Last week, Texas officials announced that the state spent more than $1 billion on health care for “illegal immigrants” in fiscal year 2025. This article on FoxNews.com provides us with a slew of statistics to show the financial burden immigrants are imposing on Texas taxpayers. A billion dollars is a lot of money, but it…
For years, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission (TPWC) has leased 1,800 acres of privately owned land to operate the Fairfield Lake State Park. The owner of the land wanted to sell it, and for a year TPWC attempted to negotiate the purchase of the land. When those negotiations failed and the land was sold…
A recent opinion piece at CNN.com addresses several bills that were introduced in the 2023 Texas legislative session, including a requirement that the Ten Commandments be posted in every government school classroom. The article correctly notes that this is part of a decades long battle by religionists to impose Christian ideas through the schools. The…
Texas Sen. Lois Kolkhorst has introduced SB 147, a bill that would prohibit citizens, companies, governments, and entities from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia from purchasing land in Texas. Kolkhorst, who has long paid lip service to property rights, is now proposing to violate property rights. SB 147 is an injustice. One of the…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have recently made headlines for sending immigrants to “sanctuary states,” i.e., states that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials. Both claim that they are trying to send a message to Joe Biden. In truth, they are simply playing to their base and using people as…