Commentary
Amarillo by Morning: Abortion Clinic “Waste” Hauled into Texas City for Disposal
Texas’ anti-abortion laws do not address the disposal of the remains of an unborn child killed by an elective abortion outside the State of Texas at a waste management facility inside the State of Texas.
Sunshine Week: Taking A Stand Against Public Information Blackouts
We need plenty of sunlight to ensure our government is answerable to us.
Election Fraud: Turtle On a Fence Post
I consider our effort a success. We overcame a lot of challenges along the way.
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Commentary Archive
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,...
Protecting the ESF as an Endowment
A strong Texas needs a strong savings account. In 1989, Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment creating the Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF), commonly referred to as the "rainy day" fund, "…to be used to offset unforeseen shortfalls in revenue." After the...
Hilderbran goes soft on tax reform
TX Budget CompactI was saddened to see Rep. Harvey Hilderbran go soft on phasing out the state’s horrible business tax known as the margins-tax. Hilderbran, who is chairman of the House Ways & Means committee, appeared on Pratt on Texas at the start of the 83rd...
Tweet-less (updated)
Without warning or notification, social media mini-blog site Twitter on Monday simultaneously "suspended" the main Empower Texans feed along with the personal accounts of all staff. It is unsettling, to say the least, given the way the entity sells itself as a great...