Commentary
Y’All Answered: Dealing with Rogue Prosecutors
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Setting The Captives Free
I have had the opportunity over the years to meet several men who participated in the liberation of the...
Y’all Answered: Picking a GOP Presidential Nominee
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Itemizing School Bond Proposals Is Saving Texas Taxpayers Billions
Some $4-4.5 billion in school bond projects have been voted down since the law was passed in 2019.
Commentary Archive
America the Exceptional
We live in an age with countless voices united against American exceptionalism. We are under an anti-American barrage every day from leftists politicians, actors, media personalities, college professors, and coffee shop baristas. The only way for them to instill the...
Bovard: 5 New Big Tech Antitrust Bills Are a ‘Put Up or Shut Up’ Moment for Republicans
On Friday the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on antitrust introduced five bills designed to address the findings of their 16-month investigation into Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. The legislation, introduced with various Republican cosponsors,...
A Lasting Impact
It doesn’t look like much today, but the Israeli archeological site Tel Sheva is kind of a big deal. It was at the center of much of the narrative in the Bible’s Book of Genesis. Its name back then was Be’er Sheva. Most translations of the Bible render the name as...
Overturning Tables
The Jesus of the modern age is a diminutive figure, soft and unassuming. This Jesus doesn’t challenge us; just loves to love. This Jesus never raises his voice, but purrs obediently like a neutered kitty. This Jesus also bears no resemblance to the disruptive Jesus of...
Dickson: Sundown Becomes 31st City in the Nation to Outlaw Abortion
On June 9, the city council of Sundown, Texas (population 1,397), located about 40 miles southwest of Lubbock and 15 miles southwest of Levelland, voted on an enforceable ordinance outlawing abortion within their city limits. It passed on a vote of 4-1 and solidified...
Dickson: Levelland Becomes 30th City in the Nation to Outlaw Abortion
On May 17, the city council of Levelland, Texas, voted unanimously to move forward with an ordinance outlawing abortion within their city limits. During that meeting, news broke that the City of Lubbock had been sued by Planned Parenthood. Upon hearing the...
Hopper: Left-Wing Agenda Has Infiltrated the Texas State Guard
I am a Texas State Guardsman. The Texas Military Forces motto of “Duty. Honor. Texas.” is more than just words to me. I joined freely in 2014, as a 37-year-old father of three, and seven years later, I still feel that the Guard is made up of the most outstanding...
Peacock: Being Conservative is No Longer Enough
The modern conservative movement came to life in the 1950s around William F. Buckley Jr. and National Review. Only 30 years later, Ronald Reagan and the Heritage Foundation brought it into the mainstream. When Newt Gingrich and congressional Republicans took back...
No Greater Love …
As Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” More than a million soldiers, sailors, and marines have laid down their lives for the cause of self-governance and in defense of our republic’s Constitution. Since the...