Texas wants its gold back -- all $1 billion of it. That's what Gov. Rick Perry told Glenn Beck on his radio show last week, according to the Texas Tribune.

The Federal Reserve holds the gold bars, which are owned by the University of Texas Investment Management Company. Perry wants to bring them all back to Texas to store the gold in what would be called the Texas Bullion Depository.

Judge Richard J. McMonagle
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
Court of Common Pleas
1200 Ontario St.
Cleveland, Ohio 44113-1678


COLUMBUS, Ohio

$860 million in overcharges are owed to some 270,000 Ohio businesses. Judge rules that state workers' compensation fund ran up $860 million in overcharges over a decade.

Ohio employers are collectively owed $860 million after being overcharged for nearly a decade by the state insurance fund for injured workers, a Cleveland judge ruled Wednesday.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Richard McMonagle's decision involving the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation affects about 270,000 mostly small-business owners, many unaware they are covered by the class action. His order rejected the state's arguments for paying a smaller amount.

The lawsuit, which began in 2007, said the bureau gave discounted premiums to companies that joined group insurance plans and charged companies not in the groups excessive rates to pay for the discounts.

McMonagle ruled in December in favor of business owners who didn't participate in the group rating program, agreeing they had been charged unfair premiums from July 2001 to June 2009.

Lawyers for the businesses argued companies paying group rates were not charged premiums that covered their losses, which forced the other companies to cover the difference. The bureau discounted its group plans as high as 90 percent.

A new fee structure took effect in July 2009, after McMonagle ordered the bureau to change its system for setting premiums for injury insurance. The maximum discount set by the bureau for group plans is 53 percent.

The amount employers are owed in overcharges has been a matter of dispute. Employers suing Ohio in 2007 originally asked for $1.3 billion, which included interest on the amount claimed, but McMonagle asked them to revise the figure downward after declining to award the interest.

During an evidentiary hearing last week, the state argued the employers did not suffer any harm that entitles them to restitution.

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No Time to Kill by Clint Black

There's no time to kill between the cradle and the grave.
Father Time still takes a toll on every minute that you save.
Legal tenders never gonna change the number of your days.
The highest cost of livin is dying, that's one everybody pays.
So have it spent before you get the bill, there's no time to kill.

If we'd known ten years ago today would be ten years from now
Would we spend tomorrows yesterdays and make it last somehow
Or lead the cheers in someone else's game and never learn to play
And see the rules of thumb are all the same that measure every day.
The grass is green on both sides of the hill, there's no time to kill.

No time to kill, even I've said it and probably always will
But I can look ahead and see that time ain't standin' still.
No time to kill but time to change the kind of hurry I've been in
And quit this work and worry looking back at where I've been.
If you don't look ahead nobody will, there's no time to kill.

If we had an hour glass to watch each one go by
Or a bell to mark each one to pass, we'd see just how they fly.
Would we escalate the value to be worth its weight in gold
Or would we never know the fortunes that we had til we grow old.
And do we just keep killin time until there's no time to kill.

No time to kill, even I've said it and probably always will
But I can look ahead and see that time ain't standin still.
No time to kill but time to change the kind of hurry I've been in
And quit this work and worry lookin back at where I've been.
If you don't look ahead nobody will, there's no time to kill.

No time to kill, even I've said it and probably always will
But I can look ahead and see that time ain't standin still.
No time to kill but time to change the kind of hurry I've been in
And quit this work and worry lookin back at where I've been.
If you don't look ahead nobody will, there's no time to kill.

No time to kill
No time to kill

Though he didn't name her specifically, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) blasted Senate colleague Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) Friday morning during a speech to the Values Voters Summit.

"Even in Alaska, the home of bacon, they threw out that senator," DeMint told an applauding crowd as he discussed the Tea Party movement.

He also took the opportunity to praise Murkowski's challenger, local Alaska attorney Joe Miller, to whom she conceded the Republican Senate primary on Sept. 1, and to express his fondness for the Tea Party movement.

"Tea parties? I've been to a lot of them," he said to more applause.

He went on to criticize "senior Republicans in the Senate" for not supporting insurgents.

"Some of our establishment friends are not really happy with me, or you," he said.

With comments like these, DeMint has increasingly found himself at the center of tensions between establishment Republicans and rising Tea Party challengers.

House majority leader Eric Cantor is increasingly frustrated with a group of House Republicans who are working against the leadership, and he's not afraid of voicing his dismay.

In a closed-door conference meeting on Wednesday, Cantor told one GOP member that if they blocked the Senate-passed Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) from coming to the floor, they'd cause "civil war" in the ranks.

Cantor's comment irked some Republican aides, who told National Review Online that such strong language is inappropriate. In recent days, some conservatives have been upset about the Senate's version of VAWA, saying that parts of the bill are unconstitutional.

Nevertheless, Cantor's warning may have had an effect. When the bill came to the floor on Wednesday, only nine Republicans voted against the rule to take up the bill.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Former Ron Paul Insider Calls out Rand Paul

(Washington, D.C.) March 5 - Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host and former Political Director for Ron Paul's 2008 campaign for President, Craig Bergman has called out Rand Paul on his radio show (http://www.americaswakeupcall.net/) and has released the following statement regarding Rand Paul's vote to confirm former Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of State.

Rand Paul's vote to confirm Chuck Hagel as Secretary of State disqualifies him from serious consideration as a candidate for the presidency by conservatives. This is not so much because of his break with his own party, being only one of four Republicans to have voted for Hagel. Nor is it all about his perceived anti-Semitic views or the troubling history his father had on this subject. And it is not as much about the fact that Hagel refused to answer certain questions or is of questionable competency for the job.

Any of the above would be justifiable grounds in defense of a "No" vote. All of them combined assuredly do. But, on top of these very troubling issues, Rand Paul's statement that "The President gets his pick" is right out of the Orin Hatch playbook. It is an unconstitutional abdication of the duty and oath of office of a US Senator.

The Paul family has made "following the Constitution" a cornerstone of their campaigns. Rand Paul should know better than to use such a pathetic excuse. Senator, it does not ring true. Senator, what part of "advice and consent" did you not understand?

If Rand Paul is to be believed, that the President gets whom he chooses and that the Senate does not have a role or duty to reject unsuited or unqualified applicants, then where is Chief Justice Robert Bork?

Sir! You have been had, or you are trying to have us. It is one way or it is the other. Rand Paul has either failed at his constitutional duty,does not understand his duty, or is lying to us about his true reasons for voting to confirm Hagel.

Which is it Senator? You were against him before you were for him? Sowhat gives? Are you incompetent or lying? Ii is difficult to draw any other conclusion other than "he is lying". I believe he knows the Constitution. So is this just spin to cover a vote which would otherwise expose a reprehensible anti-Semitic deed? One cannot look at facebook, lewrockwell.com, or any of the "Paul" fan pages and forums and not see this ugliness staring back at them.

The fact is that the only ones defending his vote are doing so with the most virulent Jew bashing ever seen. If you are remotely considering a serious campaign for the Presidency, and you have a perceived "Jewish" problem, the last thing on Earth you should be doing is voting for a Chuck Hagel, when 90% of your party and your party's base is opposed to it on those very grounds.

This is what is known as political suicide. Picking up the hottest of hot button issues, one that clearly divides along partisan lines, and for which you already have serious issues of credibility and then voting against all those factors and attempting to defend it with an unsound, unconstitutional, RINOtalking point.

Senator Rand Paul: Do not bother coming to Iowa; or South Carolina for that matter. You are finished!. Done! This is one of those haunting votes that cannot be undone, forgiven, mitigated or forgotten. No sir, it is a defining vote. The apple has not only not fallen far from the tree; it didn't even make it to the ground. It got stuck in the nook and there it has rotted and tried to take root.

Craig Bergman is available for interviews.

Please contact Shannon Rose at Eclectic Media Productions. confirmations@mediaproductions.tv