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  • 2014 Texas Primary: 1st Day Early Voting Totals for Harris County [breakdown by party]

    02/19/2014 5:01:12 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 46 replies
    February 19, 2014
    Note that there are 3 charts listing totals for 1st day [February 18, 2014] early voting in Harris County Texas for the March 4, 2014 Texas primary. The 1st chart combines Republican party and Democratic party numbers for the day. The 2nd chart is the Democratic party totals. The 3rd chart is the Republican party totals. Each chart lists totals for individual voting locations. Totals for early voters (person) and early voters (mail-ins) are tallied. Potential number of mail-ins (from total ballots requested and mailed to voters) is also shown. Harris County Texas [a large swath of the Houston metro...
  • Off-duty UT officer kills suspected burglar

    02/16/2014 11:52:35 AM PST · by marktwain · 3 replies
    chron.com ^ | 10 February, 2014 | James Pinkerton |
    <p>An off-duty University of Texas police officer shot and killed an intruder he struggled with Monday in a Houston apartment complex, police said.</p> <p>The officer, who was not identified, was working an off-duty security job at the Arcadian Apartments at 7550 Kirby when management called him to investigate a report of a break-in about 1:35 p.m. at one of the apartments, Houston Police Department spokeswoman Jodi Silva said.</p>
  • Stockman campaign sends fiery tweet alleging Cornyn is a big fat liar

    02/14/2014 12:41:43 PM PST · by cotton1706 · 8 replies
    redalertpoliticx.com ^ | 2/14/14 | Melissa Quinn
    Rep. Steve Stockman @StockmanSenate Follow If you're chilly tonight, huddle near John Cornyn's pants for warmth. A tweet from Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas)’s campaign Twitter account caused some followers to do a double take Thursday night, while those in on the joke prompted a chant of “liar, liar, pants on fire.” Stockman’s social media strategy has raised many an eyebrow with tweets that pack quite the punch, and the congressman’s Senate campaign Twitter account has gained notoriety for its attacks on Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Stockman’s primary challenger. Operating under the handle @StockmanSenate, the Texas conservative’s campaign sent a tweet...
  • Texas open carry group seeks spotlight on harassment of veterans and gun owners

    02/14/2014 6:14:54 AM PST · by marktwain · 2 replies
    Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 4 February, 2014 | David Codrea
    “Recently we've unearthed some sickening corruption in a nearby town and it's led to unlawful arrests and gun confiscations from two veterans that are also Oath Keepers,” a Friday Facebook message from James Franklin, Regional Director for Come and Take It Texas - West Texas Region, began. “Over the past week this issue has gotten even more complicated as the police in the town refuse to file police reports about one of their residents making terroristic threats against our group's members.” Franklin was referring to a local resident who opposes lawful open carry of long guns to the point of...
  • TX:Dozens Open Carry Rifles in Dallas

    02/11/2014 7:13:50 AM PST · by marktwain · 12 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 12 February, 2014 | Dean Weingarten
    Courtesy myfoxdfw.com Dallas had a significant open carry event on 9 February. Dozens of open carriers participated. Myfoxdfw.com estimated 60. The demonstration by about 60 members of Open Carry Texas was meant to bring awareness to their cause, which is for the Texas Legislature to allow any citizen to carry a pistol in the open just as the law allows carrying of long guns. Weird that the reporter did not mention that both likely candidates for governor, Greg Abbot (R) and Wendy Davis (D), have come out in support of open carry. CBSDFW.COM did a better job. They estimated...
  • Open Carry March Planned for Andrews Texas on 15 February

    02/10/2014 10:11:00 AM PST · by marktwain · 8 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 11 February, 2014 | Dean Weingarten
    Andrews, Texas, has become a focus of activism for the restoration of the right to openly carry sidearms.  Historically, the right was lost in the rewriting of the Texas Constitution in 1871 by the reconstruction government.    After the reconstruction government was voted out, then driven from office by an impromptu militia, the Texas Constitution was rewritten again, but a loophole was left in that allowed the wearing of sidearms to be regulated.  The reconstruction law was never repealed, so the current Texas Constitution only protects the carrying of long arms such as rifles and shotguns.  Definitions in the law do...
  • TX Cop Killer Skates. Have No-Knock Raids Jumped the Shark?

    02/08/2014 5:31:31 AM PST · by marktwain · 72 replies
    TTAG ^ | 7 February, 2014 | Robert Farago
    “A Burleson County Grand Jury declined to indict the man who shot and killed Burleson County Sheriff’s Deputy Adam Sowders who was serving a search warrant in December,” kbtx.com reports. “Investigators were executing a search warrant at Henry McGee’s mobile home near Snook when the shooting happened.” The shooting didn’t just “happen.” “Henry McGee admitted to shooting Deputy Sowders before sunrise on December 19th while the deputy and other investigators were serving a no knock search warrant for drugs at McGee’s mobile home near Snook. Magee’s Defense Attorney Dick DeGuerin says his client thought someone was breaking into his home...
  • Texas Veterans Illegally Arrested, Guns Confiscated

    02/06/2014 4:03:05 PM PST · by marktwain · 78 replies
    CATI ^ | 30 January, 2014 | James Franklin
    Texas Veterans Illegally Arrested, Guns Confiscated in News, Uncategorized, Video8 days ago 6 Comments 2,966 Views   On the evening of November 30, 2013 Joey Posey, a veteran of the Army’s 101st Airborne was arrested and jailed by police in Andrews, TX. He had taken a walk with his children to get ice cream and french fries and decided to openly carry his AR-15 in addition to his legally concealed handgun. Although the open carry of a longarm is legal in Texas, it was for this reason that he and his children found themselves forced to the ground as soon...
  • Open Carry is Coming to Texas

    02/06/2014 8:19:49 AM PST · by marktwain · 45 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 7 February, 2014 | Dean Weingarten
    For those who do not pay close attention to insider politics in Texas, both parties' likely candidates for governor have now endorsed the policy of restoring the legal open carry of sidearms to Texans.  The open carry of sidearms was banned by the  reconstruction government after the civil war (war between the states), when the reconstruction government effectively neutered the state constitutional guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms by writing a new constitution. After the reconstruction governor was forced to flee the governors mansion (he lost the election, refused to concede, and an impromptu Texas militia...
  • TX:Rookie cop who shot 72-year-old dead in his home while investigating burglary at the WRONG

    02/03/2014 5:17:31 AM PST · by marktwain · 64 replies
    dailymail.co.uk ^ | 30 January, 2014 | Ashley Collman
    A grand jury in Tarrant County, Texas has decided not to indict the rookie police officer who shot dead a homeowner while investigating a burglary at the wrong address. Last May, R.A. 'Alex' Hoeppner and his partner Benjamin Hanlon accidentally started searching 72-year-old Jerry Waller's property, confusing it in the dark for a house across the street. Waller was in bed with his wife Kathy at the time, and was stirred by the police officer's flashlights. Fearing a prowler was outside, he grabbed his .35-caliber-pistol and went to investigate. According to a search warrant affidavit released by the Star-Telegram in...
  • TX:Argyle school district votes again to approve gun policy

    02/02/2014 6:55:39 PM PST · by marktwain · 24 replies
    dentonrc.com ^ | 29 January, 2014 | Britney Tabor
    ARGYLE — School board members voted unanimously a second time Wednesday to approve a controversial policy that will allow some teachers, administrators and other staff members to carry firearms on campus. The new vote also authorizes some school board members to carry concealed guns at board meetings or on school property, a provision that was not spelled out in details provided by the school district after the previous vote. A copy of the policy was not posted until after board members voted on the policy last week. Board President Kevin Faciane said the new vote was mostly “procedural in nature.”...
  • Glenn Beck Reagan speech at Sheriff's Posse Part 1

    02/02/2014 3:11:49 PM PST · by jtonn · 3 replies
    Youtube ^ | 2/2/14 | TheBlaze
    Part 1 of his speech to the Parker County Texas Republican fundraiser.
  • Alleged intruder shot in face during home invasion

    02/02/2014 1:23:38 PM PST · by marktwain · 21 replies
    foxsanantonio.com ^ | 27 January, 2014 | NA
    SAN ANTONIO -- One person is in critical condition after a home invasion on the west side. Police say four people tried to break into the home on Merida last night. One of the suspects was shot in the face after the homeowner fired a shotgun. The homeowner told police he was watching television when the men showed up at his door. They were banging on the door, yelling at him to come out.
  • TX:Girl Scouts and Guns Go Viral in Dallas

    01/28/2014 4:03:43 PM PST · by marktwain · 13 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 29 January, 2014 | Dean Weingarten
    The above picture is going viral on the net. It shows a couple of members of Come And Take It of Fort Worth with some Girl Scouts.   I talked to Kathy Perkins, who was there,  and she told me about how it came to be taken. Kathy says that the local chapter of Come And Take it was engaging in their usual act of civic education by taking a walk in the area.   While they were doing so, they saw the Girl Scouts selling cookies.   Feeling a little hungry, they decided to buy some of the cookies.  The Girl...
  • Homeowner’s son shoots, kills burglary suspect in Van Zandt County

    01/27/2014 2:47:36 PM PST · by marktwain · 18 replies
    dallasnews.com ^ | 21 January, 2014 | Claire Cardona
    The homeowner woke up to see a man burglarizing his pickup truck that was parked in his front yard. He approached the man with a rifle, intending to hold him until law enforcement could arrive, but the man fled the scene, according to the Van Zandt County Sheriff’s Office. The homeowner fired at the man and then noticed a truck parked in the dark near the roadway, which he believed belonged to the man so he got in the truck and took the keys out of the ignition to prevent him from leaving the scene. The man confronted the homeowner...
  • Open Carry March in Andrews Texas Successful

    01/27/2014 4:48:10 AM PST · by marktwain · 5 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 27 January, 2014 | Dean Weingarten
    Members of Come And Take It Assemble for Their Rally Image courtesey  newswest9.com The open carry rally in Andrews, Texas, went off without a hitch on Saturday, 25 January.    The local newswest9.com headline was: Gun Rally in Andrews Had Message of Education, Peace Members of Come and Take It in Andrew, Texas Image courtesy  newswest9.com This occurred in spite of the arrest of a member of the organization, Michael Keoghan when he was scouting out a route for the rally.   In spite of the controversial arrest, Police Chief Bud Jones insisted that he supported the rights of everyone.  From...
  • Breaking News: Judge orders Texas hospital to remove life support from brain-dead pregnant woman.

    01/24/2014 2:36:50 PM PST · by EDINVA · 202 replies
    Fox News ^ | 01-24-2014 | Fox News
    Breaking News: Judge orders Texas hospital to remove life support from brain-dead pregnant woman.
  • Maria Schriver's adoring interview of sugardaddy loving gubt. canindate Wendy Davis.

    01/22/2014 3:42:23 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 11 replies
    NBC Today Show, YouTube ^ | 1/15/14 | Maria Schriver
    I was bored earlier today and wandered over to Alex Witt's show on MSNBC and about and around 3:55 CST she was grousing about the conservatives "obsession" about Wendy Davis minor discretions. What a hypocrite.
  • Mexican who gunned down Houston cop WILL be executed tonight despite last

    01/22/2014 1:46:22 PM PST · by moonshinner_09 · 41 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 22 January 2014 | DAILY MAIL REPORTER
    Mexican who gunned down Houston cop WILL be executed tonight despite last-minute pleas from Mexico government A Mexican held on death-row in a Texan prison for murdering a policeman will be executed tonight despite last-ditch appeals from lawyers for clemency. Edgar Arias Tamayo, 46, was set for lethal injection this evening for shooting of Guy Gaddis, 24, in January 1994. The case has been a focus of protests in his home town and diplomatic pressure, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calling for a delay to Tamayo's execution. Tamayo's lawyers had lodged an appeal arguing that he was ineligible...
  • Hannity: I Talked With My Wife – “We Are Going to Leave” New York State (Video)

    01/21/2014 8:11:34 PM PST · by servo1969 · 61 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | 1-21-2014 | Jim Hoft
    Sean Hannity tells his audience he is leaving New York state after Cuomo’s comments. Sean said he discussed it with his wife and they are moving to Texas or Florida. “Look, I have contractual obligations, I can’t leave here. My kids are in school. And there are about over 100 people who that rely on me. People who have kids and mortgages and homes. I can’t selfishly pack up and leave. But my wife and I discussed last night Dana that we are going to leave. I wouldn’t pay a 10% state tax in Florida or Texas. I would save...