Over the weekend, Kent Schaffer, one of the special prosecutors tasked with investigating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, leaked the news that he had secured three felony indictments against Paxton to the press. The New York Times quoted Schaffer defending his...
On Monday, a group of Houston-area pastors held a press conference announcing their intention to file suit against the City of Houston and Mayor Annise Parker, citing a violation of their religious freedoms and civil rights. The alleged violation in the suit refers to...
John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) and the Tarrant County Commissioner’s Court have overlooked yet another obvious problem with the faulty financial forecasts underlying their $809 million debt proposal—hundreds of millions of dollars in ambiguous “operational...
There is a common question being fearfully contemplated by establishment Republicans in these early days of the 2016 accountability season: “Do I want to go down fighting?” But make no mistake: they know they are going down. Some prefer retirement to an out-right...
Josh Murray is an Army veteran and activist whose current fight shows us that even in a small town elected officials who aren’t held accountable, will use their power to take advantage of taxpayers. Born in Germany but raised in Garland, Texas, Murray comes from a...
As special prosecutors gear up to drag Attorney General Ken Paxton through the same mud as former Gov. Rick Perry and whistleblowing UT Regent Wallace Hall, questions arise as to who exactly is responsible for the attacks. On the surface, the leftist watchdog group...
After the ongoing and predictably divisive battle surrounding Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance (ERO), one would expect a just and representative government to identify the very flaws that originally caused the contention. One would also expect an effort from officials...
There is a dangerous trend in the United States toward the criminalization of politics, and it is infecting Texas as well. It may have hit its nadir in Wisconsin, where police dispatched by a pro-union Democrat special prosecutor subjected conservative activists...
The Texas Bureau of Watchdog.org is at it again, this time breaking the news that former University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers will be entitled to return to UT Law school at a hefty salary. Due to his contract with the University, Powers will return to...
While the speech regulators in Wisconsin resorted to SWAT teams and pre-dawn paramilitary-style raids, bureaucrats in Texas have so far limited their abuses to the administrative and civil courts system. However, their intentions are exactly the same. The Government...
We now know that a number of politicians, including Texas House Speaker Joe Straus and former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison abused the admissions system at The University of Texas at Austin to secure the admission of under-qualified students connected to donors and...
Over the past few weeks Texans have been horrified by gruesome revelations concerning Planned Parenthood trafficking the body parts of aborted babies. Unfortunately, if some members of the Texas House had their way, investigative journalism would have become an...
After years of legal battles, First Amendment advocates in Wisconsin have scored a big win and it foreshadows victories coming soon to the Lone Star State. In a 4-2 vote, the Wisconsin Supreme Court moved to shut down the unconstitutional and reprehensible John Doe...
At this point many people in and around the Bayou City have come to the same conclusion—Houston’s broke. It’s taken some time to accept given that the city has been the fastest growing of the ten largest metro areas. But the years of overspending and deferring...
Tarrant County officials led by County Judge Glen Whitley are colluding with JPS insiders to ram through a problematic billion-dollar debt deal. The two most recent revelations are the County Court waited to seek constituent input until all the details of the bond...
News broke last Friday that Gov. Rick Perry had scored a “partial” victory at the Austin Court of Appeals in his criminal case stemming from his line-item veto of funding for the Public Integrity Unit — housed in the Travis County District Attorney’s...
At their most recent meeting, the commissioners of the Texas Ethics Commission voted to fine the Texas Home School Coalition $1,900 after the organization voluntarily corrected reports it had filed with the agency. Meanwhile, at the very same meeting, the Commission...
“It’s a great day to be a Republican in Midland,” says Sue Brannon, a proud 6th generation Texan and Midlander. This is her opening line anytime she speaks at an event or on a local radio show and, typically, that’s all someone needs to hear to know who is on the...
Today, the Texas Supreme Court suspended Houston’s equal rights ordinance (HERO). The court’s opinion stated, “We agree with the Relators that the City Secretary certified their petition and thereby invoked the City Council’s ministerial duty to reconsider and repeal...
A myriad of unanswered questions still surround the $809 million debt plan proposed by JPS, the safety-net hospital network overseen by the Tarrant County Commissioners Court. The problem lies with the far-fetched financial forecast and dubious assumptions underlying...
