Posts By: Luke Macias

25% tyranny is still tyranny. Today the Texas government reiterated its newly found disdain for liberty and justice when they proudly announced their vision for re-opening Texas. This is not enough. Texans do not want incremental liberty and freedom. Texans want and deserve liberty and freedom in full. The appropriate response to the tyranny that has been imposed on… Read more

The fear factor: Fear is not a principle for good policy. Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected in 1932 at the peak of the Great Depression, opened his inaugural address with the now legendary statement: So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning,… Read more

Open for Business – Just Not the State’s Business On March 18, 2020 the Texas Capitol was closed to the public by the State Preservation Board in response to the Governor’s Executive Order shutting down most economic and social activity across the state due to the perceived rise in COVID-19 cases. Now, almost five months… Read more

Does Liberty Matter? Either liberty matters, or it doesn’t. You can’t have it both ways, no matter what actions Governor Abbott or any local elected official takes or allows to be taken. We have repeatedly heard the Governor say that local governments cannot enforce a requirement that individuals wear masks. Apparently though, local governments have… Read more

Post COVID Texas—Liberty Lost? The death of approximately 1,500 Texans due to COVID-19 in the first five months of 2020 is unfortunate and alarming until put in perspective by comparing it to the 7,500 Texans who died with the flu. Since COVID-19 was first identified in China in late 2019, there have been over 6,193,548 cases… Read more

Balanced Budgets; No New Taxes. Until the Texas government decided to declare 90 percent of Texas businesses “non-essential” and arbitrarily close them indefinitely, Redistricting loomed as the biggest challenge facing the upcoming 87th legislative session. However, with the double whammy of the Chinese COVID-19 shutdowns and the unprecedented drops in oil and gas futures, there… Read more

Case Study of Liberty Loss Through Government Overreach – Part 5 After the latest court hearing on the Pardo case, there is much to be thankful for.   As the Supreme Court’s order to return Drake to his family had previously signaled, the Kaufman family court finally dismissed with prejudice the fabricated CPS case against the… Read more

Texas Medical Board Now Triaging Patients. If you thought the ill-conceived directive from the Pharmacy Commission, which directed pharmacies to not fill prescriptions for existing drugs prescribed by medical doctors for patients the doctor wanted to treat for the Chinese Corona Virus was dreadful, wait until you hear what the Texas Medical Board (TMB) has… Read more

  Texas Medical Board Now Triaging Patients. If you thought the ill-conceived directive from the Pharmacy Commission, which directed pharmacies to not fill prescriptions for existing drugs prescribed by medical doctors for patients the doctor wanted to treat for the Chinese Corona Virus was dreadful, wait until you hear what the Texas Medical Board (TMB)… Read more