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Saturday, November 14, 2026

The Jindal Effect

[caption id="attachment_6814" align="alignleft" width="300"]Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (photo credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0) Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (photo credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0)[/caption][...]

Why Fiorina Matters

[caption id="attachment_6798" align="alignright" width="200"]Carly Fiorina (photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0) Carly Fiorina (photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)[/caption][...]

Bush Responds to Common Core Question

In Tallahassee, Fla., on February 10, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush gave a policy speech on education in which he reportedly omitted Common Core. When asked later by a reporter if he was trying to reframe the debate and take the emphasis off Common Core, he responded “No, I’ll talk about it. What do you want to know about it?” He later said:[...]

Cruz: Leave Definition of Marriage to States

On February 10, Senator Ted Cruz reintroduced the State Marriage Defense Act. In a statement released on the occasion, he said: “Even though the Supreme Court made clear in United States v. Windsor that the federal government should defer to state ‘choices about who may be married,’ the Obama Administration has disregarded state marriage laws enacted by democratically-elected legislatures to uphold traditional marriage.”[...]