Getting Good Numbers
What to know: The Texas Public Policy Foundation has established the National Center for Energy Analytics, bringing together some of the top data scientists in the country.
The TPPF take: The NCEA will produce credible, unbiased research on energy issues.
“Our goal is to provide sober-minded, fact-based, emotion-free perspectives in energy domains. There are high risks associated with making naïve assumptions about the hydrocarbon infrastructures that supply 80 percent of all energy for America and the world,” says TPPF’s Mark Mills. “But it’s an open secret that the entirely partisan Inflation Reduction Act, modern history’s most ambitious spending on industrial policy, is touted by its supporters as the so-called Green New Deal with the goal to replace hydrocarbons.”
For more on the NCEA, click here.
A Dangerous Border
What to know: The crisis brought about by the Biden administration’s open borders policy has led to crimes without boundaries.
The TPPF take: Border security is national security.
“Lenient policies on border security have empowered transnational criminal organizations to seize control of the border and increase their profits on illegal drug and human trafficking,” says TPPF’s Selene Rodriguez. “If we don’t have operational security over the border, we cannot know everyone that is coming into the U.S. and what their intentions are.”
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Never Say DEI
What to know: Will diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) end America, or will Americans end DEI?
The TPPF take: Texas is winning the war on wokeness—and preserving history.
“DEI is a simplistic attempt to reduce Texas history, American history—the history of all Western civilization—into a war between villains and heroes,” says TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester. “Using their analysis, every hero in the so-called ‘master narrative’ is a villain and consequently, every villain must be made into a hero. To see how this works in contemporary times, just look at how campuses—students and faculty alike—made heroes out of the terrorists who attacked Israel.”