Over the last two years, U.S. education was rocked by school closures and interrupted learning. As of spring 2022, 60% of our kids were not doing math on grade level and 50% are below grade level in reading. Parents are frustrated by their lack of ability to control what’s happening to their children. To listen...
How did crime re-emerge as a major concern for voters? According to a Fox News poll of registered voters conducted Oct. 9-12, 89% of voters are “extremely” or “very” concerned about inflation and higher prices while 79% say the same about crime, the number two concern. We know that in the tumultuous summer of 2020, “Defund the...
In California, the embarrassing disconnect between the state’s whole-of-government approach in the fight against climate change versus the smoking reality of spectacular failure is seen where it counts: in the real world. A Wall Street Journal editorial on Oct. 23 cited a University of California study finding that California’s 2020 wildfire emissions “were two times higher than...
The revelations from the massive hack of the Mexican Defense Ministry (#SedenaLeaks) are explosive: A nexus exists between some Mexican government officials, the Mexican military, and drug cartels—all at the expense of Mexican people, but not only. The human rights abuses, unrest, and corruption have spilled over across Texas’ southern border through human and drug...
Right On Crime Executive Director and former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman recently appeared on Fox Business with host Dagen McDowell, where he dicussed dangerous repercussions of politically motivated criminal justice policies. To view the clip, click here. Some brief excerpts: Dagen McDowell, Fox Business: Everyday, it’s another story, and it’s more gruesome and just as...
As the federal government is seeking to expand the Obama Affordable Care Act by extending subsidies and giving more people coverage, bankruptcies linked to medical debt have not fallen. Instead, they have risen. Most Americans filing for bankruptcy over medical bills have medical insurance. The Affordable Care Act failed to cure medical bankruptcies. A 2019...
Gasoline prices will soar after the Democrats’ midterm shellacking. Why? Power. For many politicians, as well as parties, the point of power is power. Biden campaigned against American oil and gas, saying he would “end fossil fuels” with no more pipelines and “no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability...
As citizens and communities throughout the nation are fast realizing, the chaotic border policies of the Biden administration impose steep housing, transportation, health care, public safety and education costs on taxpayers. In addition to the fiscal hit, these costs also include tragic and unexpected impacts on American families and basic public services. In our South...
ATLANTA—When the American Medical Association, the Children’s Hospital Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics ask the U.S. attorney general to investigate and prosecute dissenters to the woke gender agenda, they’re talking about Dr. Quentin Van Meter—among others. One of the nation’s leading pediatric endocrinologists (the kind of doctor who deals regularly with children, their...
The Houston Chronicle recently broke the story on a special purpose district in Austin that’s discovered a way to manipulate the law in its favor—a manipulation that has generated the district, and its board members, millions of dollars in profits. Put simply, the SH130 Municipal Management District uses a tax workaround to exempt developers’ land...
You are not a fish. I am not a fish. We are not fish. And yet, our local governments sure do want to treat us like fish to be caught, either on a hook or with a net. Once caught, we stay caught. Right now, in Texas, there is no reasonable way for a group...
With the number of homeless individuals rising ever higher in California, one might think that policymakers would seek to ensure that taxpayer funds earmarked for affordable housing will be put to good use. However, a recent report highlighted one city’s grossly ineffective and potentially wasteful efforts at housing the homeless — a symptom not just of a...