It’s easy to tell who the Texans are in a crowd; you simply shout, “the stars at night, are big and bright”—then wait for about the span of four quick claps. It’s easy to tell if a budget in Texas is truly conservative—and worthy of the great Lone Star State’s commitment to freedom and prosperity....
The extortionate cost of higher education continues to rise and is unlikely to moderate soon. From 2000 to 2020, college tuition and fees nationwide rose more than three times faster than general price inflation and more than twice as fast as average hourly wages. Put simply, college is unaffordable to many and becoming more out...
Washington D.C. will soon flood the Lone Star State with “free” federal money and some North Texas cities are about to be absolutely inundated. According to a recent presentation delivered at Dallas City Hall, Big D and neighboring cities are set to receive as much as $871 million over the next two years. The tsunami...
The U.S. Census Bureau released the data from its once-in-a-decade population count on Monday afternoon, resulting in the shift of some of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives between states—a process called reapportionment. The results were delayed by a battle in the federal courts over whether to count people illegally in the U.S. for purposes of how many members of Congress each state gets, with the...
U.S. Congressman Chip Roy has carefully documented the need for election integrity reforms in Texas, pushing back on the claim that legislation such as House Bill 6 and Senate Bill 7 are “new Jim Crow” efforts to suppress votes. The Texas Public Policy Foundation has obtained an advance copy of that document. “Voter fraud is...
Texas ISDs are sitting upon billions and billions of unused tax money, even while they clamor for more federal funds, press for more state aid, and eye more local debt (see here, here, here, and here for example). Meanwhile, taxpayers are getting absolutely shellacked. The fact that school districts are sitting on a goldmine came...
A Hennepin County jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of all counts relating to George Floyd’s death. But the lessons many seem to be taking away from this year of division and destruction are not ones that will result in safer streets and better police. Instead, responses to the verdict reinforce...
In recent years, psychologists have noticed an uptick in a new condition called eco-anxiety—what the American Psychological Association says is a “chronic fear of environmental doom.” The media is constantly feeding us exaggerated information regarding climate change. For example, in 2019, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez claimed “the world is going to end in 12 years...
It has never been more important for conservatives to hold the line on protecting our communities. In the midst of civil unrest, homicide rates spiking nationwide and unprecedented rates of drug use, the time is now to get our criminal justice system right. That’s what Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is doing, as he emerges as...
Between the pandemic, divisive politics, and a media culture obsessed with rare but headline-grabbing shootings, it’s been a heavy year and a half for many Americans. This Earth Day, environmentalists will only perpetuate the doom-and-gloom zeitgeist by fixating on minuscule, insignificant changes in air pollution and overblown fears of apocalyptic climate change. But we can...
The face of voter fraud in Texas is not Crystal Mason who voted provisionally, but illegally. She had not completed her terms of supervised release stemming from a 2011 federal tax fraud conviction. She is the exception who made a mistake, though it is still considered “harvesting” under the current definition. The real problem we...
To lead off its editorial railing against Senate Bill 7 and efforts to reform—or at least regularize—the rules for voting in Texas, the Houston Chronicle evokes the White Man’s Primary Association of Dimmit County. But like the editorial itself, there’s far less here than meets the eye. It’s true that in tiny Dimmit County in...