Commentary
Keep Information Laws Working as Intended to Help All Texans
Government information belongs to the people, and in almost all cases it needs to flow freely, without delay.
Y’All Answered: Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Your Community?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Are Texas Schools Providing Students a Solid Educational Foundation?
The purpose of our locally controlled public education system is to nurture and develop leaders in our exceptional nation.
Y’All Answered: Ready for (College) Football?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary Archive
Lorena ISD Parents Question Superintendent’s Sex Abuse Messaging
In response to growing public pressure, Lorena ISD Superintendent Joe Kucera emailed parents in the school district a message claiming to address the community’s concerns about the sexual abuse of pre-K students by an uncertified substitute teacher and district...
Y’All Answered: Ban cell phones in the classroom?
Some Texas school districts are implementing policies to restrict students' cell phone use on campus. Generally, the policies require the phones to be turned off and placed in lockers or locked pouches that can only be opened by a school official. A state lawmaker...
Fighting for Texas Farmland: The Battle at Muleshoe
Our nation’s agriculture industry is under siege, and the alarm bells are ringing loud and clear in the Texas Panhandle. The federal government is at it again, pushing for another major land grab at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge. While the feds like to dress...
Y’All Answered: Selling Texas to China?
Hostile foreign governments, especially the Chinese Communist Party, have stepped up efforts to buy land in Texas and around the nation. Experts have pointed to the security and economic threats posed by allowing those sales to take place. Others, like the Texas Farm...
Texas is Not For Sale
It is unconscionable that any land in Texas, including strategic assets, would be sold to foreign entities of any nation listed on the Annual Threat Assessments of the U.S. Intelligence Community. In Senate District 1, 97% of Texas Republicans agree with that...
Pro-life Advocates Protested GOP’s New Stance on Abortion Outside the RNC
Last week, the Republican National Convention adopted a new Republican Party Platform in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While the platform has received praise from some, many pro-life leaders have called the platform’s changes on abortion to be a major step backward. Under a...
Y’All Answered: Will Democrats Support Harris?
Democrat powerbrokers refused to allow any challenge to Joe Biden for their party's nomination this year. Now that the country has seen his cognitive and physical frailty on display, the party elite pushed him out of the race yesterday in a move fraught with political...
Gas & Groceries – Taking the Fight to America’s Voters
The stakes of this election are clear. We experience them every time we fill our tank or buy groceries. During Donald Trump’s term, the year-over-year inflation rate was 2% and paychecks were growing faster than inflation. Americans were getting richer. Under Biden,...
Y’All Answered: Biden on the Ballot?
After trying unsuccessfully to kick Donald Trump off the ballot, Democrats—now worried Americans might think their candidate isn't mentally fit—are calling for Joe Biden to be taken off the ticket. Yesterday, we asked readers if they thought Joe Biden would still be...