Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary
Y’All Answered: Subsidize Green Energy?
Readers sound off on the state subsidization of “renewable” energy sources that have proven to be unreliable.
Athens Council Certifies Initiative Signatures, Will Vote on Ordinance Outlawing Abortion
The ordinance would also allow for local government to enforce the penalties now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.
School Vouchers Pose Little Risk to Homeschooling
To mitigate catastrophic short-term risks, we must enact a voucher school funding system, now.
What We Tolerate
As a self-governing people, we must pursue personal and public righteousness.
MOST RECENT
Haynes: Why State Bans & Flipping School Boards Won’t Stop Critical Race Theory
“The real power for winning this war lies with the grassroots forming local groups to hold school boards and schools accountable.”
Praying For The Wrong People
Praying for our republic’s politicians and not the citizens is like asking a physician to alleviate the symptoms without addressing the disease.
Hall: Vote ‘No’ on Prop 2 Campaign Urges Voters to Reject Property Tax Increases
The constitutional amendment will guarantee rising property taxes.
On Being Happy Warriors
There is no end to the litany of things about which to be angry – but it doesn’t mean we have to be endlessly upset.
Pratt: Part of Texas Big Freeze Showed More Money and Regulation, Not a Solution
“Those who claim the solution to a problem is always more money or more government regulation … are demonstrably wrong.”
Imposing Agendas
It is up to the politician to have a plan to meet the citizens’ demands.
Waller: Chinese Backdoor Threatens Next Texas Blackout
Houston has a problem.
Lawson: The Opportunity to Stop Vaccine Mandates Is Fading
“It is not ok for an employer to force vaccines on employees. It is an assault on the liberty of individual employees to do so.”
Haynes: Federal Grants Push Critical Race Theory Into Texas Classrooms
Federal funding to reopen schools could contain a Trojan horse for critical race theory.
Glover: Course Correcting Texas Public Education
The goal of the socialist progressive left is to break down our society. A primary way is to target the most vulnerable: children.
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Commentary: Why Are We Forced to Pay Lobbyists Who Work Against Us?
While we’ve been busy working hard to pay taxes, local government lobbyists have been busy using our money to work against us.
El Paso Proves Walls Work
U.S. Border Control apprehensions in El Paso dropped 73% one year after building a wall.
Commentary: Texans Want Property Tax Reform
While local officials and lobbyists showed up in droves to testify against SB2, the taxpaying homeowners who showed up were unanimous in support of reform.
Commentary: Polling on the Democrats
Among Republicans, 49% say they want to see President Trump run unopposed for re-nomination.
Commentary: Congress Has a Little Time to Get Immigration Right
Trump may not have his wall—yet—but he has successfully dragged both parties, albeit kicking and screaming, to the negotiating table on an issue that both parties would prefer to keep avoiding.
Commentary: Census Fight Is About Dollars and Votes
A dispute over adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census is a proxy for the Left’s thinly veiled agenda to maintain and control access to political power for decades to come.
Commentary: The Underlying Numbers
Recent polls may give us a better idea of what Americans will be basing their vote on in the 2020 elections.
Commentary: My Experience at the March for Life
With over 200,000 in attendance, all races, political parties, genders, and ages gathered in D.C. this January to rally for life.
Commentary: Leftist Legislators’ War on Religious Freedom
Democrats are going on the offensive this session, pushing anti-Christian legislation referred to as #BanTheBible bills by organizations like Texas Values.
Who is Trying to Tax Granny in 2019?
It’s hard to imagine the GOP majority in either chamber of the Texas Legislature would want to spend 2019 attempting to levy any new taxes, let alone one on nursing home residents.