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Birthright Citizenship Was Never Intended by the 14th Amendment Authors

Birthright Citizenship Was Never Intended by the 14th Amendment Authors
02.02.2025 30

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The Reason for the Post-Covid Lack of Trust in Doctors’ Advice

18.01.2025 6

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Lax Enforcement of Rules, Misplaced Sympathy Plague Poor School Children

What accounts for the differences in academic achievement between inner-city poverty area schools and high income public schools?  We’ve all heard...

03.01.2025 3

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Argentina’s Milei Seems to Have Cracked the Code on How to Cut Government Spending.

Americans of all persuasions have reached a rough consensus in favor of cutting government spending. We all, with the possible exception of...

21.12.2024 40

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Is This the Golden Age for American Government Reform?

America’s friends of limited government have had a rough go lately. Government bureaucrats and spenders of all stripes have been living it up. ...

07.12.2024 10

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Deportation Is Necessary to Undo Harm Done at the Border

Democrats in the last election insisted that re-electing them was necessary to “protect our democracy”.  But it turns out that for many of them,...

23.11.2024 10

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Time Is Running Out to Fix Social Security

Here are the hard truths of our threatening situation with social Security and Medicare. We have a looming major fiscal crisis which no one denies....

10.11.2024 7

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America’s International Decline Can No Longer Be Ignored

The bad news about America’s weakening position on the international stage just keeps pouring in. America’s allies engaged in conflict are...

25.10.2024 2

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For the Health of the Republic, We Need Believable Fraud Protections

American elections were once comparatively modest affairs. They were conducted in the autumn every fourth year, beginning about Labor Day until...

28.09.2024 3

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Democrats Have to Choose Between Unions and Students

“°I am not a charter school fan” Joe Biden declared in his 2020 presidential campaign. That’s disappointing, but not surprising, coming from...

14.09.2024 3

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The Department of Education Must Go

America’s athletes once again excelled at the 2024 Olympic games. Without the benefit of massive government-controlled sports programs enjoyed by...

18.08.2024 30

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High Tax-and-Spend States Apparently Will Never Learn

Our federal system is aptly called the laboratory of democracy. Rather than learning everything from the school of hard knocks, states can look to...

05.08.2024 20

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Poverty Is Caused by the Dad Gap

Well after 50 years from the end of the Civil War, black Americans in much of the country were not allowed to enter the homes of whites by the...

20.07.2024 20

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