1.The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. 3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. 4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the...
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Friday, 29 March 2013
Thursday, 28 March 2013
"The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender." Proverbs 22:7 With Common Core blowing up in the news, let's remember why Texas still has a fighting chance to resist: in 2009/10, we didn't need the money.Back in 2009, Texas had a budget surplus. We were one of the few states that didn't have to beg Washington. What a blessing that was in hindsight.Texas didn't need the money.Federal money ALWAYS comes with...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Glenn Beck has a chilling report on how CSCOPE and Common Core are collecting oodles of infomation about your children:Highlights:Began with the Stimulus in 2009.$5 billion for 'finance incentive grants' Race to the TopThinly concealed bribery for the states.Money from Washington ALWAYS comes with strings attached. In this case the strings included improving collection and use of data. All the usual suspects of bad guys are involved.GEMicrosoftApollo...
"Having then gifts differeing according to the grace that is given us, let us use them." Romans 12:6It's amazing what you can accomplish when you develop the resources with which God graced you:Last year, the Eagle Ford Shale had a $61 billion impact and supported 116,000 jobs across a 20-county swath of South Texas — a once-sleepy region increasingly defined by an oil and gas boom.Even using more narrow criteria, the results are impressive: The...
One common refrain we hear is that the migration of Californians to Texas is a bad thing because TexansDon'tWantCalifornia'sLibreals(TM). We've never found that argument compelling, especially since the 2010 election results made clear that the liberals in California have stayed put. When Glenn Beck, Chuck DeVore, and myself have all moved to the same state in the past five years, it seems to indicate a trend.Yesterday, we spoke...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Two weeks ago, we put out a call to find the most innovative firearms manufacturer in Texas; this certainly qualifies:HIGHLIGHTS:3-D printed firearm anyone can download and produce. Defense Distributed. Preserving the Second Amendment over the internet. In the next decade, the majority of Americans will have 3-D printers in their home. This guy has five employees. This guy lives less than five blocks from us; we hope to have more from him so...
Battleground Texas has announced a statewide recruiting tour. We humbly suggest conservatives show up to welcome and engage them. Here's the tour schedule:Corpus Christi, March 16Laredo, March 19McAllen, March 20El Paso, March 25Dallas, March 25Fort Worth, March 26Lubbock, March 26Waco, March 28Austin, April 2Killeen, April 3SAVE THE DATE: San Antonio, April 4Houston, April 6Brownsville, April 6Longview, April 7Not headed your way?...
We just returned from the Texas Public Policy Foundation's luncheon The Urgency for School Choice in Texas. We'll post video from the event when it becomes available. In the meantime, one topic covered by former Congressman Artur Davis stuck with us.Former Congressman Davis discussed a school choice initiative that failed in Michigan in 2010, despite Republican wins across the state. The initiative lost because it underperformed...
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Via the personal Facebook page of Concerned Women for America's Associate State Director Michelle Smith:AG Abbott told me last night he has ordered a full investigation into C-Scope and if illegal action was taken by C-Scope he stated he will, "Shut them down completely" he said it is ok to tell others that too. Thank God for General Abbott.That works for me!!!...
Oh baby, the Texas Democrats' little golden boy might not be so golden afterall:In an official response to nine Sworn Complaints, the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) has notified most members of the San Antonio City Council they are being investigated for multiple campaign finance violations.Mayor Julian Castro, Council members Cris Medina and Diego Bernal had the most alleged violations at over 200 each.The Sworn Complaints allege 41 instances...
Monday, 25 March 2013
Texas State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione stopped by GB's radio show to discuss his efforts to establish a Gold bullion depository in the State of Texas: Highlights:Bullion depository in the state of Texas; Perry supports it. The law will be passed by May and go into effect on 9/1. After the law is passed, the State will determine the location. Disconnecting Texas' banking system from the nightmare that is coming. Texas' electric grid is independent...
With the emergence of Battleground Texas, a lot of ink has been spilled about the left's efforts to flip Texas. The threat is real, but we can beat it. One key is to make the left play defense on territory it thinks it owns.Cahnman's Musings has been a resident of Travis County for five and a half years. We've always found the reports of it's liberalism, much like Mark Twain's demise, to be greatly exaggerated. Before living...
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Friday, 22 March 2013
Rabbi Daniel Lapin stopped by TheBlaze recently to promote his new book, but the Good Rabbi and Glenn never discussed the book:HIGHLIGHTS:Rabbi Lapin is "David Barton on Steroids." The Tower of Babel is a "Blueprint for the Fatal Attraction of Socialism." In Hebrew, money and blood are the same word.Both are your lifeforce.Money should do its work behind the scenes. In the Exodus, 80% of the Israelites stayed behind.Bottom Line: 80% of people...
With Obamacare slamming small businesses across the nation, Glenn Beck stopped by Real News the other night to explain how Obama's Health Insurance Protection Racket will impact Mercury:Highlights:Two things could kill Mercury: Security and Health Care. The Feds won't let Mercury do catastrophic plus HSA...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Sigh; a terrible idea from 'public-health' Nazi's bureaucrats in Dallas:Teenagers are constantly being bombarded with sexually explicit messages, drowning out the message of abstinence says Dallas County Health Director Zachary Thompson....His solution? More detailed and explicit sex education. But that’s not all. “We need to start passing out condoms even in our churches, our schools, wherever young people are,” he said.While we're at it, why...
Empower Texans reports on a depressing series of events in the Texas House:A pattern is emerging in the Texas House: moderate Republicans seem to be setting their sights on killing commonsense transparency measures during the committee process before they have a chance to see the light of day on the floor. They’re being joined by school districts and local taxing entities trying to keep taxpayers in the dark....HB 14 would bring local government...
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
This is a fantastic idea:The Texas Self-Sufficiency Act directs the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the Texas House, and the Comptroller to name a committee of made up of legislators, budget experts and citizens from the non-profit sector to analyze not only our state's dependence on federal funds, but the impact of federal funding on Texas' economy. "Speaker Straus should be commended for naming a House interim committee on sequestration....
Governor Rick Perry, fresh off CPAC, gave a great interview to Glenn Beck:Highlights:On the Boy Scouts: "Promotes young men to the values that most people in this country aspire to." Education:Perry stood up to Common Core YEARS ago!Supports all of Dan Patrick's efforts.Attacks on Homeschooling won't stand in the state of Texas. Finance:The first unwinding of the Global economy will be the failure of a foreign sovreign."We are in the process...of...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Ramparts360 has a post about a local effort Cahnman's Musings wholeheartedly supports:Texas MobFather: Greg Hamilton, Travis County Sheriff, recently affirmed his belief in the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. I sent him a letter congratulating him on his stand and asked him to join Oath Keepers.Over 340 sheriffs nationwide are refusing any federal mandate to confiscate citizen’s weapons…it’s imperative that each...
The other day, the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus attempted to confiscate between 7 and 10 percent of all bank deposits in the country.Considering that the situation in Greece is worse than Cyprus and, at least in some respects, California is worse off than Greece, we wonder how long it will be until someone proposes something similar in California; California has already seriously considered taxing people who move out of state.Sure, it sounds...
Monday, 18 March 2013
Great CPAC panel featuring Texas Comptroller Susan Combs: Has Atlas Shrugged?!? Business in Obama's America:Highlights:Technology has altered the pace of change. Overwhelms Centralized BureaucracySmall Businesses innovate 11x faster than Big Businesses. Under Obama, fewer small businesses have been formed and more have failed than at any time in 40 years.Big business and big labor can navigate big government; small business cannot. We spend more money on education than any other country for worse results. Susan Combs:"John Galt is alive and well...
"This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And in the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, And those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will...
Mr. Randall L. StevensonChief Executive OfficerAT&T1 AT&T PlazaDallas, TX 75202Dear Sir,I am writing to follow up on my letter from last Monday, to which you have not yet responded. As your loyal customer, I wrote you to request you immediately add theBlazeTV to your U200 lineup on the same financial terms as MSNBC. I am writing today to follow up on the status of this request.Over the past six weeks, tens of thousands of loyal...
Saturday, 16 March 2013
The Texas Tribune had an interview yesterday with Jeremy Bird, the director of Battleground Texas. In the interview, Bird tips his hand on strategy. Some highlights:Dems plan to boost turnout (and, even though they don't say it out loud, fraud):Bird contends that Republicans' confidence is based on elections in which only about half of the state has turned out to vote. “We’ll see what happens when we start to get 60 or 65 or 70 percent...
Friday, 15 March 2013
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Governor Perry gave a barnburner of a speech today in Washington where he also tipped his hand about the coming fight in Texas over Medicaid:Highlights:Releasing dangerous foreign nationals into the United States and blaming the sequester was a 'federally sponsored jailbreak.' "There's nothing free that comes from Washington."Me: Amen to that!!! "All we have is a promise from a Federal Government that apparently can't afford to lock up dangerous criminals." After repeating his unwavering opposition to expanding Medicaid under Obamacare, Governor...
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The San Antonio Express News reports on an early meeting of Battleground Texas:Jeremy Bird, the former national field director for President Barack Obama and the driving force of Battleground Texas, could have picked anywhere in the state to begin the group's launch tour. He chose San Antonio not because it's the “best city in Texas,” as Julián Castro proclaimed, but because — as Medina noted — this is where the political firepower is located.Like...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
The other night on Facebook, I made this prediction:Random Thought: We're close to the top of a bubble; before the end of the year, the price of ammo will collapse.The reason I believe this is because the market for guns and ammunition is an example of what economists call 'perfect competition.' The product is (relatively) homogenous and barriers to entry are (relatively) modest. Given this backdrop, with rising demand causing shortages,...
Monday, 11 March 2013
Mr. Randall L. StevensonChief Executive OfficerAT&T1 AT&T PlazaDallas, TX 75202Dear Mr. Stevenson,Over the past nine months, I have been an AT & T U-verse customer. I also used to sell U-Verse. This letter, however, is not about me. This letter is about better serving your customers while strengthening Texas' Economy. I'm writing to request you immediately make theBlazeTV available on your...
Friday, 8 March 2013
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Glenn Beck devoted his entire television program to an expose on CSCOPE today.First up, David Barton explains the origins of CSCOPE in the Texas Textbook wars of 3-4 years ago:HIGHLIGHTS:Since SBOE monitors curriculum, they call CSCOPE 'instructional material.' Teaching globalism, not American Exceptionalism. Taking out: Nathan Hale, Liberty Bell, Christopher Columbus' faith. Replacing with: Respect and fairness, Dolores Huerta. Replacing George...
Sigh, leave it to Joe Straus to attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory; money quote:A month after confessing his desire for the Legislature to have a conservation about Medicaid expansion, Speaker Straus now says it’s time to “get our heads out of the sand” in order to find a “Texas solution.” The problem? His idea of a solution is really nothing more than a sugarcoated version of what the Obama Administration is already offering.....Knowing...
Well, that's disappointing.Fresh off of Rand Paul's historic filibuster, U.S. House Republicans passed a bill to fund the government for the rest of the year; unfortunately:except for ten brave souls, every Republican Congressman Voted to Approve Obamacare Today, and they broke their own rules to do it. My Congressman, Roger Williams (R - Austin/Ft. Worth), was not one of those ten brave souls.To explain his vote, Congressman Williams...
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Cahnman's Musings hasn't discussed CSCOPE for awhile, but this story out of Wichita Falls merits comment:The 200 community members who attended Tuesday’s Wichita Falls ISD noon work session to hear board members discuss CSCOPE sat through a meticulously long presentation that lasted long past the lunch hour.....By 2 p.m. most community members were still sitting patiently through Assistant Superintendent Tim Powers’ two-hour presentation of 111...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Last week, on the blogger conference call Governor Perry pointed out that:Washington is going to run out of money in 3-4 years, at which point the states will be on the hook for the full cost; that's when they're going to start pushing single-payer. That is a point that cannot be repeated often enough. Washington is going to run out of money. When that happens, the Medicaid burden will fall on states. When that happens, expanded...
"Colorado, what kind of pansy girls have you become?!?....We need some MEN in Texas." Glenn Beck, Radio, March 5 2013, Bottom of the First Hour.Last night, this diary on Redstate made the rounds. It is a warning to Texans that Democrats can turn Texas blue the same way they turned Colorado blue in the mid-2000's. There is another aspect of this story, however, that Texas Republicans would be well served to remember.In 2002, National...
Monday, 4 March 2013
Phew; Texas House Republicans voted overwhelmingly to support Governor Perry and not expand Medicaid.This should take Medicaid expansion under Obamacare off the table until after the next election. (Update: No, it won't).I'll (still) take it.Update II: Sunshine State Sarah (of Texas) reports more good news out of Flori...
Wow; according to RedState, Texas House Republicans are going wobbly on Obamacare:Republican Texas State Representatives will [meet] at 1pm CT today consider caving on Obamacare. According to our sources, both inside and outside the legislature, that's not going to happen. Texas House Republicans seem to understand the folly of Medicaid expansion. Still, it never hurts to remind them how you feel.First, contact YOUR legislator via the...
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