Dear Editor,

We have a severe competence problem in Coffee City. The city mayor determined that informing the citizens of council meetings on the city website (as required by law) is something he does not want to do.

By MQSullivan

Barack Obama's operatives are ratcheting up their war on Texas. They either want to shut down our oil and gas industry with spurious claims of endangered lizards, or sweat us out by forcing the closure of power plants. Either way, President Obama's use of federal policy against the Lone Star State is as unprecedented as it is destructive.

Always inspiring to read the words of REAL, brave patriots, wanting only liberty and freedom... unlike the prostitutes we have in the Congress and Legislatures today... read again the hearts and minds of true patriots through their words that were it not for the grace of God, would have died for writing them.-- and many of them did.

I'm more convinced than ever that Texas must leave the union to survive the nightmarish economy the US Federal government has perpetrated against the world.

by E.R. Bills

If I tell you I want to talk about fake boobs that came from the state of Texas, you’re probably going to assume I’m referring to George W. Bush or Rick Perry. They’re arguably the biggest pair of fake boobs we’ve seen around here in a long time, but they’re not the fake boobs I’m talking about.

by E.R. Bills

A few months back, I went to Pittsburgh, Texas and got a good look at a replica of the Ezekiel Flying Machine. It took to the air a year before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, but only for 167 feet before crashing into a fence. The story is intriguing and noteworthy, but more as a cautionary tale than a serious scientific achievement.

Meet the ones that have taken mastership over your freedom and independence

Meet the destroyers and enemies of your freedom.

Meet the ones that have devastated your economy for over 150 years, time and time again.

By Michelle Goldberg

There's something really rotten in the state of Texas.

(the SHAME of Texas... Innocent people in prison, Criminals in public office, murder by the governor)

Robert Singer

More than 130 years of government propaganda hid the fact that our beloved President Abraham Lincoln slaughtered 620,000 Americans and destroyed the principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Dallas cops ticketed drivers for not speaking English

AND THAT'S NOT AGAINST THE LAW!!!

(These knuckle dragging COPS should spend 10 years behind bars for abusing citizens and trampling on their civil rights - The City Attorney and JUDGES that prosecuted and fined these people should get 25 YEARS behind bars)

(This is the same sick conservative city that sent many innocent people to prison because the knuckle dragging cops planted sheetrock dust on innocent victims, and charged them with cocaine possession-- and the District Attorneys from Hell prosecuted them KNOWING the faked white powder was merely gypsum)

(This is the same city where a gay constable raped an underage boy after getting him drunk, and the cops and judges and District Attorneys NEVER prosecuted 'one of their own')

4 Prisoners Facing Executions or Serving Extreme Jail Sentences Who Very Well May Be Innocent

By Liliana Segura

Recent evidence shows that an executed Texas man was innocent. There are others who still might avoid that fate.

A Case of Innocence Executed

By Bernard Lagan

It is unlikely you've ever heard of Cameron Todd Willingham. He was an out of work Texas mechanic in the state's poor rural north-east who cared for his three small children while his 22-year-old wife worked in bar. He died at 36 in 2004; executed by lethal injection at the infamous Huntsville prison – the oldest in Texas – and where 362 people died in the electric chair before it was replaced with lethal injection in 1964.

By ROBERT T. GARRETT

Texas again leads the nation in the percentage of residents without health insurance, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday.

TNM to Perry: 'Take up this banner now!'

By Dave Mundy

About 500 (later count was 1500) Texas secessionists gathered at the Texas Capitol on Satuday for a rally organized by the Texas Nationalist Movement to complain about federal government intrusion into their lives.

by Barbara O'Brien

The health care crisis is hitting Texas harder than many other states. We need to understand why.

An Interview With Daniel Miller

By Dave Mundy

A decade or so ago, Daniel Miller and a handful of other like-minded types made a small splash in the regional news when they went public with their message: Texas should be independent from the United States. They picked up a few chuckles in newsrooms across Texas and in a few other locales as yet another bunch of anti-government, anti-income tax protesters.

People aren’t laughing at them any more.

All the reasons for secession against the dictatorial Federal government are ‘a given’. There are no solutions coming from D.C. You will hear D.C. and their propagandists moan and groan at the idea of Texas secession. They will continue to ridicule the idea, continue to say it’s illegal, and continue to remind us about the civil war, and so on.

Whereas the Texas Constitution of 1876 was approved by the Congress of the United States, acknowledging the rights retained by the People of Texas:

Insurance bill put on hold over consumer protection amendments

By TERRENCE STUTZ

By: Joe Cline

'Modern technology, owes ecology, an apology' is an old saying. In the case of the new technology in building homes, this proverb seems to be false. Those energy and resource efficient green homes built in Austin are real gifts from modern technology to the environment.

The USA has no CULTURE! It is merely a created corporation of the STATES! AS such, to perpetrate the scam the USA must STEAL its culture from its CREATORS, the people and the STATES. The USA is merely 10 miles squared.

by Len Hart

George W. Bush et al will all rot in hell for ravaging Texas' environment and beating out Mississippi for "dead last" in Education. Texas' outsourced prison system must surely rank among the worst in the world with the the possible exception of Abu Ghraib and Gitmo! Stevie Ray Vaughn redeems the Lone Star. The great B.B. King said of Stevie Ray that he literally channeled his blues licks.

"...today’s illegal government is aware that the spirit of mutiny is brewing. That is why it has armed itself with a set of illegal and anti-constitutional laws to crush it."

There is indeed a mutiny brewing, but not an overthrow in the sense of anarchy. This mutiny is legal, lawful, and proper and it's brewing in about 75% of the united states, (generic as opposed to the "United States".) People in these states are sick and tired of be 'the' chattel that is pledged for collateral for all the US debt lords. They are sick and tired of being considered property of the USA. They are sick and tired of being puppet states of the entity which they themselves created by a constitution and articles of confederation. They are sick and tired of all their tax money being sent overseas in welfare fraud and arms. Their money spent everywhere else except their states. This mutiny was prophesied by President Jefferson Davis, not for a new confederacy but for the principles of reason and truth for which men fought.

Reason # 1,000,000,000,001 Texas Needs Independence

How many reasons do Texans need to finally understand that TEXAS NEEDS CHANGE! Under the party system forced on us there will be NO CHANGE! The party elites are there to guarantee that NOTHING CHANGES. The Scalawag from Connecticut, parading as a Texan --- you KNOW! --- DuhDuhDuhDuh Bush - the urban cowboy - has destroyed the Texas noble and proud image around the world in a scant 6 years.

By Don M. Fisher

As Uncle Hugh used to say, "If people are meant to be righteous, how come churches have to drive out saloons, instead of the other way around?"

A Texas woman was raped. The Feds do nothing. Forced into unconsionable contracts that allow rape and other crimes against employees. But Mr. GoodHair the Bush Clone is out in the Confederacy pimping and prostituting for a New York Yankee Crossdresser. When is GoodHair going to enforce and execute the laws of Texas against a corporation and MEN for multiple crimes against this woman?

Governor Perry is Missing in Action, not doing his job that we are paying him to do, while a rape victim is victimized over and over by the corporation and the Feds. I guess this is the RepubliCON, CONpassionate, CONservative, Khristian ethics, family values, and morality.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is deciding next month whether to allow a bunch of Jesusers at the Institution for Creation Research offer science teaching degrees.

Those Damned Texians

The failure of U.S. and Texas 'Partyism' is to confuse economic form and theories with government rather than the national well-being of the nation (the people). It connected two things that are entirely different. Forms of the economy, however firm they may seem, are merely theories and are changeable. The nation of Texas is REAL people, not economic theories and ideology. Partyism is protecting the party structure to maintain the status quo and not safeguarding the nation.

The latest bullshit from the feds is the billion dollar bandaid to stop illegal immigration. The fence Bush is trying to build through Texas is a waste of time, money and effort and will fix absolutely nothing.

Amanda Marcotte: Texas is a state to be watched, because so many right wing ideas and strategies hatch there only to be exported elsewhere.

This is like putting the Pedophile Preacher in Charge of the Kindergarten!

GottaLaff: Ya think Tom DeLay, that darling of the Republican fraud sector has his hot-tub-shriveled fingerprints all over this one?

David Perry Wants Judge to Reject Christmas Present Plea Agreement with BP

Calling it a “Christmas present to BP,” a lawyer representing victims of the March 2005 explosion at BP’s Texas City, Texas facility has called on a federal judge in Houston to reject BP’s agreement to plead guilty and pay a $50 million fine.

Video Shows Texas Legislative Members Voting For Each Other

Nicholas Graham

The Texas Legislature is considering several bills that would protect against voter fraud, but are they committing voter fraud themselves? One of these bills would require voters to present a photo-ID in order to vote. Another would make it a crime for anyone to deliver a ballot for someone who cannot drive to the polls. Yet cameras in the statehouse caught numerous lawmakers voting up to four times on a single bill while casting ballots for their absent colleagues.

Thin-skinned intolerant (WingNUT) Bill Donohue calls for boycott of Miller, calls opposing guest "loser"

Miller Beer of Fort Worth, Texas guilty of NOT Discriminating against people, say WingNuts at FOX joining with the Pedophile Promoting KatholiKKK Church.

Disillusionment with Iraq is smoldering even in the heart of Bush country, where military families have paid a heavy price.

By Bill Sasser

Former Deputy Arrested For Child Pornography
The Texas attorney general's office announced Tuesday that a former Nacogdoches County sheriff's deputy, 32-year-old Michael Paul Kennedy, faces charges of receiving and transporting child pornography.

HIDALGO COUNTY, Texas - Running for re-election, Gov. Rick Perry repeatedly applauded border-county sheriffs for being "on the front lines" of a violent battle to keep criminals out of Texas. Perry's ads boasted ‘If the US won't protect our borders, Texas will’. But a year later, those on the front line say they were “screwed” out of desperately needed security funds.

Texas barely resembles the state it once was.

The Existentialist Cowboy

Remember the rule of law THEY always use against the rest of us?

Lack of Knowledge of the Law is NO EXCUSE! GUILTY!

It is time for a NEW REVOLUTION in TEXAS - Replace these WHORES and their CRIME APPROVING puppets with a REAL REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. THESE GOPs and DEMs were elected by US to represent US. NOT TO REPRESENT AND PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM PROSECUTION. NOT to PANDER to CORPORATE INTERESTS and LOBBIES.

Texas House exempts courthouse clerks from privacy laws

James Langton in Temple, Texas

If it were built, the road would be one of the engineering wonders of the 21st century -a trade route a quarter of a mile wide, carving a path from Mexico through the heart of America to Canada.

As of 1987, Texas ranked first among the fifty states in numbers of reptilian species

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On this day in 1927, the Santa Claus Bank Robbery occurred in Cisco, Texas.

"... And to think that it happened on Mulberry Street!"

by John Troesser

Eastland citizens are faced with a common dilemma. What parts of history do we preserve, and which do we sweep under the carpet?

Not much known about natives of South Texas
Indians along Rio Grande called Chichimeca by Aztecs

BY KEVIN GARCIA
The Brownsville Herald

by Ralph Blumenthal

HOUSTON - Likening themselves to prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, a dozen inmates on death row in Texas have staged hunger strikes over the last month to protest what they call abusive conditions, including 23 hours a day of isolation in their cells.

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Mrs. Marilyn B. Blankenship noticed what a lovely day it was as she went into vote early at the Renner-Frankford Branch Dallas Public Library at 6400 Frankford Rd. two blocks from her home in Collin County, Texas near Dallas. Mr. Arthur Edwards, the widower of her oldest friend from the 4th grade, accompanied her on the short ride to the Library; he waited in the car for her to finish her brief civic obligation. A native Texan, Mrs. Blankenship appreciated the mild autumn weather. Growing up in Texas, the daughter of two strong parents, had left its mark on her. She had learned self discipline from both of them, along with a strong sense of honesty.

Vianna Davila
Express-News Staff

Nearly a week after San Antonio Police Department officials opened an investigation into an officer who said he fired two shots at a rifle-wielding gunman, the officer resigned amid allegations he concocted the incident and could face criminal charges.