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Policy Event Highlights Shortcomings in Texas’ Current Border Security Efforts
The Texas Public Policy Foundation event evaluated some of the shortcomings of Operation Lone Star—Texas’ border security effort—that need legislative solutions.
Trio Indicted for Corruption in Houston’s Midtown
The group allegedly laundered about $8.5 million and spent it on “flashy cars, nice houses, super living, trips, and pornography.”
Keller ISD Rejects Biden’s ‘Extreme’ Title IX Rewrite
A federal court already struck down the 1,500-page revision, which added “gender identity” as a protected class.
Tarrant County College Course Teaches ‘Gender Fluidity’
The college’s core psychology course teaches students about sexual attractions and identities.
The Archive
An Endorsement That Wasn’t
Politicians are very careful about who and how they endorse, and how and who they don't. But apparently incumbent State Rep. Jerry Madden of Plano has been playing fast and loose with his endorsement list... And Attorney General Greg Abbott is rightly unamused. In a...
Stafford’s Stink
When liberal editorial page editors make endorsements, particularly in a Republican Primary, one has to expect to wear waders and a nose clip. But the Dallas Morning News' endorsement of Charles Stafford of Denton reeks of bad ideas that he apparently stunk up all by...
Haggerty the Benevolent
Nothing’s quite so distasteful in our democratic republic as an autocratic politician who demands that his every word and action be seen as benevolent kindness by those over whom he rules, er, represents. Such is the case with El Paso’s Pat Haggerty. Haggerty...
Texas GOP Primary Ballot to Include Spending Limitation Resolution
Texas Republican primary voters will weigh in on a non-binding resolution that asks whether state and local governments should be required to limit annual budget increases to the sum of the population growth and inflation rate. The measure is likely to pass...
Vote on Whether Dallas Taxpayer Dollars Should Pay for Hotel
The Dallas City Council voted on February 13 to enter into a lease-purchase agreement under which taxpayer dollars would subsidize a convention center hotel. The Dallas Business Journal has an online poll in which you can vote on whether this is an appropriate use of...
Who Loves Charlie Geren?
Texas' illegal aliens -- he has been their go-to Republican. Check out the YouTube Valentine's message.
Fools Soon Part You from Your Money
Who do Collin County officials think they’re fooling anyway? Apparently, everyone. Michael Sullivan was on CBS 11 in Dallas/Fort Worth this week, interviewed as part of an investigation  into questionable travel by elected officials. This is why local governments...
Illegal Costs
Yes, immigration is a federal issue. Yes, the appropriate policy solutions will be complex and precarious. But, often overlooked, is the simple fact that illegal immigration presents a tremendous cost on state and local taxpayers. The state’s biggest budget driver...
Can’t Count on Administrators
I had begun to feel a great sense of pride in my hometown over the last several months. It seemed that Wimberley ISD – where I graduated High School in 2005 – was poised to do something I would never expect a bunch of educrats to do; stand up for taxpayers. ...