Articles
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Good Government
Job Losses in Every Sector -- Well, Almost Every Sector
One wonders how much longer taxpayers -- especially those who find themselves newly unemployed -- will put up with bloated government employment levels in Oklahoma.Brandon Dutcher | January 12, 2009
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Good Government
Why I Am a Liberal
Words mean something. As human beings we stand alone in our use of language as our primary method of communication. We have confidence in our words and we resist any attempt to co-opt, twist, or manipulate their meaning.Everett Piper | January 11, 2009
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Higher Education
Speech Codes Limit Campus Freedom
Millions of high school seniors have started the process of deciding which college or university to attend in the next academic year. And while many students will look at schools that reflect their interests and values, virtually none will be thinking about the school's speech codes or free speech zones. They should.Ray Nosthstine | January 9, 2009
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Budget & Tax
Stranger than Fiction
"The current economic strategy is right out of Atlas Shrugged," our friend Stephen Moore writes today in The Wall Street JournalBrandon Dutcher | January 9, 2009
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Budget & Tax
Keynes Lives
"The U.S. and dozens of other nations are returning to massive government spending as a recession fighter," Sudeep Reddy reports today in The Wall Street Journal.Brandon Dutcher | January 8, 2009
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Good Government
Don't Bail Out the States
State governments from New York to California are begging Washington to bail them out of a combined $48 billion budget shortfall estimated for 2009.Brian M. Riedl | January 6, 2009
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Education
What Can Brown Do for Youth?
Why not, as a matter of public policy, give Deborah Brown the chance to help even more kids to succeed?Patrick B. McGuigan | January 6, 2009
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Education
Why School Systems Cannot Lose Weight
There's plenty of evidence that state budgets are strapped these days, due to shrinking tax revenues from a faltering economy, etc. It's also clear that a number of school systems are feeling the pinch.Chester E. Finn, Jr. | January 6, 2009
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Higher Education
Adding Value in Higher Education
The cost of undergraduate education nationwide has skyrocketed over the last 20 years.Vance H. Fried | January 6, 2009
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Education
North Tulsa Pastor Says Kids Need Educational Options
Dr. Donald O’Neil Tyler is the pastor of Greater Grace Temple in north Tulsa. But it was fatherhood, not his role as a pastor, which first made him a school choice advocate.Patrick B. McGuigan | December 12, 2008