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Conversations on how to make college affordable are endless. Technically, we know how to significantly lower costs and improve quality, but little appears to be happening. Existing institutions are intransigent, and tuition keeps going up. Providing affordable education is simply not a goal of today’s leading colleges and universities. Most could cut tuition in half by simply returning to their business models of 25 years ago, but they have no incentive to do so.

Hope, Advent reminds us, often comes from unlikely protagonists and places, such as a peasant girl in a no-name village. In the less earth-shattering but still consequential case of constitutional federalism, hope comes from frightened state politicians: they can, should, and very likely will interpose their authority against the national government, in protection of their citizens.

Policymakers are currently considering the pay of state government employees. This exercise is not new, but previous attempts to address the pay of state employees were more influenced by politics than by good policy.

Oklahomans have acted decisively to prohibit the exercise of state judicial power when based upon consideration of the tenets of a false religious faith that would rob the people of their inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[SQ 744], a proposed constitutional amendment that would require the Legislature to increase per-pupil spending to the regional average.

The legislative process inevitably fathers unintended consequences. The more complex and ambitious the legislative endeavor, the more numerous are its by-blows.

It's been several weeks since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid floated the idea that states could "opt out" of the government-run health insurance plan. But it's been nearly a year since a growing coalition of lawmakers in 24 states began crafting an opt-out strategy of its own.