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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
Border Security

Mexican Cartels Have Infiltrated Our Cities

Mexican cartels, with dangerous motives, have quietly and consistently infiltrated urban areas across the United States, leaving everyone to wonder about the scale and scope of their impact. Arrests have been made in the brutal killing of a pregnant San Antonio woman and her boyfriend—in what police say is a drug-related crime. Savanah Nicole Soto,...

January 29, 2024
Economy

What To Make Of The Dual Legacies Of The Dueling Andrew Jackson

He remains a complex figure in American history — a war hero, a president, a man of the people to some, and a villain to others. Andrew Jackson’s place on the $20 bill has about six years remaining until his image is scheduled to be replaced by Harriet Tubman, the pistol-packing Underground Railroad operator. Tubman’s bravery...

January 26, 2024
Border Security

Biden’s border chaos goes global

Central America could be hit hard if US sends back illegal immigrants because of Biden’s border chaos. President Joe Biden’s border crisis started even before he was sworn into office in January 2021, with illegal immigrants rushing the U.S.-Mexico border in anticipation of Biden’s promised lax border enforcement. And who could blame the would-be migrants?...

January 26, 2024
Technology

Modern social media—and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato provides what is considered one of the most famous thought experiments. In it, people with a distorted sense of reality try to make sense of their world—but with no real reference, they remain confused—and afraid. And nearly 2,400 years after the allegory appeared in Plato’s “Republic,” are we...

January 25, 2024
K-12 Education

Are Texas ISDs Engaged in Electioneering?

During last year’s parental empowerment debate, many Texas ISDs got politically active and used government resources to rally the public against legislative proposals, going so far as to say: “We must let our legislators know that we stand behind them and expect them to vote NO on vouchers.” “…fund public schools fully before diverting dollars...

January 24, 2024
Border Security

Biden is begging for Mexico’s help with the border (and his reelection)

Amid one of the worst national security, immigration and public safety crises in U.S. history, President Biden’s attempts to smooth over the crisis at the southern border are actually exacerbating the situation. At this point, he is empowering the very authoritarian regimes responsible for orchestrating the flow of refugees and migrants to the U.S. to begin with....

January 23, 2024
Taxes & Spending

‘Tis the Season—for Property Taxes

The ornaments are packed away. The mailbox is filling up. The season of giving has passed into the season of paying what you owe, and just as that credit card statement is on its way from Christmas so too is the next property tax bill beginning to take shape. Tax relief promised by the Texas...

January 22, 2024
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