Searching for Solutions to a Broken Education System
WSJ May 12, 2018 ‘I Don’t Believe That Anymore’ The Children’s Scholarship Fund has helped 166,000 poor kids in 20 years. By The Editorial Board | 383 words It is [...]
Obituary For Man Who Created the WTO
WSJ 1/13/18 Global Trade Czar Cajoled Nations Into Creating WTO By JAMES R. HAGERTY | 689 words When Peter Sutherland became the world’s top trade official in July 1993, negotiators [...]
Saturday Quotes
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” George Bernard Shaw “A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his [...]
SCOTUS Legislates…Again!
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Why Are Houses So Darn Expensive?
Bryan Caplan June 22, 2017 Ed Glaeser makes the case for housing deregulation for Brookings: Housing advocates often discuss affordability, which is defined by linking the cost of living to incomes. [...]
Three Economic Fallacies That Won’t Die
Henry Hazlitt discussed, dissected, and debunked 22 economic sophisms in his classic work 'Economics in One Lesson.' by Luis Pablo de la Horra In any academic discipline, one can find two [...]
American Protections from the Government
THE BILL OF RIGHTS: AMERICA’S BULWARK OF LIBERTY – GUEST ESSAYIST: HORACE COOPER, CONSTITUTING AMERICA FELLOW The First Ten Amendments to the United States Constitution make up what is called [...]
A Personal Canadian Experience-Healthcare
Canadian Health Care Mike Kapic July 15, 2011 During a trip to Canada in July of ’09, I began having muscle contractions and pain very similar to the symptoms I [...]
Saturday Quotes
“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.” Samuel Gompers was the founder of the American Federation of Labor. “Goodness, armed with [...]
A (Small) Business Goal
If Business Wants a Social Cause, How About Globalism? Here's an approach to corporate activism that even Milton Friedman could love. By Michael R. Strain February 28, 2018 “There is one [...]
Debt Crisis Means a BBA COS
[Editor: A BBA is a Balanced Budget Amendment & a COS is a convention of states--the method used to make early America] A Debt Crisis Is Coming, and We’re All [...]
Appeal to Heaven
John Locke used the Appeal to Heaven phrase in his work, Two Treatises of Government.: "What is my Remedy against a Robber, that so broke into my House? Appeal to [...]
William Coleman’s Obituary
WSJ April 8, 2017 OBITUARIES William Coleman Fought Civil-Rights Battles From the Inside By James R. Hagerty | 786 words William Coleman during a television appearance in 1975. He was [...]
The Seeds That Made America Great
WSJ 2/20/17 Democracy, Capitalism and Morality A free world isn’t a perfect world, but it’s better than any alternative. By Michael Novak | 1493 words (This article appeared in The [...]
Saturday Quotes
“Statesmen tell you what is true even though it may be unpopular. Politicians tell you what is popular even though it may be untrue.” Anonymous “We cannot continue to send [...]
Deep State Definition
What is the Deep State? Thomas Knapp, July 02, 2017 Buzzwords come and buzzwords go. Lately, a trending buzzword – or, I guess, buzz phrase – among the politically inclined [...]
Common Core Continues to Fail
New Data Show California Kids’ Math Achievement Took A Nosedive After Common Core By 2014, California was the top state in eighth-grade algebra enrollment. Common Core erased all those gains [...]
Government Growth
FEE 2/17/18 The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explains the Growth of Government Why do democracies lead to ever-growing states? by Eduardo Gindri We’ve all found ourselves at least a few times in our [...]
It Pays to Major in “Bureaucracy”
Federal workers poised to overtake salaries of senators, DC gets highest pay raise by Paul Bedard | Dec 26, 2017, The top paychecks of federal workers are set to grow again next year [...]
