Those of us who have observed the descent of Mexico under the regime of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) have long been accustomed to expecting the worst. But the governmental recklessness on display in this month of September, in the 30-day overlap between the outgoing AMLO presidency and the incoming MORENA legislative supermajority elected...
I was playing hooky from second grade, home “sick” when it happened. The phone rang and my aunt, who was crying, demanded I put my grandma on the phone. She was bringing me a plate of pancakes when she turned the channel and dropped the plate, her eyes swelling as the glass smashed on the...
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, or so the saying goes. It is precisely this line of thinking that has seen people like Darryl Cooper, who Tucker Carlson recently interviewed on his show, align themselves with the Nazi regime—because the Nazis were enemies of the Soviets, and the Soviets are communists, and the...
Expanding funds from the Center for Tech and Civic Life and other leftist groups to rural areas only expands election insecurity. A few days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg’s Emily Chang he had no plans to get involved in this year’s general election as he had in...
“These Trump supporters say America isn’t a democracy. And they’re okay with it.” So reads the breathless headline from a story last week by CNN. Apparently, CNN thinks that this view is anathema to the American way of life. But a closer look reveals the truth about what America was founded to be. It also...
Welcome to the Party, Pal What to know: The Dallas Morning News editorial board doesn’t like TPPF’s property tax elimination plan. Still, they want policymakers and the public “to keep pressure on local government to control spending while the state buys down school taxes through growth.” (Which is what we’ve calling for years as well!) The...
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” — Ronald Reagan Creepy Crawlies What to know: BBC has jumped aboard the “eat bugs to save the planet” bandwagon. The TPPF take: The Biden-Harris administration wants all of us to lower our expectations. “What’s up with the...
Housing Costs What to know: In Tuesday night’s debate, Vice President Kamala Harris again said housing costs are too high, and spoke of a plan to address those costs. The TPPF take: There’s a right way and a wrong way to lower housing costs. “Instead of pressing for collective action, a better approach is to remove federal,...
Since it has been unable to pass new gun restrictions through the legislative process, President Biden’s Administration is intentionally ignoring and misinterpreting well-established law to shut down lawfully operating gun dealers. TPPF Senior Attorney Matt Miller breaks down how this backdoor scheme works and explains TPPF’s lawsuit to restore Americans’ legal right to purchase firearms.
Illegal activity that harms the U.S. is coming from Mexico in much the same way as it does from other corrupt individuals in other countries the U.S. currently sanctions. Texas should compile a list of corrupt Mexican elites and request the federal government to deny them entry to the U.S. or revoke their visas. Read...
Over the past two years, some parents were shocked to learn that activists school boards, administrators, and teachers have been subjecting students to controversial subjects and material without parents’ consent. Shannon Braun was elected to the Colleyville ISD school board on a promise to protect students and parents’ rights and has been fighting ever since....
Every Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers in Texas, America and the world. Although it seems like the current presidential campaign has been going on forever, traditionally, Labor Day is the election year launch—the sprint to...
Every Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers in Texas, America and the world. The Democrats put on their national convention in Chicago this week complete with American icon Oprah Winfrey, Al Sharpton (the Jussie Smollett of...
One could only laugh at the news report by CBS 5 in Austin this week citing “concern over a “Bible infused public school curriculum in Texas.’” According to the reporter, one of those “concerns” is that students would be taught about the “Sermon on the Mound.” Here’s what it said: Insert your own baseball joke...
Every Friday morning at 8:30AM I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers in Texas, America and the world. The latest Olympic medal count shows the USA with its big lead at 111, but we always get the most medals, so no surprise...