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...
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,...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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....
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...
In June 2023, at the start of a summer in which Texas experienced record electricity demand and came to the brink of rolling outages on Sept. 6, I wrote a warning about the upcoming winters, noting that “…the Texas grid is moving toward a situation where the winter period, not the summer period, will see...