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Health Care
11 white tents filled with caring hearts and healing hands
Every now and then I come across a story that reaches into my heart and tugs and tugs and tugs. This one of those stories. During this pandemic we’ve seen…
Education
Martin Center column highlights one way to fight student debt
Anna Martina writes for the Martin Center about one good tool for attacking the problem of college student loan debt. Student loan debt has received more attention lately, but one…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Public Health Budgets
It was disheartening to see Rachel Crumpler include this paragraph in an otherwise very compelling story on local health department spending. Spending on public health at the state level from…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Celebrating School Choice? Thank Milton Friedman, too
Friedman’s ideas have helped to fuel an education revolution in North Carolina and across the country. Choice empowers parents to make educational decisions, challenges monopolies, and calls out bureaucracies. Choice…
Liberty
Would the chief justice reject a Trump impeachment trial?
Mary Kay Linge writes for the New York Post about one U.S. senator’s interesting take on the second impeachment of Donald Trump. As Democrats plunge ahead with a post-term impeachment…
Liberty
Democrats and one-party rule
Phil Kline writes at Real Clear Politics about Democrats’ disturbing response to the Capitol attack. The Democrats appear intent on instituting one-party rule in the United States. They’re trying to…
Elections & Public Integrity
A recall is no ‘coup’
Lloyd Billingsley writes for Front Page Mag about a disturbing reaction to California’s gubernstorial recall effort. “This recall effort, which really ought to be called ‘the California coup,’ is being…
Liberty
The fight over American history continues
Algis Valiunas writes in National Affairs about a struggle over the accepted narrative of American history. American historiography?—?the writing of our history?—?has never been a more hotly contested political battleground…
Liberty
Unions suffer buyer’s remorse with Biden
Vivek Saxena reports for BizPac Review about the reaction among unions to President Biden‘s first actions in office. Several unions that eagerly endorsed President Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Andrew Dunn reports for Carolina Journal Online that the judicial branch of state government will seek more funding for emergency judges and new technology to help reopen courts. John Hood’s…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The potential federal gas tax hike and why it will harm the poor
Incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he is open to a federal gas tax hike. One of the arguments for hiking the federal gas tax is that it hasn’t been…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
“Fascism is the organised attempt to introduce socialist planning with the consent of big business.”
That’s how Edward Conze defined it in 1934. By the time he wrote it Conze had been condemned by the Nazis, who saw to it that most copies of what…