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The limits on federal power and the system of states known as federalism exist in the Constitution to protect people.

The most recent fiscal year ended on June 30, and the data show that for state government revenues and spending, it’s a time of all-time highs.

A Braun Research survey released in January showed that Oklahomans — Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike — favor educational choice.

Imagine the outrage if a government agency started collecting contributions from its employees to support the Repub­lican Party. Some would say, with justification, that government should not help fund a political advocacy group.

Most nations have an independence day, usually commemorating a military victory or legal action. America’s Independence Day, marking the anniversary of July 4, 1776, is different.

Researchers at Indiana University and the University of Hong Kong ranked Oklahoma the 11th most corrupt state in America.

There is a lot of discussion in the mainstream media about the “college wage premium”—the benefit gained by earning a college diploma in terms of one’s long-term earning potential.

The political left is aflutter over Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a book by French economist Thomas Piketty, who argues that the much-maligned wealth gap between the haves and have-nots is largely the result of higher returns from capital investment rather than from ordinary wage earnings. His remedy for the gap, not surprisingly, seems to be more confiscatory taxation of the “rich” with further wealth redistribution via government fiat.

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It’s an old problem: we’re all biased in favor of our own neighborhood schools. But no matter how good a neighborhood you live in, your schools are almost certainly failing to keep up with the high educational standards being set in other leading nations.