In a recent Dallas Morning News op-ed, former Bush advisor Margaret Spellings and Texas’ state climatologist Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon waxed poetic about the impending climate apocalypse, claiming Texas as a victim based on dubious predictions of weather we “might expect” — hardly the standard for scientific certainty or sound policy decisions. While the report the...
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education announced new changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. The changes make a bad program worse. PSLF was launched in 2007 and provides accelerated loan forgiveness for politically favored workers. Other college graduates with student loan debt need to make payments for at least 20 years before qualifying...
A trip to the grocery store, gas station, or just about anywhere else is guaranteed to give you a bad case of sticker shock these days. Prices just keep going up, and there’s no end in sight to this inflationary wave. If a household’s budget was tight at the start of the year, it is...
It can be tough to pin down the shapeless blob of current leftwing activism. In a world where the ACLU has thrown in on gun control, the abortion lobby has sounded off on immigration, and environmental activists are apoplectic about redistricting, there is no coherent through-line that does not include arch-progressive fantasy. It’s shocking when...
It is no secret that the pandemic has been particularly hard on our children. Data shows a catastrophic learning loss among K-12 students across the country—a crisis that threatens the future of a great number of America’s school children who are struggling mightily. Many Christians across denominations and confessional frameworks are asking how they can...
September’s job report was a severe disappointment, with only 194,000 nonfarm jobs added last month, less than half of expectations, and the smallest gain for the year. The unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points to 4.8%, in part because of people leaving the labor force, as evidenced by the labor force participation rate dropping to...
Texas and football go hand-in-hand. There is nothing like the two-minute drill at the end of a game with increased adrenaline pushing you on to victory. Texas lawmakers are likely feeling a similar jolt in an effort to appropriate the remaining $16 billion of the $40 billion that Congress sent to Texas in the American...
Do we really need the IRS looking over our shoulders every time we deposit a paycheck? The Biden administration has plan to monitor every bank transaction of $600 or more, ostensibly to crack down on tax cheats. But the plan is troubling for a number of reasons. On Thursday, Oct. 7, TPPF joined other conservative...
The German center-left won a tight election on Sept. 26, with the top three parties campaigning on climate change and post-pandemic economic recovery. After almost 200 people died in Germany due to flooding over the summer — blamed on climate change — the issue had greater urgency than in the past. Climate change is the cry...
If you have bought just about anything lately—from food and gasoline to cars and even houses—you know prices just keep climbing. People are running out of cash. There seems to be less and less left over at the end of every month as prices continue rising faster than wages. Put simply, a household’s money is...
Details are starting to emerge about the Biden administration’s plans for free community college. According to a story in Inside Higher Ed by Alexis Gravely, the key details include: States that opt-in must set community college tuition and fees to $0 and must maintain current spending on community colleges. To offset the loss of tuition, the federal government...
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised anymore. Congress is deliberately sidestepping the legislative process enshrined in the Constitution, abusing procedural gimmicks to force the radical climate agenda down the American people’s throats through the budget reconciliation package. The reconciliation bill is loaded with pork-barrel spending and sweeping policy changes that are entirely inappropriate for budget legislation....