The rollout of Texas’ Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) has already become a major success. When state officials opened applications on February 4, demand poured in at an unprecedented rate, with tens of thousands of families rushing to apply. Early figures show the scale of that demand. Within just hours of launch, more than 20,000 applications...
Wednesday’s El Paso action is welcome and long overdue — another step in last summer’s call by President Trump for military action against the cartels. The sudden closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, Feb. 11 was a big deal — but likely not for the reason you think. For years, the Federal Aviation...
Feb. 7 marked the beginning of National Marriage Week, a period dedicated to the celebration of the joys and benefits of happy and healthy marriages. Since its inception in 1996 in the United Kingdom and its adoption in 2002 in the United States, each annual National Marriage Week has focused on a specific theme central...
Empty phrases routinely populate our politics. But ever so often, there are irrefutable moments where rhetoric is wielded as a weapon to be used in animating hostility. “The day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning because we are the majority...
The Carrington Event literally shocked telegraph operators. A repeat could shock an entire civilization into the pre-industrial age. Imagine being a telegraph operator in September 1859. You’re sitting at your station, using cutting-edge technology to tap out messages hundreds and thousands of miles away. Suddenly, brilliant auroras light up the night sky from the tropics...
There are wars in the Middle East. Future battles with China. Covert missions in Latin America. And Elon Musk wants to build a Mars colony. All of these require one, simple biological necessity: human beings. Unfortunately, Americans are fat. And the obesity problem with our children has only ballooned. To protect our sovereignty, secure our...
“If he likes it, then he should put a ring on it.” Those words, delivered with Pop Princess authority by Beyoncé, are now backed by mountains of social science, not just catchy hooks. As we celebrate National Marriage Week (Feb. 7–14), we should reflect not only on the romantic symbolism of marriage but on what...
Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. With the Super Bowl looming on Sunday and Texas’ primary election less than a month away, here’s who made the list: WINNER: Compared to What? Monday looked like the start of a...
Nations do not collapse overnight. They erode when leaders start deciding which laws are optional. It shows the American people that if immigration law only applies when it’s politically convenient, then it isn’t law—it’s theater. Maria Salazar, a Republican congresswoman from Florida recently said, “Don’t touch the nannies or the gardeners… Those people are helping...
President Trump’s TrumpRx initiative is a game-changer in the fight to lower prescription drug prices for everyday Americans. For far too long, prescription medication costs have been obscenely high, not because of the true cost of research and manufacturing, but because of a tangled web of insurance plans, middlemen, and opaque price-setting that enriches gatekeepers...
Do you tell the young people in your life to follow The Golden Rule? Have you been urged to “turn the other cheek” instead of harming someone who has harmed you? Or maybe Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” is your favorite song, but you’re not sure where that hard line about “the valley of the shadow of...
Like all parents, my wife and I consider the formation of our children as one of our primary responsibilities. With two in college and two in elementary school, we’ve worked multiple jobs and sacrificed for more than 15 years (and will continue for the next 12) to send our kids to Catholic classical schools. The...