'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
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"Today, the National Rifle Association is a record 5 million strong. Even as thousands of Americans join our cause every day, the media and political elites denigrate us. They cringe at the sight of long lines at gun shows. They mock Americans who are buying firearms and ammunition at a record pace. They scorn and scold the NRA. They don't get it, because they don't get America."
Free agent safety Ed Reed signed with the Houston Texans on Friday, bolstering their defense with championship experience.
Leading up to the 2012 U.S. presidential election there was a great deal of controversy surrounding proposed voter identification laws in various states -- notably in Texas and South Carolina. Currently 20 states, the District of Columbia and all U.S. non-state territories do not require voters to produce identification of any kind at the polls. Opponents of voter ID laws claim they would deprive minorities of their voting rights. Yet those same opponents have begun to clamor for more stringent gun laws, which would deprive those same minorities of their right to bear arms.
Roger Clemens shrugged off Mike Piazza's comments in his autobiography that he took karate lessons after he was beaned by the pitcher, just in case they had another confrontation.
The earth did not quake when the United States hit the debt ceiling on Dec. 31 and the government stopped borrowing to pay its bills.
The appetite for a government shutdown is growing among Republicans, who shied away from one during the debt and spending fights in the last Congress but now say one may be needed.
Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston for treatment of a lingering cough.
Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston for treatment of a lingering cough.
If polls are to be believed, our next president will likely preside over a divided Congress. The latest RealClearPolitics model predicts Democrats will retain control of the Senate with Republicans gaining one seat overall.
Roger Clemens plans to make a second start for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League on Sept. 7.
Roger Clemens plans to make a second start for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League on Sept. 7.
Jewelry collectors who don't mind if their gems have a rather shady past will soon get the chance to bid on a stash of valuables linked to reputed mobster Frank Calabrese Sr.
Two children who were found living in a stench-filled abandoned school bus near Houston, its windows blocked and the lot around it covered in trash, are in the custody of Texas child welfare workers, officials said Thursday.
Sigmund Freud famously asked, "What does a woman want? A far easier question to answer would be: "What does the ACLU want?" C.S. Lewis observed that the agenda of the left is to make pornography public and religion private. Judging by decades of activist law attacking religious freedom and states' rights, while promoting pornography, abortion, homosexuality and now transgenderism, the American Civil Liberties Union's overriding agenda is to drive Christianity out of the public square and force public acceptance of sexual immorality of all kinds. Oh, yes, and illegal immigration. That's it in a nutshell, or a nuthouse - take your pick.
Rick Adelman is out as coach of the Houston Rockets.
