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Congress Energy Bill Speedreading Atrocity

Speed reading a bill is equal to treason!

Dictionary.com defines treason as: the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

Considering the climate change bill for law without even reading it HAS to be considered TREASON. Laws affect everyone. Surely our elected representatives MUST read bills before they are passed into law!

Of course we only need to look back as far as the stimulus bill, (which wasn't read by one person in the House or the Senate) to see that our Congress hold us, the public, in contempt!

The majority of Republicans voted against the Cap and Trade bill. Republicans voting in favor of cap and trade or not voting – None were from Texas: Bono Mack  CA; Castle  DE; Kirk  IL; Lance  NJ; LoBiondo  NJ; McHugh  NY; Reichert WA and Smith  NJ

Republicans Not Voting: Flake AZ; Sullivan OK

Three Texas Democrats voted against the bill: Edwards; Ortiz and Rodriguez

City Sues Its Own Residents - How certificates of obligation can take a government agency further into debt without voter approval.

Obama's "Saved Jobs" Lie - The President and his team again claimed the stimulus has “saved” 150,000 jobs during a time when 1.6 million jobs were actually lost, and job losses were far worse than had been projected if there had been no stimulus spending.

Texans to Vote on Constitutional Amendment - HJR 14 which will be voted on in November 2009, would achieve unprecedented protection of private property by placing protections against abuse of eminent domain directly into the Texas Constitution

Obama’s Payoff for the Hispanic Vote - Immigration, both legal and illegal, is a major contributor to America’s economic crises. Obama wants to add to the problem

Stay-at-Home Mom Finds Her Calling in the Tea Party Movement - "It is up to Americans like me to stand in unison at Tea Parties across this nation to Take Back America."

Marble Falls Hoerster Clinic Relocates Family Services - Growth in the family practice with obstetrics and pediatric practices at the Marble Falls Hoerster Clinic prompts relocation

NewsBusted by EyeBlast.TV

(June 29, 2009)
"NewsBusted" is a comedy webcast about the news of the day.

Starring: Jodi Miller
Director: Bruce Roundtower
Executive Producer: Matthew Sheffield

Topics in today's show: -- Protests in Iran -- Obamas response to the protests in Iran -- Hilary Clinton breaks her elbow -- PETA upset that Obama killed a fly

Youth News and Commentary Opportunity

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Recent Articles

More July 4^th Tea Party Details - U.S. Senator John Cornyn will headline the “Take Back America” Tea Party which takes place July 4 at the Texas State Capitol

Grandmother Tasered – Too Much for the Deputy to Handle? - Deputy Constable pulls taser on 72 year-old grandmother he couldn’t handle. Watch the video.

Not Far From the Tree ACORNS Fall - We can’t have ACORN, the “experts” of voter registration fraud, tinkering with the Census for their left-wing agenda. See accompanying video.

Congressman Ron Paul on Healthcare - Obama’s attempt to nationalize the health care industry exposed. There’s are far better ways to reform health care than socialized medicine. Hear the audio.

New Service Helps Parents Address Visitation Concerns - A Law for the Laymen Article by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott

Congratulations, Llano County Commissioners - The county updates an archaic ordinance

Obama’s Out to Get Small Business, Farmers and Families - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued a proposed rule saying that greenhouse gases endanger the public health and welfare. This drastic regulation will cost jobs and raise the price of nearly all goods and services U.S. consumers purchase.

Texas’ Electronic Textbooks Bill Eliminates Oversight of School Bureaucracy - If not vetoed, any publisher with any kind of agenda could reach every public school student in this state, and parents would have absolutely no recourse to stop it

Take Back America Tea Party - July 4^th. Mark your calendars now. Tell Washington DC to Re-Read Our Constitution at our Austin Capitol Rally followed by a Good ‘Ole Texas BBQ!Consumer Alert: Identity Theft - A Law for the Laymen Article by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott

Marble Falls ISD to Offer Classes in Spanglish - Another hair-brain scheme to assure teachers of job security at taxpayer expense

Top Ten Reasons Sotomayor Shouldn’t Be Confirmed - Ten reasons why Senators Hutchinson and Cornyn should oppose and filibuster Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court

Liberals Kill Texas Illegal Immigration Bill - The new liberal Republican House speaker Joe Straus killed the legislation.  The hatchet man for the most part was Rep. Burt Solomons, who allowed most of the bills filed in the Texas House to die in his State Affairs committee.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Picked for Supreme Court - A Souter-Ginsberg blend. A far left racist and sexist radical who openly admits judges make policy – as opposed to interpreting and applying the law. See, VIDEO

The Highland Lakes Tea Party Coalition - A new organization and local resource for Tea Parties

It's Not My Fault... - President Obama resurrects Richard Nixon’s famous quote

Obama’s Energy Tax Proposals a Job-Killer for Texas - These massive tax increases would be a job-killer for Texas and a huge setback in our overall efforts to lessen our dependence on foreign energy

Newspapers Continue Their Rapid Decline - Open source internet journalism is doing to mainstream media what the automobile did to the horse and buggy

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures - Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious

Contemporary Racial Discrimination - Racial discrimination as practiced in America today

Oppose Bills Permitting 125% Gas Tax Hike - Flawed approach could permit gas tax to skyrocket from 20 cents to 45 cents per gallon in Texas

Obama’s 1^st 100 days – A Reality Check - President Barack Hussein Obama is surpassing Jimmy Carter as the worst United States President

Swine Flue Update & Precautions - Even though it appears that the Obama administration is deliberately exaggerating the swine flu threat as a ploy towards nationalizing the health care industry, one of the most important tasks ahead of us at this time is public education about the virus, its symptoms, and precautions to protect one’s health

Israeli Occupation - Who has the greater claim to Jerusalem – Israel or Muslims? A Crash Course on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

A Former Arab Debates an Islamic Cleric - Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American Psychologist debated the efficacy of Islam with an Imam on Al-Jazeera TV (Quatar) on February 21, 2006. This brave woman tells it like it is. Watch the video.

“Take Back America” Tea Party set for July 4 at the Texas State Capital (May 11, 2009) Mark the date now. Send a message to our federal elected officials that we want them to spend, tax and regulate less and return to a Constitutional form of governing.

Obama Nomination Papers Are Perjurious! - An appeal to contact Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to urge his investigation into whether Barack Obama has committed perjury by knowingly filing false nomination papers ... claiming to be constitutionally eligible to run for, and serve as, President of the United States.

Texans Should Fight to Maintain Right to Work State - Texans believe in free enterprise.  We lead the nation in job creation and have more Fortune 500 companies than any other state. Texas is doing things right, and we certainly don’t need Washington, D.C. telling us what to do.

Obama’s Socialist Agenda Marches On - The Obama administration is engaging in fear-mongering tactics and abusing its authority in an attempt to discourage political opposition to their socialist agenda

The Battle in the States: Freedom Vs Protection - Whether a citizen is a Democrat, Republican or Independent, the idea that citizens supporting their candidate of choice should be categorized as domestic terrorists is outrageous. A special guest article by Tom DeWeese, President of the American Policy Center and Editor of The DeWeese Report and Mark Lerner, Director of the Stop Real ID Coalition.

In a Town Full of Snakes, Obama is the Fastest Runner - President Obama and the Democrats that are screaming the most about AIG’s executives and employees receiving bonuses are the very ones that approved they be paid in the first place.

Support Changes to the Effective Tax Rate and Rollback - Don’t be buffaloed by local elected officials’ whining about restrictions on their power to raise taxes

The Danger of Radical Islamism is Closer to Home Than You Think - On Septembet 11, 2001, a Llano businessman flew a Islam flag at his place of business to celebrate the event.

Texas Has a Kelo Problem - A guest article by Bill Peacock, Vice President of Administration
Director, Center for Economic Freedom, Texas Public Policy News

From President to Car Salesman - President Obama has run full cycle: from community organizer to senator to president to car salesman, all in the space of a few years

Stop Spending Our Future - Our economy is in crisis, and our government says that bold action is required. So we're diving in head first to get things back on track. But what are we diving into exactly? Take a closer look...A Video Presentation

King of the Whopper - It’s hard to find a strain of truth in President Obama’s comments on his budget proposal

More Deaths Due to Tazers - Do you think a $3 million judgment will get the Commissioners Court’s attention? Don’t hold your breath on it.

Texas Democrats Favor Voter Election Fraud - The problem of voter fraud is worse than anyone might reasonably expect and something has got to be done to assure honest elections

Charles "Chas" Freeman to head the U.S. National Intelligence Council – Not! - The “Community Organizer in Chief” continues to have a problem filling high level administration slots with non-tainted officials.

City Charter Amendments Could Lead to Lower Taxes - The cities of Llano, Sunrise Beach Village and Horseshoe Bay could have their charters amended by voters petitioning in those cities

The Obamanations Never Seem to  End - Along with his “failure to pay back taxes” friends, Obama is caught dipping his hand in the till for favored loan treatment

Is He or Isn’t He? Obama’s Not Telling - Evidence mounting as to Obama’s Constitutional ineligibility to serve as President. Alan Keyes video interview accompanies article.

Hillary Ineligible for Secretary of State - Like the title of an earlier article, “Does Anyone Care About the Constitution Anymore?”

County Association Gearing Up to Fight Taxpayer Protections - Since when is the reduction in the rate of growth a spending cut? Hold on to your wallets Llano and Burnet

Politics Won’t Solve Poor Academic Performance - The blame it on society crowd is back at it again this year

Tazer Deaths Continue Across the Nation. Is Llano Next? - One can’t escape the fact that tasers are lethal weapons that kill the good guys along with the bad guys

Die From Snakebite or Obey the Law? Doesn’t the Commissioners Court have anything better to do then interfere with people’s property rights?

Does Anyone Care About the Constitution Anymore? It would be wonderful if the law makers and law enforcers followed the law.

Global Warming Mania Goes Defunct - Once again Mother Nature puts the lie to left-wing liberal idiocy

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