Election Integrity

U.S. Postal Service Just Institutionalized Election Interference With New Mail-In-Ballot Division

Starbucks recently asked the National Labor Relations Board to suspend all pending and ongoing votes to unionize at its U.S. stores due to concerns stemming from mail-in ballots. The franchise’s objections once again raise questions about the credibility of election systems that rely on mail-in ballots.  As with coffee companies, how much more with the...

August 16, 2022

K-12 Education

Is the Sky Really Falling? Fact-Checking Claims about Parent Empowerment

Doom! That’s what Democrats and their allies in the media predict if Texas lawmakers empower parents to make the key decisions in their children’s educations. An “astroturf” group (that means fake grassroots) says parent empowerment is “morally unacceptable,” will replace Texas public education with “Christian Nationalism & Religious Fundamentalism,” and ultimately it’s all “designed to...

August 15, 2022

Higher Education

Red McCombs Should Demand His Money Back

It has been said that Texas is the best expression of the American idea—and Red McCombs is one of the best expressions of everything it means to be a Texan. He came from a tiny town in the southern panhandle, started as an Edsel salesman in Corpus Christi and went onto become one of the...

August 12, 2022

Economy

For Families, Today’s Economy is ‘Death by 1,000 Cuts’

Leslie Winters remembers the economic downturn of the 1980s. She remembers standing in long lines with her grandmother to receive welfare benefits like “government cheese” and “government butter.” For a long time, it was just that, a memory. Now, she fears she may have to do the same with her three children. But Leslie isn’t...

August 11, 2022

Immigration

In Brooks County, the Migrant Death Toll is Horrific

FALFURRIAS—When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a busload of illegal immigrants to New York City, the Big Apple’s Mayor Eric Adams said the action was “horrific.” That’s a poor choice of words, according to Brooks County Deputy Don White. As the deputy tasked with search and rescue in the county with the highest number of...

August 11, 2022

Energy & Environment

Democrats’ Green Energy ‘Transition’ Costs You Way More And Gives You Way Less

Democrats and their leftist allies are celebrating the U.S. Senate’s passage of the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act.” Subject to a vote out of the Rules Committee mid-week, it’s expected that H.R. 5376 will be voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday or over the weekend at the latest.  The Democrats’ tax and spending bill...

August 11, 2022

Family

How to fix the child abuse and neglect ‘blacklist’

In June 2019, the Pardo family experienced arguably the worst day of their lives. After a physician falsely accused the parents of medical abuse, their developmentally challenged son Drake, 4, was taken away by Child Protective Services. The Pardos fought six months in court before being cleared of all charges, but the damage had been...

August 10, 2022

Economy

Harding-Coolidge Path to Prosperity: A History Lesson for President Joe Biden

A nation emerging from a significant pandemic and an economic downturn awaited President Joe Biden in early 2021. President Warren G. Harding inherited a similar situation after winning the 1920 election in a landslide. But Harding overcame it by getting government out of the way. The economy recovered quickly—whereas Biden enacted bad progressive policies that...

August 10, 2022

Foreign Policy

AMLO further militarizes Mexican public security

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador dropped a bombshell at his Monday press conference, announcing he would sign a decree putting the National Guard under Defence Secretariat (SEDENA) command—even though the constitution states the militarized police force shall operate under civilian leadership. AMLO, as the president is known, previously said he would send a constitutional...

August 10, 2022

K-12 Education

Of Drag Queens and Parental Empowerment

An Austin ISD elementary teacher has stirred fresh controversy after she bragged online about showing her fourth-grade students a video “to teach them about drag which also encourages kids to be drag performers.” In the short video, which begins with the teacher saying she doesn’t care if others disagree with the degeneracy, kids in the...

August 10, 2022

Taxes & Spending

Is a Tarrant County Tax Increase Coming Soon?

Tarrant County taxpayers may soon be paying more for local government. On Monday, the Tarrant County Commissioners Court held a public meeting to discuss its proposed budget for fiscal year 2023, which totals $916 million, less capital expenditures. That represents about a $120 million increase from the prior year’s budget total ($797.2 million). To help...

August 10, 2022

Election Integrity

Why So Scared? Harris County Explores Lawsuit Over Election Audit

The Harris County Commissioners Court has green lit the exploration of a lawsuit, in a 3-2 vote along partisan lines, over the county’s inclusion in the next round of election audits. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo attacked the selection as “politically motivated” and “a distraction.” Other county officials disputed (without evidence) the randomness of the...

August 9, 2022