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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...