Texas
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Climate ChangeConstitutionEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Timeline of My Warnings on Historic Texas Cold
by Joe Bastardi March 3, 2021If you thought an outbreak of that magnitude was on the way, then why not get in touch with people that are in power?
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EducationFeaturedGovernment
Book Review and Podcast: Sam Houston & the Alamo Avengers by Brian Kilmeade
by Chris Talgo November 7, 2019Brian Kilmeade’s new book, Sam Houston & the Alamo Avengers, is another page-turner that sheds new light upon a pivotal point in American history.
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Budgets/Taxes
Texas Lawmakers Looking to Cut Taxes Should Control Spending First
by Joe Barnett June 13, 2019Cutting taxes — as opposed to restraining the growth in future tax increases or swapping a reduction in property taxes for an increase in the state sales tax — appears to be a nearly insurmountable obstacle.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Don’t Write Off the Internal Combustion Engine
by Bud Weinstein March 22, 2019Given the media coverage of Tesla, the Chevy Bolt and the Nissan Leaf, one might think electric vehicles are a recent invention. In fact, they have been around for more than a century.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEducationEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep153) – Forest Fires, Effects of Minimum Wage and Corporate Income Taxes
by Donald Kendal August 17, 2018Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #153 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from The Property and Environment Research Center, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the Center of the American Experiment.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEducationEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedGovernmentPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep150) – Plastic Straw Bans!?! Highway Tolls, and Student Loan Crisis
by Donald Kendal July 27, 2018Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #150 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Reason, the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, and the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
According to NBC, Researchers Disagree with Trump About Gun Law
by Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold November 17, 2017As with every mass shooting, the mainstream media has been promoting the idea that Devin Patrick Kelly’s firearm was responsible for killing almost 30 people during a Sunday church service in Texas.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
This Year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Not Been Historically Unusual
by Joseph D'Aleo November 3, 2017The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season got an early start with Arlene in April, but the most powerful storms didn’t start to hit until the last week of August, when Hurricane Harvey flooded Texas and Louisiana.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Hurricane Predictions Are “Imperfect,” While Global Warming is “Settled Science?”
by Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold September 20, 2017How is it that science can’t predict the location of a hurricane three days hence, but Global Warming experts are absolutely sure what the climate will be in 100 years
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Environment/Energy
Two Cheers For America’s Energy Infrastructure
by Bud Weinstein September 18, 2017The southern United States has just experienced two of the most severe storms of the century: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The economic damage wrought by these disasters may approach $150 billion.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Technology, Sharing, and Disaster Assistance
by Daniel Sutter September 4, 2017Hurricane Harvey struck Texas last weekend with winds of 130 mph and then stalled, dumping feet of rain and causing catastrophic flooding.
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Hurricane Harvey is approaching the Texas coast and is forecast to end an almost twelve-year span since a major hurricane (categories 3, 4, and 5 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale) made landfall in the United States.
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Education
Should Report Cards Impersonally Judge Students’ Personal Qualities?
by Robert Holland July 11, 2017When they have the power to do so, parents choose a child’s school on the basis of such varied criteria as safety, discipline, moral values, curriculum, and the availability of extracurricular opportunities.