The Plainview Independent School District wants to move on from the incident that roiled the community and its school board meetings last spring; but Isabella, age 6, can’t. She’s the victim of an unthinkable sexual assault—by another 6-year-old—that took place in an elementary school classroom, with the teacher nearby. It was filmed on a school...
In 2019, a mother faced a heart-wrenching dilemma. According to the letter she held in her hand, she had to find another hospital willing to treat her infant daughter, Tinslee Lewis, within 10 days—or Tinslee was going to die. This dilemma arose because the intensity of Tinslee’s treatment and unfavorable prognosis from Cook Children’s Medical...
America needs health care innovation and principled policy reform more than ever. Rising costs, sicker patients, and doctor shortages plague an overburdened and needlessly complicated system. Patients fear rising insurance premiums and astronomical medical bills. Crippling, top-down regulations imposed by broken laws, poor bureaucrat interpretation, and special interest lobbying prevent doctors from giving patients the...
The Biden administration’s lax approach to border security exacerbates existing threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, and China. There are 32 miles of border separating Gaza from Israel. Since my first visit to that border in 1984, it’s been heavily fortified, with walls, fences, and surveillance systems backed up by soldiers and law enforcement. That system was...
Yet another Austin-area school district is serving fewer students, even while its budget balloons. According to a recent Community Impact article, the number of students enrolled at Pflugerville ISD for the 2023-24 school year “is expected to come in under projections by 300 students.” The district’s superintendent, whose salary ($313,566) is more than two times...
The aftermath of Hamas attacks in Israel on Saturday will ripple around the world from Washington to Beijing and beyond Sabbath tranquility in Israel was ruptured on Oct. 7, marking the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and 43 years to the day that Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Muslim Brotherhood terrorists. Early...
Comparison may be the thief of joy, but as a former corrections employee and parole officer, I was blown away by a recent International Prison Cohort Tour through Germany and Norway, sponsored by the ARrow Center for Justice. The contrast between the correctional philosophies of these two nations and the United States, the world’s largest...
Public education elites appear nervous that the Texas Legislature may soon enact the nation’s finest parental empowerment program, thereby giving families the ability “to pick the public or private school that best fits their child.” This unease, especially among public school superintendents, is easy to detect in their media commentary. Here are just a few...
It was big news the other week when the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) announced that Harvard University had the worst record on free speech of any university in the country. This is particularly sad considering its history. Harvard is where Samuel Adams first began to formulate the concept that the American colonies...
American energy costs are on the rise again, and the Biden administration’s latest move—banning the transportation of liquid national gas (LNG) by rail—will only make energy even more expensive. President Joe Biden has made his intentions very clear. He will use any and all means necessary to achieve the goals of the radical left, no...
The recent population growth in Texas, particularly Austin, has been a great blessing. Businesses have been relocating here, bringing jobs, stimulating the economy, and making the city and surrounding areas more resilient to the economic hardship that the rest of the nation is facing. However, with the massive influx of recent arrivals coupled with unnecessarily...
About an hour and a half north of Dallas is a small town by the name of Bells, which boasts a rich history and near 1,500 residents. Bells bills itself as being at the “Crossroads of Friendliness,” but despite its modest size and charm, the city currently finds itself on the radar of quite a...