Hit the brakes on high speed rail in Texas

Nothing unites politicians more than infrastructure projects. In many places, including Texas, the most prominent and galvanizing opportunity to spend transportation money is high-speed rail.

Veterans Affairs turnaround under Trump administration keeps veterans off the streets

Just three years ago the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was criticized nationally for allowing veterans to die while waiting to receive care.

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE: Want better Texas schools? Improve training for principals

Texas continues to lag nationally when it comes to educating our children, especially in reading. Only 28 percent of Texas 8th graders met the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) proficient standard in 2017, and only 71 percent met the basic standard.

Mueller fails to investigate real 2016 foreign collusion

If history is written by honest men and women, Robert Mueller’s, Inspector Clouseau-like investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign for President will go down as one of the darkest moments in history as the conflicted former FBI Director’s focus has been more concerned with protecting the FBI that...

Saturday Night Live

“There’s a lot of lessons to learn here. Not just that the left and right can still agree on some things, but also this: Americans can forgive one another.

Family (and country) first, not party first

ROBERT ROMANO A poll by Axios and SurveyMonkey found 61 percent of Democrats believe Republicans are racist, sexist and bigoted, and 31 percent of Republicans think the same thing about Democrats. 54 percent of Democrats find Republicans to be ignorant, 49 percent of Republicans believe the same...

Stop the HIT to protect American workers

A little-known provision of the Affordable Care Act has been stealthily contributing to higher health insurance premiums. It’s called the Health Insurance Tax, or HIT – and Congress is finally ready to do something about it.

Some people need to see socialism to believe it’s bad

People around the country were baffled when exit polls showed Robert or Beto O’Rourke won more votes from native Texans than incumbent Senator Ted Cruz in the midterm elections.

Midterms prove the left’s #MeToo was more about Democrat partisanship than protecting women

One of the real losers in last week’s midterms was not the right or the left – it was the #MeToo movement. Last week’s midterms proved two things – that the Democrats only care about women when it is Republicans on the chopping block and that due process must prevail.