The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: “Voting Deserts,” voter registration rates, turnout, and other nonsense of the Left take up much political coverage and discussion time by people on all sides and do so to the exclusion of something few harping on the matters ever think about: Individual freedom.
Most of this is in reaction to a very well written piece by Gromer Jeffers, Jr. at the Dallas Morning (s)News: In ‘voting deserts,’ D-FW advocacy groups want to drive more voters to the polls.
There is something very elitist, in the most negative sense of the word, about the entire everyone-should-register, everyone-should-vote movement when adherents to such drone on with their speculations as to why other citizens choose not to participate. It is almost always tinged with the idea that the nonvoter would share my enthusiasm for voting, almost presented as something sacred, if it weren’t for his ignorance at how to go about it, how to register, or knowing for whom he should vote.
Our republic is not well served by ignoring the right of people to not vote; it is not well served by having people vote who don’t care enough to educate themselves, and; it is not well served by people voting who are simply manipulated into the polling booth. A representative republic is based on its participants being educated and interested in self-government. Such a system is not designed to work with the input of people who don’t care.
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Public Schools: Democrat district judge extends ruling to keep parents and taxpayers in the dark as to how their expensive public schools are performing. And, TEA’s chief asks lawmakers to ban cellphone use by students in schools.
Harris/Biden ordered cover-up of the increase in suspected terrorists arrested at the border; also moved illegals from CA to TX, plus more border news.
Lubbock County courthouse
Bowtie Bully Curtish Parrish and other tax takers and spenders hold a presser to scare the public into not passing a big ($7.5 million) spending/tax increase in Lubbock County. All you need understand is what Bowtie Bully Parrish said in the July budget hearing:
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