About
Proud Gun-Totin’, Hell-Raisin’, God-Fearin’ Republitarian Pundit From Texas Trying to Survive the University of Chicago Without Losing His Soul
SELECTED WORKS
*SCHIP & The Politics of Nescience
*A Question of Virtue: Cicero’s God & Machiavelli’s Earthly Laity
*Reagan the Structuralist – A Reevaluation of the President’s Economic & Defense Policies
SELECTED SPEECHES
*Love’s Perennial Power (In Remembrance of VT)
SELECTED LINKS
*Campus Partisans Greet Election
*Political & Community Activism Video
*Dining Board Rules Coke to Remain on Campus
CURRENT STUDIES
University of Chicago Class of 2011.
B.A. in Political Science with a Focus on Theory.
B.A. in Classics with a Focus on the Ancient Economy (Rome).
FAVORITE MUSIC
Bob Marley, Roger Creager, Guns n’ Roses, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Kevin Fowler, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Grand Funk Railroad, Beatles, Stephen Miller Band, Everclear, Buddy Guy, Frank Sinatra, OneRepublic, B.B. King, John Mayer, Pat Green, T.I., Waylon Jennings, Flogging Molly, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Moby, U2, Dropkick Murphys, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Sum 41, Vivaldi, P.O.D., Linkin’ Park, Grits, Dave Matthews Band, bob Dylan, Sting, Stoney LaRue, Dean Martin, Debussy.
I love Texas country, romantic classical, folk Irish, punk Irish, blues, and instrumental hip-hop/lounge music.
FAVORITE AUTHORS
Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, Kinky Friedman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, T.S. Elliot, Tom Clancy, George Orwell, Lee Stroebel, Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe.
FAVORITE THINKERS
Frederic Bastiat, Russell Kirk, Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli, Charles Fried, C.S. Lewis, Harvey Mansfield, Friedrich Hayek, Cicero, Victor David Hanson, Milton Friedman, Thomas Jefferson, Lao-Tzu, Benjamin Constant.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Bedford, Texas to a former Navy father and elementary-school-teaching mother, he grew up on the south-side of Fort Worth near the precinct as one of the only “cracker kids” on the block playing stick ball in the street and making great friends (would move to the country later). “Tex” attended public school for a majority of his life, then a Christian educational institution, and then finally a fine, liberal arts institution in Fort Worth – Trinity Valley School. Trained in jazz, tap, and ballet (yes…he knows), “Tex” soon gave up dance to continue his piano studies, which later he would give up to continue his sports devotion. Joining the religious spectacle of “Friday Night Lights”, “Tex” became captain of his school’s football team, a heat-throwin’ baseball pitcher, and a pain-dealing sweeper in soccer.
Upon losing all cartilage in his shoulder (throwing arm) and being misdiagnosed for a year, “Tex” was told that he probably would either have to get a serious joint-replacement surgery or never be able to use his shoulder again. With dreams of sports and the Naval Academy dashed, “Tex” opted for an experimental surgery to re-grow cartilage in his shoulder in correspondence with intense, daily, physical therapy. He taught himself to throw with his other arm, began devoting time to politics, became a “drama kid”, and adapted his sports focus to track becoming a sprinter and later a “Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century”. He trained himself on the classical guitar – as well as electric and acoustic, played bass, and took up piano again. Focusing on his compositional skills as well as his jazz/blues loves, “Tex” played at various venues, led a worship band, and began acquiring music students while running his business, “Music by Dozier”. Politically, “Tex” founded a political club at his high school hosting speakers and bringing about great debate between students – the club still exists to this day. “Tex” also worked devotedly to become a U.S. Senate Page for John Cornyn (R-TX), which truly was an experience that molded his later passions and established friendships with politicians like Norm Coleman (R-MN) and George Allen (R-TN). When Kinky Friedman announced his candidacy for the Texas governorship, “Tex” joined on as his youth representative and organizer.
During all this time and for years before, his mother struggled with numerous health difficulties from breast cancer, to strokes, to guillen-barrae; having to receive special treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, Joseph lived with his mother at times, while his father, who had worked his way up from being a janitor to manager for a commercial floor-care company, travelled weekly. As a result of these experiences, “Tex” became a passionate advocate for breast cancer awareness helping out with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, volunteering with Race-for-the-Cure, and participating in the Breast Cancer 3-day.
“Tex” would find his way to the University of Chicago where he has hoped to inspire greater political and social awareness on campus through various organizations from the University Community Service Center, to the University Republicans, to the Coalition of Students for Coke, and to Chicago Community Radio. Aside from university and community politics, “Tex” has interned recently as a caseworker for Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-TX), as a new media assistant at the Sam Adams Alliance, and as a Stevanovich Fellow at the Cato Institute.
In the future, “Tex” desires to attend law school at the University of Texas focusing on constitutional law as well as possibly pursuing graduate study in public policy or ancient philosophy. “Tex” hopes to continue his political and media passions beyond college along with serving his country either in the non-profit sector or in the military.
When “Tex” gets to a ripe-old age (maybe 115), he wants his friends and family to take him to a dock, throw out a fishing line for him, light him a Rocky Patel cigar, pour him a 1964 Quinta de Noval port wine, and let him die a happy man.