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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.
This Memorial Day
Never forget that we remain the home of the free because of their bravery and sacrifice.
Commentary Archive
Peacock: Texas Electricity Market Never Had a Chance to Work During Blackouts
This is the third installment in a series on the recent Texas power outages. If the theory that politicians are full of hot air is true, it is a wonder that the dome of the Texas Capitol did not fly off into orbit last week. During hearings in both the Texas House and...
Sullivan: Would Texas’ Founders Recognize Us?
When the founding fathers of Texas declared independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836, a gun was already pointed at their head. Unlike the American founders, who had an ocean separating them from their tyrannical overlord, the Texians’ tormentor was within their own...
Macias: Republican Chairmen Should Think Like Chris Turner
Chris Turner has been handed a tremendous amount of power by Dade Phelan. Not only is Rep. Turner a liberal marxist and chair of the Democrat Caucus, but he’s also now the chairman of the Texas House Business and Industry Committee. A couple of weeks ago, Turner took...
Would We Answer?
One day into the siege of the Alamo, on February 24, 1836, William Barret Travis wrote a desperate letter seeking aid from his fellow Texians and all Americans in the world. You see, rather than offer an easy and dishonorable surrender to the far superior forces...
Peacock: Renewable Energy Largely Responsible for Texas Blackouts
This is the second installment in a series on the recent Texas power outages. There has been a lot of debate about why Texas had rolling blackouts last week in the midst of the historic winter storm. Poor winterization, lack of integration with the national grid,...
Bovard: Court Docs Show Facebook Played Much Bigger Part in Capitol Riot Than Parler
It’s been more than a month since the app stores of Google and Apple joined forces with Amazon Web Services to knee-cap an upstart competitor, Parler. The stated reasoning was Parler’s lack of content moderation policies, which Apple, in particular, claimed led to...
Peacock: Progressives’ Coordinated Cover-Up for Renewables
This is the first installment in a series on the recent Texas power outages. Have you ever noticed that the mainstream media and liberal politicians almost always say the exact same thing when something goes wrong with their narrative that only progressivism can save...
A Cold Truth
This has been one of the coldest weeks on record. We’ve all been troubled to learn just how deeply our state failed to properly prepare for emergencies like this. One can find temporary warmth in unfocused anger, or we can bask in the permanence of truth. I suggest...
Peacock: Renewable Energy Failed to Keep the Lights on for Texans
With almost hundreds of thousands of Texans still without power—and many without water—everyone is looking for someone to blame. Monday’s Dallas Morning News ran a Bloomberg Wire story that blamed the blackouts on freedom: “The extreme cold appears to have caught...