Commentary

Texas is Not For Sale
The right to secure land and property leads to increased security, economic prosperity, and independence for American citizens, and our nation’s land should rightfully be owned by its citizens.

Pro-life Advocates Protested GOP’s New Stance on Abortion Outside the RNC
It was the first time in four decades the GOP platform failed to include language supporting federal protection for unborn children.

Y’All Answered: Will Democrats Support Harris?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
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Cobern: 9/11 Reminds Us of American Unity
If you were an adult on September 11, 2001, chances are good that you remember exactly where you were that morning. You remember the sweet blue of the sky wherever you were in the country when you knew that in New York City and Washington D.C. and a field in...
What We Do Tomorrow
We were waiting for the movers to come on September 11, 2001. My wife and I were sitting on the front porch, sipping coffee, excited to be heading back to Texas. Our townhouse was a couple of miles from the Pentagon. In retrospect, we heard the crash. We remember...
Greer: Soros Messing With Texas Elections?
Texas district attorneys are supposed to be on the front lines, investigating and prosecuting election fraud. Unfortunately, in too many cases, these political animals are derelict in their duties and might be using their power to enable election interference. Are...
Ellis: A Polling Comparison
With a plethora of presidential polls being released every week providing sometimes radically diverse results, it is often difficult to draw a clear picture of where the electorate is heading. The conventional wisdom and preponderance of polling trends suggest that...
Greer: Thank Goodness Media Hacks and Grocers Don’t Run Elections
Here’s one way to think about who wants a secure, trustworthy election and who doesn’t. Are they working to fix deficiencies in election administration, removing doubt about results, or are they making the faulty case that safeguards to ensure accuracy and legal...
Sanders: Want Your Freedoms Back? Here’s How to Do It!
We are living in unprecedented times. Not because of the Chinese coronavirus—viruses come and go, and they will be with us forever. No, we are living in unprecedented times because never before in our State’s history has there been such executive branch overreach and...
Meaningful Work
I don’t think I have ever urgently needed someone with a Ph.D. Yet in the cultural economy of the 21st century, we celebrate the pursuit of even meaningless degrees, and dismiss critical professions once known as the trades. The cultural elite would have us believe it...
Blain: Reform, Not Defunding
Protests have spread across the United States for months now, along with calls for defunding local police departments. But the movement to defund police has a crucial flaw: the policy that it seeks would harm the minority communities whom the protesters claim to care...
Bovard: Ordinary Americans Make a Positive, Optimistic Case for Trump and America
Coming off a week where the Democrat National Convention spent four days painting the Trump administration as an apocalyptically dark, existential threat to the country, the Republican National Committee used their moment to let their voters speak for them—and it...