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)...
Just a few miles away from my hometown, three migrants and one suspected smuggler were killed during a DPS pursuit today. Yesterday, 13 migrants, including two small unrestrained children, were discovered following a high-speed chase in Arizona. Last week, DPS Special Agents in Laredo discovered 50 migrants, including seven minors, concealed in a Conex container....
In response to the highly consequential censoring of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, Democrats contend that the backlash surrounding this decision confirms that society needs more moderation and censorship in order for democracy to thrive. After all, to them, “the First Amendment isn’t absolute.” But free speech absolutist Elon Musk has something...
This past summer the Texas electric grid sustained 11 new all-time peak demand records. We were able to manage our way through the record setting temperatures and demands for electricity in large part due to conservative operations of the grid and changes enacted by Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas legislature. Long term, however, we...
On Wednesday, the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) met to adopt a spending limit to govern how fast the next two-year budget will grow. The biennial ritual is performed in service of observing the state’s two primary spending limits, one constitutional and the other statutory. More specifically, those limits are: “the Article VIII constitutional tax spending...
While it’s understandable to get riled up about the latest outrage on campus, there is some potential good news that we shouldn’t fail to notice: After decades of continuously increasing, college tuition now appears to be trending down. While the level of tuition may still be too high (decades of sustained increases will do that), it is...