Supporters waved flags and snapped selfies as they waited for the MORENA party’s final rally to start in Reynosa – the scruffy border city of maquiladoras opposite McAllen, Texas. Music blared two hours later as the rally for MORENA’s gubernatorial candidate Américo Villarreal still hadn’t started. Such tardiness can be common in Mexican political rallies as...
School’s out for summer and everyone is ready for a vacation. And who can blame them? The world’s been through a lot, so it makes sense that travel demand is up 86%. But with skyrocketing inflation on everything from the pump to plane tickets to groceries and more, who can afford to go anywhere besides...
Here’s a crash course on the Defense Production Act (DPA) for the current commander-in-chief — who, evidently, has never familiarized himself with the national defense infrastructure of the United States. F-22s don’t achieve supercruise speeds with batteries. Marines aren’t issued baby formula in their MREs. And Nimitz-class aircraft carriers don’t rip through the waves at...
The city of Austin will soon start sending out $1,000 checks—with no strings attached—to approximately 85 Austin families, in the state’s first experiment in “universal basic income” (UBI). But the Texas Constitution prohibits cities from giving gifts—and that’s why this program is likely unconstitutional. The program is aimed at people who are being priced out of...
As a Georgia peach, with “Peachtree” in my childhood home address, I have been skeptical about Texas’s peaches. So, when we pulled up to Burg’s Corner, the retail site of Jimmy Duecker Orchards, a store right off Highway 290 East, I was planning on disappointment. Founded in 1948, the store was the hub of the...
Texas is seeing record June heat, reminiscent of the scorching summer of 2011, and record electricity demand is being forecast. After the disaster in February 2021, many Texans are wondering how long the grid will be able to handle the state’s growing electricity demand. They’re right to wonder, and while the Texas grid should pass...
Texas and the country are still in shock from another horrific story of a young man – a boy really — who morphed into killer. The left is still pushing the same old simplistic answers, while the rest of us assess what went wrong and how we can finally stop it from happening again. In...
Thanks to legislation recently passed in Mississippi, the formerly incarcerated may soon have more opportunity to meaningfully re-integrate into society. House Bill 971 extends the current renewal period for expired driver’s licenses from 18 months to five years. After that point, an individual would need to repeat the lengthy process of taking a driving examination....
On May 24, as a murderous gunman wrought terror and death through two adjoining classrooms full of children at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, 19 municipal police officers stood in the hallway outside, waiting. A total of 47 more minutes would elapse before the officers, led by the officers from the Border Patrol Tactical Unit...
I was very excited to move to Philadelphia in 2018. I went to school at Penn State, where I received both my undergraduate and graduate degrees. Many of my friends from college lived in the area, so Pennsylvania always felt like a home away from home. When the first wave of the pandemic hit the...
We’ve seen it everywhere, in the news, in our own lives: the Left’s policies and liberal cities failing, time and time again, to deliver on their promises. Housing will fix homelessness. Welfare will fix poverty. The right combination of the right laws is society’s panacea—if only the government was given the power to solve the...
When did it all start to go wrong? In the early 20th Century, Americans fighting poverty not only lost sight of the goal—lifting families up—but even of the problem itself, and instead sought to remake society through government intervention, often at the expense of the very people they were meant to help. In 1920, Owen...