Higher Education
Texas College: “Judge — And Fund — Us By Our Results”
American workers continue to suffer from a sluggish economy.
June 26, 2016
Energy & Environment
California’s bullet train on the track to extinction
Today California's High-Speed Rail boondoggle is at least 50 percent over budget and, if ever built as marketed, likely far more, and doesn't have "matching private and federal funding" as promised.
June 25, 2016
Economy
20 state lawmakers file amicus brief on plastic bag ban case
On Tuesday, almost two-dozen Members of the Texas Legislature filed an amicus brief in support of the Laredo Merchants Association’s legal challenge to the City of Laredo’s plastic bag ban. A number of Texas cities either have or are considering similar restrictions.
June 23, 2016
Criminal Justice
Cornyn and Levin: How Texas became smart on crime
Senator John Coryn and Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime Director Marc Levin explain how Texas is a model for the nation in criminal justice reform.
June 22, 2016
Taxes & Spending
The Real Texas budget: taxpayers deserve transparency
Given the accounting tricks and gimmicks by the Legislature, it’s imperative that citizens have a better idea of where their hard-working dollars are going and that they are not being spent excessively. The Real Texas Budget provides Texans with answers.
June 22, 2016
Energy & Environment
Climate change policies driven by power, not science
As has been the case for decades, a large contingent of environmentalists treat oil and natural gas as inherently villainous. Yet, these fuels are integral to modern prosperous societies, have lifted billions out of poverty and offer the chance for health and economic growth in the poorest countries on the earth.
June 21, 2016
Economy
Why we’re suing Austin
On Friday, the Texas Public Policy Foundation took aim at the City of Austin’s tragically flawed short-term rental (STR) ordinance, filing suit in Travis County District Court. Suing the city is not a decision that was made in haste; it was determined to be absolutely necessary to protect Austinites’ property rights, economic liberties, and the basic freedoms of privacy and movement taken for granted by most Texans.
June 20, 2016
Energy & Environment
The Texas Miracle is Alive and Well
Despite the massive drop in oil prices (the average price of oil dropped from $105.78 in June 2014 to $37.34 in December 2015), the Texas economy has continued to grow rapidly, outpacing the national trend and most of its economic contemporaries.
June 20, 2016
Energy & Environment
Restrain the imperial EPA
If Americans care about restraining this lawless assertion of federal regulatory power, the most important bill in Congress right now is H.R. 3880, introduced late last year by Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.).
June 17, 2016
Other
Joe Luppino-Esposito discusses criminal records and college applications The Scott Adams Show
Joe Luppino-Esposito comments onthe White House forcing college applications to no longer ask applicants for criminal history. Aired June 16 on The Scott Adams Show, and June 17 WFYL 1180 and Red State Talk Radio.
June 16, 2016
Taxes & Spending
Real Texas Budget shows the need for a conservative spending limit
The Texas economy has performed relatively well during much of the past fifteen years regarding economic output and job creation under a fiscally responsible system of low taxes and smart regulation. However, this Texas model can be strengthened to support greater prosperity by reforming the state’s weak constitutional spending limit.
June 16, 2016
Energy & Environment
ICYMI: Book review of Fueling Freedom
While Democrats are in hock to radical environmentalism, Steve Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White’s Fueling Freedom, perhaps the most important book of this otherwise dismal election yea?r, provides the ideas around which Republicans can unite and regroup.
June 15, 2016