Commentary
The True Effects of the Mutilation of Children
The transgender contagion has been destructive to children’s physical development.
Y’All Answered: Follow Title IX?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Y’All Answered: Continue Funding Ukraine?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
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Commentary Archive
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...
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...
Commentary: What To Expect
We kick off a new calendar and political year looking at several anticipated happenings. On the presidential front, we can expect several candidate announcements coming in January, along with a changing primary/caucus schedule. Additionally, some close losing...
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...
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...
Socialists Love (Your) Misery
When it comes to human misery, no system of government or philosophy has produced more than socialism. Rather than being a bug in specific applications of socialism, misery is a feature of socialism that its adherents — and even critics — try to shrug off as the...
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, Federal, Uncategorized
Commentary: Obamacare Ruling a Victory for the Rule of Law
The federal judge in Fort Worth who recently entered final judgment finding the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional now paves the way for the case to move to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. And as the attorney who argued the case on behalf of the individual...
Commentary: The Pending Demise of Obamacare
In February, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit in conjunction with 19 other states in federal court to bring an end to the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare. The suit was filed four months after the...