Commentary
An English Teacher’s Rebuttal to the NCTE’s Latest Agenda for Schools
Since when did ideological zeal get to replace academics with a cultural revolution in the classroom?
18 Texas Republicans Voted to End The Death Penalty for Mass Murderers
Texans must expand the death penalty, not water it down further for the worst in our society.
Y’All Answered: The Local Newspaper
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
11 Republican Texas Lawmakers Who Voted to Fund Transgender Social Transitioning
The Democrats don’t run things, but they often find enough Republicans to let them win on policy day after day.
Commentary Archive
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,...
Texas House Republicans Forfeit Opportunity to Fight for the Grassroots
Members of the Texas House convened Wednesday to adopt their rules for the 86th Texas Legislature and did so after making a few tweaks along the way, but perhaps the bigger story isn’t what they did do. It’s what they didn’t. Conservative Republicans have for years...
Commentary: Silicon Valley Is a Political Monolith, and It’s Bad for the Industry
It’s well known amongst technology workers that there is a prevailing ideology within the industry. As a worker in the tech industry, it’s not uncommon for casual conversations with strangers to carry the presumption that you yourself are very left-leaning in terms of...
President Trump Moves the Overton Window
In their televised response to President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–NY) conceded that border security is an issue. After a prolonged period of Democrats advocating for open borders and denying...
Commentary: Potential Candidates Making Moves
January promised to be an active month on the budding presidential campaign front, and we are already seeing movement in that regard. Below is a synopsis of the latest activities from major and not-so-major potential national candidates. Today, billionaire Tom Steyer...
Commentary: Wharton County in Jeopardy, Your Community May be Next
In an attempt to preserve the community that we call home, citizens have joined together to form a group called Wharton County Against Wind Farms. Our main goal is to bring awareness to the negative effects wind subsidies bring upon every citizen living in the...
Dallas Morning Schadenfreude
The irony is delicious. For the last four years, the Dallas Morning News has been on a jihad against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Over their boisterous objections, Texans re-elected Paxton in November. And today it was announced they were slashing their...