Tom Giovanetti

People who fall on all sides of the political spectrum are signaling concern over what implementing Texas’ social media law will look like practically.

If you think inflation is bad now, wait until state and local governments and the feds start spending all of that appropriated money in the infrastructure bill.

Republican Texas legislators have chosen the campaign dollars of big-money contributors over fidelity to their stated free-market principles. They’ve chosen favoring businesses over consumers.

One of the reasons the SALT cap withstood the court challenge is because it’s actual legislation. It would be a grotesque overreach for the judicial branch to overturn a legitimate exercise of self-government through the legislative process.

The mission of the Texas GOP should be to win elections, and in an increasingly diverse and secular Texas, building a winning coalition means not “othering” people who want to be Republicans but who don’t share your Christian beliefs.

Most observers realize that the United States is going to have to increase its defense spending. But, with federal debt ballooning, interest rates rising and the return of inflation, we simply must set our fiscal house in order. We must be able to say “no” to more things so that we can “yes” to a stronger defense.

Getting worked up over a single issue or a single frustration may give you some personal satisfaction, but is counterproductive to the long-term goal of winning elections and implementing policy.

There is no solution to inflation other than reining in loose money and enduring whatever temporary economic pain may result. 

Seeing the Heritage Foundation institutionalize grievance politics and populist anger and demonize an entire industry is a mistake with potentially enormous consequences.

A self-governing people chooses their own laws through representative democracy, not through imposition by the judicial branch.