There’s a commonsense solution to address the inflation that’s plagued America since Biden became president. It starts with Congress. If Americans can come together across the aisle to agree on anything, it’s that the Biden administration’s agenda has been disastrous for Americans. With no end in sight to price hikes causing financial turmoil for so many families,...
The former Mexican governor of Tamaulipas and one-time presidential hopeful was sentenced to nine years in prison two weeks ago, after spending millions of dollars in illegal bribes to fraudulently purchase property in the U.S. Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and has long been accused of accepting millions in bribes from...
Subsidies for wind and solar have long distorted Texas’s electricity market, threatening higher prices and greater likelihood of blackouts and ‘demand reduction’ events. The April 2 piece, “Texas Targets the Free Market,” by California Policy Center president Will Swaim, misses the mark. Mr. Swaim’s instincts are right; markets are generally superior to government fiat. But in making...
Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jarrod Kelly chides the Right for pushing back on accreditation. While the headline is a bit aggressive (“The Right-Wing War on Accreditation”), authors generally don’t get to choose their headlines, and the piece itself is quite measured. While the ostensible focus of our disagreement is accreditation, I think the root cause...
America is at a crossroads. While the left decries the shortcomings of the Founding Fathers for owning slaves, many of the products we buy today are coming from slave labor. That is why after teaching American history for 20 years, I can see how slavery happened—it happened because people made a choice of money over...
OPEC+ made a surprise announcement Sunday night, April 2, to cut oil production by more than 1.1 million barrels per day – about 1% of global production. Crude oil prices immediately shot up, presaging pain at the pump for Americans already struggling with inflation. The move by 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
The House began debating the budget on Thursday. Unfortunately, the last version of the budget contains spending growth that exceeds fiscal conservative standards for a limited state government. Things started reasonably well at the beginning of the session. The first version of HB1 showed spending growth under the Conservative Texas Budget (CTB). However, the House...
Here’s what progressive liberals, led by President Joe Biden, get wrong about the push in Texas, Florida, and other red states to keep life-changing decisions from being made on children: nearly everything. From their misleading verbiage, such as “gender-affirming care,” to their cultish acceptance of the idea that 12-year-olds’ self-diagnoses are not only reliable but sacrosanct, to...
Texas is in great shape to become the national leader in protecting children online. It couldn’t come too soon. Excessive social media use and spending time online has been linked in numerous studies to disastrous physical, emotional, and mental health issues for kids. At a recent hearing in the Texas State House, a dozen witnesses...
When Walter Wendler, president of West Texas A&M University, blocked a drag show performance on his campus, likening it to blackface, he was excoriated by the organized LBGTQ+ community, which launched a petition calling it a “gross and abhorrent comparison of two completely different topics. It claimed Wendler was using an “incorrect definition of drag...
In Austin, Texas, in a 24-hour period in March less than a mile apart, a woman was punched several times and sexually assaulted, suffering a split lower jaw and bruises over her body; then a building was burned down, damaging adjacent buildings, causing about $1.5 million in damage. The common thread: Homeless men living on the street...
The debate over what is arguably the most important issue of the legislative session is in full swing. The Senate Education Committee has debated a handful of bills that to varying degrees would give parents greater control over their child’s education. While each bill would be a dramatic improvement over the status quo, the key...