Posts Tagged ‘Texas’

Some Insight on Ideology

Ideology seems to be a topic of renewed interest in the United States at present. While ideologues on all sides have long reveled in their exagerated banter, it seems that the media is now involved. Nonetheless, the press too fails to capture the essential realities of contemporary American political life. On the left and the right today, [...]

Politics of Process and Policy

Democrats will do anything to pass health insurance reform, even, it seems, subvert the constitution. Knowing that they still lack the votes to pass the kickback-filled Senate health reform bill word-for-word, Democrats in the United States House of Representatives have concocted what they think may be a way around having an up-or-down vote on the [...]

The Texas Revolution: Students for SG Reform

For almost a year now I have waged a war against the hierarchs that run the University of Texas’ student government. Last year while SG’s policy director, I learned firsthand that my student government was not representing its voters, but the school’s administration. UTSG has pushed the administration’s agenda at the expense of students, even [...]