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Finishing What We Started
We sent a message on March 5th, now we must win.
Y’All Answered: Biden Gun Grab
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Y’All Answered: Criminal Election Allegations
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Texas’ Primary Elections Provide Bold School Choice Opportunity
The optimal school choice approach should liberate education from the constraints of the monopoly government school system, draw upon successful market-driven solutions, and offer a simplified education finance system.
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Language to Save the Republic
The great military philosopher Sun Tzu warned his students not to let their enemies pick the time and location of battles. Sun Tzu wrote, “The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.” When you fight on...
Y’All Answered: Aggieland’s Security Problem
A new report reveals that Texas A&M's deal with the Middle Eastern Kingdom of Qatar seems to undermine U.S. national security. Previously undisclosed funding flowing into Texas A&M has resulted in full Qatari ownership of more than 500 research projects, "some...
Border Crisis or Constitutional Crisis?
In Texas, we face not merely a border crisis but also a constitutional crisis. The Biden Administration is not lacking in capability to address border security; rather, it actively pursues an open border policy that deliberately and intentionally violates U.S....
A Yoke of Slavery?
There is an unfortunate tendency to present liberty as a means to the end of economic prosperity. We too often hear about liberty as if it is good for what comes out of it rather than what it is. By turning liberty into just another cog in the machinery of generating...
Y’All Answered: Presidential Primary 2024
Two months out from Texas' Republican primary, eight candidates will be on the ballot seeking the GOP presidential nomination. Yesterday, we asked readers who they are currently supporting. More than 74 percent of those responding said they are supporting Donald...
Amarillo Citizens Begin Citizen Initiative Process to Prohibit Abortion Trafficking
Since January 10, 2020, residents throughout the City of Amarillo (pop. 201,291) have expressed interest in seeing their city pass an enforceable ordinance outlawing abortion within their city limits. When the first member of their community showed interest in this...
Y’All Answered: Making 2024 Resolutions?
The practice of setting personal resolutions for the new year dates back thousands of years. Yesterday, we asked readers if they plan to set any resolutions for 2024. Do you want to participate in our weekly surveys? Subscribe to the Texas Minute! Here is a sampling...
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden: Fighting for Medical Liberty
A physician with more than 25 years of experience, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden is board-certified in both Otolaryngology and Sleep Medicine. In 2019, she founded BreatheMD in Houston. Educated at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the Medical College of...
Y’All Answered: Affirming ‘LGBTQ’ Lifestyles to be a Foster Parent?
A rule proposed by the Biden administration would require foster parents to "affirm" LGBTQ lifestyles. This is being seen as a direct assault on Christian foster parents and faith-based placement organizations. Yesterday, we asked readers if they thought foster...