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After Breitbart Texas reported on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) intent to seize 90,000 acres belonging to Texas landholders along the Texas/Oklahoma line, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott questioned the BLM’s authority to take such action. “I am about ready,” General Abbott told Breitbart Texas, “to go to go to the Red River and raise a ‘Come and Take It’ flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas.” Gen. Abbott sent a strongly-worded letter to BLM Director Neil Kornze, asking for answers to a series of questions related to the potential land grab. “I am deeply...

In a speech in Phoenix in early November, Governor Palin warned that inflationary pressures were on the rise, particularly in the food and energy sectors. She also noted that Ben Bernanke’s plan to print another 600 billion to as much as 1 trillion dollars via his QE2 plan would only exacerbate the problem, as monetizing the debt always does, and advised him to “cease and desist” from this ill-advised scheme. This prompted the hapless Sudeep Reddy to cry foul and claim, essentially, that there was no inflation. Governor Palin promptly took Reddy to the woodshed, an exchange Palin won going...