We Can't Make It Here Anymore

We Are Most Free When We Are Most Bound to Others

By ROBERT JENSEN

Power is typically approached as a question of dominance and submission. Power is marked by the ability to impose or the ability to resist that imposition. This is what some have called “power-over,”[1] which assumes a zero-sum game in which individuals are always in competition for that power—someone dominates and someone submits. In such a world, one can use this kind of power with varying levels of responsibility to others, but in such a world it is inevitable that power routinely will be used unjustly. Because there is always the threat that some other person or group can grab the power, these kinds of systems will encourage people to seek always more power.

Texas has the unique opportunity to bring sanity back to government. Texans can ‘reset’ the ticking time bomb that seems to keep approaching with crisis after crisis. We the people of Texas can put our own national government in place, in Austin, forcing that government back into the role of governing—thus eliminating the absurdities, the control, the interference in our lives, interfering in our places of worship, etc, that the current systems have evolved into over time.

Whereas the Texas Constitution of 1876 was approved by the Congress of the United States, acknowledging the rights retained by the People of Texas:

If you start to get this feeling of déjà vu, respect it.

This HAS happened before.

Dave Mundy

'Humanure' Victory

Composting commode is first to gain official stamp.

by Asher Price

by PZ Myers

Once again, Texas leads the way in absurdities.

By GREG MOSES

It's a wistful headline, I admit. But it covers a considerable hope.

Texas Vodka: Breakfast of Champions?

Glenn Beck: 'The Federal Government Wants to Nationalize the States!'

by Tana Ganeva

Beck continues stoking the paranoia of conservative crazies.

By Forrest Wilder

Groundwater is threatened by drought, overpumping and the loss of natural recharge. Too bad the state's laissez-faire water laws won't help.

Of all the American states, only two have ever been fully independent nations: the Kingdom of Hawaii, land grabbed and stolen by US business interests and Texas, which, after being an independent republic, joined the US willingly, or at least that is the official line. There are quite a few who debate the willingly part, but that, dear reader, is for another story.

By Anwar Iqbal

The House Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress heard an unusual speech from a Republican lawmaker who described US drone attacks as the bombing of a sovereign country and questioned America’s right to do so.

By Jim Hightower

Our fight against moneyed elites has more than 100 years of history.

by Daniel Miller

I was asked recently to address the issue of Texas secession. This topic is permeating every aspect of living in North America right now and rightfully so.

There are so many directions that I could tackle this topic to cover all of the bases.

By Gilbert Garcia

Few states can claim an official tourist slogan as (inadvertently?) truthful as “Texas: It’s like a whole other country.” With that in mind, Governor Rick Perry’s caught-up-in-the-moment suggestion at an April 15 Tea Party protest in Austin that Texas might secede from the United States has drawn attention to a state movement eager to remove the word “like” from that slogan.

Jason Leopold

George W. Bush's Justice Department said subjecting a person to the near drowning of waterboarding was not a crime and didn't even cause pain, but Ronald Reagan's Justice Department thought otherwise, prosecuting a Texas sheriff and three deputies for using the practice to get confessions.

By Jim Hightower

The Governor of Texas is one bad haircut away from Blagojevichian levels of gubernatorial gooberness.

Media Matters the Left Wing Media Watchdog....

But WHO is watching the watchdog?

Media Matters Reports and Publishes LIES & Propaganda

Liberal Media is the same as Conservative Media... Liars and Hypocrites.

Media Matters publishes a news report about Texans without bothering to check facts, or even interview the people involved.

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Will Texas Gov. Rick Perry Have A Bad Reelection Hair Day In November 2010?

Will Perry Finally 'Take the Ferry' From the Capitol?

by Henry Makow and Richard Evans

Secession has been a verboten issue in the United States since the end of the Civil War. Any group who've brought it up have been targeted by press and government as 'militant fringe groups"

Congressman Dr.Ron Paul on Secession 04-19-09

The Anniversary of the Day that Federal Occupation forces stormed a church in Texas and Massacred Men, Women, and Children

Between the days of February 28, 1993 and April 19th, 1993, approximately 80 men, women, and children living peacefully in their home near Waco, Texas, were killed by the combined efforts of the US Defense Department and other government paramilitary units: the US Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The incident also claimed the lives of four ATF agents.

The civilians lived in a religious community called the Mt. Carmel Center. They were called Branch Davidians.

A new poll out Friday shows that, should Texas Gov. Rick Perry decide the time is right for his state to secede, he might not have much support.

By Melissa del Bosque
Texas Observer

TV spin-meisters claim that violence from Mexico's drug trade threatens to spill over into the U.S. This is pure fear mongering.

Perry tells constituents to get behind McCain

Senator is best hope for GOP, governor insists

By PATRICK BRENDEL

Texas state rep sought electric industry's aid in getting bills passed

Memo says King asked electric firms to lobby

By ELIZABETH SOUDER

So he should order the FEDs OUT OF TEXAS!

By Eunice Moscoso

On Feb. 18, 1817, a Boston teenager with a hand-cranked press produced the first printed words in Texas history - the long-winded manifesto of an ill-fated expedition.

To: Governor Rick Perry, State of Texas

From: Jay J. Johnson-Castro,

Reference: Texas-Mexico Border Tourism Task Force…of the Rio Grande Corridor

By BETSY BLANEY

Cotton producer Doug Hlavaty looks across his South Plains fields and sees the potential for trouble.

Fired Reporter Angelia Joiner Sparks Conspiracy Theories

Emil Steiner

Brushing off calls by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and others for him to withdraw from the presidential race, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Tuesday that his longshot strategy for winning the Republican nomination runs straight through Texas.

Clinton moves on to Texas

by Foon Rhee

By Don M. Fisher

As Uncle Hugh used to say, "If you don’t understand why Texas is like it is, you’d better head for Oklahoma before they send you to the pen!"

By Dr. Gene Ellis

I’ve said it before, but it isn’t getting better. So I guess I’ll say it again. From what I can see, much of public education in our big cities (at least of this state) is sorely lacking. (Thank goodness our country schools don’t have the same level or magnitude of these problems.)

By Bartee Haile

A Galveston judge ended Charles Ponzi’s yearlong stay in Texas on Feb. 10, 1924, by ordering the extradition of the infamous fugitive to Massachusetts, where a prison cell was waiting for him.

By Nathan Diebenow

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Wanna know what that thing that goes bump in the night is?

Wanna know the best recipe for blood?

Wanna know what it’s like walking with real, live fake zombies?

Then, check out the next installment of Texas Frightmare Weekend!

These faux patriots will get you into serious legal trouble!
They will lead you to waters they muddied before you got to drink.

Oh they sound good! Most con-artists sound really nice.
They will deliver honey to the ears - while fleecing your integrity and wallet.

by Jim Freeman

Harsh Season Overwhelms Afghans

Hopes for Progress Battered by War, Weather, Economy and Regional Tension

By DEBRA DENNIS

A former Duncanville teacher was sentenced to 50 years in prison last week after pleading guilty to several charges including aggravated sexual assault, burglary, attempted burglary and possession of pornography.

by John W. Whitehead

I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
—Don McLean, American Pie (1971)

One hundred years ago, the beginnings of 4-H in Texas started sprouting in Jack County, the idea of an extension agent named Thomas Marks. 4-H clubs have been thriving ever since, helping convey to young people the values that have made our state great.

By Steve Hammons

The local newspaper reporter in Stephenville, Texas, who helped cover a UFO sighting case there is no longer working at the Stephenville Empire-Tribune newspaper, effective last Thursday, Feb. 7.

Residents beat, then shoot, Dallas rape suspect

Led by victim's boyfriend, the angry group goes after man accused of assaulting a mother inside an apartment where children were inside, police say

A very gentle Texas lady was driving across a high bridge in Texas one day.

U.S. military officials say fighter jets were training in a rural area the night of Jan. 8 when dozens of people reported seeing a UFO.

Illegal immigrants are coming into Texas, but not from where one might think.

Perry not always in Texas – even on working days

It's campaign season. Do you know where your governor is?

By ANABELLE GARAY

A lawsuit was filed Tuesday over this Dallas suburb's latest effort to keep out illegal immigrants by barring home rentals to people who can't prove they are in the country legally.

Judge mulls BP plea in Texas plant blast

By JUAN A. LOZANO

Justice Department had assailed conditions at prison in Valley

By DOUG J. SWANSON

The Texas Youth Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed on measures to stop unconstitutional treatment of juvenile inmates at TYC's Evins prison in Edinburg.

By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER

Just how broke is TxDOT really?

Lawmakers will be asking that Tuesday during a joint session of the Senate finance and transportation committees.

Country music legend Willie Nelson compared the collapse of the World Trade Center to the controlled implosions of casinos in Las Vegas while on nationally syndicated radio this week.

BELTON — Music of Texas Western Swing will once again fill the Bell County Expo Assembly Room on Saturday, March 8, for the 12th Annual Texas Western Swing Fiddling Showcase.

By Bartee Haile

Andrew Jackson Donelson crossed Feb. 5 off his 1846 calendar and made a mental note that his historic work in the Lone Star Republic would be finished in two more weeks.

By Don M. Fisher

As Uncle Hugh used to say, "Don’t ask why people ain’t honest as long as anything is hard to get."

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

To judge by the accented conversation and hearty glad-handing among audience members, there were a lot of Texans in attendance on Saturday night for the Carnegie Hall debut of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

Perry's Trans-Texas Corridor plan is a hard sell

Officials pitch his proposed road network in packed, skeptical area meetings

By RAD SALLEE and ERIC HANSON

Texas governor gives CrossDresser Giuliani a hand in Florida

By KELLEY SHANNON