Commentary
Y’All Answered: Who Won the Debate?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
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.
Commentary Archive
A Strong Border Requires a Strong Governor; Texas Must Declare Invasion
Since President Joe Biden assumed office in January 2021, the United States and Texas have experienced an unprecedented surge of illegal aliens crossing our southern border. Shockingly, this surge has been met not with an overwhelming response to combat it, but with...
Y’All Answered: Repeal the 17th?
For more than one hundred years, the popularly elected House of Representatives was "balanced" in the U.S. Constitution by a Senate with members were selected by the states' legislatures.That check on the growth of the federal government ended in 1913, when the 17th...
You’re Being Gaslit: Education Reform Lies Exposed
The momentum for education reform is overwhelming. State after state is voting to fund students directly, instead of funding failing public education monopolies. As of this writing, more than 15 states and the District of Columbia have reformed their education systems...
Let ‘Em Grumble
When your enemies are complaining about how powerful you are, don’t interrupt them. Not long ago, a friend of mine was being attacked. His detractors were upset that he was too powerful, too influential, and too well liked. He doesn’t hold office. He isn’t rich. He...
Y’All Answered: Dealing with Rogue Prosecutors
Proposed legislation would allow the Attorney General of Texas to sue any district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney who refuses to enforce laws with which they disagree. If the law goes into effect, these elected prosecutors could face fines...
Setting The Captives Free
I have had the opportunity over the years to meet several men who participated in the liberation of the concentration and death camps created by Germany’s National Socialist Workers’ Party. The horror of what they and their colleagues found defies words. They always...
Y’all Answered: Picking a GOP Presidential Nominee
Candidates are starting to line up for the 2024 presidential hunt. Using the names commonly mentioned as potential GOP candidate, we asked who readers would pick as their GOP nominee if the 2024 primary was held today. The choices (in alphabetical order) included:...
Itemizing School Bond Proposals Is Saving Texas Taxpayers Billions
Perhaps my biggest accomplishment in politics was coming up with the idea of itemizing bond proposals. I came up with the idea after watching a local bond election where one school board put a new stadium up for a bond vote, but voters did not approve the proposal....
The Common Era
Jesus is a hard guy to get away from… And the funny thing is that by trying to ignore Him, the cultural and academic elite only highlight their futile struggle. I was recently reading an historical account of World War II, in which the author made repeated reference...