“That’s classified.” That’s a phrase we see often in movies, and a phrase we expect to hear from our government regarding military missions, special operations, and other national security issues. It’s not a phrase we expect to hear from our local and state governments regarding hiring decisions, spending, or other public business. And yet, that’s...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signaled that major property tax changes may be on the horizon. During last week’s televised debate, the governor outlined where he’d like to see Texas tax policy go, saying: “My goal is to eliminate the school property taxes imposed in the state of Texas so that people can genuinely own their...
October is here, which according to Millennials means it is officially “Spooky Season.” And while Texas is home to a number of haunted houses and spooky events that will surely raise your blood pressure and lead to a scream or two, I went down a rabbit hole that can give you that same fix at...
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and former Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke faced off Friday, September 30 for a one hour televised debate in the Rio Grande Valley—the epicenter of America’s illegal immigration crisis under President Joe Biden. It was no surprise that illegal immigration was the debate’s foremost topic. And the way the issue played...
In 2007, when photo voter ID was first being debated in the Texas House, State Rep. Rafael Anchia, a leading Democrat leader from Dallas, spoke against it, telling his fellow legislators that they were targeting the wrong problem: “…Vote by mail that we know is the greatest source of voter fraud in this state,” Anchia said....
It’s impossible to ignore the historically high level of violence in Mexico, the southern neighbor with whom we share the largest border, trade alliance, and heritage. For years, cartels in Mexico have engaged in mass killings, kidnappings, decapitations, rapes, and torture—nothing new. What’s concerning is the Mexican government’s involvement, now enabling drug gangs to operate...
It makes absolutely no sense for the media to be in charge of political debates in Texas or anywhere else. They don’t even pretend to be neutral players anymore. They are on the liberal Democrat side. Which makes it all the more telling, now that the only Texas gubernatorial debate is over, that almost none...
Despite the bleak report on learning loss following pandemic school closures, Texas got some very good news last week with the release of the annual A-F school ratings. Fully 95% of the 38 school districts and 10 charter systems in the Region One Education Service Center area received either an A or B rating in...
If the plot sounds familiar, it is. In Brian De Palma’s 1983 film “Scarface,” Cuba’s Fidel Castro emptied his prisons and mental institutions and sent his former prisoners and inmates to the U.S. as part of the Mariel Boatlift. Not surprisingly, crime skyrocketed in Miami, where a tent city was hastily erected. Refugees included serial...
Last week, journalist Hector de Mauleon published a column revealing alleged classified cables claiming the state of Tamaulipas’s governor-elect, Americo Villarreal, received up to $7 million from the Mexican gang Cartel del Noreste to finance his political campaign. To no one’s surprise, Villarreal is denying these allegations. However, accusations of cartel collusion are common in Mexican politics — and...
What is the Biden administration’s official policy and endgame on the border and immigration? Simply put: overwhelm America with millions of illegal immigrants and force Republicans to the table to agree to grant citizenship to millions of people here illegally while promising to secure the border. Of course, Biden won’t admit that. Instead, we’re left...
It’s common to see people on the Left throw the Nazi label at people on the Right—so common we’re almost desensitized to it. It’s something that has always frustrated me, primarily because it somehow implies that Nazism is the natural extension of the extreme Right. It’s not. Nazi is a shortening of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei—National...