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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.
Commentary Archive
Y’All Answered: Aggies Gone Woke?
Even though Texas law now bans state colleges and universities from promoting the radical leftwing agenda known as "diversity, equity, and inclusion," Texas A&M University is preparing to name as its new president an ardent proponent of the disgraced ideology. We...
Y’All Answered: Presidential Primary Pick?
With filing underway for Texas' primary election, we asked readers who they were currently supporting in the presidential contest. Alphabetically, the candidates currently in the race include: Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchison,...
Y’All Answered: Political Labels?
With filing underway for the 2024 primary election season, we asked readers what label best describes their political leanings. Do you want to participate in our weekly surveys? Subscribe to the Texas Minute! Here is a sampling of the comments we received from our...
School Health Advisory Council: The Best Argument Ever for School Choice
After discovering that Lockhart (TX) Independent School District was teaching woke, liberal Marxist ideology to children in the guise of "Healthy Relationships" this past April, I applied in May to be a member of SHAC, the School Health Advisory Council, which was...
Is The Republic Still Worth Serving?
Our republic and constitutional form of government have been an aberration in human history. The American experiment persists because patriots have stood ready to do rough things in defense of the ideals of self-governance. Whether in the farmlands of Massachusetts...
DOJ Protects D.C. Brothel Customers… As Congress Votes For New FBI Facility
Two tightly connected things happened in Washington, D.C., on November 8: a "high-end" brothel serving "elected officials" was shut down by the FBI, and the U.S. House approved a controversial $300 million new headquarters building for the weaponized agency. In...
Y’All Answered: Deporting Illegal Aliens?
The invasion at the southern border is continuing with respite. Yesterday, we asked readers if Texas law enforcement officers should be allowed to deport illegal aliens even without a conviction or court order. Do you want to participate in our weekly surveys?...
Is Conroe ISD’s $2 Billion Bond Necessary?
Texans may have heard that Texas Legislators are asking for $1.5 billion to build barriers across our border. It’s a lot of money, by any estimate, and opponents remind us of that at every turn. Meanwhile, the Conroe Independent School District is asking for a...
The Enemy of my Enemy?
No bit of common wisdom is more unwise than the notion that an enemy’s enemy is a friend. An old joke goes that you don’t have to run faster than a bear, you have to outrun whoever you are with. That might be true at that moment, but if you let a bear get a taste for...