Commentary
Do We Really Want What We Ask For?
God wanted us to have something better than a ruler.
Canyon ISD Board to Voters: No Christian Conservatives Welcome on Our Board
The Canyon, Texas school board’s second act was to continue its anti-voter addiction and appoint a trustee that was as far as possible from deceased Trustee Paul Blake’s Christian conservative traditional values.
Texas Has a Convicted Lawbreaker as a Lawmaker
Governor Abbott, I call upon you to rescind your recent endorsement of Frazier.
The Deafening Silence of Fear
It’s better we live courageously, fighting for rights and freedom, than cowardly, capitulating to tyranny out of fear, for a little comfort.
Commentary Archive
Election Lawsuit Documents Exploitation of Voters, Stuffed Ballot Boxes
Everyone who lives in the Rio Grande Valley knows that the systematic manipulation and exploitation of vulnerable voters, through both mail-ballot schemes and assisted voting at the polls, is a fact of life in local elections. The trouble is proving it and finding...
Facts or Fake News?
This commentary originally appeared in an episode of Texas Scorecard Radio. In response to President Donald Trump’s continued criticism of the news media, a chorus of newspaper editorial boards recently denounced his comments as destructive to democracy. But are their...
City of Parker Proposes Double-Digit Property Tax Increase
The City of Parker has proposed a two-cent increase in the city’s property tax rate for 2018. While this is a 5-percent increase in the rate, it amounts to an 11-percent increase in what taxpayers will pay to the city, when compared to last year. Since homeowners have...
Spano: Ft. Worth is deceiving taxpayers
The City of Fort Worth is trying a cunning strategy to deceive its residents. It involves telling the citizens the proposed tax rate is much lower than what the city can, and more than likely, will adopt. We should expect our local governments to be upfront and honest...
Frisco ISD Trustees, Please Do the Right Thing
Citizens of Frisco ISD elect a School Board to represent them in the execution of, among their other duties, fiduciary responsibility over their hard-earned tax dollars. The state has given the board expansive power to levy taxes. But when the administration...
“Swap and Drop” or Bait and Switch?
Lancaster Independent School District is following in the footsteps of nearby Cedar Hill ISD in calling for a tax rate “swap and drop” election. Unfortunately for taxpayers, LISD has been deceptive in its presentation, its promotional literature leaves questions...
What’s All the Fuss about the Montgomery County Republican Party?
For 54 years, Dr. Walter D. Wilkerson has chaired the Montgomery County Republican Party of Texas. He was there when Texas, like most of the south, was “blue” and he was there when much of the south, along with Texas, turned “red”.While the demographics of the country...
Plano City Council: Stop Raising Our Property Taxes
City of Plano property taxes are increasing at an unsustainable rate. In the last five years, according to the city’s own data, the average Plano homeowner has seen their city tax bill rise 36 percent, while inflation has increased less than 8 percent. This is a...
Stacy McMahan: A Marine Mom Defending Liberty
When Stacy McMahan first heard that one person could make a difference, she took it to heart. What she didn’t expect was the kind of local and statewide impact she would soon come to have. McMahan is a native Texan, Marine mom, and retired paralegal who lives with her...