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Texas Agriculture Commissioner Endorses Challenger to Texas House Speaker
Sid Miller is joined by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his endorsement of David Covey.
More Bad Polling Emerges for House Speaker Dade Phelan
Republican Party of Texas Chairman Matt Rinaldi called Phelan’s unfavorability “unprecedented in recent years.”
ACLU Files Lawsuit to Challenge Landmark Border Security Legislation
The lawsuit asserts that the legislation violates the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution.
Federal Tyranny: ‘Woke and Weaponized’
The time has come for Gov. Greg Abbott to take the next step in checking federal tyranny.
State Archive
TxDOT Is Broke! So Spend More!
We keep being told the Texas Department of Transportation has completely run out of money, completely broke, and that all road construction will grind to halt in short order... unless Texans get behind a tax hike of one sort or other. And yet word comes this week that...
Operation Duck and Cover II
Barack Obama will be back in Texas tomorrow. Once again Bill White, the Democratic nominee for governor, is purposefully avoiding the unpopular president. But this time not only to miss an inconvenient photo-op, Mr. White now takes another swipe at Texans serving in...
White’s Toxic Insurance Fix
Insurance is heavily regulated. Bananas aren’t regulated at all. Which industry’s prices do you prefer? The Dallas Morning News trumpeted a Bill White proposal for more government regulation of the homeowner’s insurance industry, claiming insurance companies should...
Straus & The Stealth Dems
Many conservatives have suggested Texas House Speaker Joe Straus might be a little too cozy with the Legislature’s liberals. The policy results of that relationship has been mapped and diagrammed by a Rice University professor and publicized by the Texas Tribune. All...
Who Will Tax You?
Even as the legislative cheerleaders for raising gas taxes have been sidelined and admit there isn’t the political will to grow government while making travel and transportation more expensive, other big spenders are stepping up efforts to build new avenues draining...
Are current border enforcement schemes worth the money?
This weekend, AP reported: “A gunbattle erupted between Mexican police and gunmen near the Rio Grande on Saturday, killing one person and prompting U.S. authorities to close a highway that runs along the border in El Paso,… The gunmen attacked a municipal police...
Texans’ Tax Breaks Trigger Spending
It’s back-to-school time here in Texas, and we all know what that means: tax-free weekend is here! This weekend thousands of Texans will be heading to malls, shopping centers, and outlets across this state in order to purchase tax-exempt items for school such as...
Do Texas universities need higher appropriations?
Last Thursday’s hearing of the interim joint higher education committee in Austin was the first opportunity for several of Texas’ university leaders to address lawmakers on their progress toward becoming so-called Tier-One research institutions. I’m all for the plan,...
Cost Of Government Day
Tomorrow will be a better day, because it's the first day you start working for yourself and your family. From January 1 until today, though, you've been working to pay for the cost of government. And it's a month more than we were working just two years ago. Cost of...