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FeaturedGovernmentHealth CarePoliticsRegulation
The Fight Over Obamacare Moves to the States
by Sarah Lee June 25, 2018Since Republicans failed to repeal and replace Obamacare when they had the chance in 2017, many have, rather wisely, decided to shift the battleground to the states.
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FeaturedGovernment
Society Is Not a Family, Government Is Not a Parent
by Richard Ebeling July 18, 2017Few things are as clear as the bankruptcy of the political “left.”
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Economics
Economic Ideas: Francis Hutcheson and a System of Natural Liberty
by Richard Ebeling November 27, 2016Scotland would seem a strange place for the emergence of center of intellectual development that would influence the stream of ideas throughout the world. Scotland had been unified with England near the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was considered a “backwater” of European civilization.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
This Year’s Presidential Politics Equals Continuing Big Government
by Richard Ebeling March 29, 2016The daily and unending bombardment of political campaign reporting and news, with its “drama” about who will be the Republican and Democratic Party candidates for the U.S. presidency, hides from view the continuing and real choice facing the American public: freedom or statism, individual liberty or government control.
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EconomicsFeaturedLiberty
Shanghai’s History: A Tale of Successful Capitalism
by Richard Ebeling January 8, 2014From long before the rise of Mao’s communism — and to this day — Shanghai remains a commercial and industrial center built on the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.
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EducationFeatured
Is Common Core ‘Rigorous,’ Or More Nearly The Opposite?
by Robert Holland December 25, 2013So often do avid boosters such as U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush extol the national standards for K-12 education as “rigorous,” it would be easy to conclude the adjective had become part of the name: The Rigorous Common Core State Standards.
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EconomicsHealth CarePolitics
Ferrara at TAS: How to Defeat and Replace Obamacare Now
by Peter Ferrara July 6, 2012[First posted at The American Spectator.] Whether Left, Right, Independent, or Confused, no one who is not bought and paid for as part of the Obama political machine is going…
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Health CarePolitics
Karnick at TAC: Confiscatory Democracy Confirmed Again in Court’s Obamacare Decision
by S.T. Karnick June 30, 2012[First posted at The American Culture.] Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act vividly highlights a basic cultural division in the contemporary United States. One might well call it…
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Health CareLegal Affairs
Heartland’s Sam Karnick on the Clarifying Moment of SCOTUS Obamacare Decision
by Jim Lakely June 28, 2012Heartland’s Director of Research Sam Karnick, the proprietor of the excellent The American Culture blog, expands there on the public comment he offered on our behalf. Sam offered today at…