Apparently times aren't so tough when public schools are buying new flat-screen TVs to hang in the locker rooms and weight rooms of a newly remodeled football stadium. Just ask Glen Rose ISD (which is, of course, suing the state for more "education" money). The...
In slapping down Texas' voter identification law, the Obama Administration issued two undeniable policy preferences: for illegal voters, and against Texans governing Texas. Opposition to voter ID is about one thing, and one thing only: liberal politicians worried...
Columns in the Fort Worth Star Telegram and Austin American Statesman are today demanding a special legislative session be convened on school finance. Their contention is "politics" has hurt public-ed spending. But a special session in an election year? That's...
In one of the few substantive conservative victories during last year’s session, the Texas Legislature voted to ban abortion providers – including Planned Parenthood – and their subsidiaries from receiving state dollars. That law is now under attack, with the Obama...
When Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott decided to appeal the representational maps handed down by a San Antonio federal court panel, some acted like his was an exercise in futility. But after winning a unanimous decision from the US Supreme Court, and today’s release...
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus is once again campaigning against conservatives in 2012. In state, he is fundraising against the re-election of conservative State Rep. James White in favor of carpet-bagging moderate Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton. And nationally, Mr. Straus has...
They just won’t go away, these tea-party-types so intent on reclaiming their government. The tea party movement’s political obituary was being written before the birth announcement was printed. Yet they keep getting stronger, freshly influencing politics and policy....
Suddenly it's fashionable to be against the ridiculously expensive state-imposed public school testing regimen. Let's not forget that just a year ago the House education committee wouldn’t even take a vote on a cash-saving proposal by taxpayer champion and State Rep....
When liberal partisans cannot win at the ballot box or in the court of public opinion, they push their agenda through the courts. Litigious-liberals are delaying elections and disenfranchising voters in a naked attempt to steal elections from the people of Texas. It’s...
Much has been made by the Texas House speaker and others about the alleged need for “new revenues” in state government. So some big-spenders just happen to have a ready-made solution, a magic money-making elixir: expanded gambling. And some conservatives are foolishly...