TEXAS VIEW: West Texas communities cross the line with abortion travel bans
A year and a half ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court took away the constitutional right of women to receive an abortion, this state’s...
TEXAS VIEW: There’s liars, damned liars and Greg Abbott
As the old saying goes, there’s three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
Gov. Greg Abbott employed all three strategies in a single...
TEXAS VIEW: Border is a crisis but can wait until after the election?
It’s clear now that Senate negotiators badly miscalculated in their attempt to craft a bipartisan border-security and immigration bill. Republicans misread what their Senate...
TEXAS VIEW: Congress blows opportunity to start work on reasonable border, immigration reform
The Sunday, Feb. 4, announcement that Senate negotiators had reached a deal that would free up foreign aid to the embattled states of Ukraine,...
TEXAS VIEW: Study shows moral failure of Texas’ abortion ban, which makes no exceptions...
Except for rape or incest.
With those five words, the most restrictive abortion law in the nation could have been a little less cruel.
From inception...
TEXAS VIEW: Foul Fans: Full-grown adults should set a better example from the stands
For anyone wondering why there is a shortage of officials at any sport, they don’t have to look far.
It was just two years ago...
TEXAS VIEW: Moratorium on LNG development will do more harm than good
President Joe Biden recently imposed a moratorium on the development of liquefied natural gas terminals in the U.S., citing their contribution to greenhouse gases.
It’s...
TEXAS VIEW: Border chaos reigns — in Washington — as bipartisan deal is blocked...
How serious is the chaos at our southern border?
Charles Eugene “Chip” Roy, the excitable Republican who represents a congressional district west of Austin, will...
TEXAS VIEW: People who oppose proposed Texas Parks and SpaceX land exchange might consider...
Property rights should be sacrosanct, and in Texas many people like to say they are. The reality, of course, is more complicated, as is...
TEXAS VIEW: Now we have a Yass man in the governor’s office
Greg Abbott doesn’t get it.
To be clear, the governor gets it, literally, when it’s in the form of a $6 million campaign donation from...