Liberty
A case against reparations
Graham Hilliard of National Review tackles the issue of reparations for slavery. Reparations are an ethical disaster. Proceeding from a doctrine of collective guilt, they are the penalty for sins…
National Reconnaissance Office
US intelligence agency in charge of satellite intelligence
Energy
Those dirty electric cars
National Review Online picks up on a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research concluding that some electric vehicles cause more pollution than their gas-burning counterparts. The study…
Liberty
Tom Ross complains that we’re “losing our way” on higher ed
On Tuesday, outgoing UNC president Tom Ross gave a talk at the City Club. It was laden with the sentiments we expect from “progressive” types who have been imbued with…
Elections & Public Integrity
Heritage expert reads the tea leaves from recent voter ID rulings
Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation writes in a Daily Signal column that the most recent courtroom developments in cases challenging state voter identification laws don’t bode well for…
Liberty
Geraghty discusses new book for NRO, he’ll discuss it for JLF audience in July
National Review Online interviews Jim Geraghty about his new nook, The Weed Agency, which will be the subject of a John Locke Foundation luncheon speech next month. Kathryn Jean Lopez:…
Elections & Public Integrity
What’s wrong with the ‘Obamaphone’?
Plenty, as a blurb in the latest print edition of National Review explains. The federal government’s Lifeline program is supposed to provide subsidized phone service to the truly needy. The…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Another day, another disheartening Obamacare revelation.
Yet again I ask the president’s voters: just where do you think the growth will come from? On Monday, the IRS will propose imposing an excise tax under Obamacare, taxing health…
Regulation
Michigan’s labor fight and the role of state-based think tanks
At NRO’s The Corner, Jonah Goldberg cheers yesterday’s defeat of compulsory unionism in Michigan, and after discussing the overreach of the left, says this about the way state-based, free-market think…
Liberty
Sex and contraceptives – for adolescents
Greg Pfundstien writes on NRO that the American Academy of Pediatricians, in response to high teen pregnancy rates, endorses Plan B and other emergency cotraceptives. Problem is – they don’t…
Liberty
Smallsat redeux
In the world of public policy, there are few truly new ideas. Rather certain theories come in and out of fashion with slight variations. In military spaceflight, once such concept…
Liberty
‘Rick Warren Schools President Obama on Freedom’
Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO adds more on Rick Warren’s interview with ABC’s Jake Tapper (which Sanera posted about this morning). Tapper asked if the president was right in certain…
Health Care
The Supreme Court Oral Arguments on Obamacare: Day 1
View In Your Browser Follow Nicole as she live blogs Day 2 and 3 of Oral Arguments with other health policy experts: http://www.nationalreview.com/critical-condition/294473/obamacare-supreme-court-liveblog-day-two-avik-roy Follow Nicole on Twitter during The Supreme…