Part 2: Educational Problems With Student Loan Forgiveness The next category of problems with student loan forgiveness focuses on the educational problems it would create or exacerbate. As noted above, most students borrow reasonable amounts that they can repay. But some students do have unaffordable student loan debt. Yet this problematic debt is a symptom....
Part 1: Logical and Rhetorical Problems With Student Loan Forgiveness We begin with the logical and rhetorical problems of student loan forgiveness. Advocates Overstate the Problem The first logical problem is that loan forgiveness proponents overstate the problem. To start with, not all college students take out student loans. In fact, most undergraduate students do...
KINGSVILLE—King Ranch is so iconic that it gets regular nods from the television hit “Yellowstone.” “Look at the King Ranch down in Texas …” patriarch John Dutton says in one episode. “They made such a name for themselves you can buy a damn truck with their brand on the seat.” And that’s true; the King...
I’m old enough to have heard the term “latchkey kid” as a child. I grew up in a house where I would often walk home from school to an empty house, finish my homework, shoot hoops with the neighbor kids, and then return home to join my family for dinner. This is something of a...
Gilroy, a town of 57,000 people in Northern California, is the southernmost city in the San Francisco Bay area. It’s long been known for its garlic crop. At certain times of the year, a drive through the area will bear aromatic witness to that fact — so much so that the town became well known...
As a Texan, watching Florida excel in defending families, faith and freedom is a little like watching a cross-town rival team advance to the state championship. That rivalry is set aside; we’re all on the same side now. Texas has done its part, of course—in the last legislative session, the Lone Star State improved election...
Calls from the left and the media to repeal the updated rules for mail-in ballots are predictable. They opposed requiring photo voter identification to vote too. The attack on the reforms to mail-in ballot rules defy the data—and common sense. First, the numbers. Opponents of the new law highlight that over 12% of mail-in ballots...
In virtually every news report of parents demanding that public school librarians do their job and remove inappropriate or pornographic materials from school libraries, the book Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe is at the top of the objectionable titles list. So many librarians and school board members are defending the book that I figured I should...
When we think about how American energy production is being undermined, we usually think about policies emanating from Washington, D.C., and the inexorable march of the federal regulatory state. But a quieter and more sinister movement is afoot to bypass the messy process of lawmaking and regulation and force large corporations to stop financing American...
Congressional Democrats are desperate for legislative victories heading into an ominous election season. They think they’ve seized on a winner with a bill that passed the House of Representatives this month to cap the patient cost of insulin at $35 per month. The Affordable Insulin Now Act taps into American diabetics’ frustration with runaway insulin bills. Nearly...
Texans were horrified to learn of the Department of Family and Protective Services’ mishandling of allegations that children in its care were sexually exploited at a shelter intended to protect victims of sex trafficking. In the weeks since the story made it clear that DFPS has broken its promise to children to take them to a place...
Since Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced in February that he was going to re-evaluate tenure—which prevents most college professors from being fired—the left-wing faculty elites at Texas academic institutions have gone ballistic. Lt. Gov. Patrick was responding to blowback from a University of Texas faculty committee that balked at his assertion that the Legislature would...