When the lights went out in Texas earlier this year, corporate media and the left swiftly developed a narrative and stuck to it: Texas failed because it didn’t regulate enough and it wasn’t part of the national grid. This storyline also claimed a lack of electricity from wind and solar had nothing to do with the...
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those, the art of living well.” So wrote the philosopher Aristotle in the Fourth Century B.C. Books are indispensable to a sound education, and in light last week being National Library Week, I wanted to look for...
As a candidate, Joe Biden promised amnesty for illegal immigrants already in the United States and expanded asylum for those on the way. Now that he’s become president, Biden formally lifted his predecessor’s pandemic-based prohibition on border crossings for minors from Northern Triangle countries, ostensibly turning away all other would-be immigrants. In February, 59 percent...
Medicaid expansion is not a good idea, and here’s why: It fails to improve the quality of care. Support for Medicaid expansion often looks like a new op-ed titled “Refusing to expand Medicaid is wrong call.” Although its author highlights the need to focus on the quality of care for specific individuals, he misses the...
When Texas voters walk into a polling place, the process is clear; election workers check them in, comparing their photo IDs to the county voter rolls. It takes seconds, but it adds a level of security to our election that Texans truly value. And Texans want the same security for their mail-in ballots; better than...
We should all be hesitant to weigh in on a police shooting before the investigation is completed for two reasons. The first reason is completeness; it is generally not good to toss around opinions on something when all of the facts are not known. The second is that police officers are entitled to due process,...
A recent Perryman Group study (paid for by the Texas Civil Rights Project, a left-wing group that advocates for insecure election practices) claims that Texas will lose more than $3 trillion and almost 7 million jobs over 25 years if the Legislature passes a bill to ensure more secure elections. But what does the one...
Along with more than $2 trillion in new government spending, President Joe Biden also wants to raise the corporate income tax (CIT) rate from 21% to 28%—that’s a 33% tax hike on corporations. He also wants to increase the tax on American corporations’ foreign profits to an effective rate of 26.25%—doubling it. More government spending,...
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion “COVID-19 relief” package signed in March (in combination with the $900 billion package signed into law back in December) contains the largest impediment to employment in modern times, if not in American history. That’s the conclusion I reached along with fellow economists Casey Mulligan and Stephen Moore in a new...
Overview: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. The Tax Code should not pick winners and losers but rather fund limited roles for government. Unfortunately, Chapter 313 property tax abatements do pick winners: Big businesses are favored over small businesses. Businesses that may not be in operation for the long term receive long-term tax...
Most of our cities saw a dramatic rise in crime last year that appears unabated this year. Is the “defund the police” movement to blame? After all, some of the cities with the worst spikes have adopted that philosophy and made cuts to their police departments. The answer is more complicated than that, but that...
The looming “eviction crisis” represents a dismal failure of government at nearly every level. The Centers for Disease Controls set renters and landlords alike up for failure when it imposed an unconstitutional eviction moratorium as a way to slow the spread of COVID-19 that has now been declared unlawful by federal courts in Texas, Ohio,...