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Trump Aims For A National Mandate With Massive Madison Square Garden Rally

Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally wasn’t simply a campaign stop in an unwinnable state. It was a bid to unify and rally a national coalition.  Donald Trump’s rally in New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden was much more than a campaign event in symbolically hostile territory; it was part of a broader strategy aimed...

October 30, 2024
Technology

The Conservative Case for AI

We are a few short months away from the start of a legislative session that will be punctuated with countless debates and hearings on AI legislation. Many of these discussions are dominated by the shiny objects—the deepfakes, autonomous vehicles, robotics, etc. To be clear, these are crucially important topics that demand the utmost scrutiny from...

October 30, 2024
Taxes & Spending

Which ISDs (and Lone City) are Pushing VATREs?

In 2023, the Texas Legislature passed historic property tax relief that was intended to cut the average homeowner’s tax bill by roughly $1,300 per year. Unfortunately, tax-and-spend local governments have eroded much of those anticipated savings through rate hikes, bond elections, and a special type of tax increase election known as a Voter-Approval Tax Rate...

October 29, 2024
Taxes & Spending

Bigger in Texas

Everything is bigger in Texas—including government debt. According to the Bond Review Board’s latest local government annual report, Texas’ state-local debt totaled nearly $325 billion (principal only) in 2021, which was the 4th highest among the top ten most populous states. On a per capita basis, Texas governments have borrowed so much that every man,...

October 28, 2024
Economy

Trump shows he will MAWA (Make America Work Again)

Former President Donald Trump went viral this week for making a campaign pitstop in Pennsylvania to work the fry station and drive-through at a McDonald’s. But Trump’s visit at McDonald’s was more than a publicity stunt—it represents the core of what makes him appealing to voters and, ultimately, what will carry him across the finish line in...

October 28, 2024
Economy

How to Strengthen Media Integrity Through Collaboration

Uri Berliner’s exposure of National Public Radio, James Bennet’s truth-telling about The New York Times, and the recent outrage at CBS News over the editing of a Kamala Harris interview are just the latest signs of something we’ve all been seeing for over a decade. Online newspapers and other electronic outlets that used to speak with authority are broken....

October 28, 2024
Other

Winners & Losers: Beyoncé in Houston, Bottles in Austin, Rats in Chicago & Early Votes

Every Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers. We are now sliding down the final 10 day countdown to Election Day as we try to discern what the long lines of people standing outside polling locations—at least...

October 25, 2024
Energy & Environment

Subsidizing Poor Policy

Ronald Reagan famously said that government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” The last part is funny because it exposes the backward thinking of government. If a product or service...

October 24, 2024
Family

It’s Not the Economy, Stupid—It’s the Transgender Agenda

It is not a stretch to look at the present state of the campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred and conclude that they have been stalled by their opponent’s attacks on their support for the transgender agenda. You could see the exasperation on Harris’ face last week when...

October 23, 2024
Higher Education

The University of Texas System Does the Right Thing on Free Speech

Recently, The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents enhanced its free speech policy for all its member schools. No longer will Texas public universities be able to offer official political statements on matters that only tangentially affect their campuses. The new policy announces that it is not “the role of the UT System or...

October 21, 2024
Other

Winners & Losers: Hamas is done, the rocket returns, Cruz, Harris and Crime Stats

Every Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers. It is now 17 days until the Nov. 5 election, but Texans can begin going to the polls Monday morning and since voter registration is off the charts—up almost...

October 18, 2024
Border Security

Fixing The Border Crisis Starts With Identifying Mexican Cartels As Terrorist Organizations

The border crisis is not primarily an immigration problem, it’s a cartel problem. The ongoing border crisis has raised an important question among policymakers and average citizens: Are we dealing with an immigration problem or a security problem? Each lens requires a different response. But the fact is, the border crisis is not primarily an...

October 18, 2024
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