In June 2020, Travis Warner received a diagnostic PCR COVID-19 test at SignatureCare Emergency Center in Lewisville, Texas. In August, he received a $54,000 bill. While his insurer’s negotiated rate for the test and included fees totaled at $16,915 and was paid in full by the insurer, the outrageous and unexpected charge distressed him. After...
From the spread of liberation theology in the 1960s to the culture wars of the 1990s and beyond, progressives have used Hispanics to further their agenda to reshape society into a socialist utopia. In today’s battle over Critical Race Theory, nothing has changed. Progressives have been consistent in launching wave after wave of attacks to...
Have monetary scientists solved the mysteries of alchemy? While the ancient alchemists sought (and failed) to turn lead into gold—the currency of the day—their modern counterparts have done something far more incredible: creating money from debt. But just as King Midas’ touch proved less a blessing than a curse, so too is this modern marvel....
The United Nations Climate Change Conference is due to start on Oct. 31 in Glasgow, Scotland — a city built by the coal and steel industries. Alok Sharma, the president-designate for the conference, was in Paris last Tuesday solemnly declaring that “Responsibility rests with each and every country … because on climate, the world will succeed, or fail as...
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...