The city of Austin finally did something right. On Thursday, Dec. 7, a supermajority on the Austin city council approved the first phase of the Home Options for Middle-Income Empowerment (HOME) initiative, which seeks to “allow up to three units on one single-family lot and would remove restrictions on how many nonrelated adults can live...
The most progressive city in the most progressive state in the nation is a feces-filled, crime-riddled ghost town that resembles something like “a failed state,” according to California expat Joe Rogan. All of which is to say, San Francisco is an utter disaster. Curious minds might look at the city’s ruinous condition and wonder its...
Democrats and Mexican officials have responded to Texas’ new law with fear-mongering and threats. President Biden’s border crisis shows no signs of abating as the state of Texas, overwhelmed with would-be migrants, fortifies its defenses with new laws. Chief among the new measures is Senate Bill 4, expected to be signed into law in days by Republican Gov....
Leges sine moribus vanae: “Laws without character are in vain.” That’s the motto of the University of Pennsylvania—but it could also be the epitaph of elite higher education. While they almost certainly did not intend to, last week, the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and MIT gave America a Latin lesson. Penn’s motto...
Introduction: This spring, Rep. Patterson and Sen. Paxton authored and passed HB 900, the READER Act, which Gov. Abbott signed into law in June alongside HB 1605, another law that refocuses schools on core instruction while empowering parents. As detailed below, the READER Act empowers parents with transparency into library materials while removing explicit content...
“Our government [is] just leaving us behind. American dream is gone. It’s not here no more. … That’s just a dream. That’s all that’s left. Just the dreams,” Jaroslav ‘Jerry’ Schuster told NPR. Schuster is an immigrant from Yugoslavia. His American Dream, NPR reports, was the ranch he bought 40 years ago in southern California. On...
During the legislative battle last spring to end the racially divisive and cynically named “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (DEI) programs in Texas academic institutions, faculty members called the effort racist and extremist. Hundreds of University of Texas at Austin students and professors flooded into the Capitol building to smirk and boo former HUD Secretary, Dr....
The bill aims to reduce the backlog of uncounted ballots, potentially speeding up the final count and enhancing transparency. The gold standard in voting is to vote in person on Election Day while showing a government-issued photo ID to prove eligibility. That said, eight states conduct elections entirely through the mail — California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon,...
The vice president came to Houston last week to tout the Biden administration’s record to Latinos. She had nothing to say about the border crisis or the economy. Voters noticed. Trumpeting the Biden administration’s record to Latinos in Houston last week, Vice President Kamala Harris ignored the two biggest issues Hispanics — and everyone else...
When your lights flicker and your heat fails this winter, remember to thank a climate czar. President Joe Biden’s climate czar, Obama’s former Secretary of State John Kerry, flew his jet into Dubai for the U.N.’s Climate Change Conference to demand that no coal-fired power plants be built anywhere in the world. In the meantime, China,...
It is no secret that the Biden administration wants to forgive student loans. One—of at least eight—of its forgiveness proposals has been definitively buried, which would have forgiven up to $20,000 per borrower, or $10,000 if not a Pell Grant recipient. There were many reasons why this plan was terribly designed, and it was ultimately ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. But...
Texas made headlines this weekend after the State Board of Education (SBOE) rejected efforts to villainize oil and gas in textbooks used by our public schools. In the Lone Star State, education and fossil fuels have a symbiotic relationship. Nearly all—99%—of the state’s oil and gas royalties are deposited in the Permanent School Fund and...