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Winners & Losers: Trump Gets Big Bill, Hillary Attacks, England Sees the Light

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Texas lawmakers, who make just $7,200 a year, will be working over Memorial Day weekend to finish up the current session, but their counterparts in Congress, who make $174,000 annually, are off...

May 23, 2025
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Winners & Losers: Trump Wins in Middle East while Austin Drops a Notch

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. The clock struck midnight on Thursday and put the dream-killing Deadline Day in the Texas House behind us. Now, we have 17 days to go in the legislative session. But that’s just...

May 16, 2025
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Winners & Losers: World Has a New Pope, Texas has a Star Base

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. With tariffs are coming down everywhere but China, and less than a month to go in the Texas legislative session, here’s who made the list: WINNER: Catholics Weigh-in With New Pope We...

May 9, 2025
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Winners & Losers: 100 Days, Faith, College Football & More

Every Friday morning I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Somehow it is already May, and the Texas House will start working Saturdays tomorrow as they speed toward June 2. Meanwhile, the numbers on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days are dazzling—although...

May 2, 2025
Higher Education

Texas Universities Need More Reform

After Texas passed the strongest anti-DEI legislation in the country last year, the faculty and administrators who opposed it predicted apocalypse. They insisted that professors would leave Texas and no talented prospects would come to replace them. They said students would wander their campuses lost in despair without DEI’s identity-based support centers and programs that...

May 1, 2025
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Winners & Losers: Too Many F’s, Too Much Regulation + Harry Potter

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Today marks President Donald Trump’s 95th day in office, while the Texas Legislature has knocked out 102 of the constitutionally allotted 140 days in the regular odd-year session. Here’s the list: Winner:...

April 25, 2025
Higher Education

Trump Team Pointing Harvard To Texas Model

On Monday, federal officials announced they would freeze $2.2 billion in federal funds for Harvard University, along with an additional $60 million grant, after the school’s leadership hauntingly refused to meet new requirements that they establish merit-based admission and hiring policies, reform university governance and audit the student body, faculty, staff and leadership to make...

April 16, 2025
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Winners & Losers: Stocks Up & Down, Abbott Wins & Buying College Sports is a Loser

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Lots of ups and downs this week, but here’s who made the list: WINNER: President Donald Trump – Texas Majority Doesn’t Doubt Him Seconds after, President Donald Trump announced he was putting...

April 11, 2025
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Winners & Losers: ESAs, Tesla Protests and the Final Four

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. With less than 60 days to go in the Legislative Session and two Texas teams in the Final Four tournaments this weekend, the already-hectic pace is approaching light speed. Here’s who made...

April 4, 2025
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Winners & Losers: Trump Cheers Women, Texas Fights Fat & Tech Wins Big!

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. With Women’s History Month coming to a close and March Madness trickling down to the Elite Eight, here’s who made the list: Winner: Trump’s Women’s History Month Speech at the White House...

March 28, 2025
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Winners & Losers: Astronauts Returned, Gangs Deported

Every Friday morning I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. With Texas just past the halfway mark of the 140-day legislative session and March Madness officially begun, here’s who made the list: Winner: SpaceX Rescue of Astronauts President Donald Trump gave us...

March 21, 2025
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Winners & Losers: Trump’s Big Speech & Texas’ Big Wins

Every Friday morning I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. March and the President blew in like a lion. Here’s who made the list: Winner: Trump’s First Speech to Congress One thing that was clear from President Donald Trump’s first speech to...

March 7, 2025
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