In the face of a historic border crisis due to the intentional reduction of federal immigration law enforcement, legislation has finally been passed in Texas to help fill the gap and better secure America’s southern border. Gov. Greg Abbott was expected to sign the bill on Friday, Sept. 17—as the crisis at the border intensifies,...
Austin ISD, the largest government-run school district in Central Texas, has just proposed a big tax increase despite shrinking enrollment and overstuffed coffers brimming with federal aid. The move, which comes at a time when area food banks are “still seeing high demand,” has left many Austinites understandably frustrated. On Monday, the Austin American-Statesman reported...
The climate army is coming. Dissatisfied with the American people’s lack of concern for their issue du jour, self-righteous coastal elites are moving on from slick PR campaigns and headline-grabbing protests to deploy a legion of climate activists across the nation — paid for by your tax dollars, whether you like it or not. President Joe Biden’s proposed Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) would be the biggest mobilization of government labor since the New Deal, a...
California is a tax haven for the middle class? Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom made that risible claim during a Sacramento Bee editorial board meeting last month as he battles the Sept. 14 recall election. Newsom’s questionable boast came in response to a reporter who prefaced her question by noting that California has the nation’s “highest housing costs, highest...
Even as Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 1 into law in Tyler on Tuesday, Democrats and special interest groups were filing lawsuits to stop its implementation. They’ll challenge it on constitutional grounds, claiming it’s a blatant attempt to suppress minority votes. Yet that’s not the sole strategy at play here. Just as they used...
But Can They Spell “Woke”? What to know: The head of the Los Angeles teachers union says parents shouldn’t worry about education their kids missed out on due to the pandemic. “It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables … They know the words insurrection and coup.” The TPPF take:...
No, We Have Oil at Home What to know: The White House continues to push OPEC to increase oil production, even as it discourages U.S. petroleum production. The TPPF take: American energy production is the cleanest in the world. “Unfortunately, this administration continues to project hostility to the oil and gas industry, while encouraging imports...
We’ve Noticed What to know: The White House has more than doubled its inflation forecast. The TPPF take: Higher inflation will hurt American families. “Inflation is fundamentally a tax,” says TPPF’s E.J. Antoni. “It is a transfer of wealth from anyone on a fixed income, or any creditor, or anyone with a dollar in their...
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
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...
Medicaid expansion is not a good idea, and here’s why: It fails to improve the quality of care. Support for Medicaid expansion often looks like a new op-ed titled “Refusing to expand Medicaid is wrong call.” Although its author highlights the need to focus on the quality of care for specific individuals, he misses the...