Residential electricity prices have steadily increased for years, up more than 15 percent in the United States (not including Texas) since 2004. A newly released U.S. Department of Energy report on electricity markets and reliability makes it clear that renewable energy subsidies are contributing significantly to the increasing cost—and the decreasing reliability—of the national electric grid. Yet the report…
Category: Texas Politics
Fake Research Leads to Fake News
I recently saw this headline claiming that abortion rates increased after Texas defunded the abortion provider Planned Parenthood in 2011. After claiming that the new policy resulted in the closure of some “women’s health clinics,” The Huffington Post article stated, “the abortion rate among teenagers in the state rose 3 percent over what it would…
Local Government Regulation Tramples Property Rights
“Property owners do not acquire a constitutionally protected vested right in property uses …” – Texas Supreme Court; City of University Park v. Benners, 485 SW 2d 773 (1972). To fully solve the problem of local regulations making Texas cities less and less affordable for the average Texan, delaying construction, and costing Texans jobs, the…
What People Think about Texas Legislature’s Special Session
Look’s like some folks aren’t happy:
Survey about the Texas Legislature’s Special Session
What do you think about the outcome of the Texas Legislature’s special session? Take this survey and see what others think.
The Blessings of Inefficient Government
Below is a table that shows (on line 2) the numbers of bills and joint resolutions, i.e., bills that can become law, that were sent by the Texas Legislature to the governor for his signature by April 24 of the session in question. One thing that obviously stands out is that the Texas Legislature has…
Imagine
Imagine there’s no Medicaid It’s easy if you dare No plans to hinder us People receiving care Imagine all the people Living in good health Imagine private health care It’s no so hard to see Less death or illness Without the Fed’s decree Imagine all the people Living in Freedom You may say that I’m…
Freedom Reigns: Still No Stopping the Texas Economy
Wendell Cox’s new report, 2013 Metropolitan Area Population Estimates, is the latest confirmation that Paul Krugman and other liberal critics of the Texas Model are wrong; Texas has far and away the most dynamic economy in the United States. For example: Late in the last decade, Dallas-Fort Worth passed Philadelphia to become the fourth largest metropolitan area….
What’s Wrong with Texas? The Lone Star State is not Cooperating with the Left
One of the top priorities of the left today is shifting the national balance of power by turning Texas blue, using tactics it claims were responsible for a similar transition in Colorado. However, based on the results of the recent Texas primaries, it’s obvious that the people of Texas are not cooperating with the left’s…
Where I Get My News
I get my news from a variety of places and through a variety of ways. I browse websites, use RSS feeds, read emails I have signed up for, and follow some twitter feeds. None of these ways is perfect, and I am not always consistent with them, finding that I have other things to do…