The German proverb — “it is easier to hurt than to heal” — is at the root of today’s homeless tragedy. In 2013, the U.S. instituted a seismic shift in how it approached homelessness. Rather than fund the combination of housing and clinical services to support the homeless in healing from the disease and trauma...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is doing a better job at protecting children from exposure to harmful content than Texas Public Schools. For the past year, parents across Texas have been sounding the alarm about the sexually explicit and inappropriate materials they are finding in schools. But let’s be clear—while there is no better an...
Educators desperate to keep students’ attention will use anything to appeal to their young audience — but that doesn’t make TikTok an appropriate educational tool. As of last October, more than 94 million Americans used the short-form video platform at least once a month. That number is projected to increase to 101.3 million Americans by...
A pre-pandemic analysis of data from the nation’s 20 largest cities revealed that the number of homeless deaths rose by 77% from 2015 to 2020. The most common causes of death are either preventable or treatable: “drug overdoses, violence, traffic deaths and premature lethality of treatable conditions like heart disease,” according to the analysts. This was...
Washington’s progressive policies have substantially reduced economic freedom, which in 2020 hit the lowest score since 1975, and resulted in a U.S. recession and 40-year high inflation. And in Texas, high property taxes from excessive local government spending have contributed to an affordability crisis for many families. Unfortunately, things will get worse nationally, likely dampening...
My severe peanut allergy could have cost me my life if I did not have my EpiPen pack by my side. As a young elementary schooler, I was swimming at a friend’s house and grabbed a handful of snacks that her mom had kindly put out for us. Little did I know that the snacks...
Just over a year ago, New York City opened the nation’s first “safe injection” sites (SIS) — two taxpayer-funded locations (one in Harlem, the other in Washington Heights) where people can use drugs while overseen by a medic. Supporters claim that allowing drug addicts to shoot up with clean needles in a supervised setting is the most...
Ideology, taken to extremes, tends to reject observed truths. Thus, American leftists, with monopoly control of major urban areas and academia, preside over spikes in homicides, open drug use, homelessness, and ridiculous historical fabulism. Many of the elite claim with straight faces that there are 81 genders while simultaneously staking a sacred belief in “science.” Such willful...
In dictatorial nations, such as China or the old Soviet Union, anti-science Lysenkoism can have free range — with disastrous consequences. Ideology, taken to extremes, tends to reject observed truths. Thus, American leftists, with monopoly control of major urban areas and academia, preside over spikes in homicides, open drug use, homelessness, and ridiculous historical fabulism....
Amidst all the other things parents have to worry about, they’ve been bombarded with a message on fentanyl that’s only half-right: it’s dangerous (yes!) and the main threat has become multicolored (not quite). Easily identified by its bright, colorful pills, rainbow fentanyl is a marketing gimmick with dangerous consequences. But at least, it is a...
“Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.”—U.S. Army General William “Billy” Mitchell. This statement by an early American air power expert became reality through the Five Power Naval Limitation Treaty. Governmental regulations often do the opposite of what lawmakers intended. The Five Power Naval Limitation Treaty is a poignant example. Despite its...
Not many years before Texas A&M University was founded by the Legislature in 1871, then-U.S. Sen. Sam Houston remarked, “I will say, without vaunting, that Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from whatever source it may.” But what if Texas imports its oppression—on purpose? That’s what environmental, social and governance (ESG)...