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.
It’s just a shame the media in control of the debate will be unlikely to focus on the most vital issues. The media have begun their predictable lead-up to the first presidential debate slated for June 27 with the usual question — “Do debates really matter?” — before answering it themselves. As Politico’s Jack Shafer...
By April 28, even House Democrats had had enough. A group of them demanded that Columbia University “act decisively” and evict the overtly pro-Hamas protesters who had been occupying the campuses, shutting down education at the close of the semester. Is this the watershed moment? The turn of the tide? Or did that come even earlier—when state legislatures (such as...
On Tuesday, the University of Texas announced that law enforcement had seized weapons from pro-Hamas protesters—including, according to reports, “guns, buckets of large rocks, bricks, steel-enforced wood planks, mallets, and chains.” Social media was replete with images of buckets filled with throwable chucks of concrete, staged in key areas where protesters expected resistance. But the weapons at...
Omnibus spending bill that included Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was unlawful. The Biden administration seems willing to violate any law or constitutional principle in its weaponized-government approach to the November election. On Monday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published new rules for pregnant workers that includes benefits for abortion — based on a law that has already been declared...
The Biden administration can’t escape the blame for higher prices. And that’s why it must try to redirect voters’ anger. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon mentioned “inflation” more than 20 times in his annual report to shareholders, released Monday. And he warned that the Federal Reserve’s response — raising interest rates to cool spending — could...
It’s no coincidence or “rare practice”— and it’s certainly not a case of “conservatives pounce.” The recent spate of incidents involving squatters is part of a concerted effort to undermine property rights. That includes the March death of a woman in New York, who was allegedly murdered and dismembered by teens who had been squatting...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul knows she has spooked her state’s business community. That’s why she went on a talk show last week to calm their very legitimate fears that they would be next. If former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted and fined hundreds of millions of dollars for a common business practice, who is...
“It was always headed here” — to a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, according to Politico’s Adam Wren. “But in the span of a few days, the wrinkled and sagging reality staring the nation in the face has become the defining issue of the 2024 campaign,” he went on, citing Special Counsel Robert Hur’s...
Public money should pay for public functions, not the activities of private labor unions. It’s one of the most corrupt and unlawful ways that the government provides favors to political benefactors and preferred special interests. In a practice called “release time,” governments allow labor unions to use other people’s money to pay for politically connected special interests...
Democrats have no moral high-ground on the issue. The worst tragedies are the preventable ones. Last week, a mother and two children drowned in the treacherous Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, attempting to cross into the U.S. illegally. The Biden administration was quick to blame the state of Texas, but the facts are clear: Biden...
The simple fact is that American families are worse off under President Biden – and the spin can’t hide that. “All good—” President Joe Biden said about the economy, bristling at a reporter’s question on Christmas Eve. “Take a look. Start reporting it the right way.” Even Biden’s allies in the media are doing their...
The vice president came to Houston last week to tout the Biden administration’s record to Latinos. She had nothing to say about the border crisis or the economy. Voters noticed. Trumpeting the Biden administration’s record to Latinos in Houston last week, Vice President Kamala Harris ignored the two biggest issues Hispanics — and everyone else...