It is no secret that the pandemic has been particularly hard on our children. Data shows a catastrophic learning loss among K-12 students across the country—a crisis that threatens the future of a great number of America’s school children who are struggling mightily. Many Christians across denominations and confessional frameworks are asking how they can...
Do we really need the IRS looking over our shoulders every time we deposit a paycheck? The Biden administration has plan to monitor every bank transaction of $600 or more, ostensibly to crack down on tax cheats. But the plan is troubling for a number of reasons. On Thursday, Oct. 7, TPPF joined other conservative...
If you have bought just about anything lately—from food and gasoline to cars and even houses—you know prices just keep climbing. People are running out of cash. There seems to be less and less left over at the end of every month as prices continue rising faster than wages. Put simply, a household’s money is...
I don’t know the story behind the clean two-story home on Goldfinch Lane in Montgomery County. But I know enough. Soon, attorneys will sell the property on the fourth floor of the Commissioners Court Building in Conroe. In this white-hot real estate market, it will likely to go investors. What it means is that at...
Odd things are happening in the People’s Republic of China (PRC): electricity shortages due to lack of coal; factories shutting down; cities going dark with no warning, blacking-out traffic lights, stalling people in elevators, and killing patients in hospitals. The entire power grid is said to be near-collapse. Why? Are these electrical shortages due to the weaknesses of...
Green, But Not With Envy What to know: Europe has some energy lessons for America—namely, that green political agendas inevitably lead to higher fuel and electricity prices for consumers. The TPPF take: The Green New Deal (tucked inside the reconciliation bill) would make life harder for millions of Americans. “Low-income households—which represent nearly 44 percent...
High Anxiety What to know: A new survey says that 56% of young people worldwide think “humanity is doomed” by climate change, and 75% say the future is “frightening.” The TPPF take: Parents can counter eco-anxiety with facts and hope. “Saddling our next generation of leaders with the burden of fatalistic pessimism is wrong for...
This Is Getting Misérable. What to know: Food prices continue to skyrocket; bread, vegetable oils and meat are at their highest prices (relative to household incomes) since the 1970s. The TPPF take: Inflation is a hidden tax on all of us. “Inflation is much worse than Washington seems willing to admit,” says TPPF’s E.J. Antoni....
The border crisis is a humanitarian crisis. Violence in countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras has created a mass migration, creating more demand for human traffickers whose empty promises and exorbitant fees drive and direct the flow of migrants to the border. Human trafficking has become a multi-billion dollar business, trapping thousands into...
Val Verde County is like a lot of South Texas counties: sparsely populated, rugged, dry, and vast. It’s also ground zero for the border crisis. What we learned on a recent trip — talking with the sheriff, talking with Border Patrol officers and veterans, and most of all talking to the men and women who...
June 2021 southern border encounters were the highest since March 2000. If the Biden Administration won’t act, Texas must. More on the Border Crisis: https://thecannononline.com/commentaries/?issues=immigration *source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Medicaid expansion is not a panacea. The data do not support the argument that expansion would bring substantial benefits to many Texans with little to no cost. Instead of expanding an already flawed government program, Texans in need would be better off with targeted assistance from the state or private sector. Key points: KFF’s research...
In recent years it has become fashionable to incorporate green energy solutions like solar wiring and electric vehicle charging stations in homes and buildings. California leads the way in the attempt to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy alternatives— with limited success — but the unintended financial consequences of these sanctimonious initiatives fall invariably...
While President Donald Trump cut the 2021 Obamacare open enrollment period (OEP) in half, President Joe Biden has hastily doubled up and overlapped successive enrollment periods, despite stagnating ACA Marketplace enrollment rates. Every year, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) establishes an OEP for eligible individuals to select a qualified health plan (QHP)...
While President Trump cut the 2021 Obamacare open enrollment period (OEP) in half, President Biden has hastily invested in back-to-back enrollment periods, despite the stagnating Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s marketplace enrollment rates. This unwarranted overextension of time and fiscal resources is a testament to the government’s inability or, perhaps, refusal to acknowledge that...