Prohibitionists Win The Battle But Lose The War
Prohibitionists Win The Battle But Lose The War Ax-swinging Rangers raided night clubs in Houston, Galveston, and Austin on March 15, 1935, pouring bootleg beer down the drain and confiscating cases of hard liquor in the losing battle to keep Texas dry more than a year after the rest of country had fallen off the wagon. The first attempt by Lone Star legislators to restrict their constituents
Asylum-Seeker Jailed For His Opinions
Asylum-Seeker Jailed For His Opinions
Happy St. Patrick
Happy St. Patrick
Can We Please Get Some Real News?
Can We Please Get Some Real News? I
Truisms: Part One
Truisms:
There are many “true things” in this world. We all discover these little gems for ourselves. For instance, some of my “true things” include “There
Facing a Thought Crime Tribunal
Facing a Thought Crime Tribunal
Keep The
Keep The
The Texas Legislature Meets A Son Of A Beach
The Texas Legislature Meets A Son Of A Beach As Uncle Hugh used to say, “It
Rush Limbaugh Is The Democratic Party
Rush Limbaugh Is The Democratic Party
Texas Ranks Second In Child Homelessness
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas is number two on a list of states with the most children that experience homelessness in the nation, according to a new report Ken Martin, executive director of the Texas Homeless Network, told the Associated Press that he could have told that the report
Pentagon Plays Down Burn Pit Health Risks In Iraq
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. troops were exposed to cancer-causing chemicals while living near open-air burn pits in Iraq. The Pentagon knew about the risks yet downplayed them, according to a new leaked report dated 2006. The report stated that testing difficulties caused investigators problems in proving the chemical exposure broke military guidelines, though another report leaked last December indicated that exposure levels regularly jumped above safe levels up to six times. This second report, released by the editor of VAWatchdog.org, Larry Scott, focused on the Balad Airbase, 70 kilometers north of Baghdad. An Army investigator stated that the Balad burn pit was the worst environmental site he had ever visited, according to the report. Coinciding with the leaked report, the Pentagon released a fact sheet downplaying the dangers of the pits to troops, though by their own admission, the fact sheet stated that the levels of toxic particles were higher than military standards in five of every six cases by up to six times the amount in 2007. The Army Times reported that the samples and their reports taken from Balad were classified. The toxic chemicals released from the burning garbage pits include arsenic, benzene, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, sulfuric acid, and dioxin, the infamous poison found in the herbicide Agent Orange used extensively during the Vietnam War.
Chuck Norris Hints At Texas
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Forget about the Republican fight for the governor
Cheney Led Assassination Squad: Hersh
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former Vice President Dick Cheney lead an assassination squad directly from his office during the Bush administration, according to an investigative reporter. Seymour Hersh made this revelation last week before an audience at the University of Minnesota discussing “America
Shot By A Gun That Didn’t Make Any Noise
My shipmate lived out the last years of his life in a ranch house tucked up away from the state highway on a rutted dirt path past a dairy barn, a memorial to pioneer settlers and two lazy hounds wagging their tails and barking up a storm. He and I rode the same class of destroyer. On his voyages to Vietnam, he was exposed to Agent Orange, the deadly defoliant that contains Dioxin. He did not speculate, he knew deep down in his working man
