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Using stimulus checks for ‘anti-fragility’
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist offers readers ideas for using the federal government’s latest stimulus checks. Democrats’ fifth round of “coronavirus” “stimulus” will soon hand another $1,400 in government debt,…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Infrastructure plan would ratchet up federal spending again
Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner highlights congressional Democrats’ latest idea for spending money the federal government doesn’t have. Now that President Biden has signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending…
Education
Cornell profs object to proposed Chinese link
Yuichiro Kakutani of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a welcome development on an Ivy League campus. A joint degree program bankrolled by the Chinese government is causing an uproar among…
Energy
Biden should turn to markets, not mandates, for land conservation goal
Brian Yablonski writes at National Review Online about the right and wrong ways for the Biden administration to pursue one of its priorities. One of the first tasks facing the…
Liberty
Cancel culture comes for Adam Smith
Daniel Klein writes for National Review Online about a particularly poor target for the cancel culture crowd. The political left often invokes “race” to intimidate its opponents when arguing against…
Liberty
New Carolina Journal Online features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on a bill to make daylight saving time permanent in North Carolina. The latest CJ Opinion explains why Democrats in the General Assembly…
Health Care
More evidence that lockdowns don’t work!
I started questioning the efficacy of lockdowns in April of last year. (See, also, here, here, and here.) Since then evidence has continued to accumulate showing that I was right to…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Bill filed to give away millions of taxpayer dollars to Hollywood studios
A bill was filed today that would add another $34 million to the program that gives away taxpayer dollars to wealthy Hollywood movie studios. Senate Bill 268, sponsored by Michael…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Entrepreneurship is on the rise in NC
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Plato is credited with first espousing this principle over 2,300 years ago. The pandemic has proven the wisdom of it for our…
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Send it back! And four not-awful ways legislators could use the next round of Covid cash
Any state that has $5.4 billion in unspent money should have no need for another $5.2 billion, especially since taking the money could mean no tax cuts until 2024.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Virus and government restrictions flip our behavior on its head
Food for thought. The chart below from Axios details the monumental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and government restrictions on our most basic activity: eating. Remember, it wasn’t all that…
Education
Martin Center column examines diversity, equity, and inclusion movement
Jay Schalin of the Martin Center explores a disturbing trend in higher education. The political left has proven itself to be amazingly incompetent when it comes to governing. Examples abound…