State
Unofficial Numbers Show Illegal Alien Apprehensions Decreased in June
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection source says agents apprehended fewer than 88,000 illegal aliens at the southern border.
Cl-ERIC-al Errors: Texas Needs a New Program to Catch Interstate Voters
Texas has until August 7 to clean the voter rolls.
Texas GOP Priority: Texas is not for Sale
The Texas GOP wants to prevent the United States’ foreign adversaries from owning land and operating in Texas.
Congresswoman Demands Removal of UT Austin Attorney for Praising Hamas Terror Attacks
Though the lawyer was previously arrested during an anti-Israel protest, the charges against all 57 detainees have since been dropped.
State Archive
Just When You Thought Gas Prices Couldn’t Be Higher…
...Along comes State Sen. John "Let Them Be Taxed" Carona. The senator from Dallas is, seriously, going to introduce legislation next Session to raise the state's gasoline tax by 10 cents per gallon. This would take even more of your money and shovel it to the state's...
TxDOT ‘Screwed Up’ 1.1 Billion Times
In what may go down as the most incredibly stupid error in state history, transportation officials told lawmakers this week that they counted $1.1 billion in revenue twice -- leading them to over-commit to road projects. State Sen. Steve Ogden of Bryan summed the...
Expensive Nothing
Texas taxpayers are paying some $10,000 per acre for... nothing. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission is squandering your cash to spend $400,000 to create 40 acres of "open space" in Guadalupe County, highlighted by a 1.5-mile trail with educational signs. Have...
Uncorking More Government Pork – Texas Department of Agriculture Sponsors Wine Tastings
The Ag Department is one of the two lead sponsors of two upcoming Texas wine tastings - one in Dallas and San Antonio. How many average Texas taxpayers will pay $40 for these sumptuous sippings? The website states that it is co-presented by the Wine and Food...
Money For Nothing, Rings Not Free
Texas taxpayers are a generous lot. Just ask the good folks at Windstream Communications, who state bureaucrats say improperly received more than $6 million from Texans over the last seven years. Operating then under the name Valor Telecommunications, the company is...
How Much More of the Erdners’ Family Budget Should Government Take?
Today's Statesman profiles Todd and Michele Erdner's extraordinary measures to control rising grocery bills for their 7 kids, who Michelle home schools. Is government helping? Consider that the Erdners' can't recall the last time they ordered pizza for delivery and...
So Long, Senator
One piece of bad political news this date: State Senator Kyle Janek is leaving public office. While rumored for some time, it's a shame to see. Dr. Janek has been a good friend to the conservative movement, a reliable voice of reason in an unreasonable political body,...
Illegal Or Unpopular
State Sen. John Carona gets it right in a news story, where he is quoted as saying the state's transportion agency "may well have crossed a legal threshold" when it enaged in a $9 million program to convince Texans to stop worrying and learn to love the TransTexas...
A Tax On Bad Math Skills
Remember being told that the Lottery would solve our education finance woes? Yep, that was a good one. Now the same band that brought us the state monopoly on games-of-chance want us to feel guilty that the poor and uneducated play the Lottery, and especially the...