State
Texas Land Commissioner Promises to Fight Biden’s Galveston Wind Farm
The proposed wind farm would cover an area larger than the city of Houston.
July Saw Spike In Illegal Alien Encounters Over June
Fiscal year 2023 has already seen over 1.9 million encounters at the southern border.
Federal Ruling in Galveston County Trial Will Impact Redistricting Across Texas
The county’s challenge of “coalition” districts could reverse decades of race-centric line-drawing in Texas.
Dan Patrick’s New Counsel Steps Down After Conflicts Revealed
Brown said the impeachment proceedings are “far too important to the State of Texas for there to be any distractions involving allegations of favoritism or personal bias on my part.
State Archive
The Trek Towards Socialism
While Texas remains one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak national economy, our federal government is on an unfettered march toward attempting to solve the problems our nation faces -- real or perceived -- by evoking the failed socialist policies of the...
License the cosmetics girls at Dillards!
A story in the Austin American-Statesman began with these words: “There are beauty procedures about which Texas law is perfectly clear. People must be licensed by the state if they intend to bleach, cleanse, color, cut, dress, dye, process, shampoo, shape, singe,...
Americans Don’t Want More Gas Taxes
So the tax-hike proponents at the Dallas Morning News are once again pushing the false choice between higher taxes or no new roads, after word hit their newsroom that only 15 percent of American voters support higher gasoline taxes. The Rassmussen Reports poll found...
Texas Transportation on a Budget
With an abundance of transportation contractors and the poor overall health of the global economy, Texas is in a good position to pick up some needed infrastructure on the cheap. The transportation equation consists of two parts: revenue and spending. Until now...
Now Some Feds Want To Hike Your Gas Tax, Too
It’s not enough that Republican lawmakers Vicki Truitt of Southlake and John Carona of Dallas want to hike gasoline taxes and vehicle fees. Now the Obama Administration’s token Republican, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, wants the federal gasoline tax raised,...
Voters: Election A Win-Win For Texas
Voters: Election A Win-Win For Texas AUSTIN, Texas – In a poll conducted by Wilson Research Strategies on behalf of Empower Texans, 65 percent of Republican primary voters say they consider re-electing Rick Perry as governor a double-win: Perry keeps working...
KBH campaign enters bizarre phase
That Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is blanketing Texas with advertisements to convince GOP voters that she is a conservative, says more than do her commercials. Hutchison has been on various Texas ballots much longer than has Rick Perry, being first elected to the...
Voters: Stay And Fight
AUSTIN, Texas – A poll conducted by Wilson Research Strategies on behalf of Empower Texans finds 69 percent of Republican primary voters want U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to stay in the Senate and fight the policies and programs being advocated by President Obama...
Texas’ drift needs righting, now
While we celebrate recent data showing that Texas’ unemployment number is two-points lower than the national average and that Texas lead the nation in job creation last month, we must be aware that our better-than-others performance is not simply happenstance. It is...