As most everyone can attest to, education reform is a hot button issue right now. Especially when it comes to parental empowerment. For various and sundry reasons, the effort to give parents the tools they need to pull their kids from failing schools has garnered the wrath of many modern-day progressives who’ve mobilized to protect...
Any effort to address this crisis must include securing the border. Last year in Carrollton, Texas, a few doses of fentanyl supplied by an 18-year-old distributor resulted in 14 overdoses among juveniles — and four deaths. But fentanyl is an Everytown problem, and it’s only going to get worse until the southern U.S. border is secure. More than five Texans...
Israel is pleading with more than one million Palestinian civilians to flee Gaza City. The vile terrorists in control of that doomed metropolis are telling innocent people to stay put. Hamas has used the Palestinian people as pawns for decades. It’s no surprise they’re now using them as human shields. On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces, massing 360,000...
Hamas may be trying to goad Israel into a costly and very bloody urban conflict in Gaza. As a U.S. Army intelligence officer, I was trained to brief the commander on the most likely course of action and the most dangerous course of action. How might that disciplined way of thinking be applied to the conflict...
Across the country we have seen states dropping policies that have failed to address the root causes of homelessness. For instance, San Fransisco has begun to hold people seeking services accountable by requiring drug tests and Philadelphia has banned “safe” injection sites. Even cities in Texas are beginning to question their current approaches and are starting...
These are the words of Veronica Kaprosy, who lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning in 2022. Danica was just 17. “Kids, instead of learning from their mistakes or experiences and moving on with life, they’re dying,” Veronica said. “My soul died. I am dead, dead on the inside.” Danica suffered from medical conditions which brought...
On Wednesday, a group of far-left pastors published a column in the Dallas Morning News criticizing the budding parental empowerment movement and calling on the Legislature to heap a great deal more on Texas’ failing public school system. The central premise of the article, which was difficult to take seriously, is that we, as a...
The Plainview Independent School District wants to move on from the incident that roiled the community and its school board meetings last spring; but Isabella, age 6, can’t. She’s the victim of an unthinkable sexual assault—by another 6-year-old—that took place in an elementary school classroom, with the teacher nearby. It was filmed on a school...
In 2019, a mother faced a heart-wrenching dilemma. According to the letter she held in her hand, she had to find another hospital willing to treat her infant daughter, Tinslee Lewis, within 10 days—or Tinslee was going to die. This dilemma arose because the intensity of Tinslee’s treatment and unfavorable prognosis from Cook Children’s Medical...
America needs health care innovation and principled policy reform more than ever. Rising costs, sicker patients, and doctor shortages plague an overburdened and needlessly complicated system. Patients fear rising insurance premiums and astronomical medical bills. Crippling, top-down regulations imposed by broken laws, poor bureaucrat interpretation, and special interest lobbying prevent doctors from giving patients the...
The Biden administration’s lax approach to border security exacerbates existing threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, and China. There are 32 miles of border separating Gaza from Israel. Since my first visit to that border in 1984, it’s been heavily fortified, with walls, fences, and surveillance systems backed up by soldiers and law enforcement. That system was...
Yet another Austin-area school district is serving fewer students, even while its budget balloons. According to a recent Community Impact article, the number of students enrolled at Pflugerville ISD for the 2023-24 school year “is expected to come in under projections by 300 students.” The district’s superintendent, whose salary ($313,566) is more than two times...