I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.