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"At no time in CPRIT investigation was Governor Rick Perry or anyone from the Governor's office a target," Walling wrote in the affidavit dated Aug. 20. "At no time did I ever obtain evidence that suggested any wrongdoing on behalf of Governor Rick Perry or the Governor's office."

Eli Wallach, a gravelly voiced character actor who appeared alongside such giants as Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits, Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Al Pacino in The Godfather: Part III, died Tuesday, his daughter Katherine told The New York Times. He was 98.

The responsibility for securing the border rests exclusively on the federal government. The federal government’s failure to secure the border has created an incentive for families to send their children on a dangerous, and sometimes fatal, journey. Until the federal government fulfills its duty, it falls on the State of Texas to address those obligations

What a wonderful coming together of two diverse groups! This is how they found one of them.

Some Southern educators, after learning that Oakland, California has started labeling black slang as "Ebonics," have decided there is a need to designate Southern slang as a geographic language. Ergo, Hickphonics. A speaker of this would be a Hickophone. Here is a sampling from the new Hickphonics dictionary now being compiled: 1. HEIDI - noun. greeting. 2. HIRE YEW - complete sentence. remainder of greeting. Usage: "Heidi, hire yew?" 3. BARD - verb. past tense of "to borrow". Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck." 4. JAWJUH - noun. a state just north or florida. capital is lanna. Usage: "My...

Two men who claimed in numerous national television interviews that they found buried treasure in the back yard of a home were arrested early Friday after being questioned by police, who said the money was stolen. Investigators believe Barry Billcliff, 27, of Manchester, N.H., and Timothy Crebase, 22, of Methuen, Mass., found old bank notes and bills in a house where they were doing roofing work.

I've been reading up on the fiduciary relationships that the government has placed upon American citizens.Aquiring a birth certificate (placing in the corporate juristiction of the state).The usage of a Social Security number (placing us in the juristiction of the Federal government & the IRS). Marrigage certificate (placing our children in the juristiction of the state) - the list goes on and on. The question is, are there any FReepers who have legally become the type of citizen our Founders originally intended all of us to be?Searching the current and archived posts on FR for Sovereign Citizen, American National, expatriation ...

January 1998 On January 12, President Clinton announced a directive to the Attorney General aimed at reducing illegal drug use in prison (Press Release, "Zero Tolerance for Drug Use and Drug Availability for Offenders," The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, January 12, 1998; Christopher Wren, "Clinton to Require State Efforts to Cut Drug Use in Prisons," New York Times, January 12, 1998, p. A1; Elizabeth Shogren, "Clinton to Order States to Fight Prison Drug Use," Los Angeles Times (Washington Edition), January 12, 1998, p. A5; Elizabeth Shogren, "President to order states to assess prison drug use, chart battle ...

Some time ago, I was fortunate enough to find a paper written by a gentleman named Jack Colson. I've never met Mr. Colson, and I don't even know what he does, but the paper he wrote is one of the best, most thorough discussions concerning the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and how they relate to the rights (property) of a citizen in America that I have ever been fortunate enough to find. Please permit me to quote from Mr. Jack Colson quite extensively in this Report: At the time the Constitutional Contract of 1787 was established the term Citizen of ...