According to the EPA’s own projections, this costly quest at remaking our power grid will reduce the global temperature by 18 one-thousandths of a degree Celsius by 2100 — well within the margin of error of wildly inaccurate models.
In this edition of Veritas, you'll find Holding Liberty Hostage, The Ceremony: Celebrating Texas Freedom Since 1845, Lone Star Legacy Society, and more.
Fundamental subjects like U.S. government, U.S. history, literature, mathematics, and economics 'have become mere options on far too many campuses.'
In the end, the Berlin Wall, the most tangible relic of the contest between freedom and the ideology of militarized collectivism, came down without a shot being fired on November 9, 1989.
It was only a matter of time before someone pointed out that the emperor had no clothes. For the City of Dallas, that moment came yesterday, when Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the City’s debt rating due, in part, to Dallas’ “very large and growing unfunded pension liabilities.” After years of providing defined benefit pensions — something a majority of the private sector moved away from long ago — the system has finally been exposed for what it is: unsustainable.
California students lag 6.3 months behind their peers in learning.
The complaint, which Kansas and Louisiana also joined, reveals how progressive regulatory schemes such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), in order to accomplish their goals, eventually wind up coercing state governments and in some cases imbuing private entities with legislative powers.
The Lone Star State does not have to stand alone in reforms. The federal government and other states should learn from these successes and follow the lead of the Texas model.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s mission “is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.” In support of this mission, I had the honor of being invited to give a keynote speech during the “State of the Economy” roundtable discussion during last week’s 52nd Annual Missouri Valley Economic Association (MVEA) meetings in Kansas City, Missouri.
The final oral arguments for the current school finance litigation were heard before the Texas Supreme Court on September 1st 2015. This amicus brief explains how our state can make education more productive for Texas children.
At the state level, legislators have passed bills that assign a default level of mens rea in order to protect citizens from wrongful prosecutions.
Thanks to the Supreme Court and the 5th Circuit, Texans can enjoy the return of the Whooping Cranes this winter, and breathe a little easier knowing we kept the Environmental Protection Agency out of the State in at least one way.