Every Friday morning at 8:30AM, I join Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s Winners & Losers. It runs the gambit from public policy and political trends to sports and culture in Texas, America and the world. The last week in May, 2024, includes major winners and losers who...
The Lost Creek neighborhood in Austin, Texas, is charting a way for communities to band together and break up with abusive city governments. It’s not often that a low-key municipal election makes international news, but one recent contest in an affluent Austin suburb has people excited about its result — and its potential implications for...
Once again, Texas’ Medicaid disenrollment is in the headlines and the mainstream media is turning to its usual scare tactics to paint Texas as the bad guy. As far back as September, The Texas Tribune ran a headline that 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid, and painted a grim picture of children, new mothers, and disabled adults...
President Trump has been and will continue to be a target of political persecution. If history tells us anything, it will continue to trail him indefinitely. It would certainly shock any American to hear that “use of deadly force” was authorized against you and your family, just as it did Tuesday for former President Donald Trump. As...
Great public schools need a great curriculum—and great teachers need time for teaching, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath explained in a recent interview with TPPF’s Greg Sindelar. A new state law should help, Morath said, as the State Board of Education begins the public review and comment period for new instructional materials. Some of these...
Last week, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Julie Adams, a Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (BRE) member, against the Fulton County BRE for interfering with Adams’s duty to review and ensure the integrity of elections under the Georgia election code. A core element of the lawsuit focuses on...
On Wednesday, ExxonMobil, the largest energy company in the U.S., will face yet another challenge to its leadership. The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest state public pension fund in the U.S., is leading a group of pension funds to vote against all of Exxon’s directors. Glass Lewis, one of the largest proxy advisory firms...
There’s a lot to unpack in Erik Prince’s sprawling 4,600-word May 2 opinion piece in the Daily Caller entitled, “Neocons Almost Killed America. Here’s How Patriots Can Fix It.”–so much so that it required two responses to adequately discuss. Part one discussed Prince’s largely correct critique of America’s post-Cold War foreign policy failures and the...
There’s a lot to unpack in Erik Prince’s sprawling 4,600 word May 2 opinion piece in the Daily Caller entitled, “Neocons Almost Killed America. Here’s How Patriots Can Fix It.” So, I’ll take on his three contentions in two parts, starting with the areas we find some agreement on: that America’s post-Cold War foreign policy...
Should state-run healthcare plans be required to cover transgender procedures? The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that they should, while the states of West Virginia and North Carolina argued their decision not to cover these procedures was rooted in “legitimate government interests.” If the ruling stands, then West Virginia and North Carolina taxpayers will be made...
Every Friday morning at 8:30AM, I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s Winners & Losers. It’s a lightning round that runs the gamut from public policy and political trends to sports and culture in Texas, America and the world. Here’s who made my list for the...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. While most of us think of the southern border crisis is the cause of a desperate people doing whatever it takes to escape where they’re from, there is perhaps a...