Commentary
Fighting The Battles Ourselves
Stop waiting for a politician to do your job. It is up to us to re-take our government and our culture.
Do We Really Want What We Ask For?
God wanted us to have something better than a ruler.
Canyon ISD Board to Voters: No Christian Conservatives Welcome on Our Board
The Canyon, Texas school board’s second act was to continue its anti-voter addiction and appoint a trustee that was as far as possible from deceased Trustee Paul Blake’s Christian conservative traditional values.
Texas Has a Convicted Lawbreaker as a Lawmaker
Governor Abbott, I call upon you to rescind your recent endorsement of Frazier.
Commentary Archive
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...
Responding to Lackluster Effort
Many of the Republican officeholders in Texas are very upset with the grassroots. The politicians are mad that citizens aren’t being appropriately appreciative of what we are “getting” this session. One person even suggested to me conservatives should just be...
Rinaldi: Abbott Priority Legislation Will Give CDC COVID Guidance the Force of Law
If we have learned two things over the past year about pandemic response, it's that: (1) government restrictions don’t stop the spread of COVID-19 and, (2) clueless politicians don’t appear to grasp the first point. For five months after Florida opened completely and...
Pratt: Are Texas Republicans Being Racist in Opposing Racist Constructs?
What would you call a teaching—a theory, if you will—that labels all people as racist if they belong to a certain race or ethnic group? Is it sinful to believe and assert, for example, that all people with dark hair are less intelligent than those without, simply due...