Higher Education

Who’s Violating Campus Free Speech? Follow The Money

Free speech, though under assault on a growing number of campuses, is still deemed a paramount feature of American democracy by most Americans--certainly those who received their college educations years earlier. But Americans’ devotion to the First Amendment can be expected only to weaken annually if we continue to graduate college students reared in the new regime of intolerance establishing ever-more beachheads on our campuses.

April 3, 2017

Family

HB 6: Community-Based Foster Care

Testimony on House Bill 6 before the House Human Services Committee continued by Brandon Logan, J.D., CWLS

April 3, 2017

Economy

Congress should follow Texas’s lead in ending business taxes

his leadership in Texas, where almost one-third of jobs have been created since December 2007, should encourage Congress to control government spending and end the federal corporate income tax. 

March 31, 2017

Family

Saving children from the system meant to protect them

Texas foster children need results rather than excuses. Yet bureaucratic inertia entreats legislators to leave children’s fates in the hands of a broken state agency, which has shown little aptitude for improvement — or worse, to buoy the sinking state agency with tax dollars. Instead, legislators should focus on keeping children with their parents, or at least within their extended family or community.

March 31, 2017

Taxes & Spending

Congress should follow Texas’ lead in ending business taxes

The 85th Texas Legislature looks to make Texas the leader in America—and even the world—in tax policy by ending the business franchise tax.

March 31, 2017

Health Care

Who knows Texans best: Washington or Texas?

Who knows what is best for Texans—Washington or Texas? Who is more responsive to your telephone calls, your concerns, and your vote: your Texas legislator, or your Congressional delegation?

March 31, 2017

Family

HB 1410: Standing of Foster Parents to Intervene

Testimony before the House Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues by Brandon Logan, J.D., CWLS.

March 29, 2017

Taxes & Spending

SB 9: Strengthening Texas’ Appropriations Limit

Vance Ginn, Ph.D, testimony before the Senate Finance Committee for SB 9 on Strengthening Texas’ Appropriations Limit.

March 27, 2017

Property Rights

Austin tree ordinance violates private property rights

Trees are timber — a natural resource that belongs to private property owners in the same way as a backyard garden. It would be absurd to require a government permit to harvest your peppers and potatoes — yet many Texas cities strictly regulate trees on your land.

March 26, 2017

Higher Education

The Latest–And Surprising–Victims of the Student-Loan Debt Crisis: Older Americans

The data reveal that older Americans with “outstanding student loans are more likely than those without outstanding student loans to report that they have skipped necessary health care needs such as prescription medicines, doctors’ visits, and dental care because they could not afford it." This increased burden on older Americans has caused them to tap savings that were being safeguarded for their retirement years. 

March 24, 2017

Criminal Justice

Acosta could unwind regulatory tangle at the Department of Labor

With the confirmation process of Alex Acosta as labor secretary underway and proposed budget cuts for the Department of Labor, the Trump administration seems poised to reverse direction.

March 24, 2017

Health Care

Instead of the House healthcare bill, replace federal healthcare laws by letting the states decide what to do

For more than 50 years, the federal government has dominated healthcare using a military command-and-control model.

March 23, 2017