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Y’All Answered: Money for Drag Show Libraries
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
A Modest Proposal
To advance my modest proposal, I would further propose that we rename “abortion” as “pre-birth infanticide.”
Is Public Education Underfunded in Texas?
The “underfunded” narrative is consistently used to justify local tax increases and calls for increased state funding while also being used to excuse low performance.
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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...
ANALYSIS: ‘Education Freedom’ Faces House Test
No issue has been more widely supported for so long, yet left completely ignored by the Texas Legislature, than that of "school choice" and "education freedom." On poll after poll, even on several GOP primary ballots, voters and taxpayers have strongly supported the...
Y’All Answered: On The Death Penalty
Legal critics say the Republican leadership of the Texas House is quietly allowing Democrats to move legislation that, in effect, would abolish the death penalty. In yesterday's One Click Survey, we asked readers if Texas should keep the death penalty or abolish it....
Keep Billions in our Economy, Not Corrupt Regimes: Tax Remittances to Foreign Nations
Much ado is made about the drain on taxpayer-funded programs by illegal aliens. According to a recent study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, for example, the fiscal burden of illegal immigration in Texas is a whopping $13.36 billion per year. A much...
Domination Through Toleration
It should be obvious now that the “gay rights” movement was never about tolerance. It was always about dominance. Time after time, on issue after issue, by refusing to fight the secular left from the moral high ground, conservatives – and more specifically, Christians...