A year or so from now, anyone looking for a pivotal date for the U. S. economic and market turnaround should remember May 5, 2003, the date of President Bush’s speech in Little Rock, of all places. It was an almost textbook treatment of the economics of small business and the impact of supply side […]
Archives for August 2003
“Order” In Higher Education
Former Houstonian John Moores, currently Chairman of the University of California Board of Regents, hit upon an age-old problem in a recent op/ed essay, one that has vexed any number of Texas Higher Education Coordinating Boards and “blue ribbon commissions”—how to bring strategic order to the State’s system of higher education. There have been various […]
Defending Moral Clarity In Foreign Policy
As we move deeper into the “funny season” of Presidential election politics, it becomes increasingly more important to stay tightly focused on the principles of moral clarity that have defined Bush foreign policy since 9-11. The strategy of those who oppose the Bush Doctrine, particularly the policy of pre-emption, is to attack the so-called “soft […]
Advancing The Texas Education “Miracle”
Clearly, a major centerpiece of George W. Bush’s success as Governor of Texas and a significant plank in the platform for his Presidential candidacy was his leadership of the Texas public education reforms in accountability and standards of the mid to late 1990’s, and nowhere were these reforms in more evidence than in Houston, which […]