Commentary
County Officials PAC Leans Blue in General Elections in a Red Texas
An in-depth review reveals that the vast majority of candidates supported by COPAC in the last three General Elections were Democrats.
Keller ISD, ‘You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby’
“Education was once the transmission of a culture across generations, now it is the overturning of a culture”.
Special Education Parents, Do Not Take ‘No’ For an Answer
I know firsthand how parents can place their trust in their school, only to discover that they are in an adversarial relationship.
Y’All Answered: Shutting Up Conservatives?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary Archive
This Land Is Our Land … Not Communist China’s!
You may have heard the term “Belt and Road Initiative,” but you could be forgiven for not really knowing what it is. That’s by design. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) doesn’t want its intentions to be understood, or its long game will be lost. The Belt and Road...
Odessa Becomes 49th City in Texas to Outlaw Abortion
On Tuesday, the city of Odessa (pop. 125,413) became the 49th city in the state of Texas, and the 62nd in America, to pass an enforceable ordinance outlawing abortion within their city limits. Odessa is the second city in Ector County to have passed an ordinance...
Want Better Candidates? Be Better Voters
There is a lot of finger-pointing nationally about the outcome of the 2022 general election, and rightly so. The economy is in shambles, we’ve dumped a $100 billion this year on a war in eastern Europe without any clear objectives, and parents are horrified to learn...
Y’All Answered: How Much Of The Surplus For Property Tax Relief?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants half of the state’s $27 billion budget surplus to go toward property tax relief. House Speaker Dade Phelan and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick are offering more tepid approaches. Yesterday we asked readers how much of the surplus should be applied to...
Real News, Real Texans
Most of what passes for “news” today is little more than warmed over propaganda designed to serve the ruling elite. The foolishly described “mainstream” media (there is nothing “mainstream” about them) are shills for the far-left, while some seemingly “conservative”...
Y’All Answered: Speaker of the Texas House
While the election of the Speaker of the Texas House – the third most powerful position in state government – is restricted only to the 150 members of the chamber, we asked whom readers would select if they could vote. Only two members (both Republicans) have...
Rural Texas Wants School Choice
School choice is a human rights issue, no matter where you live. But not all schools are the same. Rural public schools tend to outperform their urban counterparts for a variety of reasons. The consequence is that politicians often assume that rural voters have less...
Language Matters
The great military philosopher Sun Tzu warned his students not to let their enemies pick the time and location of battles. Sun Tzu wrote, “The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.” When you fight on...
Y’All Answered: How To Approach Education Policy
In the One Click Survey, readers were asked which of six choices most closely described how they thought Texas lawmakers should approach education policy. We used the exact same the language as a survey sent to more than 25,000 Texas classroom teachers. (Want to know...