Texas Public Policy Foundation
Vice President for Communications at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a free-market think-tank based in Austin, dealing with state and national policy; writer at large for the Texas Monthly and co-founder of RedState.com, an influential conservative Republican web blog
The Fiscal Cliff, Susan Rice and Political Gamesmanship As promised, President Obama had lunch with Mitt Romney today — no press coverage, no details of their discussion. But just weeks after the election, partisanship is still the word in Washington. After days of optimism about avoiding the fiscal cliffs, hard lines are now being drawn.
The Missing Issues in the Presidential Campaign If you're frustrated by the limited number of issues in this year's presidential campaign, you are not alone. For the first time since the election of 1988, the issue of climate change was not raised in any of this year's presidential or vice presidential debates.
The Missing Issues in the Presidential Campaign No campaign has ever touched on all the important issues, but who decides what's worth discussing and when?
Why Don't the National Candidates Campaign in the Cities? Tonight's vice presidential debate will dramatize a political pattern that doesn't get much attention: the parties have not contested the cities for years. Paul Ryan epitomizes the ideal of “small-town conservatism,” while Joe Biden comes from hard-scrabble, blue-collar Scranton, Pennsylvania.
After Days of Speeches, It's Time for the Main Event Tonight it's Mitt Romney 's turn at last after a convention that's pushed increasingly toward a Tea-Party version of limited government. Republican delegates and the voters at large will learn if their nominee will still present himself as the pragmatic Mr. Fixit or more of a conservative ideologue.
Paul Ryan and the Race to the White House In less than a week since Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan , it's been called a triumph of Reaganesque proportions -- and a political disaster. In fact, few potential voters know much about the 42-year-old from Wisconsin, a staff member on Capitol Hill until his election to Congress in 1999.
Obama, Romney and Latino Voters President Obama and challenger Romney talk to Latinos. Moody's is bearish on the big banks. The push and pull over Fast and Furious. And all eyes on SCOTUS.
Greek Drama Greece to vote on ditching the Euro. Egypt’s fledgling democracy faces a test. Obama by-passes Congress on immigration reforms. The GAO scorches Fed directors.
Bureaucrats Gone Wild The squeaky clean Secret Service and General Services Administration are ensnared in scandals involving behavior befitting the bad guys they usually investigate.
Obama, Candidate in Chief President Obama took direct aim at presumptive GOP challenger Mitt Romney, and fended off criticisms over a weak jobs report and accusations that he stuck it to SCOTUS.
State Politics and the Gender Wars The National Organization for Women calls it "wonderfully humorous," but Ohio's Democratic State Senator Nina Turner says she's "as serious as a heart attack." She's one of the female legislators in several states who say they're giving the men a taste of their own medicine when it comes to restrictions on abortion and contraception.
The last time L.A. teachers went on strike L.A. teachers last went on strike in May of 1989, and what L.A. Unified teachers demanded back then isn’t that different from what they’re demanding 30 years later.
President Trump addresses the nation NPR's special coverage the president's prime time address.
