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Election Integrity

Unprecedented Trump Eligibility Challenges Could Again Cause Election Process Chaos

Since the 2020 election, chaos and order have been the yin and yang in the battle for election integrity. One side routinely  introduces electoral chaos into our fragile system, causing doubt and confusion. The other side strives to restore a bipartisan loss of confidence in the system. And in this battle between order and chaos,...

February 1, 2024
Election Integrity

Wisconsin Court Rules Democrats’ Creepy Voter Van Strategy a Loser

There is a reason our parents always told us to beware of strangers in vans. That even applies in elections. As children, our parents taught us to beware of strangers. We were cautioned to avoid strangers offering candy or to let you pet their puppy. But perhaps above all, we were warned never to get...

February 1, 2024
Border Security

How President Biden is appeasing bad actors

On Dec. 28, the White House issued a joint communiqué with Mexico that created some tension when the American version identified “democratic decline” as one of the root causes of heavy and irregular migration flows at the border. When Mexico’s version excluded that phrase, it was immediately removed from the White House statement to align with the...

February 1, 2024
Election Integrity

Liars and deniers: Election fraud exists, and it can change the outcome of an election

Election fraud: It’s a loaded term in our nation’s public discourse but I’ve found that even politically savvy people do not fully understand how complicated, or common it is. I was a prosecutor in the Texas Attorney General’s Election Integrity Division from 2019 to 2023. I went there shortly after the office was created, when...

February 1, 2024
Foreign Policy

Iran’s proxies killed Americans and Biden’s weakness is to blame

Biden’s policies in the region represent a restoration of Obama’s policies. American servicemembers are dead, Iran’s proxies killed them, and President Joe Biden’s weak policies are to blame. Iranian-backed militants operating out of Syria or Iraq finally hit their mark over the weekend, using drones to kill three U.S. servicemembers in Jordan while wounding 25 more. The...

January 31, 2024
Local Government

PARD-on Me, City of Austin?

The city of Austin once again made national news for all the wrong reasons. On Monday, Fox News reported that the city’s Parks and Recreation Department (PARD) “invited employees to racially segregated ‘anti-racist’ meetings where ‘white folks’ were asked not to attend a meeting that was only for ‘people of color.’” Soon after Austin’s race-based...

January 31, 2024
Local Government

New Highway Lawsuit Threatens to Take Texas in the Wrong Direction

The environmental activists are at it again. On Monday, a group of anti-growth activists, known as Rethink I-35, filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the Texas Department of Transportation’s “planned expansion of Interstate 35 through central Austin,” which is intended to help alleviate massive traffic congestion. According to the Texas A&M’s Transportation Institute (TTI), “the...

January 30, 2024
Energy & Environment

Tapping the Brakes on Electric Vehicles

Tesla will fix its cold-weather woes, but an all-EV future is still dead on arrival. It’s been a rough few months for electric vehicle fans. During the January cold snap, social media sites were filled with sarcasm and pictures of Teslas stranded by freezing temperatures. Lots of “dead robots out there,” one wag put it....

January 30, 2024
Border Security

Biden’s toll at the U.S. southern border continues to climb

Democrats have no moral high-ground on the issue. The worst tragedies are the preventable ones. Last week, a mother and two children drowned in the treacherous Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, attempting to cross into the U.S. illegally. The Biden administration was quick to blame the state of Texas, but the facts are clear: Biden...

January 30, 2024
Criminal Justice

The Social Media Girl Goes to Prison

My first day in prison was a day I will never forget. I walked through the Michael Unit of Tennessee Colony in Texas a bundle of nerves. I had no idea what to expect, who I would meet, what I would see. Walking amongst the inmates, holding my breath, watching my back was a more...

January 29, 2024
Higher Education

Thoughts on House Republicans’ Plan for Higher Education

Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released the College Cost Reduction Act, which proposes a wide range of changes to higher education. Much is in the bill, but the most important changes revolve around transparency, financial aid reforms, deregulation, and accountability. Transparency The bill would make several changes to improve transparency,...

January 29, 2024
Border Security

Under Biden, We Don’t Know Who’s Coming Into the US

Pierre Lucard Emile, an illegal alien from Haiti, raped and beat a developmentally disabled person in Boston, according to prosecutors. Emile arrived at the port of entry in Brownsville, Texas “where he was deemed inadmissible and issued a notice to appear,” according to ICE. In 2023, Peruvian national Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria was charged with murder after being arrested...

January 29, 2024
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