Commentary
Will Amarillo Become the 70th ‘Sanctuary City for the Unborn’ in the United States?
Today, Amarillo voters will decide to accept or reject a ballot proposition to further prohibit abortion and abortion trafficking within city limits.
Y’All Answered: Democrat Slurs
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
The Time for Half-Measures is Over: End Property Taxes Now!
Property taxes are the very antithesis of free market capitalism, pitting property owners against non-property owners.
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Commentary Archive
Sullivan: I Will Resist
I believe our nation is in peril. Will Texans settle for this new normal of censorship, or will we fight for liberty? The Democrats’ impeachment today of President Donald Trump set a precedent more dangerous than the summer of left-wing riots and even last week’s...
Peacock: It’s Time to Cut the Texas Budget
In 2019, the Texas Legislature appropriated a total of $258 billion, a 24 percent increase over what it appropriated in 2017. Looking at it a different way, the $248 billion the Legislature appropriated in 2019 for the current biennium was an increase of $32 billion,...
Watson: Could 1972 Equal Rights Amendment Have New Life? (Part 2)
This is to continue an article published in Texas Scorecard back on December 9, 2019, relative to efforts on the political left to jury-rig the long-expired 1972 proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) into the United States Constitution by highly questionable means. To...
Who Doesn’t Understand?
No phrase uttered by a politician is quite so disgusting as when they condescendingly inform a constituent that the taxpayers “just don’t understand.” The comment inevitably comes when the constituent has expressed frustration that long-promised action on publicly...
Francis: Austin Con(fidence) Game
We all have hobbies; mine is poking around State of Texas government websites. If you are wondering why, it’s because as a kid, I always had an interest in illusions and magic. I even got to see David Copperfield perform once. Part of the fun was knowing he was trying...
Domstead: Can You Imagine?
Can you imagine if 75 million liberty-loving Trump voters STOPPED funding/supporting their own demise? (Facebook, Netflix, Macy’s, Amazon, Google, Walgreens, and sports or products from communist countries, to name a few.) We have untapped power, and we “refuse” to...
Francis: State of Fear
In 2004, I read a book that saved me from a miserable life of addiction and dependence. The dark road began when I was in college during the Gulf War. If I can save one person from traveling the difficult road I was on, publicly revealing this will have been worth it....
Brian Bledsoe: A Voice of Truth
Texas truck driver Brian Bledsoe never expected to start his own podcast or even walk through a journey in politics, but one thing has become certain: Regardless of what he’s doing, Brian will be speaking clarity and truth into the confusion of our society. Brian was...
Joy For The World
Few songs capture the spirit of the season for me like Isaac Watts’ 1719 hymn “Joy to the World.” The song, like the Gospels in the New Testament, joyfully denies us the chance to fixate solely on that birth in Bethlehem. Not long ago I found myself in Bethlehem,...