Commentary
Gas & Groceries – Taking the Fight to America’s Voters
When Americans must choose between paying the rent or feeding their kids, the country is ready for a new direction.
Y’All Answered: Biden on the Ballot?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Remembering Rene Poe: A Lifetime of Dedication
A celebration of Rene’s life will be held on July 12 in Granbury.
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Commentary Archive
Commentary: Time for Texas Parents to Take Back Public Schools From the Radical Left
Public school parents are now seeing firsthand what so many of us who have been fighting hard to take back our public schools from the radical left have been dealing with for years. I want to be absolutely clear here, because this moment is critically important to not...
Commentary: Trump Should Stay the Course on Drug Pricing Order
The Trump Administration on Friday took a dramatic step to break Big Pharma’s hold on American drug prices in Medicare Part B, announcing an executive order aimed at drastically reducing the costs of the most expensive Medicare drugs by linking them to the lowest-cost...
Commentary: The Wild Polling Spectrum
We’ve seen a plethora of presidential state polls released in the past couple of days, and the results seem to swing wildly among the various pollsters. While most studies have shown former Vice President Joe Biden at present winning most of the key states, his...
Coronavirus Mandate Stories: Special-Needs Individuals Treated Like Prisoners
For months, a mother has been banned from being with her son with special needs, due to a statewide mandate barring visitation. With his condition deteriorating, his mom is begging Gov. Greg Abbott daily to act, and a coalition of Texas state senators and state...
Commentary: Unlike Biden’s Pandering, Trump’s Record Has Actually Saved Black Lives
Anyone who actually believes that “black lives matter” ought to realize that the “defund the police” agenda is irredeemably hostile to black lives. When police officers are forced to fight crime with one hand tied behind their backs, violent crime increases. More...
Commentary: The GOP Senate Is Asleep at the Wheel
It hasn’t escaped the notice of most Americans that, to put it mildly, things in the country are not going well. But one group of people hasn’t seemed to pick up on it, yet: Congress. To be more precise, the Republican-led Senate. As American cities burn, police...
Coronavirus Mandate Stories: ‘I’m Not Able to Wear a Mask’
At a meeting of a North Texas commissioners court, a woman testified about her personal struggles at work and with others who are ostracizing her because she cannot wear a mask. She implored elected officials to be more clear with the public when relaying exemptions...
Commentary: Shutdowns Are Not a Serious Solution to the Coronavirus Threat
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Never has this quote rung truer than in the year of coronavirus hysteria. King Gov. Greg Abbott has, for the last four...
Commentary: Spanish Renewable Giant Iberdrola Enters the Texas Market With a Thud
One of the telltale signs of how broken the Texas electricity market is the number of corporations with multi-billion dollar market caps coming here in pursuit of billions of dollars of renewable energy subsidies. Enter Iberdrola: "July 08, 2020 – Iberdrola Texas...