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...

By: John W. Whitehead – rutherford.org – June 26, 2017 “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, dissenting in Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 341 (1966) The government has become an expert in finding...

By: John Fund – Nationalreview.com – February 18, 2018 In the wake of the Florida school shooting, can we now have a real conversation about what is wrong with the FBI? Howard Finkelstein, the Broward County public defender whose office is representing Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., puts it bluntly: This kid exhibited every...

jbs.org The Founders’ Solution to Out-of-Control Government: Article VI, Not V America’s Founders fought a war for independence from out-of-control Big Government. Then they created a new government limited to its proper role of protecting the God-given rights of the people. The Constitution is a set of rules that governs the government, not the people. It allows We the People to...

By: Robert Knight – townhall.com – February 13, 2018 According to The Washington Post, which should know, Democrats are moving even farther left in an effort to appeal to more Americans. According to The Washington Post, which should know, Democrats are moving even farther left in an effort to appeal to more Americans. A new role model for them might...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – February 15, 2018 Defending the Second Amendment takes courage, despite what gun-control advocates say. Defending the Second Amendment takes courage, gun-control advocates’ claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Every single time America is rocked by a mass shooting, the insults come raining down: Conservatives and Republican politicians who oppose new gun-control laws aren’t just wrong,...