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ConstitutionGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Private Charity versus the Political Grinches
by Richard Ebeling December 23, 2020This year, 2020, has been a hard and disturbing one for virtually all of us due to the coronavirus and, especially, the government’s heavy-handed shutdown and lockdown responses
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As shown by the 2019 NAEP, most of our students are being badly shortchanged.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
ObamaCare And Net Neutrality Are Doing Exactly The Damage Their Opponents Predicted
by Seton Motley August 2, 2016Like with all huge new government power grabs, there are a few very predictable post-grab outcomes. Let’s look at a few through the prisms of relatively new grab Net Neutrality – and ObamaCare, a more vintage grab thus doing even more predicted damage.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Chad Savage: One-Stop Shop for Understanding Direct Primary Care
by Michael Hamilton July 26, 2016Savage joined Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton on today’s HCN Podcast to explain how direct primary care providers can afford to offer top-flight care for low- and middle-income patients … without insurance. Savage also distinguished direct primary care from a model with which it is often confused: the uber-expensive “concierge medicine.”
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Playing Both ‘Cops and Robbers’ on Asset Forfeiture
by Jesse Hathaway June 22, 2016A new digital system unveiled by Oklahoma government police is just the latest example of civil asset forfeiture laws encouraging cops to become the robbers they’re supposed to be catching.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Goobris: Google Expecting Less Privacy Regulation than its Competitors
by Scott Cleland May 15, 2016Why does the company that by far collects the most private information that the FCC claims it wants to protect, and that also has the worst consumer privacy protection record with the FTC, (Google), get 99% exempted from the telecom and cable privacy protections expected of telephone, broadband, cable and satellite providers?
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EducationFeatured
Celebrate Education Choice During National Charter Schools Week
by Lennie Jarratt May 10, 2016The first week in May is National Charter Schools Week, a time to celebrate the advancements made in the charter school movement over the past 25 years. Because of the nation’s hundreds of new and developing charter schools, thousands of parents and their children now have the opportunity to enroll in a school that better meets children’s specific education needs.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Why Progressives Don’t Understand and are Enemies of Liberty
by Richard Ebeling April 6, 2016What does freedom mean? What is the purpose of government? And what should be the government’s relationship to each of us as individuals and as members of society as a whole? These issues recently came up during a dinner conversation with a new acquaintance with whom I’d not previously had such a discussion.
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The Network for Public Education (NPE), an anti-educational choice organization, released a new publication titled “Valuing Public Education: A 50 State Report Card,” which, distressingly, many media outlets are reporting as an honest-to-goodness objective study, instead of the piece of subjective advocacy it truly is.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Search + Android + Chrome = Google’s Gatekeeper Inner-net Regime
by Scott Cleland February 27, 2016Google’s dominant search engine + its dominant Android operating system (OS) + its world-leading Chrome web browser + its uniquely-comprehensive, Internet utility functionality of193 products, services and tools = a virtual Google “Inner-net” regime.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Does Regulation Kill Private Sector Investment? Is Water Wet? Is Snow Cold?
by Seton Motley February 17, 2016We free marketeers repeatedly reassert the obvious – that government abusing the private sector hurts the private sector. Pro-government fetishists try mightily to deny Reality – claiming that bigger government doesn’t damage the sectors over which it lords.
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EducationFeatured
What Passes for Anti-School Choice Rhetoric is Frightening
by Timothy Benson February 17, 2016The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss has inadvertently done the country an invaluable service by allowing the rest of us to travel through the looking-glass into a universe where things are the opposite of real life: the world of far-left thought on education.
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EducationFeatured
‘Tis the Season for Parents to Explore School Options
by Robert Holland January 29, 2016School choice has been trending for a good many Januarys now, and that’s not just because of the successful promotion efforts of National School Choice Week (NSCW), held annually during the final week of January. After launching five years ago with just a few hundred public events, NSCW will sponsor 16,140 rallies, forums and the like in all 50 states this Jan. 24-30.