Higher Education

What Would Gavin Newsom Do? It’s Time to Stop DEI on Campus

It has been observed that if California Gov. Gavin Newsom learned that the University of California system included professors and staff who persistently engaged in pushing free-market, merit-based achievement, and pro-capitalism messages, he would shut them down immediately.  If he found out that the administrations of state colleges and universities were almost exclusively made up of individuals...

December 1, 2022

Economy

Socialism at Plymouth Rock: Getting the Thanksgiving story straight

One thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving is that it took the Pilgrims only a year or so to figure out that socialism was bad, both for individuals and communities as a whole. Four centuries ago, William Bradford, the first governor of the Plymouth Colony, stated flatly in his history of Plymouth that the Pilgrims had been wrong to think...

November 28, 2022

Local Government

Election Prediction

After early voting ended on Friday night, Texas voting data guru Derek Ryan issued his final report of who voted, compiling all the information available from the Texas Secretary of State, Two telling points emerged for us to ponder while we wait for the polls to close tomorrow night. First, the number of voters who...

November 8, 2022

Election Integrity

Texas Democrats Have a Mid-Term Inoculation Plan

There’s a political tactic called “inoculation” that came into mainstream parlance in the Bill Clinton era—it’s a kind of pre-emptive strike designed to protect against expected attacks and allegations. Going down to the wire to Election Day on Nov. 8, Texas Democrats have begun an inoculation strategy, deploying their strongest resource, the Texas press, to...

November 3, 2022

Election Integrity

Texans Want Real Mail-In Ballot Protections

In 2007, when photo voter ID was first being debated in the Texas House, State Rep. Rafael Anchia, a leading Democrat leader from Dallas, spoke against it, telling his fellow legislators that they were targeting the wrong problem:  “…Vote by mail that we know is the greatest source of voter fraud in this state,” Anchia said....

October 4, 2022

Local Government

O’Rourke’s Anti-Texas Debate

It makes absolutely no sense for the media to be in charge of political debates in Texas or anywhere else. They don’t even pretend to be neutral players anymore. They are on the liberal Democrat side.  Which makes it all the more telling, now that the only Texas gubernatorial debate is over, that almost none...

October 3, 2022

K-12 Education

Parents Should Ignore Teacher Unions

Despite the bleak report on learning loss following pandemic school closures, Texas got some very good news last week with the release of the annual A-F school ratings. Fully 95% of the 38 school districts and 10 charter systems in the Region One Education Service Center area received either an A or B rating in...

October 3, 2022

Higher Education

Red McCombs Should Demand His Money Back

It has been said that Texas is the best expression of the American idea—and Red McCombs is one of the best expressions of everything it means to be a Texan. He came from a tiny town in the southern panhandle, started as an Edsel salesman in Corpus Christi and went onto become one of the...

August 12, 2022

Economy

Texas still one of the best places to live and work, even if left-wing CNBC stacks the deck

CNBC used to stand for the “Consumer News and Business Channel.” but it is now part of NBC and the left-wing media.  Its job now is to demonize conservative states, especially Texas, as dismal backwaters filled with miserable, uninformed and misguided voters. But because CNBC is still a business channel, focused on the economy, the...

August 1, 2022

Local Government

The Texas Media War Against Texas

When I saw a June 30, Texas Tribune a story headlined: “State education board members push back on proposal to use “involuntary relocation” to describe slavery,” it was immediately clear that it was riddled with inaccuracies, misinformation and blatant left wing propaganda, but it was such non-news that it hardly seemed worth the effort to...

July 14, 2022

Family

Inflation, Gas Prices, Drag Queens And Biden’s Sinking Poll Numbers

With inflation breaking records, gas prices pushing $10 per gallon and the border exploding with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, President Joe Biden decided to issue an executive order to “enhance protections for transgender children and take steps to ban conversion therapy as efforts continue in Texas and other states to restrict gender-affirming medical...

June 27, 2022

Local Government

Uvalde: Time to Stop Looking for Easy Answers

Texas and the country are still in shock from another horrific story of a young man – a boy really — who morphed into killer. The left is still pushing the same old simplistic answers, while the rest of us assess what went wrong and how we can finally stop it from happening again. In...

June 8, 2022