K. Lloyd Billingsley | Wednesday May 1, 2019 at 10:30 AM PDT
California’s online community college program succeeds in bulking up the bureaucracy and rewarding political cronies.
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Craig Eyermann | Monday February 11, 2019 at 9:28 AM PDT
A toxic culture among leadership plagues the TSA.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Tuesday September 4, 2018 at 1:50 PM PDT
Parents and students deserve full educational choice, with the dollar following the scholar, as a matter of basic civil rights.
Robert Higgs | Monday August 27, 2018 at 1:45 PM PDT
A complicated order is established to maintain the status quo.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Tuesday July 3, 2018 at 8:31 AM PDT
The Trump administration aims to eliminate 19 federal agencies.
David J. Theroux | Monday December 18, 2017 at 8:51 PM PDT
From the satirical vaults of 2005 by an unknown author who we wish we could credit, but most likely someone who was working for the government: Scientists have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy...
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Robert Higgs | Wednesday August 17, 2016 at 2:32 PM PDT
Government can hardly ever do just one thing. Its action has repercussions, and these repercussions have repercussions, and so forth. Even when the government’s initial action may seem compassionate or productive, it is highly unlike that the repercussions will prove likewise. Of course, private action also has repercussions, some of which may be unpleasant...
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Abigail R. Hall | Thursday April 14, 2016 at 8:00 AM PDT
File this under the category of “I told you so.” In 2014, I wrote a piece on the idea of arming “moderate” Syrian rebels. The threat posed by the Islamic State, known also as ISIL or Deash, led many in Congress and President Obama to call for hundreds of millions of dollars to assist...
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Lawrence J. McQuillan | Monday August 3, 2015 at 3:01 PM PDT
I had the pleasure of speaking recently on a healthcare panel at FreedomFest in Las Vegas. Here’s a recap of my remarks on innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare. In the 2012 book Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis by Dr. John C. Goodman, my colleague at the Independent Institute, John wrote: “The ACA [Obamacare] approach...
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David J. Theroux | Wednesday October 6, 2010 at 7:39 PM PDT
From the synopsis for the forthcoming film, “The Socialist,” to be released in November 2010: Every age seeks visionaries to leave, in the wake of their genius, a changed world—but rarely are they found without a few strikeout also-rans getting a crack first. In 2008, millions of Americans thought they had found the real...
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