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Village started off this month with a real “bang”… our “Shooting for Victory” fundraiser was a real success with great weather, great participants and it raised great funds for our campaign coffers. It could not have been the success that it was but for the outstanding energy and leadership of our 3rd Vice President – Ways and Means: the incomparable Buffie Ingersoll. She and her event committee did an outstanding job of taking care of all of the details in pulling...

I do hope everyone had a restful summer and that you are reinvigorated and ready to get to work for November. There is much to do, both in Texas and nationally, to reverse the course of destruction upon which the current administration is set. We can all rest in December. But do not, for a moment, think that taking control of the Senate means our job is over; indeed it is just the beginning. We will blink and find ourselves in...

Village Republican Women are pleased to welcome to our September 2014 meeting Sarah Davis, Texas State Representative – District 134. She will bring us up to speed on Transportation Funding and the Constitutional Amendment on the November Ballot. Sarah Davis is a successful attorney, two-term state representative and a fiscal conservative dedicated to limiting the size and scope of government in our lives. Sarah was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2010, and served on the Public Health and...

Village Republican Women present Shooting for Victory, a Sporting Clay Tournament on October 4, 2014 to raise funds to support candidates in the 2014 – 2016 elections. Whether you are an expert or a first time shooter this is your opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors, awesome BBQ, and cold beer while testing your shooting skills with elected officials, candidates and other Republicans. We will provide ammunition (12 and 20 gauge) for the tournament and all games, as well as eye and...

The History of Time… or How Conservatives Came to Be Once upon a time, millions of years ago, humans existed in small pods of nomadic hunter-gatherers.  They wandered the land following food and good weather. Until, one day, some of the women folk went out in search of something a little lighter to eat than the hairy boar that always seemed to end up in the fire at the end of the day.  Lo and behold, they discovered grapes. This discovery led to...

Professor Jeffrey Addicott is the  Director of Center for Terrorism Law and Professor of Law at St Mary’s University.    An active duty Army officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps for 20 years (he retired in 2000 at the rank of lieutenant colonel), Professor Addicott spent a quarter of his career as the senior legal advisor to the United States Army’s Special Forces. As an internationally recognized authority on national security law, terrorism law and human rights law, Addicott not only...