Consumers have been shocked and dismayed over the last year with the dizzying and destructive rise of food prices. Meat prices in particular have gone sky-high. In November, beef prices were up over 20%, bacon was up 21%, and pork ribs were up 23% for the year. Some of that increase is due to inflation,...
December’s jobs report was again below expectations, with just 199,000 nonfarm jobs added last month. Also disappointing was the fact that wages are rising slower than inflation. The unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage points to 3.9%, and the labor force participation rate was unchanged at 61.9%. The number of unemployed fell 483,000 to 6.3 million....
Consider Sinaloa. If you don’t know Sinaloa, you ought to know it is physically beautiful and possesses a rich local culture. It is also a historic and current epicenter of cartel activity: the homeland of the infamous “El Chapo.” He is now a permanent guest of the United States government at a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado,...
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, a new study out of Denmark ludicrously claims fossil fuels may be to blame for declining fertility around the world. While environmentalists used to warn of overpopulation decimating the planet (remember “The Population Bomb”?), researchers are now beginning to show concern that there will soon be too...
It’s been a few winters since gas prices were at the top of Americans’ list of concerns. But the pain many of us are feeling at the pump—and the drastic increase in home heating costs expected this winter—has changed public sentiment on energy policy. Unfortunately, the Biden administration is pointing the finger in all the...
What’s the answer to poverty? I believe it’s opportunity—and hope. I grew up in South Houston, Texas, an urban area of Houston in the 1980s and ‘90s. I lived in a lower-income, single-mother, two-child household. My mostly absent father was on disability due to epilepsy. I had opportunities to attend private school, public school, and...
Texas’ 2021 legislative season overflowed into three special sessions and was full of high-impact politics and policymaking. Yet hidden under the headlines was Senate Bill 1336, a bill that sets the stage for Texas’ bright fiscal future. The bill might not have made the biggest splash in 2021, but its ripples of positive impact will...
The year 2021 saw the new administration in Washington unleash a historic crisis along America’s southern border with grave repercussions for the entire nation. Through a series of deliberate decisions that simultaneously enabled massive abuse of the US asylum system and sharply curtailed federal immigration law enforcement, in practically no time the Biden-Harris administration created...
We are writing resumés backwards. Whenever I have to update my own C.V., I always notice that the things at the of top the list—recent employment, graduate degrees—have not defined me nearly so much as the thing which is at the bottom: a little classical Christian grade school called Good Shepherd in Tyler, Texas. It...
GE’s new Haliade-X offshore wind turbine is enormous—each blade is longer than a football field. It’s nearly three football fields in height. Its imprint on the seabed is likewise gigantic, and not merely because of the concrete base that anchors it. Miles and miles of transmission lines must be buried then covered over in debris....
Haley Wade had forgotten all about Founders Classical Academy when her family received the call; after all, she’d been on a waiting list for seven years. But when spots opened up for her and her sister, she was ready. After completing eighth grade at a local middle school in Leander, Texas, Haley was academically inclined...
The White House has predicted that inflation is about to come down from its 39-year high, and it might be right, but not because of anything President Joe Biden has done. Rather, it will be nothing more than a mathematical coincidence — and Americans should not expect any relief. The U.S. Department of Labor’s consumer...