Mr. President! Free Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean!

Mr. President! Free Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean! Please join fellow GOPUSA activists in petitioning President Bush for a full pardon for Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos.

Horace Cooper

Called a Republican "Top Gun" in a front page Washington Times profile, Horace Cooper is a Senior Fellow with the Washington, DC based think tanks, the Centre for New Black Leadership and the National Center for Public Policy Research. He also writes a regular political analysis column for the Washington Times, United Press International and GOPUSA.

Rush Limbaugh once lamented that he was a "black man in America who happens to be conservative that the news media consistently ignores," but now Horace Cooper appears frequently on radio and television discussing such issues as crime (OJ Simpson trial and capital punishment), education reform, telecommunication, urban family issues (affirmative action and anti-drug legalization), government ethics (Clinton Impeachment), workplace issues (minimum wage and immigration), and congressional reform (term limits and election predictions), and community renewal (school choice and faith based assistance programs).

Listed by Washington, DC's National Journal as a member of the "GOP's Youth Brigade," he was a regular guest on Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect" prior to its cancellation. Horace Cooper also regularly speaks/debates on college and university campuses across the country and has served four years on the GMU Board of Visitors, the board of trustees of George Mason University. Until November 2001, he was a senior aide to then Majority Leader Dick Armey, (Coalitions Director, Counsel, and Press Secretary) where he worked for over a decade.

A confirmed cigar smoker (profiled in Cigar Aficionado), Horace Cooper was also the Chief of Staff and Deputy Director of the Voice of America (the U.S. international broadcasting arm) for a year. A graduate of the GMU School of Law and the University of Texas at Austin, he was praised as a key Republican strategist in Elizabeth Drew's New York Times bestseller "Showdown: The Struggle Between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House" and extolled as a "poster conservative" by Michele Mitchell in "A New Kind of Party Animal." Horace Cooper resides in Mason Neck, Virginia with his black convertibles.