Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
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The SEC Is Good At Football (Or Was); It’s Not So Good At Picking Presidential Nominees
Posted on December 10, 2015
(Originally published in the WSJ) If recent history is any guide, the Republican candidate who competes best in the once-solid South won’t get enough votes in the rest of the...
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Cruz’s Relentless Mendacity
Posted on July 27, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) “Mendacity” is the first word in Ted Cruz’s new book. How appropriate! If there is one word that sums up the senator’s short political...
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Living In a Game of Thrones World
Posted on May 19, 2015
A wealthy family, blocks from Joe Biden’s house, is held (presumably at gunpoint), murdered and then burned to cover up the evidence. Another family is murdered by their next-door neighbor,...
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Jim Wright: Leaving a Mark
Posted on May 7, 2015
Jim Wright left a mark. I came to Washington to work for House Republican Leader Bob Michel in September of 1989, about four months after the Texas Democrat stepped down...
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5 Reasons to Expect Congress Will Act to Keep Homeland Security Agency Open
Posted on February 25, 2015
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) Here are five reasons to expect that Congress will get its act together and fund the Department of Homeland Security before the agency’s...
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