Last month, a Texas judge laid out his reasoning for banning court filings generated by ChatGPT or other artificial intelligence (AI) for legal briefs. While acknowledging that AI has a place in the legal profession, its tendency to fabricate standard legal documents that are filled with hallucinations, bias, and beliefs, which do not faithfully uphold...
Not content with creating the humanitarian crisis Texans are facing at their southern border, the federal government is now adding insult to injury by threatening to sue Texas over a floating barrier the state is now using to ensure the integrity of its border. In early July, Texas installed a 1,000-feet marine buoy barrier in...
As the left-wing establishment weaponizes U.S. law enforcement, how might these actions be viewed in Beijing or Moscow? As the left-wing establishment conducts the lawfare equivalent of carpet-bombing former President Donald Trump, aiming to render his presidential comeback aspirations burnt-out rubble by November 2024, it’s an interesting exercise to understand how these actions might be...
Noting that the term for the current Texas State Historical Association chief historian has expired, state Sen. Mayes Middleton is calling on the University of Texas at Austin to appoint a replacement who hasn’t belittled the Alamo defenders and early Texas residents. Chief Historian Walter Buenger, Ph.D., has been chief historian for the TSHA since...
Transnational criminal organizations are raking in $13 billion annually. As the United States continues to see record numbers of aliens illegally entering the country, all objective observers have reached a consensus: No alien enters the U.S. between the ports of entry via the southwestern border without paying someone in Mexico. The effective takeover of large swaths...
The Louisiana legislature on Tuesday voted to override the governor’s veto of a bill that will protect children from experimental gender treatments—demonstrating exactly what the polls show: Americans aren’t buying radical gender theory. That’s encouraging, but it’s not nearly as relevant as a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling a couple of weeks ago, which...
“It belongs in a museum” could easily be used to describe progressives’ application of fiscal responsibility to big city budgeting. Of course, they all claim to believe in it. Even President Joe Biden said, “The (budget’s) first value is fiscal responsibility.” In practice, however, fiscal responsibility is the Bud Light of city government budgets: seemingly...
When high school senior Lily, a proud member of the Texas A&M class of 2027, received her financial aid offer for the fall, she was caught off guard. “I was offered loans and grants, and at first glance I knew I wanted to avoid the loans if possible and accept the grants first, but it...
As the long, hot summer marches on, the Texas Legislature has struck a deal and passed a substantive tax relief package. The plan provides $18 Billion dollars in tax relief in the form of tax compression and a homestead exemption increase, both of which provide much needed financial relief to struggling Texans. With this new...
Shortly after the Texas passage of the strongest DEI bill in the nation, Senate Bill 17, Texas A&M decided to revive its long defunct journalism school by hiring Kathleen McElroy. McElroy is a former New York Times writer and head of the University of Texas Journalism School where she describes her primary skill set on...
There’s been an alarming rise in Made-in-China counterfeit postage stamps here in America. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been struggling for years, saddled with an outmoded business model and huge retiree pension liabilities. And now, added to its inflationary and management woes comes a new threat: counterfeit stamps from China marketed online through paid...
San Antonio City Councilmember Marc Whyte wrote an article last month in defense of the state’s major preemption legislation (House Bill 2127) and, while reading it, I was reminded of the words of a famous Texan, David Crockett, who said: “Be sure you are right, then go ahead.” Risking fierce criticism, Councilman Whyte explained the...