The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. This week the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided with the novel concept that members of Congress must show up for work to do their jobs. In...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul knows she has spooked her state’s business community. That’s why she went on a talk show last week to calm their very legitimate fears that they would be next. If former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted and fined hundreds of millions of dollars for a common business practice, who is...
The current president and the once, and likely future president visited the U.S.-Mexico border today — but they said and saw very different things. President Joe Biden visited Brownsville, Texas near the Gulf Coast on Feb. 29, which is oddly appropriate, as Biden’s correct policy prescriptions are about as rare as leap days, a day...
Fears of ‘government strings’ and bureaucratic restrictions are unfounded if the school-choice legislation is crafted carefully. Can you imagine a less modern opinion than this? “The one thing that is never taught by any chance in the atmosphere of public schools is this: that there is a whole truth of things, and that in knowing it and...
Only recently, with the General Election of 2020, did it seem like the debate over election integrity finally reached the public sphere. Even then, the skeptics and naysayers still far outnumber those of us who have seen it firsthand—and are willing to talk about it. Election fraud, stolen elections and vote harvesting are all lumped...
What Eva Arriaga lacked was options. Her medical assistant certificate, paid for with $15,000 in burdensome student loans, wasn’t enough to support her and her family. Though the Houston-area economy was booming, with thousands of high-paying jobs out there, Eva simply lacked the qualifications for the kind of job that provides a real future. Then...
There is no more vital function of government than protecting public safety, and that solemn duty must include anchoring criminal justice policies in evidence. While Louisiana leaders are rightfully making crime a priority during this legislative special session, proposals to virtually abolish parole and restrict good time credit would cost taxpayers millions without making Louisiana...
New York’s Times Square is known for many things, but lately, crime has kept it in the headlines. Amid mounting public safety concerns, instead of increasing police presence and giving law enforcement the tools to prevent and fight crime, the New York Police Department (NYPD) spent thousands of tax dollars testing the K5, a high-tech...
“It was always headed here” — to a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, according to Politico’s Adam Wren. “But in the span of a few days, the wrinkled and sagging reality staring the nation in the face has become the defining issue of the 2024 campaign,” he went on, citing Special Counsel Robert Hur’s...
This week, the Supreme Court will hear two cases related to free speech which may provide clarity on the latitude of social media companies to censor the information shared with its users. In the spirit of liberty and to empower their citizens, Texas and Florida have both sought to hold Big Tech accountable for the...
On the presidential level, having an undeclared winner as Americans fall asleep in front of their TVs on election night, awaking Wednesday morning to confusion and uncertainty, has fostered chaos and a slow, cancer-like erosion of public trust in our elections. We understand that above all else, ballots must be counted accurately. But that doesn’t...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. Earlier this month, a school official at Borman Elementary in the Denton school district sent an email pressing school employees to support anti-school choice candidates in the upcoming Republican primary....