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What Texas is Doing About the Security and Humanitarian Crisis at the Border

The southern border is being overrun by human traffickers, drug smugglers and others who want to do harm to our country. While the humanitarian tragedy grips the headlines, the unprecedented level of dangerous drugs flooding the border is already doing considerable damage. The threat is existential, but Texas is stepping up as the current administration...

October 25, 2021
Economy

Antiquated Jones Act Hobbles Texas’ Economy

Since 1920, Texas’ economy has been hindered by a little-known protectionist law called the Jones Act. In fact, Wayne Christian, the current chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas, noted in a 2018 letter that this act hurts Texas and the nation and should be reevaluated. At a time when energy prices are soaring and...

October 25, 2021
Economy

The Biden White House Is Asking Americans To Lower Expectations On Problems It Created

Like a young, beautiful, intelligent woman depressed by an altogether unattractive dating pool of men around her, Lady Columbia should be lowering her expectations with President Biden at the helm. Not only have three separate op-eds in the Washington Post made that case, but now even the White House has as well. Empty store shelves and never-ending coronavirus...

October 25, 2021
Taxes & Spending

Thinking About Texas’ Constitutional Amendments

This November, Texas voters will be asked to make up their minds about 8 constitutional amendments that cover a wide range of issues, including: religious freedom, running for office, property taxes, and more. Here’s a little more detail on each. Proposition 1 (HJR 143): The constitutional amendment authorizing the professional sports team charitable foundations of...

October 22, 2021
Health Care

Immoral, Illegal ‘Practice of Medicine’

Recent events in response to COVID-19 expose the illegal and immoral practice of medicine. By law, only licensed clinical physicians can practice medicine. Particularly, only physicians or specially trained nurses can perform triage, often a life-or-death decision. With a large increase in symptomatic COVID-19 cases in certain locales, there are insufficient numbers of hospital beds...

October 22, 2021
Health Care

How Transparency Changed an Industry – And How It Could Improve Health Care

Today, dedicated platforms search dozens of airlines for destinations and prices and allow consumers accessibility to their results even as conveniently as from their personal phone. A few clicks puts consumers in control. They decide the airline, the destination and what they’ll spend. It wasn’t always this way. And that’s why it’s a good lesson...

October 22, 2021
Election Integrity

How Texas Protected Its Vote From Getting ‘Rigged’ In 2020

Mollie Hemingway’s new book, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, is important for what it says—and doesn’t say. In more than 400 pages of carefully footnoted documentation, Hemingway details how the 2020 election was, according to Time magazine, “fortified” by “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and...

October 22, 2021
DEI & CRT

Texas Media Leads Nation in ‘One-Siderism’ News Coverage

A Los Angeles Times reporter wrote earlier this month that the media should stop even trying to cover both sides of political issues — since the conservative side is just wrong. She tells her fellow journalists to stop reporting what she calls “both-siderism.” The idea of only reporting one-side of a political debate is not...

October 22, 2021
Energy & Environment

The Path to Well-Kept Lawns is Not Mowed with Good Intentions

California’s green mafia has done it again. Rather than letting people choose what kind of landscaping tools they want to use—including lawn mowers and leaf blowers—California is imposing a ban on the sale of new gas-powered small off-road engines (SORE) in the name of reducing engine exhaust and evaporative emissions. The bill, signed by Gov....

October 21, 2021
Higher Education

I Just Made My Last Student Loan Payment—Here’s How to Improve the System

I borrowed over $30,000 for college, and after many years of repayment, I am now officially (student loan) debt-free. By a bizarre twist of fate, much of my professional life has been devoted to studying financial aid programs like student loans. In this essay, I reflect back on how my student loan experience compares to...

October 21, 2021
Economy

When TPPF Leads the Conversation, Good Ideas Prevail

Good ideas are our stock-in-trade. Solid research is our brand. That’s why it was so refreshing—even rewarding—to see TPPF Chief Economist Vance Ginn’s debut in the Wall Street Journal, “’Build Back Better’ Would Sink the Labor Market,” receive much-deserved attention and praise in recent days. “It would tax those who produce and subsidize those who...

October 21, 2021
Taxes & Spending

The Struggle for Taxpayers Is Real

It’s playoff baseball time here in Texas—go ‘Stros! But baseball fans know everything depends on the umpires—as the great Bill Klem said, when asked whether a ball was fair or foul, “It ain’t nothing until I call it.” It’s time for us to call fair and foul on the Texas Legislature; there were some homeruns,...

October 21, 2021
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