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Pro-Liberty Groups to Gather in Tbilisi

The business of promoting liberty is too important to be interrupted by war! In each of the past four years, the European Resource Bank has gathered together the best and the brightest think tankers More...

The Flaw in Green Taxes

Britain’s TaxPayers’ Alliance has a new report illustrating one of the dangers of trying to harness the tax code in service of environmental objectives. In theory, tax rates can be adjusted to reflect More...

Fannie and Freddie, Act Two

Now that Congress has made explicit what everybody already assumed—that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are too big to be allowed to fail—the question for taxpayers is: How big will the final bill be? Th More...

Government Coverage Rises, Private Coverage Falls

The big health care news yesterday was that the official count of people without health insurance fell last year—the first time that had happened in seven years. According the Census Bureau, 45.7 mill More...

Free Countries Must Stand Together

Vasil Sikharulidze, Georgian Ambassador to the United States: This is not about what Russia did to Georgia, but what Russia intends to do to Europe. I believe that the last few days have shown with More...

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...

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Housing construction declined in July, largely because of a sharp drop in multifamily permits and starts. It appears that the unexpected June increase in multifamily construction was a blip; the June figure of 404,000 was the highest in 2 ½ years, while July m More...

New AFT Chief: Funding is the Solution

Source: The Lexington Institute

What should be expected from the tenure of Randi Weingarten, newly elected president of the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second-largest teacher union? In her first major address in July and subsequent statements, the former head of the union’s More...

Sea-Based Missile Defense: Expanding the Options

Source: The Lexington Institute

Sea-based missile defense options are expanding. The fleet is rapidly evolving from a limited, experimental system to an operational, battle-ready missile defense capability. Since 2002, there have been numerous successful tests of realistic engagement scenari More...

Lights Out on Liberty

Source: Hillsdale College

On August 3, 1914, on the eve of the First World War, British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of his office in the summer dusk and observed, “The lamps are going out all over Europe.” Today, the lights are going out on liberty all over th More...

Hart Enterprises: A Wetland Case Study

Source: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy

For more than a century, Michigan’s water resources have been a wellspring of environmental and economic benefit to the state. Protecting these resources is important. But the current interpretation of Michigan wetland law ignores the dramatic improvements in More...

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