“Nor shall [a ruler] acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.” – Deuteronomy 17:17 Yesterday, the Texans for Fiscal Responsibility team, Andrew McVeigh, Vance Ginn, and myself, testified during the Texas Senate Finance Committee’s hearing of property taxes. I want to discuss some interesting points worth noting from the hearing. Before I get to the hearing, let me…
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U.S. Federal Renewable Energy Subsidies are Driving the Energy Transition
“We have heard testimony … about the threat climate change poses to entire sectors of our economy … So, what are we, the federal government, doing to protect against these threats? Actually, we are subsidizing the danger. As we’ll hear today, the United States subsidizes the fossil fuel industry with taxpayer dollars.” – U.S. Senator…
Liberty Requires God-given Rights Exercised in Free Markets
“Many persons, having never viewed the subject (of liberty) in this light, charge us with excessive zeal, when they see us so warmly and earnestly contending for freedom of faith as to outward matters, in opposition to the tyranny of the Pope.” – John Calvin Most Americans these days are more worried about the tyranny of…
Kevin DeYoung, Douglas Wilson, and the Mizpah Mood
Healing the Moscow/Mizpah Divide Kevin DeYoung’s infamous coinage of the term “Moscow Mood” has highlighted significant concerns about the evangelical church today. DeYoung sought to warn Christians of the harmful “long-term spiritual effects of admiring and imitating” the “visceral” mood emanating from Christ Church, pastored by Douglas Wilson, in Moscow, Idaho. According to DeYoung, these harmful effects…
Developing a Biblical Understanding of Decentralization
The Conclusion of Our Series on Resisting Injustice. Be sure to check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. – Colossians 1:16. As we have worked to…
Politicians Added $20 Billion to Texans’ Electricity Costs Last Year
Only a decade ago, Texas had the most competitive electricity market in the world, a market that produced reliable, affordable electricity. Today, the Texas electric grid has been taken over by Texas government. This has produced predictable results: reliability has plummeted while costs have skyrocketed. A new study by the Energy Alliance explains how high the costs…
Properly Defining the Role of Civil Rulers
Part Three in a Four-Part Series on Government Injustice “Hear the word of the LORD, O house of David! Thus says the LORD: ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it,…
Viewing Civil Relationships Through Covenantal Eyes
Part Two in a Four-Part Series on Government Injustice “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.” – Psalm 90:2. In my previous article, I explored why many Christians are blind to government injustice. The primary reason is the church’s…
Resisting Injustice
“And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.” (Judges 9:57) A Christian endures over a decade of state-sponsored legal harassment for refusing to bake cakes celebrating events that violate his beliefs. Half a dozen pro-life activists are convicted…
Restoring Sanity, Reliability, and Affordability to the Texas Electric Grid
With its grid overwhelmed by renewable energy, Texas is putting natural gas back in the game. The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) has received 125 notices of intent that propose more than 55,000 megawatts of new generation, most of it gas-fired. Texans should not be surprised at this turn of events. Generators are simply following the…