Planned Parenthood is targeting midterm election campaigns in key states to push progressive candidates across the finish line. By: Marie Solis – newsweek.com – March 1, 2018 Planned Parenthood Votes and Planned Parenthood Action Fund is making a hefty investment in defeating anti-choice candidates in the upcoming midterm elections, announcing Thursday a $20 million campaign called “March. Vote. Win.” The...

Trump: I’m Not Backing Down on Tariffs By: Katie Pavlich – townhall.com – March 05, 2018 Speaking at the White House Monday afternoon during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said he isn’t backing down on issuing tariffs for imported steel and aluminum. “We’re not backing down,” Trump said, adding tariffs can be negotiated through...

From: Houston Chronicle – msn.com – March 5, 2018 Residents in the Lone Star State will open the midterm election season when they take to the polls on Tuesday. The primary races could have national implications in both the House and the Senate come Election Day this November. With early voting in Texas already underway, some analysts say the wave...

Public-sector unions enjoy an exception from the First Amendment. They shouldn’t. By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 1, 2018 With Janus, the Supreme Court has a chance to right a 40-year-old wrong. Bad law doesn’t get better just because it’s old. That’s especially true when that bad law violates a core principle of the First Amendment — that the...

Guns and immigration are not simply drivers of polarization, they are examples of its power. By: Jonah Goldberg – nationalreview.com – February 28, 2018 Guns and immigration are not simply drivers of polarization, they are examples of its power. Set aside what you think of guns or immigration as a matter of public policy or even morality. Instead, think of...

The response of the Broward County sheriff’s department to the Parkland, Fla., shooting has been an utter failure. By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – February 25, 2018 It is impossible to imagine circumstances under which Broward County sheriff Scott Israel could attempt to perform his duties with the confidence of the public. He should resign immediately, and if, as he...

Grow and Strengthen our Economy By: Jeff Leach – jeffleach.com Lowering Taxes  Taxes should be lowered so that hardworking taxpayers can keep more of what they earn in their own pocket – where it does the most good.  During the 83rd Legislative Session I passed legislation spurring stable job growth by providing substantive tax relief for small and mid-sized Texas...

By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – February 20, 2018 The good news is that the Republican tax reform passed in December will end the mandate to have government-approved health insurance coverage beginning in 2019. The bad news is that, unless Congress acts — or unless states decide to work around the law — individuals won’t have any good policies to...

  By: David French – nationalreview.com – February 21, 2018 Banning them would gut the concept of an armed citizenry as a final, emergency bulwark against tyranny. Arguments about guns tend to suffer from two distinct problems. The first — and most obvious — is they quickly get screechy. The arguments devolve into shouting matches and temper tantrums. The goal...

By: Michael D. Shear – nytimes.com – February 20, 2018 The president asked the Justice Department to propose regulations that would ban “bump stocks,” which can convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon. President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice...