Texas Senator John Carona (R-Dallas) has been working hard for several years trying to get the State of Texas to enforce the existing laws on employee misclassification and add some teeth to the current laws by increasing the penalties for misclassifying workers as independent contractors when they are truly employees. Misclassification is also one of the biggest ways unethical employers skirt employment law and give jobs to illegal immigrants who work as day laborers.
Yesterday I questioned Dr. John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, at a House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing on the President’s research priorities.
I questioned Dr. Holdren about the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would potentially supply the United States with 830,000 barrels of oil a day
The U.S. Senate stood on the side of liberty today as it killed two measures aimed at restricting the rights of law-abiding private citizens. In a vote of 54-46, the Senate rejected the expansion of background checks to include sales between private citizens, thus keeping the so called "Gun Show Loophole" alive for now. Sen. Dianne Feinstein could not even rally a simple majority vote in her attempt to restrict law-abiding citizens from owning weapons she feels are objectionable. Her bill failed by an embarrassing margin of 40-60. Both of these represent huge defeats to the Obama Administration. Read more about Expanded Background Checks Fail in the Senate - The Myth of the "Gun Show Loophole" lives on
A Portland, Oregon, woman arrived home to find an intruder in the shower!
The Portland homeowner called out “Why are you in my house taking a shower?”
The uninvited shower guest replied, “I’m sorry…my name’s Timothy James Chapek.”
Timothy Chapek, 25, then dialed 911 and told the emergency operator, “I just broke in to a house and the owners came home…I think they might have guns.”
The 2013 True the Vote national summit kicked off with a bang. After an opening video welcome for Texas Governor Rick Perry, several hundred attendees from across the nation heard from experts on election reform and voter fraud.
The summit brought together citizens from more than 20 states and nationally known experts and bipartisan speakers. Panelists discussed the 2012 elections, national issues and trends, the latest research, legislative updates, and training methods to help interested citizen leaders strengthen the election process. Read more about Pictures from 2013 True the Vote National Summit
I’ve been getting quite a lot of calls and emails lately asking about ammunition purchases by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Social Security Administration (SSA), and other federal agencies. I’ve been answering these individual questions, and I wanted to share that answer with all my readers, since it’s clear that this is an important subject in West Texas. Read more about Homeland Security Ammunition Purchases
Toni Anne Dashiell was elected as the Texas GOP National Committeewoman on April 6, 2013. She is the current Chairman of Kendall County Republican Party and is past president of the Texas Federation of Republican Women.
If you talk about the IRS don’t do it via email or text—the agency you mailed a check to this week can eavesdrop without a search warrant or probable cause. Since 2009 the IRS has held the position that the Fourth Amendment does not protect electronic transmissions.
The Stored Communications Act provides insufficient Fourth Amendment protections and the Supreme Court needs to make a clear statement
Recently, a friend of mine was arguing with me that atheism should be embarrassed because "no one has ever been murdered in the name of atheism." It was explained that the greatest violence in world history was due to religion and that today's violence in the Middle East is rooted exclusively in religious dogma. To that end, government must act to pressure societal rejection of faith. Be that as it may, the idea of absence of religion answering religious violence is mind numbingly inconsistent with history.
The biggest mass murder and source of bigotry in our lifetimes is atheism. The nihilistic nature of atheism gives rise to state sponsored institutional murder
Texas Senator John Carona (R-Dallas) has been working hard for several years trying to get the State of Texas to enforce the existing laws on employee misclassification and add some teeth to the current laws by increasing the penalties for misclassifying workers as independent contractors when they are truly employees. Misclassification is also one of the biggest ways unethical employers skirt employment law and give jobs to illegal immigrants who work as day laborers.
Yesterday I questioned Dr. John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, at a House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
The U.S. Senate stood on the side of liberty today as it killed two measures aimed at restricting the rights of law-abiding private citizens. In a vote of 54-46, the Senate rejected the expansion of background checks to include sales between private citizens, thus keeping the so called "Gun Show Loophole" alive for now. Sen. Dianne Feinstein could not even rally a simple majority vote in her attempt to restrict law-abiding citizens from owning weapons she feels are objectionable. Her bill failed by an embarrassing margin of 40-60. Both of these represent huge defeats to the Obama Administration. 
A Portland, Oregon, woman arrived home to find an intruder in the shower!
I’ve been getting quite a lot of calls and emails lately asking about ammunition purchases by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Social Security Administration (SSA), and other federal agencies. I’ve been answering these individual questions, and I wanted to share that answer with all my readers, since it’s clear that this is an important subject in West Texas. 
If you talk about the IRS don’t do it via email or text—the agency you mailed a check to this week can eavesdrop without a search warrant or probable cause. Since 2009 the IRS has held the position that the Fourth Amendment does not protect electronic transmissions.
Yesterday was Patriot's Day in Boston. To commemorate Boston's fierce spirit of independence, Bostonians host a worldwide marathon.
Recently, a friend of mine was arguing with me that atheism should be embarrassed because "no one has ever been murdered in the name of atheism." It was explained that the greatest violence in world history was due to religion and that today's violence in the Middle East is rooted exclusively in religious dogma. To that end, government must act to pressure societal rejection of faith. Be that as it may, the idea of absence of religion answering religious violence is mind numbingly inconsistent with history.
