Category Archives: Texas

TPPF’s Jason Isaac On The Reasons Behind The Great 2021 Texas Freeze Blackouts

Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Jason Isaac has a Prager U video analysis of the reasons behind the great Texas ice storm blackouts. The analysis will be familiar to regular readers: Over-investment in unreliable, subsidized renewable energy meant under-investment in reliable … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 24, 2021

Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! Unexpectedly, Austin’s fall started the first day of fall! That never happens! The Biden Administration wants the IRS to have access to all your banking transactions of $600 or more. Good thing the … Continue reading →

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Is Austin Homeless Funding A Conduit For Democratic Party Graft?

My working theory for why Mayor Steve Adler and the other leftwing radicals on the Austin City Council inflicted the homeless crisis on Austin is that the Homeless Industrial Complex is a particularly good vehicles for passing graft onto leftwing … Continue reading →

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Have Texas Troopers Secured The Border at Del Rio?

It appears that Texas DPS Troopers have, for the time being, done what the Biden Administration seems actively hostile to doing: secure the border at the Del Rio crossing. State troopers deployed to the border by Gov. Greg Abbott are … Continue reading →

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Beto III: The Betoing

Spider-man 3. Aliens 3. Godfather Part III. Very rarely is the third installment in a series the best. What brings this to mind is word that Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, hot off losing a senate race and a Presidential primary, … Continue reading →

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Round Rock ISD Arresting Critics

So what the hell is this? A small protest was held outside the Williamson County Jail Friday night after two people were arrested in connection to a Round Rock ISD board meeting earlier in the week. The protesters said the … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 17, 2021

Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! Chaos at the border and buying American military tech to oppose China are two of the themes this week: 8,000 illegal aliens await processing underneath the Del Rio bridge on the U.S./Mexican border. … Continue reading →

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Biden Administration Blocking Flu Manchu Monoclonal Antibody Supplies To Red States?

So it appears: The Biden administration is imposing new limits on states’ ability to access to Covid-19 antibody treatments amid rising demand from GOP governors who have relied on the drug as a primary weapon against the virus. Federal health … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 10, 2021

Yesterday Joe Biden launched a sneak attack on American freedom, and tomorrow is the 20 year anniversary of 9/11. Still working on the Afghan piece. Plus more Australian madness. Biden won’t be making a live 9/11 anniversary address. Of course … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 3, 2021

Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! I’m going to coral all the Afghan Debacle news for separate post, probably next week. In the meantime: Texans are winning political battles, and Australians are losing their damn minds. Texas finally passes … Continue reading →

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