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Y’All Answered: Should Lawmakers Profit Off State Contracts?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary, Life, Texas Scorecard Podcasts
Don’t Get Angry, Get Active
Move from passive recipient to active participant.
Y’All Answered: Greg Abbott on Dade Phelan
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Come and Take Him: John Cornyn Must Be Primaried
John Cronyin, as I prefer to call him, is everything that is wrong with Washington, the Republican Party, and politics in general.
Commentary Archive
Louie Mueller Barbecue: Texas’ Legendary Grandfather of Smoke
If you drive 30 minutes outside of Austin, you’ll arrive at a quaint town square that’s home to a row of unassuming antique stores, a small coffee shop, and one of the most historic royal families of Texas barbecue. On our way to check out a candidate forum in College...
Texas Right to Life: Generations of Texans Fighting Against Injustice
“When I was a kid, I always wondered how the German people in World War II allowed that killing in their society to go on, and it’s because they simply didn’t do anything about it. I have the ability today to try and stop the slaughter of innocent human beings,...
Staff Blog: What Texans Can Learn from Brexit
After 27 long years of hard fighting, Great Britain will once again have her independence, thanks in no small part to a grassroots leader who had enough of “conservatives” betraying their principles and surrendering his country. His fight, and victory, teaches us that...
Hypocrites’ Chair
If anyone knows the name “Chorazin” today, it is only because it is twice mentioned in the New Testament for Jesus’ famous “Woe to you” lines about the city. Not exactly what you want to be known for... As you might imagine, Chorazin fell off the map for almost 2,000...
Staff Blog: Brazos County Citizen Activists Show How It’s Done
When incumbent Central Texas Republican Congressman Bill Flores announced he would not run for re-election, an organized group of his constituents knew voters would need to be informed and engaged if they were to elect a grassroots conservative to the seat in 2020....
Commentary: Lessons for Texans from Virginia Second Amendment Rally
None of our rights, including the right to bear arms, are subject to the whims of politicians, polls, or even an electoral majority. This was the message sent by 22,000 individuals who descended upon Richmond, Virginia, last week to protest a series of gun-control...
Staff Blog: 92 Percent of Americans Clueless About Massive Drop in Poverty
Extreme global poverty has declined 75 percent since 1990. Despite this amazing progress, 92 percent of Americans surveyed believe global poverty has either stayed the same or increased. Americans are not alone in their ignorance; 92 percent of Germans are also...
Witnesses to Horror
They have each said it was the smell they still couldn’t forget. The smell of the corpses. The smell of the almost-dead. The smell of disease and death. The smell of depravity. I have had the opportunity over the years to meet and visit with several men who...
Commentary: The Fight to Keep Judicial Elections in Texas
The Texas Constitution guarantees Texans the right to select their judges at the ballot box. In recent years, it has become fashionable in crony-elitist circles to denigrate Texas’ method of judicial selection. After all, you can’t trust mere citizens with the courts,...