Narco-terrorists Are Still Terrorists
What to know: President Donald Trump has ordered a second strike on Venezuela’s drug-running cartels. A boat hauling cocaine and fentanyl was destroyed, killing three male traffickers.
The TPPF take: We must treat drug cartels as the terrorist organizations they are.
“For decades, Washington approached cartels as criminal enterprises,” says TPPF’s Ammon Blair. “That framework was too slow and too narrow. Cartels are no longer just criminal networks. They are hybrid threats: they control territory, coerce populations, corrupt institutions, and wage psychological warfare.”
For more on the cartels, click here.
Wrong Again
What to know: Sen. Tim Kaine, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2020, shows just how deeply the left misunderstands America’s founding. According to Kaine, rights come from the generosity of government, not from our Creator.
The TPPF take: Adding insult to injury, he went on to dismiss those who believe otherwise as akin to “Iranian religious fanatics.”
“Kaine’s assertion that rights are government-granted strips away the moral foundation that distinguishes liberty from tyranny,” says TPPF’s Tom Lindsay. “Abraham Lincoln would warn that if rights are contingent upon government, then no citizen is secure against arbitrary power. The regime, rather than securing pre-existing rights, becomes their arbiter, undermining the very purpose of government.”
For more on Kaine and God-given rights, click here.
Constitutional Amendments
What to know: Texas voters will go to the polls in November to decide 17 proposed constitutional amendments.
The TPPF take: TPPF now has a helpful guide to the proposed constitutional amendments.
“Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the Texas Constitution is an expansive document that is frequently amended,” says TPPF’s Judge Shepard. “Excluding the upcoming vote, 714 constitutional amendments have been proposed since it was adopted in 1876. In all, amendments proposed to voters have been approved 74.2% of the time. Such a high passage rate is not necessarily a bad thing so long as it is done from the perspective of informed decision-making. That is what this guide hopes to facilitate.”
To read TPPF’s guide to the amendments, click here.