Commentary
Melissa ISD Seeks $1.2B Bond Approval in May 3 Election
A taxpayer advocate’s take.
Texas Need Not Give in to the Demands of Communist China
Texas is for Texans, not for Communist China.
The Countywide Polling Place Program Undermines Texas Election Integrity
Under the countywide system, ballots are intermingled across the entire county, necessitating a comprehensive countywide recount, no matter how small the race.
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Commentary Archive
Y’All Answered: Mandating the STAAR?
Education activists on both sides of the "school choice" debate have been unified in their desire to see the abolition of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test that is imposed on public schools. The STAAR has been criticized as a poor testing...
House To Abbott: Won’t Pass Choice Without A Payoff
For months, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been warning lawmakers that education freedom is the policy hill on which he is staking the political fights of 2024. Despite a majority of states providing parents with the flexibility to choose the best educational settings for...
Y’All Answered: Election Security?
An audit of Harris County's 2022 election by the Texas Secretary of State found "multiple failures," ranging from insufficient supplies at polling places to misreporting voter registrations. Yesterday, we asked readers if Gov. Greg Abbott should add election security...
O, Woe Is Me!
There is no end to the discouragement we can find if we look at ourselves long enough. Self-pity is a bottomless pit when we make our lives about ourselves. Consider the ancient prophet Elijah. In 1 Kings 18, he was witness to an awesome display of God’s power. He saw...
County Officials PAC Leans Blue in General Elections in a Red Texas
In February of 1983, after the 25th Annual County Judges and Commissioners Association Conference at Texas A&M University in College Station, the County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas (CJCAT) formed the County Officials Political Action Committee...
Keller ISD, ‘You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby’
Looking at Keller ISD’s school board, I hear the old advert line, “You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby”. Keller’s school board is not the bored, vaguely dishonest, den of dingbats and vipers that it once was when I was a Keller student. Under its current leadership, which...
Special Education Parents, Do Not Take ‘No’ For an Answer
Recently I met one of our Texas congressmen and asked his opinion on special needs kids. He said, “I believe how we treat the special needs community is a direct reflection on our character as a nation.” I couldn’t agree more. To be clear, no one is prepared to have a...
Y’All Answered: Shutting Up Conservatives?
Late last week, House Speaker Dade Phelan took the extraordinary step of forbidding State Rep. Tony Tinderholt (R-Arlington) from asking questions of the chair during legislative business. Phelan has never stripped Democrats of their ability to use parlimentary rules...
Does ‘Red County’ Mean What it Used To?
According to published voting statistics, Randall County, Texas is a “red” (Trump red) county. This is not a place where one would expect negative remarks about the LGBTQ+ Agenda by a local school board trustee candidate during a privately sponsored candidate forum at...