Texas and football go hand-in-hand. There is nothing like the two-minute drill at the end of a game with increased adrenaline pushing you on to victory. Texas lawmakers are likely feeling a similar jolt in an effort to appropriate the remaining $16 billion of the $40 billion that Congress sent to Texas in the American...
Do we really need the IRS looking over our shoulders every time we deposit a paycheck? The Biden administration has plan to monitor every bank transaction of $600 or more, ostensibly to crack down on tax cheats. But the plan is troubling for a number of reasons. On Thursday, Oct. 7, TPPF joined other conservative...
The German center-left won a tight election on Sept. 26, with the top three parties campaigning on climate change and post-pandemic economic recovery. After almost 200 people died in Germany due to flooding over the summer — blamed on climate change — the issue had greater urgency than in the past. Climate change is the cry...
If you have bought just about anything lately—from food and gasoline to cars and even houses—you know prices just keep climbing. People are running out of cash. There seems to be less and less left over at the end of every month as prices continue rising faster than wages. Put simply, a household’s money is...
Details are starting to emerge about the Biden administration’s plans for free community college. According to a story in Inside Higher Ed by Alexis Gravely, the key details include: States that opt-in must set community college tuition and fees to $0 and must maintain current spending on community colleges. To offset the loss of tuition, the federal government...
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised anymore. Congress is deliberately sidestepping the legislative process enshrined in the Constitution, abusing procedural gimmicks to force the radical climate agenda down the American people’s throats through the budget reconciliation package. The reconciliation bill is loaded with pork-barrel spending and sweeping policy changes that are entirely inappropriate for budget legislation....
Cocaine probably isn’t what you would think of as a unifying policy topic but, in 2021, it’s bringing both sides of the aisle together at the federal level. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are faced with a decision to either support fair sentencing in federal crack and powder cocaine convictions, or continue to support an antiquated...
I don’t know the story behind the clean two-story home on Goldfinch Lane in Montgomery County. But I know enough. Soon, attorneys will sell the property on the fourth floor of the Commissioners Court Building in Conroe. In this white-hot real estate market, it will likely to go investors. What it means is that at...
Odd things are happening in the People’s Republic of China (PRC): electricity shortages due to lack of coal; factories shutting down; cities going dark with no warning, blacking-out traffic lights, stalling people in elevators, and killing patients in hospitals. The entire power grid is said to be near-collapse. Why? Are these electrical shortages due to the weaknesses of...
Vox wasn’t supposed to say this part out loud. But in a 2020 piece celebrating Britain’s National Health Service, Vox co-founder Ezra Klein explained that the NHS is forced to ration care. “It has embraced the idea we fear most: rationing,” he wrote. “There is, in the UK, a government agency that decides which treatments...
Even before he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Georgia, Rev. Raphael Warnock’s brand was speaking “uncomfortable truths.” When preachers tell the truth, he once told a reporter, “very often it makes people uncomfortable.” Now that Sen. Warnock is in the Senate and pushing a massive Medicaid expansion in the reconciliation bill, here’s an...
On Monday, Dripping Springs ISD, a small school district just west of Austin, formally adopted its tax rate and set in motion a major tax increase. On a vote of 6-1, the DSISD board approved a total tax rate of $1.3103 per $100 of assessed value (M&O rate: $0.9603 per $100 of value/I&S rate: $0.35...