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Republican National Committee member Randy Evans said Wednesday that Donald Trump would likely be able to secure the Republican nomination if he captures anything more than 1,100 delegates, short of the 1,237 delegates needed for a simple majority. "If Donald Trump exceeds 1,100 votes, he will become the nominee even though he may not have 1,237," Evans said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Evans' comment is good news for Trump if it's a sentiment shared by other RNC members, since Trump is at risk of falling short of a majority of delegates by the time of the convention in July. But...

Longtime Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his top assistant were arrested Friday morning by the FBI on federal bribery conspiracy charges. An indictment filed Wednesday and unsealed Friday morning lists the following charges against Price, who was taken into custody about 8 a.m.: Conspiracy to Commit Bribery Concerning a Local Government Receiving Federal Benefits Deprivation of Honest Services by Mail Fraud and Aiding and Abetting Conspiracy to Defraud the Internal Revenue Service Subscribing to a False and Fraudulent U.S. Individual Income Tax Return "The indictment unsealed today alleges that for more than a decade, in a shocking betrayal...

A popular Harrisburg outdoors show that was postponed indefinitely because of a controversy over assault weapons will not be rescheduled this year. The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show had been scheduled to start Feb. 2 at the Farm Show Complex. But its ban on assault weapons in the wake of a Connecticut school shooting led to a backlash and vendor boycott. Organizers indefinitely postponed the event last month.

Seen any walnuts in your medicine cabinet lately? According to the Food and Drug Administration, that is precisely where you should find them. Because Diamond Foods made truthful claims about the health benefits of consuming walnuts that the FDA didn’t approve, it sent the company a letter declaring, “Your walnut products are drugs” — and “new drugs” at that — and, therefore, “they may not legally be marketed … in the United States without an approved new drug application.” The agency even threatened Diamond with “seizure” if it failed to comply. Diamond’s transgression was to make “financial investments to educate...

Now SB 321 goes to Governor Perry! At 6:30 p.m. today, May 27th, the Texas Senate passed the conference committee report on SB 321 by Hegar/Kleinschmidt. The House passed their version yesterday and NOW at last SB 321, the Employer Parking Lot bill, is on its way to Governor Perry's desk. The conference process is required because the House made changes to a Senate bill... This was also an opportunity to add a bit more immunity for employers, something of concern to Governor Perry, and make a tweak or two to the language. The only "carve-outs" forced on the bill...

Long-time North Texas politician Tom Vandergriff died Thursday at the age of 84. Vandergriff's political career spanned 55 years. He first served as mayor of Arlington from 1951 to 1977. Vandergriff was just 25 when he was elected to office and was given the title "Boy Mayor." Vandergriff was considered the driving force responsible for luring the General Motors Assembly Plant and the Texas Rangers to Arlington. He was honored with a statue in center field, known as Vandergriff Plaza. According to the Star-Telegram, Vandergriff's list of accomplishments in Arlington also include securing land for Lake Arlington, spearheading the creation...

Former Air Force Officers: UFOs Tampered With Nuclear Missiles Updated: 2 hours 39 minutes ago (Sept. 25) -- Former U.S. Air Force officers and a former enlisted man are about to break many years of silence about an alarming series of UFO encounters at nuclear weapons sites -- incidents officially kept secret for decades. When the group appears at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Monday, it will offer testimony about events so chilling, it will seem like a day at a science fiction movie festival. To put you in the mood for the...

Published October 18 2009 Nelson 'Modcoms' are without principle By: Ross Nelson Most Americans are bored to tears by politics. Perhaps 30 percent can be described as avid liberals or conservatives. The bulk floats along quietly with whatever direction the political stream is flowing until directly impinged upon by large tax increases, or particularly outrageous political stunts. That’s the main reason we find ourselves as a rogue superpower warring across the globe while our currency’s value implodes. Conservatism of old used to be very wary of presidents, George Washington being the exception. They were thought to be possible prototypes of...

I would greatly appreciate a larger or better version of this: The original was done by CNN. I had a couple stored on my hard drive, but they were lost during a computer crash last year... Thanks!

Boehner to Face Leadership Challenge November 14, 2008 2:52 PM ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: A conservative California congressman announced Friday that he's mounting a leadership challenge to House Minority Leader John Boehner, as the GOP continues to assess the fallout from last week’s election losses. Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., becomes the first rank-and-file House member to announce his intent to challenge the top House Republican in next week’s leadership elections. The No. 2 and No. 3 House Republicans have said they’re stepping down from their posts, but Boehner is seeking another term as minority leader. “I am embarking on...

URGENT! Help Keep NRA-PVF Ads on the Air Until Election Day! OUR RIGHTS ARE IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY, BUT VICTORY IS STILL WITHIN REACH! With only a few short weeks left, we are facing what could be, if we do not act now, a disaster for our Second Amendment Freedoms! But we have the power to stop it! Tracking polls tell us that if the election were held today, not only would Barack Obama become the most anti-gun politician ever elected President of the United States, gun owners would be facing losses of between 20-30 pro-gun votes in the U.S. House...

Was Palin's comment about Obama fair? No 55% Yes 45% Total Votes: 212,157 Note on Poll Results

Tue, Aug. 12, 2008 American Airlines has truth on its side, still gets beaten up By TREBOR BANSTETTER tbanstetter@star-telegram.com It sounds like another of those "greedy airline" stories that are always so popular around the water cooler: American Airlines is forcing soldiers heading to combat duty in Iraq to pay baggage fees for checking duffel bags loaded with military equipment. It’s a great story, except that it’s largely untrue. (snip)

Texas State Rifle Association Political Action CommitteeTSRA Members, Family and Friends:Earlier today we asked members to contact House Calendar's committee with a list of pro-gun bills.Since that alert went out, HB 258 by Rep. Frank Corte (R-San Antonio) has been passed out of Calendars and is set to be heard on the House floor on Tuesday, April 10th.   HB 258 deals with stopping possible New Orleans-style gun confiscations in the event of a disaster in Texas, natural or man made. If you have already called or emailed the members of the Calendar's Committee on HB 258, Thank YOU!    If not, then remember...

NORAD to turn out lights on Cold War headquarters By PETER ROPER THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN Perhaps it was inevitable, once the Berlin Wall was torn down, that Pentagon officials would start thinking about closing the big blast doors at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station one last time and hanging out the “Closed until further notice” sign. In a startling announcement, that process got under way Friday when Navy Adm. Tim Keating, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, announced that NORAD would be moving out of the legendary headquarters that is burrowed deeply inside Cheyenne Mountain - a granite...

NEWS RELEASE Second Amendment Foundation 12500 NE Tenth Place  • Bellevue, WA   98005(425) 454-7012  • FAX (425) 451-3959  • www.saf.org SAF FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST NEW ORLEANS POLICE CHIEF’S PLAN TO GRAB GUNS For Immediate Release:   6/5/2006 BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is calling upon U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to investigate New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley over his announcement last week that police in his city would once again confiscate privately-owned firearms in the event of another catastrophic storm like Hurricane Katrina. During a live interview with a New Orleans radio station, Riley acknowledged that citizens...

Russian army rescues kegs of beer Russian troops have retrieved 10 tonnes of beer trapped under the Siberian ice after a week-long operation. A lorry carrying the beer was lost while crossing the frozen River Irtysh, near the city of Omsk, about 2,200 kilometres (1400 miles) from Moscow. The driver managed to jump out after the ice gave way, but the lorry and its cargo sank. Six divers, 10 men with electric saws and a tank pulled the beer kegs - but not the truck - to safety. Beer going cheapWith temperatures reaching -27C, the rescue mission was fraught...

NEWS RELEASE SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION SUES TO STOP VICTIM DISARMAMENT IN SAN FRANCISCOBELLEVUE, WA – Despite opposition from police, media organizations and various organizations to an ill-advised ban on handguns and the sale of firearms and ammunition, Proposition H passed in San Francisco Tuesday, and today, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is joining in a lawsuit to challenge this measure in court. "If you ban firearms, criminals will not obey the law and only law-abiding citizens will be victimized, first by the ordinance, which we believe violates state statute, and then by the outlaws," said SAF founder Alan M....

Sturm Ruger Founder William Ruger Dies DOW JONES NEWSWIRES PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Sturm Ruger & Company Inc.'s (RGR) founder and chairman emeritus William Batterman Ruger died on July 6. In a press release Monday, the company said that Ruger died at the age of 86 after a period of failing health. Ruger led the company for 51 years before retiring in 2000. Headquartered in Southport, Connecticut, Sturm Ruger makes rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers for sporting and law-enforcement purposes. -Ruth Wang; Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5388

Why is it that Rick Perry does not respond to all of the negative ads that Sanchez has been running?