Snippets from Sunday's San Antonio EXPRESS - NEWS...

"Perry living large thanks to taxpayers, rich backers"


By R.G. Ratcliffe, Houston Chronicle newspaper.

The SA Express - News picked up this item on Sunday, July 25, 2009.

Among Governor Perry's many traveling perks was this one:

"There was a trip to Istanbul for the Bilderberg conference, hosted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands..."


"Doubt along abortion divide"


By David Barstow, New York Times.

Re: The continuing political fall out from the late - term abortionist Doctor George Tiller murder case..

"Abortion opponents are bracing for a drop in support, especially from those in the murky middle ground of the debate.

"Worse yet, after years of persuading supporters to work within the law, they say they have already lost credibility among the most ardent abortion opponents who can't help point out that one one gunman achieved what all their protests and prayers could not..."

"Britain's last survivor of WW I trenches dies"

"111 - year - old didn't even speak of war until he was 100."

By Robert Barr. Associated Press .

"LONDON -- Harry Patch, Britain's last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war, and a symbol of a lost generation.

"Patch, who died Saturday at 111, was wounded in 1917 in the Battle of Passchendaele, which he remembered as mud, mud and more mud mixed with blood.

"After training he was sent to the trenches as a machine - gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

"The five- man Lewis gun team had a pact to try not to kill enemy soldiers but to aim at their legs unless it came down to killing or being killed, he said."

Rest in Peace, Old Soldier! You've earned it a bunch of times over!

Even Romans 2:14 - 16 will assure you of that..