The Honorable Robert Henneke is General Counsel at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, Robert served as the twice-elected Kerr County Attorney where he brought conservative values to county government. Robert began his legal career serving as an Assistant Attorney General in the General Litigation division under the leadership of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
On the day before the federal government’s sale of offshore wind leases in the Gulf of Mexico, the tech website Electrek published an optimistic piece about the topic: “Despite headwinds, offshore wind will see ‘massive’ growth to 2032.” But the strength of those headwinds was made clear on Tuesday, when the feds received exactly zero...
In the media coverage, a federal district judge’s admonishment of attorneys for the state of Texas on Tuesday was portrayed as a loss for Gov. Greg Abbott and his border-securing Operation Lone Star. It wasn’t. If anything, it was the Department of Justice’s case that floundered. DOJ sued Texas last month over the buoy barriers...
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — Kristy Money and her husband, Rolf Straubhaar, had lived all over the world before they settled down into two teaching positions at Texas State University. “We wanted an old house near the school, and when we found this one, we were so excited,” says Kristy, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor. “A big part of...
Lost in Joe Rogan’s challenge to Baylor College of Medicine professor Dr. Peter Hotez to debate the COVID-19 vaccine debacle with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a striking truth about America today: We’re desperate for discourse. The left no longer even tries to defend its positions; it now relies on shutting down debate, silencing those who disagree...
Constitutional impeachment prevents what the revolution sought to stop — the reign of a ruler with unchecked power. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, recently “teased” the nation — and the media — with details of a bribery scheme involving Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and a foreign national. This occurred after an IRS whistleblower testified he was removed...
Just in time for summer vacation, gas prices are rising and American families are bracing for sticker shock. OPEC is doing its part to keep prices high by cutting production, and the Biden administration continues to hobble domestic production. That trip to Yellowstone National Park (or Destin, Fla., for that matter) is about to get a lot more...
Legend says that when Texas Ranger Bill McDonald stepped off a train at the site of a town in turmoil (said to be caused by a pending prizefight) in the 1890s, the townspeople were aghast that their plea for help was answered only by him. He responded, “there’s just one prizefight, isn’t there?” That’s the origin...
If the Biden administration’s net zero green new deal goals are even to be attempted, offshore wind is the key. Particularly for the states in the northeastern United States (which unlike West Texas, don’t have miles and miles of empty prairies), green dreams must go offshore. But as Thomas Sowell tells us, there are no solutions – there...
President Biden’s “tailpipe rule,” intended to force Americans into electric vehicles, despite their own needs and preferences, is nothing new. The thinking behind it goes back to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)—and broccoli. We can’t say we weren’t warned. The subject came up before the United States Supreme Court in 2012, when the Affordable Care Act...
Here’s what progressive liberals, led by President Joe Biden, get wrong about the push in Texas, Florida, and other red states to keep life-changing decisions from being made on children: nearly everything. From their misleading verbiage, such as “gender-affirming care,” to their cultish acceptance of the idea that 12-year-olds’ self-diagnoses are not only reliable but sacrosanct, to...
A change in tone is not a change in tactics — and President Joe Biden’s recent approval of the Willow project, which will allow ConocoPhillips to drill for oil and gas on lands in Alaska leased from the federal government, isn’t a deviation from his openly declared goal. During his campaign, Biden said, “I guarantee you...
A newly published federal rule could soon make felons of hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Americans and violate the U.S. Constitution. The Biden administration claims adding a pistol brace to an otherwise legal pistol suddenly transforms it into an unlawful “short-barreled rifle.” A poorly argued DMN editorial claims the ATF’s pistol brace rule “is common sense.” But...