Immigration

Biden Unleashed An Illegal Immigration Whirlwind And Texas Is Paying The Price

As citizens and communities throughout the nation are fast realizing, the chaotic border policies of the Biden administration impose steep housing, transportation, health care, public safety and education costs on taxpayers. In addition to the fiscal hit, these costs also include tragic and unexpected impacts on American families and basic public services. In our South...

October 17, 2022

Family

‘Puberty isn’t the Problem; It’s the Solution’

ATLANTA—When the American Medical Association, the Children’s Hospital Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics ask the U.S. attorney general to investigate and prosecute dissenters to the woke gender agenda, they’re talking about Dr. Quentin Van Meter—among others. One of the nation’s leading pediatric endocrinologists (the kind of doctor who deals regularly with children, their...

October 17, 2022

Local Government

How an Austin Special Purpose District Lined Its Pockets

The Houston Chronicle recently broke the story on a special purpose district in Austin that’s discovered a way to manipulate the law in its favor—a manipulation that has generated the district, and its board members, millions of dollars in profits. Put simply, the SH130 Municipal Management District uses a tax workaround to exempt developers’ land...

October 17, 2022

Local Government

Cities Should Have Catch-and-Release Approach with Taxpayers

You are not a fish. I am not a fish. We are not fish. And yet, our local governments sure do want to treat us like fish to be caught, either on a hook or with a net. Once caught, we stay caught. Right now, in Texas, there is no reasonable way for a group...

October 17, 2022

Homelessness

California’s homelessness crisis hamstrung by expensive lack of accountability

With the number of homeless individuals rising ever higher in California, one might think that policymakers would seek to ensure that taxpayer funds earmarked for affordable housing will be put to good use. However, a recent report highlighted one city’s grossly ineffective and potentially wasteful efforts at housing the homeless — a symptom not just of a...

October 17, 2022

Technology

Effective broadband policy to connect Texans

North Dakota, Detroit, and rural Vermont are not necessarily what comes to mind when you think of growing tech hubs, but they are. From students in Vermont to doctors in Michigan to entrepreneurs in North Dakota—all have had their lives transformed by broadband expansion. Broadband internet is defined by the FCC as internet with 25...

October 14, 2022

Foreign Policy

Mexican Military Hack Deepens Suspicions of Cartel Collusion in Politics

Since President Joe Biden took office, he has prioritized strengthening relations with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Biden has called the Mexican leader a “friend and partner,” proclaimed his “great respect” for him and often touted their “strong and productive relationship.” AMLO, as the Mexican president is commonly called, successfully campaigned on promises to pacify the...

October 14, 2022

Immigration

Border Security is National Security

Growing up in a small border town, we weren’t accustomed to large volumes of crime, such as road chases, home break-ins, damaged property, large amounts of drugs, and human smuggling rings in our own backyard. The morning chatter from my neighbors used to be ranchers looking for lost livestock or congratulating the local basketball team...

October 14, 2022

Immigration

Biden’s Latest Border PR Stunt

The Biden Administration has announced “joint actions with Mexico” to address the border crisis that has resulted in more than 2 million border encounters and hundreds of thousands of “gotaways” in the last year. The focus of its announcement was to declare that it would begin turning away Venezuelans who enter the U.S. illegally between...

October 14, 2022

Taxes & Spending

What’s the Damage from Your Property Tax Bill?

It’s early October, which means that property tax rate-setting season is officially over. With the rate-setting process concluded, homeowners and businesses can finally get a sense of whether their property taxes are going up, headed down, or staying the same. In the past, Texans would have to navigate a complex web of public notices, agendas,...

October 13, 2022

Foreign Policy

#SedenaLeaks spills the secrets of Mexico’s most hermetic institution

Mexico’s interior minister appointed men allegedly part of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel to top security positions in Tabasco state, where he was governor from 2018 to 2021. A soldier sold weapons from an army base, arming drug cartels at the same the Mexican government was filing suit against U.S. gunmakers for allegedly fueling mayhem south of the...

October 13, 2022

Energy & Environment

Biden’s war on American energy will take its toll on Democrats in November

President Joe Biden’s war on American energy started the day he took office on Jan. 20, 2021 and hasn’t let up since. Voters pay the price. In the last 12 months, Biden’s policies have pushed prices higher by 8.3 percent; gasoline is up almost 26 percent, and food up 11.4 percent. America went from energy dominance under...

October 11, 2022