While the Texas legislature is meeting to find new and novel ways to suck our pocketbooks dry to pay for the public school elephant, we should also be on guard for other nefarious items, such as HB50 (Rep Smith, Tarrant), HB309 (Rep McClendon), and SB25 (Sen Zaffirini), all of which appear to be identically worded bills that would establish authority for sobriety checkpoints in Texas.

The very idea of checkpoints of any kinds makes my skin crawl.  These so-called representatives need to be hounded from office for violating their oath to preserve and defend the constitution.