Texas Governor Greg Abbott vowed to cut funding to Austin’s new sheriff after she announced her county would scale back cooperation with federal immigration officials over deportations, marking a showdown over so-called sanctuary cities that may resonate beyond the Lone Star state. (Article by Shane Dixon Kavanaugh from Vocativ.com ) Abbott, a Republican, has threatened […]

The world is awash in plastics, and that includes the oceans. What’s more, this non-biodegradable substance is becoming more than just a nuisance, it’s beginning to threaten ecosystems – the very chains of life – everywhere. As noted in the journal Science recently, there has been a constant barrage of plastics being dumped into oceans […]

The Austin Sentinel reported in March about the deplorable living conditions children are subjected to in foster care as the state of Texas struggles to manage budget insufficiencies and an influx in children removed from their homes. The Dallas Morning News revealed that for the second time in less than a decade, foster children were being […]

Austin, TX -(AmmoLand.com)- The recent murder of a female undergraduate on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin serves as a tragic reminder that college campuses, though typically safe, do play host to every form of violent crime found throughout the rest of society. (Article by Justin Stakes, republished from http://www.ammoland.com/2016/04/students-concealed-carrys-statement-murder-ut-austin/#axzz45YDlPLMs) No matter how […]

AUSTIN—Texas election laws are not being followed in many counties. Without this consistency, and with the “it’s the way we do it” attitude, this has greatly opened the door to fraud. The true intent of the Legislature was to ensure voter integrity at the highest expectation is achieved. Unwarranted waivers allowing election officials to ignore […]

A motion for the state of Texas to intervene in a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Land Management regarding the Red River “land grab” was granted on Monday. The ruling was applauded by Gov. Greg Abbott, who promptly took to Twitter to share the news, adding that if the government wants it, they will […]

While no state and no set of state leaders are perfect purveyors of liberty, there are definitely some that are better at it than others. Most states on the left and right coasts have long been dominated by socialists, Marxists and other Left-leaning authoritarians who tend to pay more attention to the Constitution when it […]

This Texas Independence Day proved sweeter than most, as Texans were finally freed from their ties to a controversial contract with Spanish toll operator Cintra, which filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, citing $1.7 million in debt. Cintra is the owner of SH 130, Texas’ first foreign-owned toll road, which has the highest speed limit in […]

Two gorgeous young women with a passion for free-market innovation and love of freedom have single-handedly managed to destabilize the stranglehold that Austin politicians have over a city which once prided itself in creativity, weirdness and entrepreneurship. Capitalizing on an important transition in Austin’s political scene, Tori Moreland and Rachel Kania struck when the opportunity […]

Public universities in Texas cannot ban guns from dorm rooms, despite efforts to do so at the University of Texas at Austin. Beginning in August of next year, license holders (you must be 21+ years old to obtain one) may carry a concealed handgun on university campuses. The new campus carry law, S.B. 11, was […]