occupy wall street
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The Supreme Court of Illinois yesterday affirmed lower court holdings that eviction of the Chicago “occupy” movement from public parks did not violate Federal or State constitutional protections of peaceful assembly.
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GovernmentPolitics
Unlike The Tea Party, Leftist Political Rallies Leave Mounds Of Trash
by Rob Natelson March 8, 2017There is an adage—restated many times and by many authors—that you can tell more about a person’s character by how he treats his social “inferiors” than by how he treats those equal to or above him.
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Traditionally, conservatives have supported the Senate filibuster because, supposedly, it puts the brakes on government expansion. I’ve long thought conservatives should reconsider.
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FeaturedHealth Care
No, ObamaCare Is Not a Conservative Idea
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. December 10, 2013Even as ObamaCare is trying to self destruct, its advocates suggest a détente in which “Republicans recognize the conservative nature of the law,” in the words of Austin Frakt in Bloomberg News. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), they point out, incorporates some ideas from a Heritage Foundation proposal and a law promoted by Mitt Romney. Those are not, however, conservative ideas, much less good ideas, and are not a “sound chassis” for anything.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEducation
The Road to Nowhere: The Higher Education Bubble and Liberal Arts Education
by Andrew Barr November 21, 2011While the president’s October announcement of a plan to expedite Congress’s reduction of required payments on student loans from 15 percent of annual discretionary income to 10 percent might prove…
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EconomicsLibertyMediaPolitics
Milton Friedman’s Message for Occupy Wall Street
by Jim Lakely November 19, 2011In 1979, the great economist Milton Friedman — a friend of The Heartland Institute — was a guest on Phil Donahue’s syndicated talk show. This was in the latter stages…
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EconomicsLibertyPolitics
Reason’s Matt Welch to #OWS: Welcome to the Real World Kids and Stop Your Whining
by Jim Lakely November 1, 2011Heartland friend Matt Welch of Reason — with whom we held a book event with Nick Gillespie a while back (listen to their lively presentation here) — has a stark and snarky message…