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Joshua Treviño

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Joshua S Treviño lives and writes in Austin, Texas, where he is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly. A veteran of the George W Bush administration, Joshua is also co-founder of RedState.com, and was previously vice president for communications at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He is a native Texan

August 2012

  • Paul Ryan in Ohio in front of US flag

    double quotation markRomney-Ryan, counterintuitive champions of Medicare

    Joshua Treviño

    Joshua Treviño: With the Ryan plan foregrounding Medicare, Republicans are making virtue of necessity: embracing a defence of entitlements

  • US news blog
    My 2011 Gaza flotilla tweet: a clarification

    It is entirely my responsibility as a writer that my Twitter statement about American activists on the Gaza flotilla was misunderstood

  • Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney

    double quotation markMitt Romney acquires risky asset in Paul Ryan for VP

    Joshua Treviño

    Joshua Treviño: The Ryan plan's author has merits and liabilities, but his co-option reveals a hollowness at the core of the Romney campaign

March 2012

  • Andrew Breitbart

    double quotation markAndrew Breitbart: marrying new media with political principle

    Joshua Treviño

    Joshua Treviño: By creating a web-savvy network of conservative activists, Breitbart fought the cultural left on its own ground and beat it

February 2011

  • Congressman Peter King of New York with Gerry Adams 1998

    double quotation markPeter King has hearings, but is he listening?

    Joshua Treviño

    Joshua Treviño: The New York Republican congressman's inquiry into Islamic radicalisation has been overtaken by Muslims' democratic action

  • Protest in Madison, Wisconsin, 2011; Governor Scott Walker; collective bargaining rights

    double quotation markWho governs Wisconsin?

    Joshua Treviño

    Joshua Treviño: Our democracy is at stake as these featherbedded public sector unions try to bully Madison's elected officials into submission

  • Hosni Mubarak and Barack Obama meet at the White House.

    double quotation markHow hard would it be to back Egyptian democracy, Mr President?

    Joshua Treviño

    Joshua Treviño: This is a simple enough choice between liberty and tyranny, yet the White House has done nothing but equivocate and dodge