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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Public Schools – The New Havens of Wokeness
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil May 13, 2021American patriots who know this to be true must not give up.
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ConstitutionEducationGovernmentPolitics
California’s Draft Ethnic Studies Curriculum Still Isn’t Right
by Larry Sand March 17, 2021Victimhood is not a static state and our children should be encouraged to look beyond the past into a brighter tomorrow.
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As shown by the 2019 NAEP, most of our students are being badly shortchanged.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentLibertyPolitics
How US v. Google Antitrust Case Changes Internet Platform Antitrust Outlook
by Scott Cleland September 18, 2020The impending public filing of the DOJ-Google antitrust complaint effectively will mark publicly the end of the U.S. lax antitrust era of Internet platform “antitrustPollyannaism”
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep90) – Center of the American Experiment, Stadium Subsidies, and NY Universal Health Care
by Donald Kendal May 26, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #90 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Center of the American Experiment, the Mercatus Center, and Empire Center.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank (ep83) – Self-Driving Cars, Cali High Speed Boondoggle, and Minimum Wage Head Fake
by Donald Kendal April 7, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #83 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Rand Corporation, the California Policy Center, and Reason.
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Budgets/TaxesEducationEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep70) – 2016 in Review, and 2017 Predictions
by Donald Kendal January 6, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #70 of the In The Tank Podcast. Donny and John review 2016 and make predictions about 2017.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Hillary Clinton’s Terrible Government Broadband Plan
by Seton Motley August 16, 2016With all the attending awfulness you expect. The laxness, the arrogance – the terrible performance. (See: ObamaCare, the Post Office, “green energy,” your Department of Motor Vehicles,….) And the willful denial of the fact that innumerable past failures – portend more of the exact same, should we be foolish enough to yet again try the exact same.
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In 2015, Mississippi enacted the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Program, creating education savings accounts for parents of special-needs students. The ESA program allows these parents to use a percentage of the money allotted for their children at traditional public schools on education alternatives instead.
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Congressional oversight of executive branch agencies is a key element of the checks and balances that prevent accumulation of too much power, as well as abuse of that power, in any one part of government. A review of two recent congressional oversight endeavors now being stymied by the Obama Administration underscores the often-overlooked importance of the oversight process. In both cases, lives are at stake.
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EducationEnvironment/Energy
Will the War Against Parental Choice Ever End?
by Robert Holland June 28, 2016No matter how many courts have rejected their pleadings, enemies of school choice appear committed to a 100-year-long judicial war in quest of some ultimate edict that will keep American students forever captive in government schools.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Don Boyd: The Failure of Public Pension Funds
by Jesse Hathaway June 22, 2016In this episode of the Heartland Institute’s weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Nelson J. Rockefeller Institute of Government director of fiscal studies Don Boyd about a new study examining how the assumptions and gimmicks public pension boards use to fund pensions are affected by investment risks, and how those risks affect taxpayers and government employees.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final methane rule on May 12. The 600-page rule is agenda-driven and backed by pseudoscience, emotions, and unicorn dust, and it’s important to note one specific change in the final rule amounts to a regulatory taking. The final rule imposes costly regulations on wells producing fewer than 15 barrels per day, effectively shutting down those businesses.