Footage From The Dallas Tea Pary – Katrina Pierson

Spending On Higher Education Decreases While University Presidents’ Salaries Increase

Many middle class Texas families are currently struggling to pay for their son’s or daughter’s education, because of the rising cost of tuition in most public schools. With tuition having been deregulated by the Texas Legislature back in 2003 public universities are now free to raise the cost to attend their institution of higher academia [...]

YCT Announces Opposition To Statewide Smoking Ban

Today, the Young Conservatives of Texas released a press release stating the organization’s opposition to HB 5 and SB 544, which if passed would place a statewide smoking ban similar to current bans implemented in over twenty cities in the State of Texas. YCT takes the stance that the passage of such bills would be [...]

Get The Word Out

Don’t forget this Wednesday Tax Tea Parties will be happening in cities all over the United States, in several cities in Texas including Dallas, Forth Worth, Austin, Amarillo, San Antonio, and many others. These events are important to show our representatives on Capital Hill that the American people stand for the very principles that our [...]

TX Senate Expands Transportation Double-Taxation Bill

The Texas Senate through the preliminary passage of SB 855 moved to allow billions of dollars in new taxes in almost every major region in the State of Texas. The bill faces final vote Tuesday. Originally, the bill was intended to only apply to one region in the State, but more communities were added today without [...]

HB 2024: New Stadium for UNT

During the Fall 2008 semester at the University of North Texas fourteen percent of the student body voted on a referendum that approved of the administration’s plan to apply a new athletics fee in 2011. A portion of this athletics fee will go towards building a new stadium for the university that the campus doesn’t [...]

UNT Student Government Needs To Rethink Its Priorities

In my years at the University of North Texas I never saw much use for the Student Government Association. If you ask any member of the SGA at UNT they will say that they exist to represent the student body of North Texas, and assist with making the overall college environment better for students. However, [...]

YCT Opposes Barack Obama Freeway Bill

The Young Conservatives of Texas has come out publicly against Sen Royce West’s (D-Dallas) SB 1510 bill, which if passed would rename I-20 between Dowdy Ferry Rd and Mountain Creek Pkwy after President Obama. The man has been in office four months, and already people want to name freeways after him and build up monuments [...]

Voter Identification in Texas

It is easy to make an emotionally based argument with nothing behind it to give the argument any substance. It is even easier to get people to listen to these arguments. Barack Obama was able to win the presidential election off of hollow promises, and straight lies for that matter. Many liberals will try to [...]

SB 1049 Moves Through Committee With Unanimous Vote

There used to be a time when an individual old enough to enlist in the army was also old enough to buy a beer. That is no longer the case, and if Texas Senator Carlos Uresti (D-19) and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee have their way a person may be old enough to [...]