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18 Domestic Cuts Trump is Proposing in New Budget 0
- Economics
- March 17, 2017
The White House released President Donald Trump’s first budget today. In the opening message, the president says, “Our Budget Blueprint insists on $54 billion in reductions to non-defense programs. We are going to do more with less, and make the government lean and accountable to the people.” I would rather that the government do less with a
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Dad’s Viral Post Sticks It to the Parent Haters 0
- Family
- March 17, 2017
As a parent, one of my pet peeves is the parent haters. These are the people who would prefer that children never be seen nor heard in public, and they’ll jump at any chance they get to let parents know how much they’re inconveniencing them. They are quick on the trigger to chide parents
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Harvard-Educated Historian: Harvard Just Labeled Me ‘Fake News’0
- Culture
- March 17, 2017
Tom Woods is a historian and political commentator. A New York Times Best Selling author, he received his BA from Harvard and his PhD from Columbia. I’d never heard of Woods until yesterday, when a libertarian friend forwarded to me a letter Woods sent to his readers. It began like this: Harvard University has released
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Trump Launches Effort to Shrink Executive Branch 0
- Politics
- March 16, 2017
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch.” The order requires his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, to complete a plan recommending specific spending cuts based on input from federal agencies and outside scholars. This is a promising initiative. It will be up to Congress to enact the administration’s
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Is California Intentionally Making Bad Schools Appear Good?0
- Education
- March 16, 2017
With the increased emphasis on transparency in recent years, it has become easier for parents to get some idea of the quality of education their child is receiving. But while such transparency is good for parents and children, it’s not so great for our country’s education system. Much to the chagrin of Americans across the
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Left-Wing Economics Is No Match for Alt-Right Resentment 0
- Economics
- March 16, 2017
The Democratic leadership, and its leftwing intellectual base, are feeling implausibly smug these days. They figure it this way: the Trump era is going to inspire a blowback. Trump will make a terrible mess, destabilize income security and health care access, and skew social power in favor of fat cats, and all of this will
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