Andrew Overby

Instead of cancelling only a portion of his trip to East Asia for this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit as he first intended, President Obama has determined that he is unable to attend at all. This might easily be a serious…

In 2004, the American Jobs Creation Act gave U.S. multinational companies a time window to bring home their overseas profits without paying any taxes. The intent was to spur domestic investment and job growth. In 2011, the Assistant U.S. Treasury…

On Thursday it became official: Texas State Senator Wendy Davis of Fort Worth is running for governor of Texas. Standing on the same stage in Haltom City where she received her high school diploma in 1981, Davis announced her candidacy to succeed…

Sergio Garcia wants to practice law in California. He currently runs a paralegal support company and himself spent time as a paralegal. He graduated from a California law school and passed the state bar exam on his first try in 2009, whereas roughly…

President Obama and former presidents Carter and Clinton, along with numerous other figures, spoke during Wednesday's series of speeches honoring the 50th anniversary of one of the most pivotal moments in the American black civil rights movement.…

President Obama's first appointee to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was easily and unanimously confirmed last week in a 97-0 vote. At age 46, Srinkath "Sri" Srinivasan is America's newest federal judge. His recent…

With the usual time lag between events and political responses, bipartisan efforts and political will are ramping up to end what both conservatives and liberals consider horrible public policy: banks that are "Too Big to Fail." The question becomes…

This week, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and David Vitter (R-La.)published an op-ed in the New York Times that laid out the case for removing long-standing governmental support for America's biggest banks and corporate entities. Currently,…

"Merchants have no country," Thomas Jefferson once remarked, a statement as true in his time — an era of globetrotting, royally-chartered, joint-stock corporations like the British East India Company with their own armies and their own foreign…

The first thing to realize is that Texas is rising. More accurately, it has always been a political powerhouse, but headlines will be headlines. The latest headline — Texas To Go Blue Soon! — has likewise been around for some time. Still, the…

Earlier this week a bill was filed by two retiring Republicans in the U.S. Senate that would allow immigrants brought to America illegally as minors to gain legal status. The bill’s co-authors, Jon Kyl of Arizona and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas,…

Once seen as nearly impossible due to his lack of name recognition and funding, former Solicitor General of Texas Ted Cruz beat Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst on July 31 in a primary runoff to win his first election and become the Republican…

Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz faces Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in a run-off Republican primary on July 31, to determine who will sit in Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's (R-Texas) Senate seat in the next Congress. This is the election;…