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Posted on August 26th, 2010 under GOP, Taxes, US Politics, education, health care, public policy. Comments Off

Who respects the human body?

Posted: August 16, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By Nancy Pearcey
© 2010 
The ruling by Judge Vaughn Walker to strike down Proposition 8 raises a host of issues that go far beyond the California case. Especially troubling is Walker’s view of gender. His ruling makes the [...]

Posted on August 17th, 2010 under friday freeforall, public policy. Comments Off

Gay Marriage Case — All Hail the Federal Judiciary
John Yoo · 1 hours ago

I’ve now had a chance to read Judge Vaughn Walker’s 138 page decision (for those interested, only the last 40 pages or so contain the important discussion of constitutional law).
It is a sweeping decision, not just on gay marriage, but for its [...]

Posted on August 5th, 2010 under public policy. Comments Off

Henry Hazlitt’s Economics In One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics—originally written in 1946—is still important reading today. Here’s the point of the book:
The whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence.
The art of [...]

Posted on March 25th, 2010 under public policy. Comments Off

Rep. Paul Ryan on what real health reform should look like

By Paul Ryan
Monday, March 15, 2010; A15

Today, the House Budget Committee is to mark up a “reconciliation” vehicle, initiating the greatest expansion in government and entitlement spending in a generation through a partisan process to push “health-care reform” across [...]

Posted on March 15th, 2010 under health care, public policy. Comments Off

Sweden is a powerful example of the importance of public policy. The Nordic nation became rich between 1870 and 1970 when government was very small, but then began to stagnate as welfare state policies were implemented in the 1970s and 1980s. The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains that [...]

Posted on March 10th, 2010 under public policy. Comments Off

Why I no longer support legalizing marijuana
.A surprising number of scholarly studies in the last 25 years have demonstrated that marijuana use seems to cause an increase in psychoses such as schizophrenia, and somewhat less dramatic mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder.

Posted on March 4th, 2010 under public policy. Comments Off