Texas Scorecard, one of the most important organizations fighting for liberty in Texas, has several principles which guide their operation. One of those is don’t make it personal. Michael Sullivan, Texas Scorecard’s CEO, applied this principle to how citizens should approach politics in a recent commentary: We need to step back, for the sake of…
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It’s Time to Cut the Texas Budget
In 2019, the Texas Legislature appropriated a total of $258 billion, a 24 percent increase over what it appropriated in 2017. Looking at it a different way, the $248 billion the Legislature appropriated in 2019 for the current biennium was an increase of $32 billion, or 24 percent, over what it appropriated in 2017 for…
The Liberty Café 28: The Liberty Budget
Given the tough economic times we are facing, Texas has a real chance to cut spending and reduce the size of state government through the Liberty Budget. But the only way we will see this come to pass is if Republican policymakers are more scared of us than they are of liberals, big business, and…
The Renewable Energy Industry is Stealing Your Money
For the last few decades, the claim from the renewable energy industry was that renewables needed subsidies to catch up to traditional sources of energy such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, and oil. Now the headlines are telling us that wind and solar are cost competitive with traditional sources: Solar and Wind Power So Cheap…
Will Texas Republicans Ever Fight for Limited Government?
Sometimes when I look around at what Republicans are doing, I don’t really know what to do with myself. Just think about how Republicans were in charge of the U.S. Senate and House and the White House for two years of the first two years of President Trump’s term. What did they accomplish? Not much….
The Liberty Café 27: Is Government Above the Law?
Even 6th graders are aware that the Magna Carta established in law the biblical principle that no government is above God and His laws. However today, most of our leaders ignore–or are ignorant of–this principle enshrined in English law more than eight centuries ago. In Episode 37 of the Liberty Café, we take a look…
The Liberty Café 26: If Not Now, When, Mac Thornberry?
Outgoing U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, like many politicians, doesn’t think now is the time to deal with serious assaults against liberty. In this week’s Liberty Café, we look at whether Texas Republicans will ever get serious about fighting for liberty. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS
The Kingdom of God
by Peter Leithart Scripture seems to be almost deliberately vague about the kingdom. It is like a seed, like leaven, like a sower going to sow His field, like a merciful master who forgives our debts. The kingdom is also a place where we enter to eat and drink with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus…
The Creation Week vs. the Framework Hypothesis of Genesis 1-2
by Gary North Here, I deal with the framework hypothesis of Genesis 1 that was offered by Meredith Kline in the late 1950’s. I show why it is not biblical. The framework hypothesis denies that the six days of Genesis 1 were sequential. Instead, it says that the days were literary. Day 1 paralleled day…
Mitch Rapp, R.I.P.
Ian Fleming’s James Bond is the classic example of iconic figures sprouting from the popular spy/military/crime thriller genre of literature. Others include the French detective Jules Maigret who appeared in 75 Georges Simenon novels. More recently, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan topped the charts. But my favorite of them all is Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp. Sadly,…