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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...

Tuesday, May 27th is the date for the Republican Primary run-off election.  Early voting will occur May 19-23.  These elections will determine the candidates for many of our state-wide and local offices that will be on the ballot in November.  In the March primary election, less than 7% of registered voters in Harris County turned out to vote in the Republican primary, and only 3% voted in the Democratic primary.  These numbers will be lower for the run-offs.  The following are the offices/candidates that...

A strange thing happened to me last week while in a cab. I was fighting waves of nausea as I listened to the DC drivel that was emanating from the cab’s speakers… complete garbage about that tired, yet somehow still effective, lie that Obama keeps spewing about “income equality”. I looked out the window in time to notice we were near the Lincoln Memorial and I remembered his famous words about a house that is divided against itself...

You will get a chance to meet the candidates for the May 27 run-off primary. Following will be a presentation by The Honorable Jim Murphy, “Front Line Leaders – Republican Women Leading the Charge in Battleground Texas.” Jim Murphy serves in the Texas House, representing District 133 in West Houston. Jim was first elected in 2006 and is running for re-election in November. Representative Murphy serves on the Committees for Small Business and Economic Development and Higher Education. He also serves as...