine: Explanation, Interpretation and Opinions
2008-07-01 18:24:00 The very 1st thing I want to say is this: I am a gun owner and a gun user, I am a strong supporter of the rights OF gun owners and a strong supporter of the 2nd amendment as well as The Castle Doctrine. It appears that some of my readers are less than knowledgeable concerning ... More About: Opinions , Amendment , Interpretation
Thoughts on fighting, winning and the 2nd amendment..
2008-07-01 15:48:00 I received this from my neighbor and fellow gun nut and thought it was really great, I sent it email to all of my contacts and am making this post on the blog as well, please feel free to send it out if you like, or use it on your blogs too… The purpose of ... More About: Victory , Guns , Thoughts , Amendment , Fighting
Joe Horn cleared by grand jury in Pasadena shootings
2008-06-30 21:56:00 A Harris County grand jury decided today that Joe Horn should not be charged with a crime for shooting two suspected burglars he confronted outside his neighbor’s home in Pasadena last fall. The decision to clear Horn of wrongdoing came two weeks after the grand jury began considering evidence in the case, including Horn’s testimony last ... More About: Grand , Grand Jury
Bush signs $162 billion war spending bill
2008-06-30 19:51:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond, hailing the $162 billion plan as a rare product of bipartisan cooperation. “This bill shows the American people that even in an election year, Republicans and Democrats can come ... More About: Oil , Signs
Medicare fees to doctors to fall starting Tuesday
2008-06-30 13:45:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - One unpleasant task lawmakers will have over the July 4 recess is explaining to seniors why they didn’t stop a 10 percent fee cut, going into effect Tuesday, for doctors who treat Medicare patients. Physicians have been running ads hinting that patients may find doctors less willing to treat them. In a particularly vitriolic ... More About: Doctors , Social Security , Health Care , Fees , Funding
Fla. vandals tag 60 cars with anti-Obama messages
2008-06-29 17:34:00 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Vandals have spray-painted 60 city vehicles in Orlando, Fla., some with messages against Sen. Barack Obama . The cars were parked across from city hall late Saturday night. Investigators say the culprits tagged notes such as “Obama smokes crack” and a racial epithet. They even left business cards on each vehicle. Mike Lowe, a ... More About: Politics , Cars , Opinion , Messages
TexasFred for President: A Grass Roots Movement
2008-06-29 02:39:00 Trackback URL: http://texasfred.net/archives/1313/trackb ack/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftexasfred.net%2Farchives%2F 1313'; addthis_title = 'TexasFred+for+President %3A+A+Grass +Roots +Movement'; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Grass Roots
U.S. gives Mexico no-strings $400 million for drug war
2008-06-28 19:42:00 HUETAMO, Mexico - Victor de la Paz was riding back from school on a January evening with a friend, just three blocks from home, when uniformed men emerged from the darkness and motioned for them to stop. Moments later, a soldier opened fire with an assault rifle. De la Paz, 16, slumped to the ground in ... More About: Illegal Immigration , Guard The Borders , Corruption , Border Security
Pentagon: Taliban a resilient force in Afghanistan
2008-06-27 16:05:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Taliban has regrouped after its initial fall from power in Afghanistan and the pace of its attacks is likely to increase this year, according to a Pentagon report that offers a dim view of progress in the nearly seven-year-old war. Noting that insurgent violence has climbed, the report said that despite U.S. ... More About: Bush , Iraq , Cain , Force
FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE
2008-06-27 10:38:00 Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE 1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. 2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone 3. Colt: The original point and click interface. 4. Gun control is not ... More About: Guns , Amendment , Gun Control , Firearms
Gun Lovers, Join Come and Take It
2008-06-26 17:55:00 This old flag has a special meaning to ALL Texas folk, ?Come and take it? was a slogan used in the Texas Revolution in 1835. As a symbol of defiance, the Texans had fashioned a flag containing the phrase along with a black star and an image of the cannon which they had received six ... More About: Guns , Amendment , Join , Lovers
McCain backs gun decision, Obama straddles issue
2008-06-26 16:26:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - John McCain welcomed a Supreme Court decision invalidating a District of Columbia handgun ban. Barack Obama sought to straddle the subject by saying he favors an individual’s right to bear firearms as well as a government’s right to regulate them. The hotly contentious issue surfaced in the presidential campaign Thursday after the Supreme ... More About: Politics , Amendment , Gun Control
Supreme Court says Americans have right to guns
2008-06-26 09:44:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history. The court’s 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment . The decision goes further ... More About: Guns
Unbowed, politicians vow to execute child rapists
2008-06-26 04:45:00 Angry politicians vowed to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional. “Anybody in the country who cares about children should be outraged that we have a Supreme Court that would issue a decision like this,” said Alabama Attorney General Troy King, a Republican. The ... More About: Commentary , Opinion , Obama , Politicians , Death penalty
Court rejects death penalty for raping children
2008-06-25 13:43:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. “The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape ... More About: Commentary , Children , Opinion , Obama , Death
6 dead in Kentucky plant shooting
2008-06-25 09:25:00 HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) ? An employee got into an argument with a supervisor at a western Kentucky plastics plant early Wednesday, then shot and killed five people before killing himself, police and a company official said. The shooting happened around midnight at Atlantis Plastics in this Ohio River town of about 28,000 people. The employee, a press ... More About: Commentary , Guns , Opinion , Amendment , Gun Control
Well-Regulated Militia
2008-06-24 21:35:00 Today it was our pleasure to meet one of our fellow bloggers and gun lovers, U.S. Citizen, and his wonderful family. U.S. Citizen is not only a blogger and an all around good guy, he is a Class I II FFL gun dealer and he authors 2 sites, Traction Control and Well-Regulated Militia Today I took delivery on ... More About: Amendment
James Dobson accuses Obama of *distorting* Bible
2008-06-24 12:49:00 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest names, James Dobson , accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution. The criticism, to be aired Tuesday on Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio program, comes shortly ... More About: James Dobson
Don Imus once again brings race to airwaves
2008-06-23 19:32:00 NEW YORK (AP) - Don Imus has once again injected race into his radio show. During an on-air conversation Monday about the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam ?Pacman ? Jones, Imus asked, ?What color is he?” Told by sports announcer Warner Wolf that Jones is ?African-American,? Imus responded: ?There you go. Now we know.? Civil rights ... More About: Media , Race , Al Sharpton
The Great Seal of the Obamessiah
2008-06-23 16:36:00 Proudly stolen from: An Ol? Broads Ramblings Trackback URL: http://texasfred.net/archives/1299/trackb ack/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftexasfred.net%2Farchives%2F 1299'; addthis_title = 'The+Great +Seal +of+the+Obamessiah'; addthis_pub = '';
Obama is a Fraud and a Liar!
2008-06-23 08:58:00 The latest online buzz about Obama 1. Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.(Google ?Obama Selma? for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.) 2. Father Was A ... More About: Fraud , Liar
The Alabama Preacher
2008-06-22 13:38:00 The Alabama preacher said to his congregation, ?Someone in this congregation has spread a rumour that I belong to the Ku Klux Klan. This is a horrible lie and one which a Christian community cannot tolerate. I am embarrassed and do not intend to accept this. Now, I want the party who did this to stand and ... More About: Preacher
Survey shows how race may affect election
2008-06-22 08:00:00 As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Lingering racial bias affects the public’s ... More About: Survey , Bigotry , Hypocrisy , Race
U.N.: Bomb Iran and face Mideast ball of fire
More articles from this author:2008-06-21 10:33:00 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief warned in comments aired Saturday that any military strike on Iran could turn the Mideast to a “ball of fire” and lead Iran to a more-aggressive stance on its controversial nuclear program. The comments by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came in ... More About: Israel , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Fire , Face 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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