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Massive Drug Busts in Texas Amid Border Crisis

HOUSTON, Texas–Over the last week officers confiscated large amounts of marijuana and cocaine at various Border Patrol checkpoints in Texas.  Two females were arrested during separate incidents in Pharr for possessing large amounts of cocaine, according to a press release from U.S.

Massive Drug Busts in Texas Amid Border Crisis

Beaumont ISD School Board Saga Finally Ends With TEA Takeover

DALLAS, Texas–Despite repeated roadblocks put up by the beleaguered and failed leadership at the Beaumont Independent School District (BISD), Texas EducationCommissioner Michael Williams finally announced his picks for the temporary state-appointed Board of Managers on July 14. In a ruling

Beaumont ISD School Board Saga Finally Ends With TEA Takeover

BBC 'Today' Programme Obsesses Over Climate Sceptic Group

BBC Radio 4’s flagship ‘Today’ programme this morning dedicated a whole feature on the charitable status of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), despite management effectively ‘banning’ its head, Lord Lawson, from the airwaves. The story focussed on the fact

BBC 'Today' Programme Obsesses Over Climate Sceptic Group

Texas Pipeline Creates Illegal Immigrant Super-Highway

FALFURRIAS, Texas–A natural gas pipeline being constructed in the western portions of Brooks County is rapidly becoming a super-highway for illegal immigrants struggling to sneak around the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint located in the county. Workers report regularly seeing illegals

Texas Pipeline Creates Illegal Immigrant Super-Highway

Chris Kluwe Alleges Vikings Homophobia Cover Up

Chris Kluwe, 32, the former Minnesota Vikings punter who was cut before the 2013 season, is desperate to prove that his release was a result of his support for gay marriage rather than his mediocre performance on the field as

Chris Kluwe Alleges Vikings Homophobia Cover Up

Breitbart Texas Witnesses Skeleton of Illegal Migrant, Death Toll Rises

The death march through Brooks County, Texas claimed the life of yet another illegal immigrant. A human skull and the decomposed skeletal remains are all that is left of a person who decided to come to this country illegally. A total of 42 bodies have been found this year in the desert-like ranch fields surrounding the town of Falfurrias.

Brooks County Sheriff Benny Martinez responds to call about a deceased migrant near Falfur

Marry Muslims to Tackle Islamophobia Says UK Lord

Christians should marry Muslims to tackle Islamophobia, a senior former judge has said. Lord Scott, who formerly served in the Supreme Court, said that his own family, in which two of his children married Muslims, is an example of how

Marry Muslims to Tackle Islamophobia Says UK Lord

UT President Resigns Under Pressure

AUSTIN, Texas–After three years of deteriorating relations with his employers on the University of Texas Board of Regents and a growing scandal involving legislators allegedly using their clout to get friends and family admitted without proper qualifications, UT president Bill

UT President Resigns Under Pressure

Egypt's Sisi 'Wishes' Jailed Jazeera Reporters Not Tried

(AFP) Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Sunday he “wished” three jailed Al-Jazeera journalists including an Australian had not been put on trial, conceding the case had been damaging, a newspaper reported. The journalists — Australia’s Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed

Egypt's Sisi 'Wishes' Jailed Jazeera Reporters Not Tried

Report: UT's President Refuses To Resign

AUSTIN, Texas–A Friday, July 4, deadline passed for the University of Texas president to resign his post over a growing admissions scandal, with sources telling the Austin American Statesman that Bill Powers is now trying to negotiate for a longer stay at

Report: UT's President Refuses To Resign

The GOP's War on Tea Party May Cost it the Senate

While Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans have bragged about their desire to destroy the so called Tea Party, or their own conservative GOP base, even their own polls are demonstrating how they may have over-reached and

The New Aristocracy

In 1776 Americans declared themselves independent of more than arbitrary rule by a distant monarch. They also severed the ties of aristocracy. This was in itself a revolutionary notion.  It meant that political power, its attendant privilege and economic advantages

The New Aristocracy

The Nobility of Fighting for Freedom

Posted with permission of John E. Michel, Brig. Gen., USAF – Commanding General, NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan; Commander, 438th Air Expeditionary Wing “Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.” Albert Einstein It has been called the

The Nobility of Fighting for Freedom

Iraq: Kurds Debate Whether to Push for Independence

Kurdish representatives seemed unwilling to move back to the “pre-June 9” Iraqi governing structure that entails taking orders from Baghdad. A Kurdish representative said after a meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington Wednesday, “we are not ready

Iraq: Kurds Debate Whether to Push for Independence