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  • What the Bud Light Scandal Could Mean for School Choice

    What the Bud Light Scandal Could Mean for School Choice1

    One of the most effective levers of influence in a free market system is the ability for consumers to take their business elsewhere. When Gillette released a marketing campaign in 2019 designed around criticizing “toxic masculinity,” alienating millions of men around the country, consumers responded by taking their business (about $5 billion of it) elsewhere. Gillette hasn’t

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  • Takeaways From This Year’s Tax Season

    Takeaways From This Year’s Tax Season0

    For the last three years I’ve made my way as a freelance writer. I work seven to eight hours every day, seven days a week, and earn enough to remain solvent. I love what I do. Last week, I once again paid my income taxes. My children are all grown, I own no property, and

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  • California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?

    California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?7

    “I’m going to have to ask you to put your cigarette out.” I was a college student working as a waiter at a Wisconsin restaurant more than twenty years ago when I sheepishly said these words. I didn’t like saying them, and was frustrated I had to. The guest, who was sitting with his date

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  • Reparations on the Horizon in California

    Reparations on the Horizon in California3

    Growing up in the 90s, the prospect of reparations seemed unlikely. I was aware that a subset of the population supported payments to the descendants of slaves, but back then, it seemed as if most people, regardless of how they felt toward such a policy, didn’t believe it would ever actually be implemented. It just

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  • 4 Tips for Financial Stability from Noah Webster

    4 Tips for Financial Stability from Noah Webster0

    With inflation, prices, and bank failures all on the rise these days, many of us are looking anxiously toward our pocketbooks and wondering what we’ll do when the financial crisis inevitably hits. Will we have to start over with our retirement fund, or will we be impoverished in a matter of months? There may not

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  • ATF Turns Law-Abiding Gun Owners into Felons

    ATF Turns Law-Abiding Gun Owners into Felons1

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has followed through on their plan to turn millions of lawful gun owners into felons in the name of “public safety” by reclassifying pistols with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles, effectively expanding the unconstitutional national gun registry. Stabilizing braces are devices that can be attached to pistols

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