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Commentary: Congress Has a Little Time to Get Immigration Right
After refusing for weeks to negotiate over border security “until the government is open,” the bluff has been called on congressional Democrats. Congress has until February 15 to craft a border security package ahead of what could be yet another partial government...
Commentary: Census Fight Is About Dollars and Votes
While the national debate continues over how secure our border will be, another aspect of illegal immigration continues to snake its way through the courts. In 2017, the Trump Administration added a question about citizenship to the upcoming 2020 census; simply, “Is...
Commentary: The Underlying Numbers
In the last couple of days, the new Morning Consult American electorate tracking poll (1/18-22; 1,996 US registered voters; 35% self-identified Democrats; 33% Independent; 32% Republican) captured media attention because it released a national Democratic presidential...
Commentary: My Experience at the March for Life
For 46 years, thousands of people from across the country have gathered in Washington D.C. each January in the March for Life. The annual event is held to commemorate the January 22, 1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision, to mourn the 60 million babies who have been...
Commentary: Leftist Legislators’ War on Religious Freedom
The 86th Texas Legislative Session got underway a few weeks ago, and liberals are already going on offense. Leftist legislators have formed Texas’ first “LGBTQ Caucus” while promising a “transformative” and “strategic” agenda. This includes a number of proposed...
Who is Trying to Tax Granny in 2019?
For over a decade now a number of nursing home operators have been trying to get lawmakers to impose a tax on nursing home residents that will allow the operators to pull down additional dollars for themselves from the federal government. They will try to call it...
Commentary: A Tale of Two Systems
In higher education, policymakers can debate many things — tuition levels, the need for bloated administrative bureaucracies, and the utility of identity politics in academic curricula, to name just three examples. But the free speech rights of students should not be...
Dear Governor Abbott: Property Tax Relief Must be an Emergency Item
Dear Governor Abbott, Congratulations on your inauguration to your second term as Governor! I know I don’t have to tell you that property taxes in the state of Texas are out of control. You know Texans face some of the highest property taxes in the nation—taxes so...
Commentary: Trump Is Right, Congress Needs to Do Its Job
As the partial government shutdown enters its third week with little hope of an end in sight, President Trump continues to demand funding for a southern border wall. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) flat out refuses to pass any funding at all. In the Senate,...