Texas Abortion Battle Begins

The Texas state legislature began its second special session by reviving a bill to protect babies from he horror of abortion.

Republican governor Rick Perry called the special session after protesters disrupted the Texas Senate in the waning hours of their first special session and kept them from being able to vote before midnight. Continue reading

Abortion Proponents Disrupt Texas Senate; Governor Calls Special Session

Democrat Texas Senator Wendy Davis tried to stop a vote on a Texas abortion law that passed the House by a large margin and seemed to fail when 15 minutes before midnight she was found to have violated the rules of a filibuster.

But pro-abortion advocates then screamed and yelled for half an hour to keep the Texas Senate from being able to carry out their duties as elected officials causing the bill to die because it was not voted on before the midnight deadline. Continue reading

School District Appealing Decision To Let Cheerleaders Use Bible Passages

Cheerleaders at a Texas school were stunned to learn that the school board is going to appeal a judge’s decision permitting Bible verses to be used on football banners.

“We think the attorneys on the other side are reading into the court’s decision rights that just aren’t there,” Tom Brandt, attorney for the school district, told the Beaumont Enterprise. Continue reading

“Valley Fever” On Rise in California; Arizona

A new report is showing that a fungal infection called Valley Fever is up across the Southwest United States.

More than 22,000 cases were confirmed in 2011, a rise from 2,265 cases in 1998 according to the CDC. The report only looks at cases in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. Texas also houses the fungus that causes the disease but they do not report statistics to the CDC. Continue reading