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City of Austin micro-managers target payday lending

Not satisfied with "paper or plastic," the Austin City Council's team of micro-managers are seeking to interfere with payday lenders in a nefariously creative way, limiting the locations where such businesses may set up practice and how they may operate. This new...

A Flag On Higher-Ed Hypocrisy

Legislative hypocrisy on higher education was on full display as the week ended. Questions about college affordability, accessibility and transparency are decried by legislators as “micro-management,” but legislators have reversed themselves by scheduling a hearing...

Improving The Texas Senate

Whatever problems exist in the Texas House, the Senate has been historically worse; it's where good ideas die and bad ideas get new life. Cheerful news from the Metroplex raises the possibility that we can see some serious improvement in the "upper" chamber of the...

Stopping Schoolyard Bullies

With the new school year beginning shortly, it's a good time to review what we have learned since the spring about schoolyard bullies. You know the kind: they usually spend their days in the administration building. We were reminded during the legislative session that...

Making a point to help schoolkids in Houston

If we listen to the keening cries of educrats and liberals everywhere, we would be convinced that kids in Texas are going to school shoeless, likely to contract polio because they didn't get their shots, and will have to write their lessons with blood because they...

Growing Government With Gambling

A Republican committee chairman appointed by Speaker Joe Straus recently told a group of casino executives and racetrack owners he wants the state to “roll the dice” on gambling. Citing a “purely economic basis” for his support of legalized gambling, Rep. Todd Hunter...

“D” is for Dereliction of Duty

Fifteen Republican state representatives dismissed fiscally conservative principles, instead opting for a more "balanced" (read "big-government") approach to public policy including increased regulation, dismissal of property rights, and a disregard of commonsense...

Obama Expands War On Texas

Barack Obama's operatives are ratcheting up their war on Texas. They either want to shut down our oil and gas industry with spurious claims of endangered lizards, or sweat us out by forcing the closure of power plants. Either way, President Obama's use of federal...

Debt Limit Debacle

As the dust settles around the debt deal struck earlier this week, it has become clear that Americans are not pleased with the outcome - and in many cases, far less enthralled with the leadership that has brought us here. So, Congress has voted themselves a new max on...