Next meeting: Joe's Crab Shack -
600 E. Riverside Drive, Austin TX - Phone 441-1010
 
Feel free to bring your friends to the meeting but please RSVP so we can arrange for adequate waitstaff and seating. As usual, we each pay separately for our food and drinks.

We urge you to register at the ATC Meetup page. That page introduces the members of ATC, gives information about each monthly program, and provides an easy way to RSVP. You may sign up (free) on the Meetup page to receive monthly meeting notices via email.

You may also RSVP by replying to: atc.rsvp-at-yahoo.com.
Ann Coulter - Quote Of The Day
Thanks to Right Wing News for much of this compilation.

Since Sept. 1, Texas State government has spent

Texas State Biennial Budget:     2006-2007: $135.4 Billion     2008-2009: $167.787 Billion     2010-2011: $182 Billion

Greatest Movie Line In History: .wmv(1.1Mb)    .mov(1.7Mb)

Click here to see the unemployment consequences of the current recession.
Note especially the map after President Obama's election in November 2008.
In December 2003, conservatives from Austin, Texas and the surrounding areas convened the Austin Townhall Conservatives.

Austin Townhall Conservatives meet the first Tuesday of each month. We often have a distinguished speaker, and discuss conservative issues, projects, and action items. Through our networking efforts and information sharing, we strive to actively support conservative causes locally, statewide, and throughout the nation. Issue Action Groups are organized around specific areas of interest to the members. These groups often convene during the meeting, and provide a way for you to plan activities with other conservatives who share your concerns.

Our group is open to all who wish to meet and socialize with other conservatives. We hope you will join us on
Update On Government Schools in Texas
Use this link to access the official School Report Card for any school in Texas. The AP has compiled a list of "Dropout Factories". Just click on the Texas map and scroll down to the Austin schools. (Hint - With a couple of exceptions, Austin doesn't fare very well in the report...)

Texans Uniting For Reform & Freedom (TURF) is a major source of information and action concerning the Trans-Texas Corridor land grab and the blizzard of toll roads that TxDoT is attempting to impose upon the citizens of Texas.

Another valuable source of information about the Trans-Texas Corridor is Corridor Watch.
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Will The Constitution Survive?

That's what the real political debate in America is now about. Two excellent sources of information about the Constitution are:

Constituting America, which provides indepth information about the Constitution and the Federalist Papers and other founding documents, and,

Freedom Works was founded in 1984. FreedomWorks recruits, educates, trains and mobilizes hundreds of thousands of volunteer activists to fight for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom. FreedomWorks has recently partnered with Glenn Beck to support both The 912 Project, and the Tea Party movement.