The Honorable Jason Isaac is the Director of Life:Powered at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Jason, a fourth-generation native Texan, was elected four times as the State Representative for Hays and Blanco counties in the Texas Hill Country. During his eight years of service, he successfully passed legislation to reduce taxes, strengthen election integrity, improve public education, preserve Second Amendment rights, protect local groundwater, and protect private property rights.
In addition to his collaboration with Life:Powered, Jason is also the Founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute. Both he and his wife, the Honorable Carrie Isaac, are graduates of Stephen F. Austin State University, they live in Hays County with their two sons.
On March 19, Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) Chairman Aaron Kinsey issued a statement that the Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF), one of the largest and oldest education endowments in the country with over $53 billion in assets, was moving $8.5 billion from BlackRock to other asset managers. Chairman Kinsey noted in the statement...
BlackRock’s penchant for ESG is already coming back to bite it in the behind. In its annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the financial behemoth openly admitted its ESG activism poses a serious risk to its business. In the company’s words, the House of Cards could tumble “if BlackRock is not able to successfully manage...
Not long ago, pundits were telling us that gasoline-powered cars would soon vanish from the streets, replaced by sleek, space-age vessels powered by electricity. But consumer demand for electric cars never matched the hype. Fewer drivers are interested in electric vehicles today than ever before, according to a new survey. This is further confirmed by Hertz’s...
‘Renewable’ energy is still just a marketing term for unreliable energy As winter approaches across the country, the usual seasonal stressors are upon us: Busy social calendars, buying gifts (if we can afford them), and preparing for family functions. For those of us in Texas, however, we have bigger concerns. Memories of going days or...
The goals of President Joe Biden’s administration are lofty: among them, nationwide vehicle electrification within 20 years. To reach that goal, the administration has recently proposed new fuel economy regulations that will help ensure that 67% of new passenger cars sold are electric vehicles by 2032. The problem is that this green dream is physically impossible to achieve...
$2,800 is how much energy costs spiked for an average family per year, thanks to Bidenomics While jetting across the country trumpeting the supposed success of “Bidenomics,” Vice President Kamala Harris had this to say, “Most Americans are a $400 unexpected expense away from bankruptcy.” What’s not to love? The White House must not be seeing the...
As wildfires continue to burn in Canada, air quality in New York City got so bad recently that spending the day outdoors would be the equivalent to smoking half a pack of cigarettes. Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently had the worst air quality in the country. Mask-wearing has resumed in full not because of COVID-19, but because the...
Hope you don’t have any exciting weekend plans. By the time you read this, humanity has already been wiped out. Hasn’t it? On June 21, 2018, Greta Thunberg tweeted that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.” Five years have come and almost...
President Biden’s climate alarmist narratives are attempting to bury a harsh truth — that whales are dying in record numbers because of his green agenda. The administration’s newest proposed permit is set to allow foreign offshore wind companies to kill 42 whales, more than 2,500 dolphins and nearly 1,500 seals by conducting yet another survey for wind turbines off...
Carbon capture is like burning witches. In the 15th to 17th centuries, the elite in Europe and the United States believed that “evil humans were negatively affecting the climate and weather patterns.” The people were demanding something — anything — be done about famine and crop failure. There must be consequences, facts be damned, so...
There’s a commonsense solution to address the inflation that’s plagued America since Biden became president. It starts with Congress. If Americans can come together across the aisle to agree on anything, it’s that the Biden administration’s agenda has been disastrous for Americans. With no end in sight to price hikes causing financial turmoil for so many families,...
The push to ditch reliable energy is out of control. Politicians are manipulating the energy market through subsidies, tax breaks, and environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) initiatives in regulations and government pensions. It’s also concerning that the “big three” investment institutions, which collectively hold over $20 trillion in assets, too often coerce the companies in which they...