As the long, hot summer marches on, the Texas Legislature has struck a deal and passed a substantive tax relief package. The plan provides $18 Billion dollars in tax relief in the form of tax compression and a homestead exemption increase, both of which provide much needed financial relief to struggling Texans. With this new...
Shortly after the Texas passage of the strongest DEI bill in the nation, Senate Bill 17, Texas A&M decided to revive its long defunct journalism school by hiring Kathleen McElroy. McElroy is a former New York Times writer and head of the University of Texas Journalism School where she describes her primary skill set on...
There’s been an alarming rise in Made-in-China counterfeit postage stamps here in America. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been struggling for years, saddled with an outmoded business model and huge retiree pension liabilities. And now, added to its inflationary and management woes comes a new threat: counterfeit stamps from China marketed online through paid...
San Antonio City Councilmember Marc Whyte wrote an article last month in defense of the state’s major preemption legislation (House Bill 2127) and, while reading it, I was reminded of the words of a famous Texan, David Crockett, who said: “Be sure you are right, then go ahead.” Risking fierce criticism, Councilman Whyte explained the...
Fear is being used as a weapon by climate activists. Currently, there is a very loud narrative that climate change is a crisis that can only be solved with renewables and decarbonization, but like most things, it’s more complicated than that. As in too many assumed crises, the government has put its hand on the...
Republicans in both the House and the Senate have recently released a slew of new legislation focused on reforming higher education. In the Senate, Republicans announced the Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act, which itself comprises a bundle of five bills. The College Transparency Act (CTA) is a bipartisan bill that aims to remove the student unit record...
The focus of parental choice has, rightly, been on parents and students. Students and parents—especially those without the means to move to better school districts, the luck to get into a charter school, or the ability to cut a check to a private school—are the ones who stand benefit the most from education savings accounts....
The corporate media never lets facts get in the way of a good story. Consider the hubbub around House Bill 2127, or the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act, as the latest evidence of this. In spite of the new law not even taking effect until Sept. 1, media outlets are already churning out hyperbolic headlines, presumably...
Gov. Greg Abbott signed Texas’ anti-DEI Bill into law on June 14, which should close down so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) offices on every Texas university campus. But according to Valerie Sansone, an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Texas at San Antonio, efforts are already underway to defy the law....
Last week, Chinese organized crime groups were found working with the Mexican cartels in a global money laundering scheme. But while the White House, Beijing and Mexico City continue to trade accusations, officials in Texas — which has the nation’s longest border with Mexico — are taking real steps to address the problem. Chinese involvement in the...
Lost in Joe Rogan’s challenge to Baylor College of Medicine professor Dr. Peter Hotez to debate the COVID-19 vaccine debacle with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a striking truth about America today: We’re desperate for discourse. The left no longer even tries to defend its positions; it now relies on shutting down debate, silencing those who disagree...
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan on Friday. The administration was attempting to forgive $10,000 of student loans for borrowers making less than $125,000, and $20,000 for those that had received a Pell grant. The alleged authority for this action was a 20-year-old law that allows the Secretary...