Texans know very little about the Court of Criminal Appeals, but it must be reformed. The Court once ruled in favor of a man charged with drowning his wife because prosecutors neglected to say what she’d drowned in. The Court’s approach forgets that an individual crime is a violent eruption that shatters lives. Enough is enough; only criminals and inefficiency would suffer in the Court’s absence.
Islamism
The Victims of 9/11 Deserved Better
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the massacres of September 11th, 2001, brings with it a flood of memory, and regrets. The simple reality, visible at the time and brought into ever-sharper focus across each successive year, is that the enemy in Al Qaeda achieved its major strategic objects in its attack upon the United States of...
September 10, 2026