Students from the University of Texas announced plans to arm themselves with 4,500 dildos to protest Texas’ campus carry law that went into effect August 1. (Article by Bob Price) University of Texas students organized a “Cocks Not Glocks: Campus (Dildo) Carry” protest for Wednesday morning at its Austin, Texas, campus, a Facebook event revealed. […]

Travis County could be forced to throw out dozens of drunk-driving felony cases because the arresting officers failed to obtain a search warrant before testing the suspect’s blood, reports the Austin American-Statesman. While officers say they were acting in accordance with the law, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from April 2013 suggests otherwise. In the […]

Pro-gun rights supporters will descend on downtown Austin during the 2016 South by Southwest festival to celebrate the Lone Star State’s new Open Carry law, which was signed in June by Gov. Greg Abbott and implemented on January 1, 2016. The armed march is being organized by non-profit Open Carry Texas, an affiliate of the […]

Come August, the more than 50,000 students at the University of Texas at Austin will be able to bring handguns to campus, including class – but not to their dorm rooms, PEOPLE confirms. (Article by Chris Harris, republished from http://www.people.com/article/university-of-texas-policy-permits-guns-on-campus) At a Wednesday press conference, the university’s president outlined the school’s recently overhauled guidelines, which will […]

Public universities in Texas cannot ban guns from dorm rooms, despite efforts to do so at the University of Texas at Austin. Beginning in August of next year, license holders (you must be 21+ years old to obtain one) may carry a concealed handgun on university campuses. The new campus carry law, S.B. 11, was […]

The feds have decided to send more Syrian refugees to Texas, just two days after it sued the federal government and a refugee resettlement nonprofit, alleging that both were violating the Refugee Act of 1980. So far, 31 states have expressed opposition to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their regions, following the Nov. 13 […]

A city councilman tried to protect Austinites from being forced to fund the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Austin, but was met with immense opposition before being called “xenophobic.” Austin City Council Member Don Zimmerman proposed that the city block spending on providing assistance to Syrian refugees, but the measure was struck down by the Public Safety […]

Texas officials no longer have to issue birth certificates to children of illegal immigrants born on U.S., also known as “anchor babies,” according to a ruling made by a judge late last month. The judge’s decision was in response to a lawsuit filed in June against the Department of State Health Services’ Vital Statistics Unit on […]