We can hope that a bipartisan consensus on upholding the First Amendment will grow as public awareness of the campus threats to free speech grows. As U.S. Department of Education Secretary DeVos prosecutes this battle nationally, she would benefit from close consideration of the Wisconsin model.
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One of the key themes of Governor Greg Abbott’s special session call was ending regulatory overreach at the local level. And the governor did not pull his punches in highlighting his determination to protect the rights of citizens regardless of the local government they live under, declaring that he was: “…calling for legislation that reduces,...
With supine deference to CARB’s wishes, EPA violated the Clean Air Act by approving the regulation without assessing independently whether California’s residents require emissions controls that far surpass in scope and stringency any regulatory standards applicable anywhere else in the nation.
Whether it be by a strict enforcement of ethics rules or the end of slush fund payouts to private interest groups, the Department of Justice is cleaning up its act, and the timing couldn’t be better to restore America’s trust.
Free markets and free trade within those markets benefit everyone. They ensure profits are justly earned based on value creation rather than access to political power or by imposing unjust costs on others.
Texans of every ideological persuasion want legislators to rein in local governments’ ability to raise property taxes, according to the latest poll from the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune. According to the poll’s results, which are based on an “internet survey of 1,200 registered voters [that] was conducted from June 2 to June...
Eliminating all Obamacare regulations as the default while leaving an opt-in trigger, so states that wish to maintain the regulations may do so, is the only remaining compromise worth considering.
General Land Office of the State of Texas v. U.S. Department of the Interior provides the best opportunity for the nation, through the judicial process, to recognize that our complex world requires more than dogmatic adherence to the protection of a single species regardless of the societal impacts.
Conservatives shouldn’t hesitate to ask regulators and liberal advocates now pointing the finger at uncertainty where they were this time last year when the future of those payments was equally uncertain.
Those who strongly oppose the Affordable Care Act but believe in state rights should support another state’s choice to have Obamacare within its state borders.
The best available science today shows that the species is not endangered: the warbler was either listed in error or has recovered since listing. The ESA’s purpose in terms of the golden-cheeked warbler has been accomplished, and Texas private property owners should not longer be burdened by further, unwarranted federal regulation.