Op/Ed

Feel free to disregard all of the Democrats’ hypocritical warnings about the current threats to democracy. The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court operate in about as pure of a democracy as you can get

If the GOP is the racist party of exclusion that Biden and many Democrats claim, why do so many successful people of color belong to the GOP, eager to be the party’s face of the future?

Carefully investing taxpayer dollars to bring high-speed internet to unserved rural areas makes sense, but lighting taxpayer dollars on fire in a special-interest giveaway to build “networks to nowhere” does not. As always, the devil is in the details.

Republicans who claim the voting system can’t be trusted shouldn’t be surprised if many Republican-inclined voters don’t vote, and if Republicans lose elections as a result.

The biggest threat to U.S. democracy isn’t some state election laws, it’s the effort to create a much more powerful executive who can ignore the duly elected representatives of the people.

There is one primary cause of why they are reemerging today: Record levels of unchecked theft and crime that make stores not just unprofitable, but unsafe for employees and customers.

Ideally, evangelicals should be supporting candidates who best reflect their values, which include but are not limited to religion, at least through the primaries.

Texas likes to consider itself a leader in many areas. But with respect to how the state treats its youth offenders, it is far behind.

If you believe there was, or is, a “deep state” of bureaucrats, Washington insiders and power brokers who operate outside the law and do pretty much whatever they want, in this case you were right. Chalk up one for the conspiracy theorists. 

Spirits regulation is just another policy area in which reality doesn’t match the rhetoric from supposedly free-market, limited-government Texas politicians.