It appears the lure of the Texas job market is so strong even former presidents who hail from other states are now being enticed to the Lone Star State. Welcome to Texas, President Carter.
This kind of thing should be reported far and wide, loudly denounced, and the perpetrators run out of town. There is no room in government for corruption.
This seems like a good idea. The City of Dallas to again consider privatizing West Dallas auto pound.
While the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline project flounders on President Obama’s desk, Texas pushes ahead with the Cline shale pipeline. The Federal Government Model is to delay and thwart at every opportunity those projects that will create jobs and help create an energy independent North America. The Texas model is to find the most creative and efficient methods to harvest domestic energy and get it to market, creating jobs along the way and doing it in an environmentally responsible way. It goes without saying that The Texas Model is better in every way.
This is a fun and helpful guide to Central Texas water parks. What better way to exercise your individual liberty through the doldrums of a hot Texas summer?
The Texas Observer had an interesting article in July about a Department of Public Safety lab technician, Jonathan Salvador, whose fabricated lab results aided in hundreds of convictions which may now be overturned. One of the dangers of a big government with many laws and zealous prosecutors is the development of a “win at any cost” mentality. This mentality often produces overzealous prosecutions, overcharging, hiding of exculpatory evidence, faked lab results, and just plain shoddy work performed by folks who are inadequately trained, biased in favor of the prosecution, or just trying to keep up with the caseload and missing things.
In the extreme we see this in instances such as the tragic Michael Morton case in which an innocent man spent decades in prison for a murder that he not only did not commit, but that the prosecution likely knew he did not commit. A less extreme consequence, but still quite horrifying, is the trust that is placed in the results of lab tests run by prosecution friendly technicians. In the case of Jonathan Salvador it appears that a combination of mistakes and outright faked results helped to convict hundreds (thousands?) of defendants. Many of these defendants ...
The Statesman has a great piece on the top workplaces in Austin. Central Texas truly is one of the great economic hubs of America today. It’s a big part of the reason people are flooding into Texas from all around the nation. Our state truly is The Land of Opportunity.
In The Arena we will discuss Texas politics, policy, and culture from a liberty perspective. Our commentary will cover local, state, and national items of interest to Texans. As it did during the 83rd Legislative Session, our commentary and analysis will draw heavily on our Liberty Principles. These are the principles we use to evaluate legislation and they are the principles that will inform our issue coverage here in The Arena. We don’t claim that these principles constitute a comprehensive definition of liberty, they are simply our areas of focus within the broad category of liberty.
We are an organization based not on party or person, but on principle. At its core, our philosophy is that liberty ought to be expanded and government ought to be contracted in size, scope, and cost. In our endeavor to promote liberty, we will be equal opportunity critics without regard for party affiliation when we see politicians encroaching on liberty. We will happily applaud when our candidates, elected officials, administrative policy makers, and institutions support liberty and we will call them out when they do not. Consistent with our earlier pledge to not get involved in elections, ...
Fraudulent callers have spoofed our phone line. If you have received a phone call in which the caller either hung up without saying anything or asked for information about your medical history and the call appeared to originate from our phone number, please disregard the call. It appears that we have been the target of phone spoofing fraud. Phone spoofing is when someone places a phone call but uses a service to make it appear on Caller ID as though the number actually originated from another number. In this case, the fraudulent caller appears to have robo-called hundreds of cell phones and put our number in the Caller ID.
To be clear, we did not place the phone calls and we do not know who placed the phone calls. This fraud is disturbing and likely illegal under the federal Truth in Caller ID Act. If you continue to receive such calls, please gather as much information as you can and pass it along to us so that we may inform the proper authorities.
The May 8 Floor Report is updated to reflect the Supplemental House Calendar for all bills scheduled for second reading. As a reminder, except for rare occasions we do not include bills on third reading in our report.
