Commentary
Y’All Answered: Selling Texas to China?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Texas is Not For Sale
The right to secure land and property leads to increased security, economic prosperity, and independence for American citizens, and our nation’s land should rightfully be owned by its citizens.
Pro-life Advocates Protested GOP’s New Stance on Abortion Outside the RNC
It was the first time in four decades the GOP platform failed to include language supporting federal protection for unborn children.
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Commentary Archive
Commentary: Democrat Candidates Evading Radical Left Brand
The second round of Democrat Party debates will air on Tuesday, July 30, and Wednesday, July 31, with the same format as last month’s debates: two nights, 10 candidates each. Analysts are looking for strong performances from Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) and Sen. Elizabeth...
Autopsy Report: Klick Killed Election Integrity Legislation
Texas elections are flawed. From mail-in ballot fraud to noncitizens voting to the use of public resources subsidizing campaigns, Texas faces a wide range of issues undermining the integrity of our elections. In the fall of 2018, four women were arrested and charged...
Commentary: Wendy Davis to Challenge Rep. Roy
Late last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee brain trust, members of the House Majority leadership including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and most of the Texas Democratic delegation announced they are supporting an event to encourage former Lone...
Commentary: Lone Star Agenda Aims to Unite Texas Republicans
In the aftermath of Beto-mania, Gov. Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick, and Speaker Bonnen apparently set out to “do no harm.” For conservatives in Texas who expected more, they presided over a do-nothing session—that’s unless you count odd maneuvers on property taxes no one...
Commentary: Why Voting Local Matters
Local government is the most important level of government. Whether it is improving our roads, expanding our trails and sidewalks, providing water, strengthening our schools, ensuring public safety, or even the promotion of fiscal responsibility, it is our mayors,...
Commentary: The Infiltration of the Texas Supreme Court
Do parents have the right to prevent their child from having an abortion or going through gender-reassignment surgery? The former Chief Justice and one current Justice of the Texas Supreme Court don’t think so. The State of Texas is known as a conservative stronghold;...
Commentary: “Green” Cities Are More Costly
Many cities have jumped on the bandwagon of renewable energy initiatives in recent years. In Central Texas alone, Austin, Georgetown, and now San Antonio—who all maintain a municipally owned electricity provider from which their residents are forced to purchase...
Commentary: Part 3 – The Hospital/Doctor
In what can only be characterized as an extreme miscarriage of justice, the Texas Department of Child Protective Services (CPS) got an emergency court order in Kaufman County to remove a 4-year-old boy from his family. On June 20, 2019, the 4-year-old was forcefully...
Commentary: Planned Parenthood Has Revealed Its True Self For The World To See
One unanticipated side effect of the political moment we are currently living through is that it has made all participants very honest — particularly Democrats and leftists. The party that, for years, eye-rolled at allegations of socialism is now practically being...