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Is Obamacare showing us that health care shouldn’t be a right?
Tweet For the first time since Gallup began polling on the question in 2000, a majority of Americans (54 percent) think it is not the federal government’s responsibility to “make sure all Americans have health care coverage.” As Gallup notes, … Continue reading
Anti-discrimination laws and marriage
Tweet Many people wonder why conservatives who speak up for traditional marriage and the natural family also often oppose fundamentally flawed laws that would add “sexual orientation” to anti-discrimination laws. If you ask some “gay rights” advocates, the answer is … Continue reading
Posted in Gay Rights, Marriage
Tagged anti-discrimination, children, family, homosexual, same-sex marriage, sexual orientation
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Conservative ideas help balance conflicting interests in tax policy
Tweet One of the benefits for free society – for families, individuals, businesses, and others – that conservative principles and thinking provides is the possibility for balancing realities and principles that may seem to be in conflict, resembling the balancing … Continue reading
Interim Day at the Legislature: Utah's energy economy
Tweet Energy production and development (especially fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas) are valuable parts of Utah’s economy, according to a report that the governor’s energy adviser gave to the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Interim Committee. … Continue reading
Put children first: Don’t hide classroom-level data from public
Tweet Suppose you are king of Utah for a day. Your education adviser asks you whether you think it is a good idea to make information on the performance of each classroom of public school students publicly available. He explains … Continue reading
Interim Day: Grim impact of fed spending cuts on schoolchildren
Tweet At the Education Interim Committee on Capitol Hill this week, the committee heard a presentation about the potential impact of the pending federal sequestration policy on Utah’s public school and higher education systems. The sequestration policy would be enacted … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Education
Tagged education, sequestration, special education, title I
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Interim Day: Panel hears reports on government-centric economic development
Tweet In today’s Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee meeting at the Utah State Capitol, the committee heard reports from various state government economic development agencies, including reports from the Office of Tourism and the Film Commission. The Office … Continue reading
We regulate alcohol to protect innocent lives
Tweet We often hear the question, “Why does Utah regulate and restrict the ability to sell and purchase alcoholic drinks so much?” A practical answer to that question, based on empirical research and analysis, is because doing so is good for … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol
Tagged alcohol, alcoholism, drunk driving, drunken driving, public safety, regulation
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In context, liberal economic policies are still killing jobs
Tweet When considering what the dismal economic facts and realities of today mean for liberal economic policies and liberal thinking in general, one criticism I have encountered is a lack of consideration of the economic context in which those policies … Continue reading
New York Times editor admits to liberal bias at paper
Tweet In a somewhat stunning vindication of long-standing suspicions of a liberal bias in traditional news media, the public editor at The New York Times recently wrote a column openly stating that “the paper’s many departments … share a kind … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Thought, Culture
Tagged journalism, liberal, media, progressive
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Harvard-Brookings study finds vouchers increased college enrollment for black students
Tweet A first-of-its-kind study of a private school voucher program in New York City, published by Harvard University and the Brookings Institution, found “large, statistically significant positive impacts” from the voucher program on college enrollment among African-American children. The researchers … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged african-american, college, education, minority, New York, vouchers
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Good signs for Utah from study of charitable giving
Tweet A recent study by the Chronicle of Philanthropy looked at Americans after-tax charitable giving based on recent tax returns to determine how financially generous people around the country are. The results should be very encouraging for Utahns. Utah ranked … Continue reading
UHSAA cites administrative headaches as justification for denying transfer to depressed student
Tweet In a stunning display of callous disregard for a child’s emotional health and well-being, a spokesman for the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) recently justified denying depressed children seeking to transfer schools the opportunity to immediately play sports … Continue reading
Utah government entities catalogue how they compete with the private sector
Tweet During yesterday’s interim meetings, the Legislature’s Political Subdivisions Interim Committee heard reports from representatives of higher education, K-12 public schools, counties, cities, and others about activities they participate in that potentially compete with the private sector and how they … Continue reading
Posted in Free market, Government Spending, Legislature, Limited Government
Tagged big government, competition, private sector
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