Commentary
Y’All Answered: Modern Patriotic Songs
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Y’All Answered: Ten Commandments in the Classroom?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Restoring Sanity, Reliability, and Affordability to the Texas Electric Grid
The legislature must let competition work in the Texas electricity market.
Y’All Answered: Democrats Chairing House Committees?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary Archive
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...
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...