The following letter was submitted to the Cannon Online for publication from Justina Jenkins, Head of School at Rivertree Academy, a private school near Ft. Worth: November 14, 2023 As the Head of School at Rivertree Academy, I have the honor to serve the families and children in the Lake Como Community located in Fort...
Open enrollment has begun for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and CNN is quick to report that despite premiums continuing to skyrocket, federal subsidies “will protect most enrollees.” But Christopher Briggs, a father in Virginia, just wants to know who’s going to protect his family from Obamacare itself. “Joe Biden ran an ad when he...
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its October 2023 monthly update and they did so earlier than usual. That is likely because this federal government is trying to take a victory lap, though the numbers prove that a victory is nowhere in sight. Actually, the Biden administration does tell you the truth, but they are...
Media prophet Marshall McLuhan revolutionized our understanding of communications in the 1970s when he observed that “the medium is the message.” For the terrorists of Hamas, murder and medieval slaughter are clearly the medium. They are also the message. The Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel was so horrific that it was not immediately apparent...
Earlier this year, the Texas Legislature passed a new law (Senate Bill 2038) giving residents trapped in the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) “an exit strategy through either a petition or election process.” The law originated, in part, from concerns that “residents and property owners [were] subject to the regulatory authority of municipalities in the extraterritorial jurisdiction”...
Austin’s costly and controversial transit plan, Project Connect, is in the news again, after a group of area residents filed a lawsuit “arguing that the current plan is so different from the one presented to voters in 2020, that it should be put to the vote again.” To press home that point, the lawsuit offers...
The temperatures are dropping in Texas—and so is our ability to rely on wind and solar. A power plant closure in East Texas could make things worse. Fresh off a grid-straining summer, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is preparing for potential energy emergencies this winter with an expensive plan to secure additional power...
A recent Inside Higher Ed article (IHE) on the college accreditor, SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) reveals—albeit, unintentionally—a great deal about the disconnect between the higher-education establishment and the rest of the country. Half puff-piece, half press coverage, the article anguishes over “the political trials of a Southern accreditor,” and especially its longtime...
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. Shortly before the end of the third special session, House Public Education Committee Chairman Brad Buckley released text of a proposal that has become the House version of the...
The goals of President Joe Biden’s administration are lofty: among them, nationwide vehicle electrification within 20 years. To reach that goal, the administration has recently proposed new fuel economy regulations that will help ensure that 67% of new passenger cars sold are electric vehicles by 2032. The problem is that this green dream is physically impossible to achieve...
In August, I wrote that “local governments everywhere seem to be scheming over how to get a big cut of your [property tax] relief,” and that bond elections and voter-approval tax rate elections (VATREs) were 2 main ways this erosion could happen. Well, with the November election cycle officials concluded, it’s possible to take stock...
Editor’s Note: This commentary was published in Arabic. This is a translation. For decades, American foreign policy toward Iran has been caught in a complex web of outdated assumptions and misaligned goals. The United States has traditionally treated Iran as a rational player within the regional and international system, a fallacy that has cast its...