State
New Effort Begins to Eliminate Texas GOP’s Pro-Life Priority
The petition claims the abortion issue is hindering Republicans’ ability to secure electoral victories.
Runoff Preview: Spencer and VanDeaver Compete for House District 1
Incumbent Gary VanDeaver and Chris Spencer are facing off to represent northeast Texas.
Report: US Should End Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens
A report from the Huffines Liberty Foundation explains this legal remedy should be pursued, but the U.S. also needs to regain control of the border.
Gov. Abbott Directs Public Universities to Ignore Biden’s Title IX Rewrite
Recent reporting revealed that Texas A&M University was “scrambling” to implement the new rules.
State Archive
Will Lobby War Forge Greater Transparency?
Tax-funded lobbying is big business in Austin, and two firms are currently engaged in a lawsuit over contracts with several Texas cities. Since the public is likely to be indirectly subsidizing this case, perhaps the least that will result is greater transparency...
Thinking Like Adults
A side-by-side comparison of Texas Republican Party and Texas Democratic Party 2010 platforms has been completed by a conservative group, Texas Conservative Coalition. The results say a lot about what the parties believe. Notice, everything the group highlights is...
Texas Dems hit another foul ball with Perry ethics complaints
Democrat nominee for Texas Governor Bill White will not release all of his tax returns for the years he was in government service. But that hasn’t stopped Texas Democrats from scouring the tax returns, freely released by Governor Perry, and using that data to make two...
Sunsetting the Texas Electricity Market?
At a time when the rest of state government is looking for ways to reduce spending to hedge against next year's looming budget shortfall, the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission is looking at expanding the size and scope of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT)...
Doggett & Dems in on the War on Texas
The War on Texas is far broader than that coming from the White House; it includes Texans bent on upsetting the rights of other Texans to govern themselves. I’ve told you how Obama’s appointee as the EPA regional director, Al Armendariz, a native Texan from El Paso,...
Defying Kings & Governing Ourselves
It was on July 2,1776, that the Continental Congress declared "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." It was two days later, of course, on the Fourth of July when they adopted the formal declaration. I've often wondered what...
Liberals Don’t Get It
Sometimes you just have to laugh at liberals. State Rep. Garnet Coleman has offered a side-by-side comparison of Texas Democratic Party and Texas Republican Party platforms on issues of his choosing. One side of his chart shows Democratic Party proposed government...
Obama EPA’s War on Big Bend?
Are your summer or fall travel plans finalized yet? If the Big Bend area is on your agenda, it looks like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants you to reconsider. Under new rules being considered, Big Bend may soon be listed as a high pollution area (or in...
Gambling On A Flawed Premise
Making its way around the state today is news about a new poll purporting to show Texans prefering slot machines as a means to bridge the projected budget shortfall. It's a false choice, because the pollsters -- apparently paid for by the gaming industry -- only asked...