In New York City, police are now targeting the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua. According to the NYPD, the gang is now “actively recruiting gang members in migrant shelters where guns and drugs have been smuggled inside via food cartons.” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell says the border crisis is driving the...
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. Right after the show, today, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the United Nations, calling it a “swamp of anti-Semitic bile.” Netanyahu’s speech would undoubtedly have put him...
The left seems to have no moral qualms about gaslighting as a political strategy, so the Democrat-led campaign falsely accusing Georgia State Election Board members of interfering with the state’s law on certification is unsurprising. But the left’s misleading narrative around certification doesn’t just place Republican election officials in an unfair light, it could also undermine...
Max Boot’s biography Reagan — His Life and Legend will have an importance beyond its worth because its author, once a Republican in good standing, is now a prominent member of the anti-Trump intelligentsia. As a result, Boot, more than an average historian, betrays an agenda. We get a hint of Boot’s ulterior motive in the front...
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. The countdown to the November election continues—45 days to go. There are some big wins as well as some colossal losers to report this week. Here’s who made the list: Winner:...
Texas has instituted an historic education effort to rescue its students from lackluster learning. “Lackluster” may be a euphemism, hiding the frightening reality that the majority of Texas K-12 students are not reading at grade-level. In response, Texas approved the Open Education Resources (OER) project, which will provide free, online, high-quality instructional materials to Texas...
As Texans, we’ve always taken pride in our state’s leadership in protecting the integrity of our elections. We understand that the right to vote is sacred, and that it belongs solely to American citizens. But despite our best efforts, we face a growing threat to our democratic process—one that requires immediate action. The Safeguard American...
Three of our Founding Fathers, the men who formed—and formulated—our nation, did not sign this country’s most important document: the Constitution. This Constitution Day, Americans celebrate this vital document. The Constitution is one of the greatest and most succinct treatises on government and governance in human history, and it has played a huge role in...
Every year, experts at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) publish the much-beloved Rich States, Poor States report, which examines “each state’s competitiveness and economic outlook” using an index that tracks and compares 15 different policy variables “that have a proven impact on the migration of capital—both investment and human—into and out of states.” Those...
Many Texans today are struggling to afford the cost of gas, groceries, and rent. Unfortunately, they might also have to add the cost of government to that list too, if some cities, like Houston, get their way. As reported in the Dallas Express on Friday: If the city maintains the current rate of .51 cents...
On Wednesday, the Houston Chronicle shed some light on a big and growing problem—education elites getting rich at taxpayer expense. And special attention was paid to the now-retired superintendent of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (CFISD), Mark Henry. In its piece, the Chronicle’s writer notes: “Before his retirement in December 2023, Henry collected a base salary of $537,775...
Former President Donald Trump has called for “paper ballots, voter ID, and same-day voting” as steps on the path to improved election integrity. Rightly concerned about illegal election tactics, Republicans and conservative activists have rallied behind these ideas. The concerns over election fraud are real, but the suggested fixes have a common weakness in implementation: people. The...