Opinion Archive

Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s Pay to Play - Or The 230-1 Tax Abatement to Campaign Contribution Ratio	September 12th, 2005
The Houston Chronicle's Clay Robison and his Necessary Columnical Recusal - Governor Perry as egregious blind spot	August 29th, 2005
Irreconcilable Similarities - Part II - House Speaker as legislative impediment	August 24th, 2005
Irreconcilable Similarities - Part I - No man is an island, but Speaker Tom Craddick is all about the Basin	August 22nd, 2005
Governor Rick Perry v. The Press - The Governor’s toughest opponent in 2006 is not running for anything	August 8th, 2005
Moderate Incumbent Elephant Primary Season - Part IV - On replacing the RINOs	August 2nd, 2005
Ambulance and Elephant Chasing - Personal injury trial lawyers wade into the Republican Gubernatorial primary	July 25th, 2005
Moderate Incumbent Elephant Primary Season - Part III - Death and taxes	July 18th, 2005
Ronnie Earle’s Pseudo-Justice Fiefdom - Part I - Indicting Republicans as cottage industry	July 14th, 2005
Moderate Incumbent Elephant Primary Season - Part II - Back on safari	July 11th, 2005
School Refinance - Why the special session was necessary, and why it will play in a primary	July 8th, 2005
Moderate Incumbent Elephant Primary Season - Part I - And the hunting is good	July 5th, 2005
Carole Keeton Strayhorn: “I Am a Fiscal Conservative” Where the Comptroller’s words, and deeds both proposed and done, diverge	June 28th, 2005
Your Veto Pen, Sir - Governor Perry should send the budget back from whence it came	June 15th, 2005
Only Democrat Christians Can Vote - At least according to the Dallas Morning News	June 6th, 2005
Carole Keeton McCain, Texas Comptroller	June 2nd, 2005
Texas Conservative Balking Points	May 31st, 2005
Madame Legislative Expediency	May 20th, 2005
News-Weak	May 16th, 2005
HB 3: Ugly But Good	March 17th, 2005
Silly Bill, the Second, of 2005	February 7th, 2005
Silly Bill, the First, of 2005	February 7th, 2005
The Lion that Squeaked - It appears there is less room at the Governor’s mansion than originally thought	February 3rd, 2005
Heading a Gubernatorial Primary Off at the Pass - Governor Perry is getting his right-wing ducks in a row	January 17th, 2005
Another Pyramid Scheme’s Demise - Social Security is broken, and only the free market can fix it	December 21st, 2004
Stephen Moore: Social Security and Tax Reform in 18 Months	December 14th, 2004
Context Required When Analyzing NEA Salary Charts and Proffering Federal Legislation	December 2nd, 2004
Federal Ham, And Why Rick Perry Will Win in 2006 - And how the twain actually do meet	November 29th, 2004
The Racist Roundtable Redux	November 18th, 2004
No Surprise at All - The media's flabbergasted response to some rudimentary election season developments	November 2nd, 2004
The Left’s Distorted View of Rights - Rights versus “rights”	October 20th, 2004
Campaign Finance Reform is Free Speech Restricted	September 28th, 2004
The Sad, Selective Application of Shame	July 27th, 2004
Sandy Berger and his Boxer Rebellion - The long and the shorts of it	July 23rd, 2004
Why John Edwards? The Personality Gap	July 9th, 2004
Ronald Reagan 1911-2004	June 9th, 2004
The Second Special Session Will Be …	May 25th, 2004
The Time for Vouchers is Now	April 30th, 2004
Our Better Angels - Pat Tillman 1977-2004 - Love of country over want of money	April 23rd, 2004
The Misapplication of Power - The NEA may have a bi-partisan membership, but their political activity is strictly partisan	February 2nd, 2004
Oppose By Any Other Name - The Administration may not want to call it amnesty, but it still smells terrible	January 16th, 2004
The Year To Be - Some things that will come to pass, and others that should	December 31st, 2003
Endemic Racism: Affirmative Action	November 14th, 2001
Through the Looking Glass	August 17th, 2001
Tax Cuts 101	September 12th, 2000
Abortion 2000 - Turnout of the single-issue abortion voter and which side benefits most	July 9th, 2000
Elecution 2000 - By the time the primaries get underway, it may already be too late	June 13th, 1999
Hide the Women and Children - The Clinton scorched-earth policy, while already underway, has not yet begun to blight	December 20th, 1998
Impeachment IS Censure For Clinton's defenders, the call for an extra-Constitutional punishment proves they are missing the point	December 16th, 1998
All the President’s Hens	October 16th, 1998
Town Bleating Last night's town meeting on the Iraqi crisis may have appeared staged, but in this situation there is too much reality for false advertising	February 18th, 1998

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