Yes it may be grandstanding. And yes we often frown on grandstanding. But there is a time when publicly speaking truth to the corrupt and greedy government workers is needed…no REQUIRED!

Trey Gowdy rocks it at the House Hearing on the IRS Scandal.

Watch and say “Amen”! Read more about (VIDEO) Trey Gowdy's IRS Smackdown!

During a debate hosted by the Clear Lake Tea Party on the "Gang of Eight's" Immigration and Border Security Bill, Texans for Immigration Reduction and Enforcement President (TFIRE) Larry Korkmas attempted to deceive the highly patriotic audience by conflating the tragedy of the Boston Marathon terrorist attack with our nation's lax border security policies and illegal immigration. In fact, the Boston bombing has nothing to do with border security or illegally crossing our borders. Those people were admitted to the United States legally, one of them even became a United States citizen through naturalization. Read more about TFIRE President Called out After Conflating Boston Bombing with Border Security - "Shame on you!"

James Madison wrote, "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." But the enemy the government is now fighting isn't just a foreign one, it appears to be fighting its own citizens. Madison underestimated the oppressive nature of a regime constantly at war.

Neither George Orwell nor Aldous Huxley could have thought up a novel as frightening as our current intelligence apparatus. Big Brother has nothing on Big Data. If flying unmanned drones over U.S. soil with the ability to pick off U.S. citizens isn't scary enough, now we have learned of a secret court

The House Oversight & Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations will hold a field hearing in Dayton on Monday June 10th. The hearing, entitled “The Delphi Pension Bailout: Unequal Treatment of Retirees,” will take place at Sinclair Community College.

This field hearing will continue to highlight the shameful treatment of Delphi Salaried Retirees by the Obama Administration.

Once again, today’s jobs report shows that our economy is recovering at a sluggish pace and that job growth is far behind our potential. In addition to our chronically high unemployment rate, our nation’s employment rate is near a 30-year low and has barely shifted over the past three years. Read more about Pete Sessions Statement on May Jobs Report

The following notice was sent out by the NRA's Institute for Legislative Affairs:

The Texas Legislature adjourned its regular session on Memorial Day after passing fifteen pro-Second Amendment measures, and was immediately called back into special session by Governor Rick Perry to address the drawing of district lines in which federal and state lawmakers will run for re-election next year. The Governor can

The following was sent in from Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson:

On June 6, 1944 at 6:30am, a large Allied operation under the Supreme Command of U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, landed on the coast of Normandy, France. Over 160,000 soldiers primarily from America, Britain and Canada were landed that day in the largest amphibious invasion in world history and at least 12,000 of those lost their lives, many of them from Texas.

As the years pass by, and as America loses more and more members of the Greatest Generation - it becomes too easy to overlook the importance of this day. It becomes too easy to forget the terrible cost that was paid to throw back the tyranny of an evil which threatened our world.

Update: I has been said that video and pictures are not needed at SREC meetings because audio recording is allowed. The problem is there are no roll call votes so audio recording will NOT show how SREC members vote. Only Video Recording will show how each SREC member votes.Please pass this information around to Grassroots Republicans in Texas. The vote is THIS Saturday June 8th, 2013.Contact the Texas GOP Headquarters (click here) and Contact your Texas SREC member (click here) NOW and ask them to vote in FAVOR of transparency! Ask them to NOT BAN their voting records from being recorded.This Saturday, June 8th, 2013, the Texas GOP State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) will be voting on a standing rule to either allow or ban video and photographs of Texas GOP open meetings. Read more about Texas GOP Prepares to BAN Recordings of their Votes at SREC Open Meetings

The following was sent in from Attorney General Greg Abbott:

Your Liberty -- as a United States citizen -- was weakened and threatened yesterday when the Obama Administration helped the United Nations pass the Arms Trade Treaty. Immediately after this disappointing vote, I wrote a letter to President Obama urging him not to sign the treaty. If the President signs the treaty allowing the UN to be involved in regulating firearms in the U.S., Texas will lead the charge to have the treaty overturned in court as a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - Ronald Reagan

The IRS Scandal hits at the core of our Democracy as we see the most feared federal bureaucracy attacking or being used to attack political opponents.