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Legislation Would Drop Capital Murder in Cases Where Women Suffer from Postpartum Psychosis
The
Texas House of Representatives could soon consider a measure that could
allow some women who kill their infants after birth to get out of
prison in a mere six months to two years by claiming postpartum
psychosis as a defense. Opponents of the legislation say the bill comes
close to decriminalizing murder of an infant.
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Re-Thinking School Accountability: Plan Would Move Away From TAKS-Only Standard
A
new public school accountability plan for Texas would move Texas away
from relying solely on a single test to measure student and school
performance and would instead place greater emphasis on college
readiness and competence in the core curriculum. The Texas Legislature
took up the issue in both House and Senate on Wednesday, passing HB 3
and SB 3 respectively.
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Hutchison Wants to Secede... From the Federal Gas Tax
Texas
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has filed legislation to give states the
option to bail out of the federal highway system and keep their gasoline
tax dollars for themselves. That would mean billions of dollars in new
revenue for the cash-strapped Texas Department of Transportation
(TxDOT).
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Obama's First Hundred Days and U.S. Presidential Realities
While
many of his followers may be dismayed, and while many of his critics
might be unwilling to notice, the fact is that a single concept
dominated Obama’s first hundred days: continuity.
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Legislature Seeks to Fight Human Trafficking
"SB
89 gives law enforcement the tools they need to recognize the victims
of human trafficking and to prosecute those that prey on the innocent,”
Van de Putte said. “I look forward to working with Representative
Thompson, who has championed this cause in the House, Governor Perry,
and Attorney General Abbott.
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Texas Senate Approves Merit-Based Grading
The
Texas Senate has passed a measure to require that all Texas schools
base their grading systems on merit alone. The measure comes in the wake
of revelations by teachers and others that some schools had instituted
grading systems where no one fails.
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State Board of Education Pulls Reins on “Radical” Curriculum Group
The
Texas State Board of Education on Wednesday came down with a reprimand
on its social studies curriculum working group after a draft proposal of
the group’s new curriculum came to light showing a series of far-left
changes that education bureaucrats wanted to install in place of the
traditional Texas social studies curriculum.
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Sshhh! Perry: There’s a Better Plan, and Even Texas Monthly Might Like It
The
January, 1975 issue of Texas Monthly, in fact, is entirely devoted to
the idea of Texas secession. Evidently, back then, that loaded buzzword
“secession” didn’t have all the evil and racist connotations that the
sage of the lone star magazine world seems to think it does today. Burka
should know this. After all, in 1975, he was on the Texas Monthly staff as one of the magazine’s five Senior Editors.
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Unbreaking the Logjam on "Social Issues" Bills
The
legislative process is never fast and pretty, but many conservatives
were growing restless with the House State Affairs Committee’s pace for
hearing so-called “social” legislation such as abortion, immigration and
legislation that re-affirms state sovereignty.
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Torture and the U.S. Intelligence Failure
The
fundamental question remains unanswered, and may remain unanswered.
When a president takes an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States,” what are the limits on his
obligation?
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