Commentary
The Broken Deal on School Choice
Dade Phelan and 23 Republican House members broke faith with Greg Abbott and the Texas GOP. What will the governor do about it?
Analysis: They Had Time
House members now claim they did not have time to pass conservative legislation.
Y’All Answered: Mandating the STAAR?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
House To Abbott: Won’t Pass Choice Without A Payoff
Texas House pushes funding for systems, not students, in a deliberate attack on Greg Abbott’s special session agenda.
Commentary Archive
Blank Checks and Blank Ballots: How to Lose Your Freedoms Without Thinking
How comfortable would you be signing a $3,500.00 undated check from your personal account without designating a ‘Payee’, then entrusting it to a complete stranger on the street? Ludicrous thought, right? Yet, most Texans commit even more indefensible acts every...
Sound Decisions vs. Sound Bites: Taking the Guesswork out of Voting
If you are like most conscientious voters, you experienced a tinge of frustration in the recent primary. Your ballot contained a long list of lower-profile races for which you had little information about the candidates. Did you find yourself skipping a race or just...
Grassroots Texas Voting 101
Voting is not your right, it is your responsibility. Vote the whole ballot. It matters. The most important election is the Primary. This is where a grassroots candidate has the best chance of beating a well-funded establishment candidate. All Republican candidates...
Clean Power Plan
Today we hear plenty of news coverage about terrorism and security. In this election year, we have also heard a considerable amount of press over the federal deficit and raising the spending limit through the omnibus spending bill, now in excess of $19 trillion, if...
Letters to the Editor, Week of March 28
In this week's mailbag, we hear about government failures, political backstabbing, tax-funded lobbyists, and more! Editor's note: Each week we publish commentary from our subscribers. Commentary may be edited according to community standards. Governmental...
Aycock & Seliger: Feeble men with big titles.
State Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, with his over-the-top whining guest column in the Texas Tribune in which he yammered on about how unfair it was for conservative-leaning legislative watchdog groups to rate his brand of conservatism poorly, demonstrated himself to be...
Rube Goldberg Government
Rube Goldberg is one of the only people in human history to have the rare distinction of his name being an official definition in the dictionary. In our popular culture, it has become commonplace to use names of celebrities to illustrate certain actions or behaviors,...
Opposing tax increases is not the be-all of conservatism
Earlier this week Texans for Fiscal Responsibility released Texas’ most important conservative scorecard of legislator performance for the latest session. Michael Quinn Sullivan titled his summary of the report “Lack of Responsibility” and I couldn’t agree more. I say...
TAB’s Hammond disdainful of an engaged public
“This is a stopgap bill, I don’t care how we cut it,” said Rep. Phil Stephenson, R-Wharton, about the transportation funding deal passed by the Texas House and Senate on Monday night. The bill, which puts in serious jeopardy our saving money to the rainy day fund,...