Not aware of just how out of control the TABC, the notorious Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, is? Read More»

Bill White is no stranger in Washington. Having served in the Clinton Administration, he was an early entrant in the race that never materialized to replace U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison before deciding to run for governor. Read More»

Wow, Democrats working for Judy Jennings, left-wing ideologue for State Board of Education, must be getting desperate.  Recently, they launched another push poll on the SBOE 10 race in which they ask if voters know that Dr. Marsha Farney "attended a white-supremacist rally" last Summer.  Read More»

After years of whining and gnashing of teeth, Texas public schools were able to effect major change in the state’s testing programs in the last Legislature. Soon to be gone is the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS test. Read More»

We keep being told the Texas Department of Transportation has completely run out of money, completely broke, and that all road construction will grind to halt in short order... unless Texans get behind a tax hike of one sort or other. And yet word comes this week that the state is paying for an $8.7-million "environmental impact" and preliminary design studies for an Austin-to-San Antonio passenger-rail line. Read More»

Barack Obama will be back in Texas tomorrow. Once again Bill White, the Democratic nominee for governor, is purposefully avoiding the unpopular president. But this time not only to miss an inconvenient photo-op, Mr. White now takes another swipe at Texans serving in the military. Read More»

Unlike in the US House of Representatives, the Texas House of Representatives requires its members to live within the district they represent, and candidates for such office to have established residency in the district. Read More»

Insurance is heavily regulated. Bananas aren’t regulated at all. Which industry’s prices do you prefer? Read More»

Many conservatives have suggested Texas House Speaker Joe Straus might be a little too cozy with the Legislature’s liberals. The policy results of that relationship has been mapped and diagrammed by a Rice University professor and publicized by the Texas Tribune. All things considered, the Republican Straus allowed Democrats to run things pretty much to the same degree they did 2001… when their party held the speakership. Read More»

This should not come as a surprise to anyone who actually paid attention last session, but a new analysis from Rice University suggests that despite their minority status, Texas liberals in the Legislature actually had far more influence on the agenda than "public perception" might have it. Read More»