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Civil Society Under Siege in the Andes

Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez faces an election on November 23, and he’s wasting no time in further undermining civil society and consolidating his power. Jaime Daremblum of the Hudson Institute re More...

Did You Know You’re a Patron of the Arts?

Some federal priorities, as identified by the Senate Fiscal 2009 Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Act (via Citizens Against Government Waste): • $700,000 by Sens. Christ More...

Tax Foundation Launches Campaign on Corporate Taxes

The Tax Foundation has launched a new campaign to educate the public about the negative impact of high corporate taxes on U.S. competitiveness. According to their new Web site CompeteUSA: Jus More...

Their Bubbles Bad, Our Bubbles Good

A new report from the National Association of Home Builders finds that housing is now more affordable than it has been since 2004. According to the report, 55 percent of homes sold from April through More...

Welfare Reform in Cuba?

Financial Times reports today some small signs that Cuba may be learning from the failures of its economic system. Cuba is thinking about makings its social welfare system a little bit less generous, More...

Freedom, Not Aid, Makes Other Countries Vote Like the United States

U.S. foreign aid does not induce support for U.S. policies at the United Nations, say Brett Schaefer and Anthony Kim. In a new paper for The Heritage Foundation, Schaefer and Kim find: Of the 30 l More...

Poland’s Choice

If Vladimir Putin thought invading Georgia would induce servility among Russia’s neighbors, he was wrong, at least as far as Poland is concerned. Reuters reports today that a new poll shows that suppo More...

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Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Intolerance

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This report compares textbooks from the Saudi Ministry of Education, which are posted on its website as this is issued, with those analyzed in our 2006 study, Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Intolerance, and shows that the same violent and intolerant teachings ag More...

Elephants Do Not Hide in Mouse Holes

Source: The Progress & Freedom Foundation

There can be little doubt but that rules imposing wholesale a la carte obligations on independent programmers, fully protected by the First Amendment, would suffer the same fate as the video description rules. Wholesale a la carte would not merely affect progr More...

‘‘The Law Is Whatever the Nobles Do;’’ Undue Process at the FCC

Source: The Progress & Freedom Foundation

Now that the FCC has asserted its authority to regulate Internet provider broadband network management practices, the question arises, “who will regulate the regulator?” This is not an idle inquiry, but rather an urgent problem. For apparently what we have on More...

Physician Care and Telemedicine

Source: National Center For Policy Analysis

An antiquated third-party payment system is the primary obstacle to the growth of telemedicine. Because 87 percent of medical costs are paid by someone other than the patient (such as insurers, employers or government), providers have little incentive to creat More...

Success Teaching English Must Begin Early

Source: The Lexington Institute

Senator Barack Obama raised eyebrows last month when he told a Georgia audience not to worry “about whether immigrants can learn English—they’ll learn English—you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.” But these comments, and the strong reaction that More...

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