Criminal Justice
Fair-chance hiring bad for business
This requires the ex-offender to take responsibility for their actions, while the small business owner is protected from criminal and civil liability.
November 9, 2015
Health Care
John Oliver’s unfunny segment on Medicaid expansion
Of that increase, more than 16 percent was for Medicaid expansion, which has caused total federal Medicaid spending to grow from $85 billion to $350 billion in just two years.
November 6, 2015
Economy
Free Market Institute Show: Successes and failures of the Texas model
It’s reassuring to know that there are other organizations out there, especially at a Texas University, promoting free markets and liberty, and that they are making a difference in advancing the hopes and dreams of Texans and all Americans.
November 5, 2015
Health Care
Feds try to force Planned Parenthood on Texas taxpayers
Federalism has long been a contemptible and ridiculous thing to Washington DC, but at least it was couched in the pretense of cooperation.
November 5, 2015
K-12 Education
U.S. Pastor Council amicus brief for the school finance trials
The final oral arguments for the current school finance litigation were heard before the Texas Supreme Court on September 1st 2015. This amicus brief explains how our state can make education more productive for Texas children.
November 2, 2015
Energy & Environment
Texas should resist Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan
According to the EPA’s own projections, this costly quest at remaking our power grid will reduce the global temperature by 18 one-thousandths of a degree Celsius by 2100 — well within the margin of error of wildly inaccurate models.
November 2, 2015
Energy & Environment
2015 Veritas, Issue 3
In this edition of Veritas, you'll find Holding Liberty Hostage, The Ceremony: Celebrating Texas Freedom Since 1845, Lone Star Legacy Society, and more.
November 2, 2015
Higher Education
New report: What do college students learn? Answer: Too little, too often
Fundamental subjects like U.S. government, U.S. history, literature, mathematics, and economics 'have become mere options on far too many campuses.'
October 31, 2015
Other
‘Rockin’ the Wall’ explores music’s role in the Berlin Wall’s collapse
In the end, the Berlin Wall, the most tangible relic of the contest between freedom and the ideology of militarized collectivism, came down without a shot being fired on November 9, 1989.
October 31, 2015
Taxes & Spending
Moody’s calls out Dallas’ facade
It was only a matter of time before someone pointed out that the emperor had no clothes. For the City of Dallas, that moment came yesterday, when Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the City’s debt rating due, in part, to Dallas’ “very large and growing unfunded pension liabilities.” After years of providing defined benefit pensions — something a majority of the private sector moved away from long ago — the system has finally been exposed for what it is: unsustainable.
October 29, 2015
K-12 Education
Study: Texas and Florida lead education results among biggest 5 states, California last
California students lag 6.3 months behind their peers in learning.
October 29, 2015
Health Care
A new lawsuit from Texas sues the government over Obamacare
The complaint, which Kansas and Louisiana also joined, reveals how progressive regulatory schemes such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), in order to accomplish their goals, eventually wind up coercing state governments and in some cases imbuing private entities with legislative powers.
October 29, 2015