In virtually every news report of parents demanding that public school librarians do their job and remove inappropriate or pornographic materials from school libraries, the book Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe is at the top of the objectionable titles list. So many librarians and school board members are defending the book that I figured I should...
When we think about how American energy production is being undermined, we usually think about policies emanating from Washington, D.C., and the inexorable march of the federal regulatory state. But a quieter and more sinister movement is afoot to bypass the messy process of lawmaking and regulation and force large corporations to stop financing American...
Congressional Democrats are desperate for legislative victories heading into an ominous election season. They think they’ve seized on a winner with a bill that passed the House of Representatives this month to cap the patient cost of insulin at $35 per month. The Affordable Insulin Now Act taps into American diabetics’ frustration with runaway insulin bills. Nearly...
Texans were horrified to learn of the Department of Family and Protective Services’ mishandling of allegations that children in its care were sexually exploited at a shelter intended to protect victims of sex trafficking. In the weeks since the story made it clear that DFPS has broken its promise to children to take them to a place...
Since Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced in February that he was going to re-evaluate tenure—which prevents most college professors from being fired—the left-wing faculty elites at Texas academic institutions have gone ballistic. Lt. Gov. Patrick was responding to blowback from a University of Texas faculty committee that balked at his assertion that the Legislature would...
Elon Musk is again driving the news cycle with his groundbreaking purchase of Twitter for more than $43 billion. It’s been a whirlwind. In less than a month, Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder, was considered for a seat on the board, declined a seat on the board, offered to purchase Twitter, to which Twitter moved...
In Dr. Seuss’ book, “The Lorax”, the “Once-ler” pursues his dreams of getting rich by cutting down trees to make Thneeds, without replanting or replenishing the trees. In so doing he awakens the Lorax, the guardian of the trees. The Lorax tells the Once-ler, “I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for...
The fact that our nation’s unemployment rate is approaching the low rate of 3.5% that was reached just prior to the pandemic should be a cause for celebration. But for a variety of reasons, the official unemployment number is misleading. The employment situation is not as rosy as it may seem. There is a wide...
HIDALGO—From the actual high ground — from the bluffs overlooking the Rio Grande River — it’s hard to see how any of this makes sense. President Joe Biden’s inaction and inept policies on the southern U.S. border only increase the human carnage and suffering wrought by the Mexican drug cartels. This isn’t compassion; it’s complicity. The Texas...
Ah, Earth Day, when all headline-seeking celebrities, corporations, and politicians come together to virtue-signal about saving the world. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Invest in Our Planet” — an ironic choice, since the financial goals of the environmentalist movement wouldn’t help the planet but would, instead, hurt so many of the humans living on it....
Today, people will celebrate Earth Day with “Invest in our Planet” events put on by climate change activists, but there are many people who don’t know such a day exists—and yet they are much better acquainted with investing in the Earth for survival than we are. Boniface, 14, knows the toils of the Earth. A...
Many of us have the average post-brunch Sunday afternoon routine. We check to see what we could buy after paying off grad school debt. Ponder if we should adopt a cat. Or we scroll through Zillow and save a couple houses. One can dream, right? Sadly, the American dream of homeownership is moving further and...