Texas Democrats are continuing their march to bring full-scale casino gambling to the Lone Star State. In a recent article, Empower Texans discussed whether casino gambling would be a “no-new-taxes” proposition. Since it’s clear there will be a concentrated effort to...

I believe I was among the first to notice a specific War on Texas, as I termed it, from the Obama Administration. Just after the Leftist ideologue took office, various Federal regulatory agencies began to descend upon Texas. At first these raids on Texas only made...

Transparency is good policy, on its face. Given how much taxpayers are charged for the cost of government, we should get a chance to view the receipt. Texas has led the nation in state-level expenditure transparency, and Comptroller Susan Combs reports the savings...

Last week Bill White, the Democratic candidate for governor, issued a press release on the state of public education in Texas. His campaign quoted an Empower Texans critique that "Texas taxpayers are 'not getting our money's worth' in Texas' education system."...

Legislative liberals are howling like scorned lovers over the appointment of Republican State Rep. Larry Taylor to the Sunset Commission. The Democratic Caucus is indignant, saying House Speaker Joe Straus isn't providing the "inclusiveness" and "parity" they say he...

This week, the Texas AFL-CIO held a press conference to offer Gov. Rick Perry, and the First Lady of Texas, use of a "single-wide" manufactured home they had hauled to their parking lot and placed on cinder blocks in downtown Austin. While reasonable people may...

Former Republican state Sen. David Sibley is in a runoff election to get back his old job in the Texas Senate. But there's a problem. After he left office in 2003, to become a lobbyist, he made a habit of contributing to very liberal Democrats. It's not uncommon for...