Economy
State and local regulations choke economic growth, too
A new research report shows that just 12 policy mistakes at all levels of government add $546 billion a year in consumer costs.
December 21, 2015
Economy
Economic freedom close to home
As recently as 2012, the Institute for Justice ranked Texas as having the 17th-most-burdensome low-income occupational licensing requirements in the nation.
December 14, 2015
Higher Education
Progressivism comes home to roost at Claremont McKenna
The bottom line is simple: colleges do no favors by admitting unqualified students in the quest for politically correct demographic balance.
November 16, 2015
Energy & Environment
Texas should resist Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan
According to the EPA’s own projections, this costly quest at remaking our power grid will reduce the global temperature by 18 one-thousandths of a degree Celsius by 2100 — well within the margin of error of wildly inaccurate models.
November 2, 2015
Other
‘Rockin’ the Wall’ explores music’s role in the Berlin Wall’s collapse
In the end, the Berlin Wall, the most tangible relic of the contest between freedom and the ideology of militarized collectivism, came down without a shot being fired on November 9, 1989.
October 31, 2015
K-12 Education
Study: Texas and Florida lead education results among biggest 5 states, California last
California students lag 6.3 months behind their peers in learning.
October 29, 2015
Taxes & Spending
Kasich: Kill the federal gas tax, shift transportation power to states
The federal government taxes $0.184 on a gallon of gasoline and $0.244 for diesel with about 40 percent of the $50 billion spent annually going to programs earmarked by Congress, such as urban rail systems.
October 23, 2015
Local Government
Ballot initiatives weaponize emotion to centralize power
In 1982 the United States under President Ronald Reagan was massively recapitalizing the military, including America’s nuclear weapons arsenal. The former Soviet Union didn’t like it one bit, and resolved to blunt Reagan’s efforts.
October 23, 2015
Economy
The EPA’s Clean Power Plan won’t save the planet, but it will cause human suffering
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions among America’s electrical power industry by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 for a total of 871 million tons per year.
October 19, 2015
Criminal Justice
Crime surge? Look at the blood, well-told half-truths and statistics again
The bottom line that few Americans know, given the media’s daily drumbeat of shootings and mayhem, is that violent crime in the U.S. peaked in the early 1990s with the gun homicide rate in particular about half today of what it was a little more than 20 years ago.
October 7, 2015
Economy
Generating intellectual property: First Rule of Law, then research universities
Among 106 nations, Taiwan leads the way in patent production per capita over the past decade, followed closely by Japan and the United States.
October 6, 2015
Economy
Is the Dow stall foretelling a jobs reversal?
Economists consider employment to be a lagging economic indicator.
October 2, 2015