Commentary
Y’All Answered: Follow Title IX?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Y’All Answered: Continue Funding Ukraine?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Amarillo City Council Receives ‘Sanctuary City for the Unborn’ Initiative Petition Signatures; Mayor Entertains Alternative Ordinance
The Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance, if not passed by the City Council, could go before voters in the November 2024 election.
Y’All Answered: Put WHO In Charge?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary Archive
Francis: A True Texas Grandmother
This week, I found something in the modern equivalent of my dusty attic that reminded me of how important it is to occasionally stop, remember, and focus on the important things in life. I found a digital picture of a handwritten note from a woman who had an enormous,...
Dickson: Latexo Becomes 23rd City in the Nation to Outlaw Abortion
UPDATE: House Bill 1515 currently has 52 co-authors. Latexo has become the 23rd city to pass an enforceable ordinance outlawing abortion within their city limits. The unanimous 4-0 vote took place on Monday, March 15 at Latexo City Hall. The Latexo ordinance states,...
Access for What?
No private sin is quite so publicly ensnaring as the quiet promise of political access. It trips up the most sure-footed activist, and silences even the boldest advocate of liberty. The fourth chapter of Mathew’s Gospel records the specific temptations dangled in...
Peacock: The Texas Legislature Should Give Texans Their Money Back
The feud between Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Gov. Greg Abbott has a new participant; Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan. On Monday, the Texas Senate did what few have ever witnessed: introducing, referring, hearing, and passing a bill on the same day. The bill...
Choosing To Be Troubled?
As a kid, I loved the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of novels. As the story progressed, you’d make decisions for the characters that affected the outcome. In the daily adventure of life, we have an even more important choice: choosing our attitude toward the...
Francis: Texas Politics Is 3-Card Monte, and We Are the Suckers.
On his podcast, Andrew Klavan told a story about how he and a friend learned a life lesson in a London alley that I think perfectly illustrates our current situation in Texas politics. The two young men came upon 10 or 15 people gathered around a game called...
Rinaldi: House GOP Doubles Down on Lockdowns, Mask Mandates
The historically unprecedented COVID lockdowns are the worst policy decisions in the past 50 years. As I explained in a commentary last July, the benefits are nonexistent, while the costs are immense and include unemployment, homelessness, suicide, depression,...
Just A Small Bit Of Liberty
We’re almost one year into “15 days to slow the spread.” Texans were asked to give up some of their freedoms and accept the imposition of massive new restrictions and regulations to serve the greater good. Now that those statewide mandates appear to be coming to end,...
Peacock: What the Bible Can Tell Us About the Texas Blackouts
This is the fourth installment in a series on the recent Texas power outages. The Bible may not have been the first place you turned to over the last couple of weeks to look for information about the Texas blackouts. This may be in part because some in the church...