Local Government

Governments Lobbying Government: City of Dallas

Cities, counties, school districts, and special districts spend tens of millions every year to influence state policymakers at the Texas Capitol. Using taxpayer money, these entities often employ external lobbyists (i.e. registered lobbyists), internal lobbyists (i.e. intergovernmental relations personnel), and pro-government associations (i.e. Texas Municipal League, Texas Association of Counties, Texas Association of School Boards,...

March 15, 2024

Technology

The False Dichotomy – To Ban Or Not To Ban TikTok

Common sense tells us that when someone says, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” the inverse of that statement is not, “you will get sick and immediately die if you forget to pack an apple for lunch.” Yet TikTok parent company ByteDance thinks Americans are credulous enough to accept the premise that we...

March 14, 2024

Local Government

Governments Lobbying Government: City of Austin

Texas’ local governments spend tens of millions every year to influence state-level decision-making. These publicly-funded advocacy campaigns are oftentimes led by or receive help from external lobbyists (i.e. registered lobbyists), internal lobbyists (i.e. intergovernmental relations personnel), and pro-government associations (i.e. Texas Municipal League, Texas Association of Counties, Texas Association of School Boards, etc.). One local...

March 14, 2024

Taxes & Spending

Which Local Officials Stand to Lose Under Biden’s Budget Proposal?

This week, the Biden administration unveiled a new budget proposal packed with pork and handouts, which included “increased government aid for workers, parents, manufacturers, retirees and students, as well as the fight against climate change.” To pay for the administration’s spending wish list, officials are proposing to raise taxes on “the wealthy and big corporations.”...

March 13, 2024

Technology

Driverless cars are another step away from human agency

Big tech’s utopia may not be all its cracked up to be. Self-driving cars? That’s nothing new — Leonardo da Vinci designed one in the 16th century. And the machine, which some call the world’s first robot, would have worked, historians and researchers later confirmed. In fact, a working model of the clockwork-driven mechanism is currently housed at the...

March 13, 2024

K-12 Education

Dallas-Area Schools Aren’t Broke, They’re Just Misspending Their Money

Fort Worth Independent School District says it will cut staff members because of its budget crunch. Dallas ISD is ending some high school programs. Plano ISD is conducting a study which “may lead to restructuring or consolidating schools to better serve students,” the district says. “No one cause is to blame, although the state legislature not providing addition...

March 12, 2024

Election Integrity

Even In A Sacred House Of Worship, The Biden Administration Deceives About Voter Integrity

Against the backdrop of a sacred pulpit that was instrumental in the fight to secure the rights of democracy, the Biden Administration continued its pattern of deception about election integrity. On Sunday in Selma, Alabama, Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed to fight against popular, common-sense measures like voter ID laws and to challenge duly enacted legislation that...

March 12, 2024

K-12 Education

One Step Closer

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.  Primary election season isn’t quite over as there are several runoff elections that need to be decided, but there are at least a few things we can conclude from Tuesday...

March 11, 2024

Criminal Justice

Biden took credit, but we should thank local cops for cutting crime

Cops in cities like Detroit and Dallas are cutting crime. Biden’s billions didn’t help DC. The re-election campaign for President Joe Biden is spending significant bandwidth trying to rehabilitate his poor reputation on the subject of crime and criminal justice policy, and for good reason. Recent polling shows that more than half of the country is dissatisfied...

March 11, 2024

Health Care

Expanding government healthcare won’t help rural America

Pushing Medicaid expansion and Obamacare may be in vogue, but just because they’re trendy doesn’t mean expanding these programs is sound policy. Mississippi snagged headlines recently when its state House passed a Medicaid expansion bill. Members of both the Left and the Right lauded the move, while states such as Texas have drawn harsh criticism for resisting expanding the program. In...

March 11, 2024

Border Security

Biden’s State Of The Union Underplays America’s Number One Issue: Securing The Border

The No. 1 issue in America today is the crisis at the border with some 10 million illegal immigrants crossing into the nation since President Joe Biden reversed President Donald Trump’s border security policies on day one. In a speech that ran 67 minutes, a little short by modern standards and six minutes shorter than his speech last year,...

March 8, 2024

Border Security

Busing Illegal Migrants Wins Elections

The New York Post reports that on Super Tuesday, MSNBC’s progressive women’s roundtable got a big laugh out of exit polls showing that illegal immigration was the top priority for GOP voters in Virginia. Former Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki laughingly insisted that she lives in Virginia and there’s no problem. Joy Reid called the poll...

March 7, 2024