New York City hauled the 884-pound statue of Thomas Jefferson out of City Hall recently because city leaders said the statue “shouldn’t exist” and that Jefferson should be forgotten. I can understand New York progressives forgetting that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence but it is surprising that they don’t remember that this Founding Father...
Tom Williams is silent as his son Aaron talks about fishing in the waters off Rhode Island—something Aaron has done his whole life, from helping his father to captaining his own trawler. It’s a tradition he now thinks about passing down to his children. “I remember my dad griping about the cold northeast wind,” Aaron...
The Texas Model of relatively less spending, no personal income tax, and sensible regulation continues to support improved economic freedom with more opportunities to flourish. But there’s room for improvement for the state recently ranked as the fourth most free nationwide. Canada’s Fraser Institute recently released the Economic Freedom of North America 2021 report that...
An electric co-op serving over 360,000 households across Central Texas is under fire for restructuring its solar customers’ rates. But without the change, all Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) customers face higher bills in order to subsidize the few who choose to install solar panels on their homes. With prices for home heating, gasoline, and most...
Fear and uncertainty over the pandemic are rising again as the first U.S. case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was found in a patient in California and has been spreading across the nation. But let’s not panic and jump to solutions. While this could contribute to the second consecutive winter wave, our new research...
Americans are being crushed by the highest inflation in 39 years. An entire generation has never seen prices rise this fast and they’re feeling the pain in their wallet. But the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) passed by the U.S. House of Representatives will only compound this pain with new spending, taxes, and debt. Americans...
A CBSDFW.com tweet went viral on Tuesday, but for precisely the wrong reason. Instead of getting the dog lovers to heart the photo of K9 Officer Ballentine at Dallas Love Field Airport, twitizens instead focused on the mounds of cash surrounding the pooch. It had been seized from a woman who is not even charged...
Democrats and Republicans are engaged in important debates about how the federal government can best serve families in these challenging economic times. There are no simple answers, but as we enter the holiday season, there is one thing on which we can all agree: Family is essential for achieving the best in our lives and...
Prices are rising faster than at any time in the last 39 years. An entire generation of Americans have never witnessed this kind of monetary mischief and likely don’t understand what’s going on behind the scenes. But believe it or not, it’s all very simple—and downright insidious. As measured by the U.S. Department of Labor’s...
There’s a saying, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” If that’s true, the recent passage of the Biden administration’s “infrastructure” package just added an express lane. The massive $1.2 trillion bill, called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“Jobs Act”), balloons the $29 trillion national debt on what’s largely a green energy...
The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), one of the state’s largest taxpayer-funded lobbying groups, is coming under fire for its refusal to sever ties with the National School Boards Association (NSBA). The NSBA is the same group that, in September, ignited a firestorm when it sent the Biden administration a letter comparing parent protests...
Progressive policies set the stage for a huge uptick in crime and violence this year, costing many people their property and even their lives. More from the Daily Mail: “…at least a dozen large mid-tier cities across the country have already broken their annual [murder] records. The grim trend follows national calls to defund police...