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Lt. Governor David Dewhurst announced the
members of the Select Committee on Redistricting:(Golden Corridor Will Cover Redistricting
at our November Meeting) Chair, Sen. Kel Seliger (R-Amarillo)
Vice Chair, Sen. Mario Gallegos (D-Houston)
Sen. John Carona (R-Dallas)
Sen. Kevin Eltife (R-Tyler)
Sen. Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls)
Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa (D-McAllen)
Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston)
Sen. Dan Patrick (R-Houston)
Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas)
Sen. Tommy Williams
(R-The Woodlands)
Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo)****************************
Newly Identified Corporate Supporters of Planned
Parenthood Named
FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, August 11, 2010
(LifeSiteNews.com) - Life Decisions International (LDI) has released a revised edition of The Boycott List identifying corporations
that support of Planned Parenthood, the world's primary abortion-advocacy group...
New boycott targets include AOL, Darden Restaurants (Bahama Breeze, The Capital Grille, LongHorn Steakhouse, Olive Garden,
Red Lobster, Season 52), Franchise Services (PIP, Signal Graphics, Sir Speedy), Hilton Worldwide (Conrad Hotels, Doubletree,
Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns/Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hilton Hotels, Homewood Suites), Ignite Restaurants (Brickhouse Tavern+Tap,
Joe's Crab Shack), ING (financial services), Kohl's (department stores), Mrs. Fields (cookies), Staples (office/school supplies),
Toys "R" Us, and Trader Joe's (markets/supermarkets).
...previously released Boycott List include AlphaGraphics, Wells Fargo (including Wachovia), Nike, Time Warner, Bank of America,
Walt Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Lost Arrow (Patagonia, etc.), Chevron, and Nationwide Insurance...
"Dishonorable Mention" section, which identifies charitable groups that are associated
with Planned Parenthood and/or its agenda. Groups named in this section [charitable groups] include Lions Clubs, the American
Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boys & Girls Clubs, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Camp Fire, Girls Inc., Girl Scouts,
Kiwanis Clubs, March of Dimes, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Rotary Clubs, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Salvation
Army, YWCA, America Gives Back (formerly [American] Idol Gives Back), and YMCA...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2568712/posts -------------------------
From the Congressional Record, Jan. 10, 1963: CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS 1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging
in atomic war. 3. Develop the illusion that
total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items
could be used for war. 5. Extension of long-term
loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. 6. Provide
American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German
question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations
are in progress. 10. Allow all Soviet satellites
individual representation in the U.N. 11. Promote
the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with
its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by
Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate
civil rights. 17. Get control of the schools.
Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers'
associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 18.
Gain control of all student newspapers. 19.
Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments,
editorial writing, policymaking positions. 21.
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell
was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our
plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech
and free press. 25. Break down cultural standards
of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural,
healthy." 27. Infiltrate the churches and
replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity
which does not need a "religious crutch." 28.
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation
of church and state." 29. Discredit the
American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between
nations on a worldwide basis. 30. Discredit
the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage
the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis
to Russian history since the Communists took over. 32.
Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare
programs, mental health clinics, etc. 33. Eliminate
all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric
disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those
who oppose Communist goals. 40. Discredit the
family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental
blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students
and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations
are ready for self-government. 44. Internationalize
the Panama Canal. 45. Repeal the Connally reservation
so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court
jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike. http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
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I: America’s Foundational Principles
Dr. David J. Bobb
Director, Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, Hillsdale College
This session examines the ten core principles of the American Founding—all of which are as true today as 220 years
ago. |  Play Flash Video |
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Session II: The Founders’ Constitution
Dr. Matthew Spalding
Adjunct Fellow, Kirby Center; Director, Simon Center for American Studies, Heritage Foundation
This session explores how citizens should understand the plain, written meaning of the Constitution. |
| Play Flash Video |
| Session III: The Constitution and the Civil War
Dr. Paul Moreno
Senior Fellow, Kirby Center; Dean of Faculty; William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History
and Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College
The Constitution endured its greatest crisis
in the Civil War. This session gives an account of Abraham Lincoln’s statesmanship and constitutional efforts to preserve
the Union. | | Play Flash Video |
| Session IV: The Progressives’ Constitution
Dr. Ronald Pestritto
Senior Fellow, Kirby Center; Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution and Associate
Professor of Political Science, Hillsdale College
Rejecting the principles of the American
founders, the Progressives advanced political and moral “values” in their place. This session, emphasizing the
thought of Woodrow Wilson, examines the Progressive movement and its understanding of the Constitution. |
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| Session V: The Administrative State and the Duties of Citizens
Dr.
Larry P. Arnn
President, Hillsdale College
The administrative
state—more than just “big government”—advances a theory of human nature and the rule of experts. How
should citizens think about the Constitution in an age that largely ignores it? And how can they act upon the constitutional
principles on which the country was founded? | | Play Flash Video |
| Educating For Liberty | | Play Flash Video |
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Ronald Reagan's 1961 Radio Address on Socialized
Medicine: Here *******************************************************************
September 11, 2001 Tribute: Video Here ****************************************************** Here is a list of Obama’s current and prospective
Czar positions…
Published July 24th, 2009...
1. Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) Czar: Richard Holbrooke
2. AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley
3. Autism Czar: Not appointed yet.
4. Auto Recovery Czar: Ed Montgomery
5.
Behavioral Science Czar: Not appointed yet.
6. Bailout Czar: Herbert Allison Jr.
7. Border Czar: Alan Bersin
8. Car Czar: Ron Bloom
9. Climate Change Czar: Todd Stern
10. Copyright Czar: Not appointed yet.
11. Counterterrorism
Czar: John Brennan
12. Cybersecurity Czar: Not appointed yet.
13. Disinformation Czar: Linda Douglass
14. Domestic
Violence Czar: Lynn Rosenthal
15. Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske
16. Economic Czar: Larry Summers
17. Economic
Czar II: Paul Volcker
18. Education Czar: Arne Duncan
19. Energy Czar: Carol M. Browner
20. Food Safety Czar:
Michael Taylor
21. Government Performance Czar: Jeffrey Zients
22. Great Lakes Czar: Cameron Davis
23. Green
Jobs Czar: Van Jones - Left office 9/5/2009, new one not appointed yet.
24. Guantanomo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried
25. Health Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
26. Infotech Czar: Vivek Kundra
27. Intelligence Czar: Admiral Dennis Blair
28. Latin-American Czar: Arturo Valenzuela
29. Mideast Peace Czar: George Mitchell
30. Mideast Policy Czar: Dennis
Ross
31. Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
32. Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein
33. Religion Czar: Joshua Dubois
34. Safe Schools Czar: Kevin Jennings
35. Science Czar: John Holdren
36. Stimulus Oversight Czar: Earl Devaney
37. Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration
38. TARP Czar: Elizabeth Warren
39. Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra
40. Trade
Czar: Ron Kirk
41. Urban Affairs/Housing Czar: Adolfo Carrion
42. War Czar: Douglas Lute
43. Water Czar: David
J. Hayes
44. Weapons Czar: Ashton Carter
45. Weapons of Mass Destruction Czar: Gary Samore
Czars not
yet vetted: More to come…
1. Income Redistribution Czar: Not appointed yet.
2. Consumer Financial Protection
Czar, aka Mortgage Czar: Not appointed yet.
3. Land-Use Czar: Not appointed yet.
4. Radio-Internet Fairness Czar:
Not appointed yet.
5. Student Loan Czar: Not appointed yet.
6. Voter List Czar: Not appointed yet.
7. Zoning
Czar: Not appointed yet. **************************************************
The following list of Obamacare supporters was compiled by Libertychick.com. If you are a member of one of these
organizations, contact them for verification. AARP
Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
ACCSES
Aetna
AFL-CIO
AFSCME
AIDS Institute
Alexander
Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Alliance for Better Health Care Coalition:
Alliance of
Community Health Plans
American Academy of Dermatology and AAD Association
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Nursing
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
American Association of
People with Disabilities
American Association on Health and Disability
American Association on Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American College of Physicians
American College of Surgeons
American Medical Association
American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association
American Medical Student Association / Foundation
American Network of Community Options and Resources
American
Occupational Therapy Association
American Osteopathic Association
American Psychiatric Association
American
Public Health Association
American society of Health-System Pharmacists
American Therapeutic Recreation Association
Amputee Coalition of America
Association for Community Affiliated Plans
Association for Professionals in Infection
Control and Epidemiology
Association of Departments of Family Medicine
Association of Family Medicine Residency
Directors
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Association of University Centers on Disabilities
Autism Society
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Brain Injury Association of America
Breast Cancer Action
Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO
Burton Blatt Institute
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund (of the National
Research Center for Women & Families)
Center for Medical Consumers
Center for Medicare Advocacy
Coalition
for Health Services Research
Coalition of Full Service Community Hospitals
Communications Workers of America
Community Catalyst
Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities:
Consumers Union
Council for Exceptional
Children
Council of Parent Attorney’s and Advocates
Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
CVS Caremark
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Doctors for America
Easter Seals
Epilepsy Foundation
Express Scripts
Families USA
Family
Voices
Government Accountability Project (GAP)
Group Health Cooperative
Health Dialog
Healthcare for
America Now
Helen Keller National Center
Higher Education Consortium for Special Education
Infectious Diseases
Society of America
International Association of Fire Fighters
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
Kaiser Permanente
Lutheran Services in America
Main Street Alliance
March of Dimes
Marshfield Clinic
Mental Health America
MoveOn.Org
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Association for the Advancement
of Orthotics and Prosthetics
National Association of Community Health Centers
National Association of County &
City Health Officials
National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
National Breast Cancer Coalition
National Coalition on Deaf-Blindness
National Coalition on Health Care
National Consumers League
National
Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
National Council on Independent Living
National Disability Rights
Network
National Down Syndrome Congress
National Education Association
National Medical Association
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Physicians Alliance
National Respite Coalition
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
National Women’s Health Network
National Women’s Law Center
North American Primary Care Research Group
Our Bodies Ourselves
Paralyzed
Veterans of America
Patient and Consumer Coalition
Pew Charitable Trusts & Community Catalyst
SEIU
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Society of General Internal Medicine
Society of Hospital Medicine
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Special Olympics
The Arc of the United States
THE TMJ Association
Trust for America’s Health
U.S. PIRG
United American Nurses
United Auto Workers
United Cerebral
Palsy
United Spinal Association
United Steelworkers
US Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Voices for
America’s Children
YMCA *********************************************
A Retired Doctor Explains Why
H.R. 3200 on Health Care is Bad for America: Here A Doctor, Representative, and Member of the House Health Care Committee Comments on
H.R. 3200: Here Watch Democrats Admit
their Strategy for a Single Payer Health Care System: Here --------------------------------------------------------------
Resolution on Healthcare Reform
Passed
by the Texas Federation of Republican Women
On July 31, 2009
Whereas, the healthcare bill put forth
by President Obama and the Democrat members of Congress will create a complicated bureaucracy of government offices and programs
that come between patients and healthcare providers; and,
Whereas, the bill creates cumbersome and expensive mandates that interfere with the patient-doctor relationship;
and,
Whereas, the Congressional Budget
Office has determined that the bill will cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars resulting in substantial tax increases; and,
Whereas, the bill ultimately would
result in government run healthcare and government control of insurance options; and
Whereas, the bill would lead to a government-controlled healthcare system
similar to the ones found in England and Canada, where patients must wait months for care that currently is routine in the
United States; and
Whereas, most citizens
agree that the U.S. healthcare system is the best in the world, and that U.S. healthcare costs need reform and
overall provision needs improvement, the Republican congressional leadership has unveiled plans to provide greater choices
of doctors, hospitals and health plans, greater tax fairness and simplification, the ability to buy insurance across state
lines, greater health care price disclosure, more competition between facilities, and utilizing free market system and preserving
freedom of choice;
Therefore, be it
resolved that the Texas Federation of Republican Women asks our congressional representatives to oppose any legislation that
imposes any government control over our health care, increased government mandates or price controls, new government programs
or the expansion of existing programs; and
Further, be it resolved that the Texas Federation of Republican Women urges passage of healthcare reform which results
in more affordable healthcare through a competitive, open, and transparent health care system including TORT reform where
America's families choose their own doctor and health care plans.
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Video
of AARP Meeting, Dallas, August 4: Here
Video of Rep. Pete Sessions' Town Hall on August 5: Here ************************************************
Ronald Reagan gave this speech about socialized medicince in 1961: As if we’re not already overextended enough financially, the issue of
National Health Care is now on the table once more vote. Here’s some perspective you might find interesting.
Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist
Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American
people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. One of the traditional methods of
imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program
as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who
possibly can’t afford it. Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized
medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this. Under the Truman
administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and,
of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this. Let’s take a look at social
security itself. Again, very few of us disagree with the original premise that there should be some form of savings that would
keep destitution from following unemployment by reason of death, disability or old age. And to this end, social security was
adopted, but it was never intended to supplant private savings, private insurance, pension programs of unions and industries.
Now in our country under our free enterprise system we have seen medicine reach the greatest heights that
it has in any country in the world. Today, the relationship between patient and doctor in this country is something to be
envied any place. The privacy, the care that is given to a person, the right to chose a doctor, the right to go from one doctor
to the other. But let’s also look from the other side, at the freedom the doctor loses.
A doctor would be reluctant to say this. Well, like you, I am only a patient, so I can say it in his behalf. The doctor begins
to lose freedoms; it’s like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many
patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren’t equally
divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can’t
live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step
to dictating where he will go. This is a freedom that I wonder whether any of us have the right
to take from any human being. All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine
a man’s working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it is a short step to all the rest
of socialism, to determining his pay and pretty soon your children won’t decide when they’re in school where they
will go or what they will do for a living. They will wait for the government to tell them where they will go to work and what
they will do What can we do about this? Well, you and I can do a great deal. We can write to
our congressmen and our senators. We can say right now that we want no further encroachment on these individual liberties
and freedoms. And at the moment, the key issue is, we do not want socialized medicine. Former
Representative Halleck of Indiana has said, “When the American people want something from Congress, regardless of its
political complexion, if they make their wants known, Congress does what the people want.” So
write, and if your representative writes back to you and tells you that he or she too is for free enterprise, that we have
these great services and so forth, that must be performed by government, don’t let them get away with it. Show that
you have not been convinced. Write a letter right back and tell them that you believe in government economy and fiscal responsibility;
that you know governments don’t tax to get the money the need; governments will always find a need for the money they
get and that you demand the continuation of our free enterprise system. You and I can do this. The only way we can do it is
by writing to our congressmen even we believe that he is on our side to begin with. Write to strengthen his hand. Give him
the ability to stand before his colleagues in Congress and say “I have heard from my constituents and this is what they
want.” Write those letters now; call your friends and them to write them. If you don’t,
this program I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow and behind it will come other federal
programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until, one day, as Normal Thomas said
we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don’t do this and if I don’t do it, one of these days
we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America
when men were free.
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A Hero's Salute - Staff Sargeant John C. Beale comes home. Please watch this moving video of a community's response to the death of a U.S. Army sergeant in Iraq. The video was
taped on June 11, 2009 and runs 12 minutes. Staff Sargeant John C. Beale was killed in action in Iraq and his body was
returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City, Georgia, just south of Atlanta. He was escorted by the Henry County Police
Department to the funeral home in McDonough, Georgia. The community came out to honor him after notices appeared in local
papers. It was filmed by a Georgia State Trooper. ------------------------------- Missile Defense Update 9/18/09 from the Heritage Foundation: The decision to abandon
the “third site” deployment of 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic violates President Obama’s pledge to support missile defense that is “pragmatic and cost-effective.” Ground based missile defense is effective, affordable, and available now. According to the Congressional Budget Office, alternatives to the third site do not provide a comparable level of defense. The CBO concluded that the estimated $9-14
billion 20-year cost of the third site was half of the estimated costs of a sea-based alternative. Abandoning our best missile
defense option in Europe only encourages Iran to speed up their ballistic missile program so that they can get their threat in place before a European missile defense system is available. The Poles and the Czechs know what it means to live under the boot of Russian domination.
The third-site issue is of huge symbolic importance to both nations, and if Moscow emerges the victor, with an effective veto
over U.S. policy in Europe, it would represent a massive surrender of American strategic influence and a betrayal of two of its closest friends in the region. Go
to 33minutes.com for more on missile defense, the threat posed to us and our allies by nuclear weapons, and the action plan necessary to revive
a strategic missile defense system that only America can develop, maintain, and employ for its own defense and the peace-loving
world’s security.
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