Healthcare for the Poor: An Alternative to Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act is expected to add up to 16 million more Medicaid enrollees and will significantly expand eligibility for families with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level....
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Guardian Against Tyranny: The Writ of Habeas Corpus
“Anthony Gregory reduces 400 years of Anglo-American legal and political history to a readable, thorough, compelling study of this natural and constitutional right. This book is so well researched and...
View ArticleCalifornia Parents Need Education Options, Not Government “Accountability”
Overall test scores for some 6 million California students in government-run schools fell this year for the first time in a decade. Rather than drumming up classroom instruction, California officials...
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More Money, Less Liberty, Impoverished Education
A new study from the Southern Education Foundation finds that half of all public school students now live in poverty. The poverty measure they use is eligibility for the federal free and reduced-price...
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Carpe Diem: Washington’s Foundations Are Showing Cracks
The Washington of the future we’d like to see After 12 years of seemingly inexorable blind faith in an ever more powerful and intrusive government, a spate of recent polls finally shows support...
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Lankford Introduces Legislation Giving Congressional Authority to Interstate...
In February, Rep. James Lankford (R-OK) introduced legislation (H.J.Res.110) that would give congressional approval to states entering the Health Care Compact. This is an important step forward for one...
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“Pot” Holes?
A recent story published on Fox News New York reports that New Jersey state senator Nicholas Scutari plans to introduce a bill to legalize the sale of marijuana there, tax purchases at the current...
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Common Core Makes Simple Math as Complicated as the Tax Code
Those of us recovering from tax day should be more than ready to answer a simple subtraction problem: What’s 427 – 316? If you mastered elementary math sometime before the onset of Common Core national...
View ArticleNew Video with Ron Paul: “Defining Liberty: The Future of Freedom”
How can Americans overcome record government spending and debt, escalating healthcare costs, intrusive federal surveillance, endless wars, ongoing economic malaise, high unemployment, failing schools,...
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Stagnation Nation? High School Seniors’ Results on Nation’s Report Card...
The U.S. Department of Education recently released grade 12 results in reading and math from the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card. In a...
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Common Core: Raising the Bar-barians
“Barbarians at the gate.” That’s what Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal called opponents of Common Core national standards earlier this month. His remarks are symptomatic of...
View ArticleWhat If More States Had Set Up Their Own Obamacare Exchanges?
Politico’s Kyle Cheney and Jennifer Haberkorn have made the case that Republican non-collaboration with Obamacare has brought a completely federally controlled healthcare system closer to reality:...
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The Veterans’ Administration Has Been a Disaster Since Its Inception
In her modern, exceptional biography of President Calvin Coolidge, Amity Shlaes (Coolidge, HarperCollins, 2013) documents the very blemished history of today’s U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA),...
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Obamacare’s Tax Credits in Jeopardy
Today, we received dueling circuit court decisions on Obamacare’s tax credit component. The D.C. Circuit held (2-1) that the tax credits do not apply to health insurance purchases through an exchange...
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More States Abandoning the Sinking Common Core Ship
“Barbarians at the gate.” That’s what Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal called opponents of Common Core national standards several weeks ago. His remarks are symptomatic of...
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Ban Government—Not Sweets—in Schools to Combat Bureaucratic Obesity
In recent weeks states have been grappling with a host of unintended consequences stemming from new USDA regulations affecting food and beverages available in schools. Chocolate milk was a near...
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Obama’s Latest Hostile Takeover Target: Private Career Colleges
The Obama administration’s latest college crusade claims it will help students. In reality, it’s a hostile takeover attempt by government of the private for-profit career college sector that will hurt...
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Common Core Called the “Obamacare of Education”
US Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) makes a compelling case for abolishing Common Core in a recent letter. As Newsmax reports: “As a U.S. Senator, I’ve seen the federal government make a mess of everything it...
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Obama’s Undisciplined School Discipline Reforms
Keeping kids safe at school should go hand in hand with ensuring high-quality academics. The U.S. Department of Education’s record on both fronts has been poor at best. During the No Child Left Behind...
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American Medical Association Backs Telemedicine Compact
Our blog usually does not cheer the American Medical Association, because it is largely responsible for the Soviet-style centrally fixed prices that prevail in Medicare. Well, today we applaud the AMA...
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