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This appears to be one of the questions that set off the opponents of CSCOPE and led them to believe that the curriculum is fraught with pol...

CSCOPE , a K-12 educational curriculum support system designed to assist the smaller ISD's in Texas to prepare it students for the STARR...

According to insiders , the power of the Tea Party was weaker, that of moderate Republicans stronger, and that of Democrats about the same t...

The National Journal argues that Republicans face electoral risks if they focus only on the current scandals - IRS, AP, and Benghazi - to t...

There's lots flying around on Friday's revelation that the IRS was auditing Tea Party groups that had applied for 501(c)4 status pri...

The Texas Tribune has a brief write up on the Speaker. Whatever move against him that was going to happen against him fizzled very quickly...

Nate Silver looks at the numbers in upcoming Congress and sees reason to expect repeated turmoil. Here's the reason: While there will b...

I can't vouch for whether the point made in the article is in fact true, but it does highlight a central fact about campaigns for the p...

Robert Miller's blog today - he's a public law guy at Locke Lord - has a post pointing out that many many Republican Texas Legisla...

Jonathan Bernstein thinks so . He points to the 50 or so members of the Tea Party Caucus who are unwilling to compromise on measures that th...

Despite what we've discovered in class, thee is still strong support for third parties in the U.S: Fifty-two percent of Americans believ...

Story in Politico .

A fun - if flip - comparison .

The author's purpose here is to question whether the Tea Party will have an ongoing influence across the U.S. but his article touches o...

The Daily Beast's Howard Kutz points out the power of the Tea Party to ensure that Republican candidates toe the party line: If you a...

The story : The tea party movement came into public consciousness sometime in the early months of President Obama’s tenure in the White Hous...

That's one author's take on the recent failure of a budget bill : This may have been the worst defeat and biggest rebuke ever for Ho...

This is an appropriate opinion piece for 2301 - and is applicable to 2302 - considering our focus on Constitutional meaning. There is a cur...

Story in the NYT : Standard & Poor’s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers for the first time on F...

Debt Ceiling Rumble: Business vs. the Tea Party Here's more analysis of a key division within the Republican Party. So far, theTea Par...