Read Texas News

In honor of Bill of Rights day, I feel that it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of market restrictions on our right to keep and bear arms. A recent study from professors at the University of Michigan and University of Maryland researched whether California's...

At this rate, more lawmakers will be declared candidates for speaker than aren't. The latest is State Rep. Edmund Kuempel (R-Seguin). One the Fiscal Responsibility Index he voted with taxpayers 64 percent of the time.

Expect lawmakers to once again seek to take money from your pocket and hand it over to Hollywood producers in the name of “economic development.” They want to follow the lead of Michigan, New Mexico and California in kissing up to the movie industry… Never mind those...

The only change on this issue is your surface ownership taxes will increase.

Eminent domain is not a glamorous issue, but it is an important one. Property rights advocates won a small victory in 2007 when Texans voted for Proposition 7. This was a step in the right direction, but we still have a lot of work to do. State Representative Frank...

The session is coming and with it the customary biennial surplus predictions. Factors such as revenue from a contrived business tax, a natural disaster and a faltering national economy will impact the number but whatever the final tally the Lege should pretend the...

A couple weeks ago we compared the scores of the House Speaker candidates on the Fiscal Responsibility Index, which describes how often lawmakers vote in the best interest of taxpayers. Another legislator has thrown his hat in the ring; State Rep. Byron Cook...

After a recent TFR speaking engagement a group formed as we were leaving to lamenting the fact that congress was considering a bailout for auto makers. A bailout that now seems imminent. They were saying "did you hear the execs flew private jets to speak to congress...