A small town an hour north of Houston, Texas is defying an outside group's demand to take down a Courthouse cross with one simple act. After the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation complained that four crosses on the San Jacinto County Courthouse violated the Constitution and should be taken down immediately, the community rallied, Texas-style. Hundreds gathered at a town hall and [...]
Group called it anti-gay religious extremism. Apple removed a Christian ministry's app from its store after an LGBT group claimed it implied being gay was a sickness, according to published reports. A gay rights group, Truth Wins Out, got the so-called ex-gay app removed after it convinced the tech giant that the app was "dangerous," "bigoted" and [...]
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector are sounding the alarm after they recently apprehended two Syrian nationals who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into South Texas. The agents say the arrest of the Syrians confirms there is a human smuggling pipeline from countries with connections to terrorism into the U.S. “We don’t know the [...]
Austin police announced that the man described by police as a “serial bomber” is now dead. The suspected bomber reportedly blew himself up with a bomb as police approached. Investigators identified the suspect as a 24-year-old white male. The self-inflicted death of the suspect brings a three-week terror campaign of bombings to a close. The five [...]
It was quite a scene in the high school parking lot – a convoy of trucks adorned with the Christian flag – waving in the Texas breeze! The red, white and blue has flown outside LaPoynor High School in LaRue, Texas, for as far back as anyone can remember. But instead of 50 stars on a [...]
The nation's leading secularist group is asking for a Texas school board to punish a superintendent who prayed during a mandatory staff convocation held at a Texas megachurch. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based legal organization that advocates for a strict separation of church and state, is asking the McKinney Independent School District to discipline [...]
Humanitarian aid organizations IsraAID and iAID send teams to help clear debris, clean ruined homes and offer psychological support to Harvey survivors. Two teams of Israeli aid experts are on their way to Texas to provide vital relief and psychosocial support to the thousands of people who have lost everything in the catastrophic Hurricane Harvey. The [...]
The footprint in the photo is an actual impression in Cretaceous limestone, not a plaster cast. It was chiseled from a layer of limestone at the Cross Branch tributary of the Paluxy River, about three miles south of Glen Rose, Texas. This particular layer of Cretaceous limestone is famous for its dinosaur footprints found along the [...]
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has joined forces with Congressman Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to introduce a Constitutional Amendment that would impost term limits on members of Congress. Congressional term limits have been gaining popularity among average Americans, but as you might guess, politicians in Congress aren’t too fond of the idea. Because of this reticence to give up [...]
According to a new report Monday, President-elect Donald Trump is working out a deal with his former GOP presidential rival, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), that would put the conservative stalwart on the Supreme Court—but likely not until after the 2018 midterm election. Although Cruz wasn't on the original 21-name list supplied by Trump prior to [...]
