Commentary
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.
May God Save Texas
Saving Texas involves redeeming Texans and Texas institutions, including civil government.
I Took a DNA Test and My Race is Human
At some point we have to acknowledge the truth about our shared ancestry if we are to survive as a nation.
Y’All Answered: On the Courts Blocking Texas’ Border Law
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary Archive
Commentary: The Virus’ Uneven Path
In this miserable COVID-19 spring, it’s tempting for remote workers to vent our frustrations with being hemmed in, forced to stare at screens while unable to do much else other than walk around the block or go to Costco. Yet the pain felt by the teleworking middle...
Commentary: New Guilty Plea in Dallas County Schools Scandal Calls for Citizen Reflection
Texas Scorecard recently penned an article on the plea deal signed by Richard Reynolds, a Louisiana attorney who used his law firm to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to corrupt Dallas County Schools officials. After years of hard work by taxpayers, elected...
“Greater Love Hath No Man Than This…”
Fields of perfectly placed markers in the neatly trimmed grass of the cemetery above Omaha Beach in Normandy is one of the most emotionally sweeping places I have visited on Earth. Your eyes can see, but your mind refuses to entirely process, the enormity of the...
Blog: Resolving Riots in History
History shows that when you combine genuine outrage over mistakes—or outright violations—by those in government with rising poverty, then sprinkle in a few opportunistic agitators, you’ll get riots. History also shows the proper response is to address the underlying...
Commentary: Take Liberty Back From Government
Paul tells us in his letter to the Galatians that we are called to liberty, that we are to stand fast in liberty because it comes from Jesus. Liberty is both spiritual and temporal. What does this mean for us today? What is the biblically based response for racial...
Commentary: A Zero-Growth Budget to Restore Texans’ Liberty
When the Texas Legislature met in 2003, it appropriated $115.4 billion of your money. Last year, in its most recent session, it appropriated $258.2 billion. In other words, in the last 16 years, Texas state government spending has more than doubled, increasing by $142...
Commentary: The Shame of Proxy Voting in the House of Representatives
Great America For the first time in history this week, members of the House of Representatives voted without actually being in the chamber. More to the point, they had other members cast their votes for them. Proxy voting, as it is known, was an extraordinary change...
Commentary: Who and What Killed George Floyd?
The easy answer is Derek Chauvin's knee, but that's not the full answer. It was Gov. Tim Walz who ordered the stay-at-home order that caused Floyd’s job loss, and without that order, George Floyd would be alive. To focus on the last link of the tragic series of events...
Letter: Governor, It’s Time for an About-Face
The following letter was sent to Gov. Greg Abbott on June 1, 2020. Dear Governor Abbott, It is important I stress this letter is not personal in nature nor is it intended to be judgmental. Rather, it’s being written in hopes that you might consider changing course due...