Category Archives: Texas

JFK’s Secret Service agents reflect on loss of a president

By doris | Published: November 24, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Arlington, Virginia (CNN) — After mostly avoiding the spotlight for decades, many of the former U.S. Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect President John F. Kennedy are now offering their accounts of the day he was assassinated, 47 years ago Monday. After the first shot hit the president, former [...]

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Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns

By doris | Published: May 17, 2010

Full Story at Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state’s schools to “throwing them in to the enemy’s flames”. Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her [...]

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Stimulus checks scrambling many tax returns

By doris | Published: February 7, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com Nearly 1 of every 6 tax returns filed so far includes errors in reporting last year’s federal stimulus payments, the Internal Revenue Service said, blaming confusion among professional tax preparers and early releases of tax software.

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