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What Do Voters “Know” and Why Do They “Know” It?

A lot of professional political commentators are very concerned about bias in politics. Not only do they think it’s a big problem, they seem to agree that it’s mainly the other side’ More...

To Do: Examine the Poverty of Compassion

• Learn how “liberal compassion ultimately fails to deliver on its promise to help others, although it never fails to make liberals feel better about themselves.” William Voegeli will More...

Government Transfers Wealth in Leaky Buckets

How leaky are those buckets? French superstar economist Thomas Piketty thinks an annual wealth tax of 1 percent on net worth between $1.3 million and $6.5 million and 2 percent on wealth above $6.5 More...

Message Received

Last week, we let you know about the call to send bibles and sermons to Houston Mayor Annise Parker. The point of the effort was to show support for the First Amendment and religious liberty following More...

Political Spending in Perspective

Of course, political spending is scary to the people who have political power and are afraid they’ll be held accountable for how they have used that power. More...

The Lessons of Chess

Have you ever thought about why the game of chess has been around for millennia? Why it has roots in numerous cultures? Why it transcends language barriers? Economics professor Svetozar Pejovich has. More...

But Who Will Police the Political Coordination Police?

Milwaukee county district attorney John Chisholm’s attempt to criminalize political coordination between conservative organizations and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is an attempt to criminalize p More...

Does Too Much Foreign Aid Make a Country Vulnerable to Ebola?

Nigeria has done a much better job containing its Ebola outbreak than has Liberia. Foreign aid might account for the difference: The more a government depends on outside resources, the less effective More...

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Can the 'Single Point of Entry' Strategy Be Used to Recapitalize a failing Bank

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The chaos surrounding the September 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers led the government to take unprecedented emergency measures, including the use of taxpayer funds to rescue the very firms blamed for the crisis. In the face of widespread disapproval from t More...

G7 Broadband Dynamics

Source: American Enterprise Institute

The menu of choices for policymakers is relatively simple: if we want a dynamic broadband marketplace in which citizens enjoy high-performance networks at reasonable prices, it is necessary for regulators to be humble enough to allow the competitive dynamic to More...

The Natural Resource Reserve

Source: American Legislative Exchange Council

The Reserve provides ALEC’s model principles for each major policy issue area (energy, environmental health and regulation, and agriculture). These model principles serve as the guiding light for future ALEC model policy and help to define the free market and More...

What Goes Up... Ontario's Soaring Electricity Prices and How to Get Them Down

Source: Fraser Institute

For about a decade, electricity prices in Ontario have been rising faster than inflation, and are officially forecast to continue doing so. This report analyses the reasons why this is the case, and asks whether there are options available that can put the pro More...

The First Amendment Guide to the Second Amendment

Source: Independence Institute

For a few decades in the late twentieth century, the Second Amendment was ignored or denigrated by some courts. Now that the Second Amendment has been restored to its rightful position as part of normal constitutional law, the Second Amendment will, like many More...

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