Dear President Obama,

I write to express my concern about a new White House program to monitor American citizens’ speech opposing your health care policies, and to seek your assurances that this program is being carried out in a manner consistent with the First Amendment and America’s tradition of free speech and public discourse. Read more about A Call for the White House to Cease its "Enemies List"

Once again a family is separated by the broken system we call our national immigration policy. The family of US Border Patrol Agent Robert Wiley Rosas will no longer have their husband, father, son, or brother with them as he was senselessly murdered by illegal aliens crossing an unsecured border near San Diego, California. Agent Rosas (aged 30) leaves behind a wife and two young children. Read more about The Death of an American Hero...a Time to Reflect

Obama and the Democrats liberty-restricting healthcare bill is not the Democrats first run at a socialistic regimented healthcare. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, there was an attempt to extend socialism towards healthcare.

In a 1961 audio recording, President Ronald Reagan warned citizens that government-subsidized medicine would diminish Americans freedom, forcing citizens to let the government control their every move. Read more about Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine

President Obama, in comments to the recent G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, called upon the leaders of African countries to make their nations' economies self-supporting. While announcing a multinational relief package that includes $20 billion in food aid, the President said, "We do not view this assistance as an end in itself. We believe that the purpose of aid must be to create conditions where it's no longer needed." Read more about Skills Training Is Even More Important in Difficult Times

Ok. Admittedly this video is a little campy. Its a throwback to World War II, when rationing was a part of everyday life. Its meant to be campy - Its meant to be humorous. Why? Possibly because the reality is so alarming.

Read more about Health Rations and You

Not that anyone really cares what a lowly insurance agent thinks about the President’s plan to fundamentally reform one of the single largest industries in the United States, one that provides nearly 14 million jobs for Americans, but here it goes. Read more about Obamacare: An Insurance Agent's Perspective . . . if anyone in D.C. cares

Despite some calls for secession by Texas politicians we are still part of the USA and are affected by national trends. Thus we are seeing rising unemployment in Texas;  combine this with lower economic growth, especially in the oil patch, and we can safely say that recession is here! Recently, it has been revealed the State needs a 2 billion dollar federal loan to bail out our empty unemployment funds and this is after Tom Pauken's strong leadership here. How did this happen? Read more about Recession Hits Texas

Democrats have already attacked Rep. Brady's (R-TX) healthcare reform chart, threatening to use House rules to prohibit its dissemination. Now the Democrats are at it again, censoring Rep. John Carter's (R-TX) messages to constituents.

Connie Hair reports in a Human Events article that Democrats on the Franking Commission are no longer allowing Republicans to use the phrase "government run health care" in the communications to their constituents. The Franking Commission told Rep. John Carter:

Michael Yon gives the inside, uncensored story from inside Afghanistan.

Who is Michael Yon? He is an independent war correspondent who has walked on countless patrols with US and Coalition troops in Iraq and now Afghanistan. His photos and reporting give you a raw look at Iraq and Afghanistan that you will not find in mainstream media outlets. Read more about What's Happening in Afghanistan? Read Michael Yon and find out!

One of Texas GOP Vote.com's readers, Wayne Stevens, and one of our bloggers, Andy Adams, each proposed that we post the link to a petition that's going around to free our healthcare system from the impending government takeover.

Here's what Wayne wrote: