Articles
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Budget & Tax
How the Founders Responded to a Debt and Mortgage Crisis
The year 2008 is not the first time our country has faced a debt and mortgage crisis with profound consequences for our freedom—our economic freedom, our political freedom, and even our national freedom.J. Rufus Fears | December 3, 2008
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Education
Demography Is Not Destiny
Educators sometimes imply that we shouldn’t expect too much from low-income and minority students. Florida proves them wrong. Thanks to abundant school choice and systemic education reform, Hispanic 4th graders in Florida now have higher reading scores than the statewide average of all students in Oklahoma.Matthew Ladner | November 7, 2008
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Education
Hoping Against HOPE
A respected Oklahoma economist explains why the teacher union’s latest funding push would be bad for the state.Larkin Warner | November 6, 2008
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Good Government
Bailout Fallout
Thomas Paine was wrong about many things, but right when he said the American Revolution was a time that tried men’s souls. Today we face times to try the souls of even the best and strongest women and men.Patrick B. McGuigan | November 4, 2008
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Good Government
Government, Not Markets, Caused Financial Meltdown
Make no mistake: the government, not the free market, created this fiasco. The solution, therefore, is not more government, but the end of all regulations and business privileges.Sheldon Richman | November 4, 2008
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Law & Principles
Protecting Oklahomans from Nefarious Interior Designers
There is no plausible economic justification for government regulation of interior design rather than private certification. The idea that the state has the legitimate authority to tell people whether they can or cannot recommend shades of paint without a license is a moral absurdity.Art Carden | November 4, 2008
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Education
'Parents Who Trust Us'
An OCPA research fellow brings home lessons from Taiwan on education policy: ‘Take the dollars and use them for education’—whether the schools are public or private.Patrick B. McGuigan | November 1, 2008
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Education
Special-Needs Students Deserve School Choice
"One size fits all" doesn't work when it comes to providing education servicesJason Murphey | October 15, 2008
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Education
A Chance to Choose
In the life of a reporter, you hear lots of stories. Many, even some good ones, never work their way into print. This one did. Among other things, it is a story about choices.Patrick B. McGuigan | October 5, 2008
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Good Government
Change We Can Believe In
Recently, Oklahoma City University law professor Andrew Spiropoulos announced the launch of an OCPA-backed effort to study Oklahoma's ultra-populist constitution (see page 4). The intention is, "after long and careful study," to present possible reforms to state voters.Patrick B. McGuigan | October 5, 2008