Foreign Policy

The U.N. shames Israelis for evacuating Palestinians – while Hamas uses the innocent as human shields. When will the world see that these vicious terrorists – not Israel – are Gaza’s worst enemy?

Israel is pleading with more than one million Palestinian civilians to flee Gaza City. The vile terrorists in control of that doomed metropolis are telling innocent people to stay put. Hamas has used the Palestinian people as pawns for decades. It’s no surprise they’re now using them as human shields. On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces, massing 360,000...

October 16, 2023

Foreign Policy

What’s behind Hamas’ atrocities against Israeli civilians?

Hamas may be trying to goad Israel into a costly and very bloody urban conflict in Gaza. As a U.S. Army intelligence officer, I was trained to brief the commander on the most likely course of action and the most dangerous course of action. How might that disciplined way of thinking be applied to the conflict...

October 13, 2023

Homelessness

Home is where the hope is

Across the country we have seen states dropping policies that have failed to address the root causes of homelessness. For instance, San Fransisco has begun to hold people seeking services accountable by requiring drug tests and Philadelphia has banned “safe” injection sites. Even cities in Texas are beginning to question their current approaches and are starting...

October 12, 2023

Public Safety

Five Texans Die Each Day from Fentanyl—Texans Like Danica

These are the words of Veronica Kaprosy, who lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning in 2022. Danica was just 17. “Kids, instead of learning from their mistakes or experiences and moving on with life, they’re dying,” Veronica said. “My soul died. I am dead, dead on the inside.” Danica suffered from medical conditions which brought...

October 11, 2023

Taxes & Spending

Far-Left Pastors Fight for More Spending, But There’s a Problem with Their Argument

On Wednesday, a group of far-left pastors published a column in the Dallas Morning News criticizing the budding parental empowerment movement and calling on the Legislature to heap a great deal more on Texas’ failing public school system. The central premise of the article, which was difficult to take seriously, is that we, as a...

October 11, 2023

K-12 Education

Sexual Assault of a Plainview Child Shows Need for Parent Empowerment

The Plainview Independent School District wants to move on from the incident that roiled the community and its school board meetings last spring; but Isabella, age 6, can’t. She’s the victim of an unthinkable sexual assault—by another 6-year-old—that took place in an elementary school classroom, with the teacher nearby. It was filmed on a school...

October 11, 2023

Health Care

How Tinslee’s Story Helped Change Texas’s 10-Day Rule

In 2019, a mother faced a heart-wrenching dilemma. According to the letter she held in her hand, she had to find another hospital willing to treat her infant daughter, Tinslee Lewis, within 10 days—or Tinslee was going to die. This dilemma arose because the intensity of Tinslee’s treatment and unfavorable prognosis from Cook Children’s Medical...

October 11, 2023

Health Care

Rising health care reformer charts a path for young professionals and policy reforms

America needs health care innovation and principled policy reform more than ever. Rising costs, sicker patients, and doctor shortages plague an overburdened and needlessly complicated system. Patients fear rising insurance premiums and astronomical medical bills. Crippling, top-down regulations imposed by broken laws, poor bureaucrat interpretation, and special interest lobbying prevent doctors from giving patients the...

October 11, 2023

Foreign Policy

Hamas Attack Is A Warning To America About The Risks Of Our Open Border

The Biden administration’s lax approach to border security exacerbates existing threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, and China. There are 32 miles of border separating Gaza from Israel. Since my first visit to that border in 1984, it’s been heavily fortified, with walls, fences, and surveillance systems backed up by soldiers and law enforcement. That system was...

October 11, 2023

Taxes & Spending

This Shrinking Austin-Area School District Wants More, More, More

Yet another Austin-area school district is serving fewer students, even while its budget balloons. According to a recent Community Impact article, the number of students enrolled at Pflugerville ISD for the 2023-24 school year “is expected to come in under projections by 300 students.” The district’s superintendent, whose salary ($313,566) is more than two times...

October 10, 2023

Foreign Policy

Israel War: Hamas surprise attack spotlights Biden team’s failures. Here’s what comes next

The aftermath of Hamas attacks in Israel on Saturday will ripple around the world from Washington to Beijing and beyond Sabbath tranquility in Israel was ruptured on Oct. 7, marking the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and 43 years to the day that Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Muslim Brotherhood terrorists. Early...

October 10, 2023

Criminal Justice

An International Prison Tour Cohort of Germany and Norway: Insights and Best Practices for U.S. Criminal Justice Thought Leaders

Comparison may be the thief of joy, but as a former corrections employee and parole officer, I was blown away by a recent International Prison Cohort Tour through Germany and Norway, sponsored by the ARrow Center for Justice. The contrast between the correctional philosophies of these two nations and the United States, the world’s largest...

October 9, 2023