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Abbott Says Democrats’ Attempt to Reverse Daniel Perry Pardon ‘Not Gonna Happen’
The Travis County District Attorney’s Office claims Abbott exceeded his authority in pardoning Perry.

Tyler ISD Embraces ‘Civil Disobedience’ Against Title IX Changes
Barring court intervention, Biden’s new rule undermining protections for girls in K-12 schools will take effect on August 1.

Attorney General’s Office Launches Initiative to Protect Citizens Data
The initiative is aimed at safeguarding data from AI and tech companies’ encroachment on privacy.

Local Voters to Decide New Appraisal District Board Members
Election Day is June 15.
The Archive
Neal Adams: Tarrant County’s Moderate Puppeteer
State Rep. Jonathan Stickland didn’t toe the grow-government line this session. He voted against a bloated budget that increased session-to-session spending 26.9% and a myriad of liberal policies. That sort of leadership earned him praise from conservatives, and a...
Lubbock Establishment Runs Tax Raiser Against Rep. Charles Perry
Is the Lubbock establishment challenging conservative Rep. Charles Perry because he won't raise taxes? This spring Perry was approached by members of the Lubbock chamber of commerce connected with "Imagine Lubbock Together." They were seeking special legislation to...
Debra Medina: Comptroller Candidate, Straus Supporter
After months of speculation that she might run for office, Debra Medina – who finished in third place in the race for the Republican nomination for Governor in 2010 – threw her hat in the ring for Comptroller. Her bid had been the subject of much speculation,...
Freedom’s Unlikely Enemy
The free society has many adversaries hell bent on discrediting it. The most pervasive examples are found in government institutions, political circles, academia and media outlets. Arguments against freedom are fundamentally based on the fallacy that a select group...
Terribly Liberal Republicans
As we have come to expect, advocates of big-spending corporate cronyism are rushing to the aid of liberal Republicans. They may have succeeded in the past, but taxpayers won’t be fooled again. A new group called “Texas Future Business Alliance” is mailing into the...
Government Feeding Frenzy
If all you watched were national news networks, you’d be led to believe that, in the absence of hundreds of federal bureaucracies planning your life, America would be reduced to anarchy. The facts suggest otherwise…Texans live under countless layers of local...
How Out of Touch is Sen. John Carona?
John Carona has been in Austin for a long time. He was first elected to office in 1990. But how out of touch with his district is Carona, really? So out of touch that he put the wrong district map up on his Facebook profile. It is going to be very hard for Senator...
Disappointing Attack
Yesterday, Texas Lt. Gov. candidate Todd Staples issued a press release misrepresenting the record of his opponent, Sen. Dan Patrick, on the Fiscal Responsibility Index. In 2007, Sen. Patrick voted against the bloated budget and had the fourth-highest rating of all 31...
A Good Steward…When Caught
Mireya Villareal, a CBS investigative journalist, recently uncovered an astonishing multi-million dollar abuse of funds by officials at the DFW International airport. In 2012, airport officials spent over $2.2 million on travel expenses to domestic and international...