DeVore: Texas' top spot in tech exports and top exporter overall provide clear examples that there is more to the Lone Star State's economy than oil and gas and, more importantly, that the Texas model is the best example for other states to follow.
California Set to Hike Gas Taxes Again, This Time With a Global Warming Tax
Overwhelming Majority Support Abolishing Franchise Tax
Texas: The Antidote to the Soft Tyranny Gripping America
Texas is investing in alternatives to incarceration that are proving to be cheaper and more effective at keeping people out of prison. It is also doing a better job of rehabilitating people to keep them from reoffending and ending up back in prison.
Texas' Median Household Income continues to climb with a strong middleclass economy
Hat Tip to Nick Swartsell of the Dallas Morning News
DeVore: Properly allocating limited taxpayer resources is a challenge. In California's case, in the area of criminal justice, it would mean, among other things, beefing up treatment and monitoring of parolees at the local level.
Projected 2014 State Job Creation Leader: Texas
While federal soft tyranny reaches new heights, Texas shows the way on liberty
Ideas Have Consequences
Ideas Have Consequences