Commentary
Y’All Answered: Presidential Pick
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Y’All Answered: Political Labels?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
School Health Advisory Council: The Best Argument Ever for School Choice
Competition and the free market is still the American way. The educational industrial complex needs to remember that, and parents are the only ones who have the power to remind them.
Is The Republic Still Worth Serving?
Veterans Day is an opportunity to thank those who have served, and consider what sort of nation we ask men and women to defend.
Commentary Archive
Inside Look at the Historic Impeachment Trial
The 2023 attempt to impeach Attorney General Warren Kenneth Paxton was doomed from the start for multiple reasons; not the least of which was the failure of the House to follow the well-established and time-tested principle of “due process.” Specifically: 1....
Commissioner Sounds the Alarm Over Weaponization of the FEC
A current commissioner and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission is sounding the alarm to Congress: his agency is being hijacked to attack the free speech rights of citizens. Speaking before the U.S. House Committee on Administration, which has oversight...
Unintended Consequences?
Almost every legislative action has the potential of producing unintended consequences. However, one action late in this year’s regular legislative session may have completely and permanently altered the political landscape in Texas: the impeachment of Attorney...
Y’All Answered: Should Dade Phelan by Removed as Speaker?
Lawmakers and grassroots activists are calling for House Speaker Dade Phelan to resign or be forced from office over his role in the impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton. The Senate exonerated Paxton over the weekend, and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick...
Tarrant Appraisal District Requires Real Oversight
Jeff Law’s resignation as the chief appraiser at the Tarrant Appraisal District on September 1 was not unexpected. Calls for his resignation were made by the Tarrant County Commissioners Court, the City of Mansfield, and the mayors of Keller, Southlake, and...
ANALYSIS: Conservative Lawmakers, Donald Trump Call for Dade Phelan’s Removal
Following the full acquittal of Attorney General Ken Paxton by the Texas Senate on Saturday, members of the Texas House are calling for the removal of their chamber's leader. They are being joined in that effort by Donald Trump. Paxton faced 20 articles of...
Legislating Morals
To be accepted in the polite company of the intellectual elite, some pastors have learned to tell a certain lie. It is a lie that allows them to enter the rarified social and political climes into which they would otherwise not be accepted. And it is a lie that, if...
City of Chandler Rejects Ordinance Outlawing Abortion and Abortion Trafficking
On Tuesday, September 13, the City Council of Chandler (pop. 3,476), considered an ordinance outlawing abortion and abortion trafficking within their city limits. While the majority of those in attendance were in favor of the ordinance, council members Janeice...
Y’All Answered: What to do About Border Buoy Barriers?
A federal judge has ordered Texas to remove the buoy barriers from the Rio Grande, but the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily halted that order. Yesterday, we asked readers what they thought Gov. Abbott should do if that "stay" is lifted and federal judges...