“Transparency is very important to all Texans and this situation is certainly one in need of transparency. . . ” –Dan Flynn Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Today, the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations met to discuss the expanded jurisdiction of the committee.
20 programs support science, technology, engineering, math Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) awarded 20 grants totaling more than $1.5 million to Texas universities and community colleges for summer youth camps emphasizing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. Administered by TWC, the effort is part of the Governor’s Summer […]
By Star Parker The Book of Proverbs, part of biblical canon, once a vital part of American culture, tells us: “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.” It’s this haughty spirit, this pride that precedes destruction, that lies behind the Supreme Court’s decision last week to bury the Defense of Marriage Act. DOMA […]
By Hugh Hewitt It was a fiasco — the worst possible result: A terribly flawed bill that, of all the GOP’s Senate superstars, only Marco Rubio could support. All the other rising stars — Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and John Thune — voted “no,” as did Leader McConnell and Whip Cornyn. Worse yet, the jam down […]
By Cal Thomas “Character, not circumstance, makes the person.” — Booker T. Washington The Supreme Court’s narrow 5-4 decision to strike down a central component of the 1965 Voting Rights Act — “freeing nine states, mostly in the South,” writes The New York Times, “to change their election laws without advance federal approval” — is a welcome recognition that […]
