Commentary
Y’All Answered: Criminal Election Allegations
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Texas’ Primary Elections Provide Bold School Choice Opportunity
The optimal school choice approach should liberate education from the constraints of the monopoly government school system, draw upon successful market-driven solutions, and offer a simplified education finance system.
May God Save Texas
Saving Texas involves redeeming Texans and Texas institutions, including civil government.
I Took a DNA Test and My Race is Human
At some point we have to acknowledge the truth about our shared ancestry if we are to survive as a nation.
Commentary Archive
Y’All Answered: Use Eminent Domain To Build The Wall?
State Sen. Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe) has proposed legislation allowing Texas to exercise its powers of eminent domain to build a wall along the border with Mexico. In yesterday's One Click Survey, we asked readers if they agreed with the proposal. Do you want to...
It’s Time for Change in Fort Worth ISD
Fort Worth Independent School District is in dire need of transformational change on May 6. On this day, voters in Fort Worth ISD will be able to vote out incumbents from the three FWISD school board districts that have caused so much chaos and failed leadership for...
Victory Against The Odds
Defeat usually begins in one of two ways: believing success to be impossible, or assuming your victory is assured. On April 21, 1836, the Texians achieved independence at San Jacinto because they were willing to fight a last-chance, impossible battle against an enemy...
Y’All Answered: Who Is Working Harder?
In Monday's One Click Survey, we asked readers who seemed to be working harder to advance the priorities of Texas' grassroots Republican activists: Dade Phelan and the House, or Dan Patrick and the Senate. Do you want to participate in our weekly surveys? Subscribe to...
The Real War
Everything has been militarized. Our local peace-keepers walk around in surplus tactical gear while politicians speak breathlessly of “taking bullets” in legislative debate. It’s a bit much, since the real war is one none of us seem interested in fighting. Our...
How Property Taxes Impact You
Each year, your county central appraisal district sends out thousands of notifications informing property owners that their appraisals have increased. It’s easy to understand why many Texas homeowners and businesses are rightfully worried about these appraisal...
Defund Mayorkas Now
“What the senator said is revolting”, embattled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas proclaimed, before being repelled by a comment from Senator Cruz. “Your failure to do your job is revolting.” In case you missed it, Mayorkas has again appeared before the...
Y’All Answered: Superintendent Salaries
A new report shows Texas superintendents making extraordinary base salaries with lucrative benefits that are not available to teachers or many people working in the private sector. Base pay packages of more than $300,000 to upwards of a half-million are increasingly...
A Good Friday?
From a certain perspective, it is hard to think of this as a “good” Friday. It is, after all, the anniversary of the day when the political elite of the 1st century colluded with a corrupt judiciary to execute a man who had done nothing wrong. This is the day when the...