Iâll Take âWhatever Evidence I Likeâ for Hundreds of Billions, Alex
Conclusions: This study finds that elementary students who were randomly assigned to attend the 21st Century Community Learning Centers after-school program were more likely to feel safe after school,...
View ArticleObamaCareâs New Freedom
By Michael F. CannonEarlier this month, President Obama's HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took to the Washington Post's op-ed page to reassure everybody that ObamaCare "puts states in the driver's...
View ArticleR.I.P. Bill Monroe, a First Amendment Champion
By David BoazBill Monroe, who was moderator for NBC's Meet the Press for about 10 years, has died at 90. The Washington Post does a fine job with his long career, from his pro-civil-rights...
View ArticleBest of Our Blogs: February 22, 2011
This article looks at bipolar disorder in Hollywood. (Source: World of Psychology)
View ArticleDoes the Internet Cause Freedom?
By Jim HarperThat will be the subject of a Cato on Campus session this afternoon entitled: "The Internet and Social Media: Tools of Freedom or Tools of Oppression?" Watch live online at the link...
View ArticleCompensating Bone Marrow Donation Isnât the Same as Selling Organs
By Ilya ShapiroOn Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times published an editorial critical of the Institute for Justiceâs lawsuit against the National Organ Transplant Actâs prohibition of compensation for...
View ArticleSo This Is Freedom? They Must Be Joking.
By Michael F. CannonThat's the title of my latest Kaiser Health News column, which addresses President Obama's offer to accelerate the waiver process that would allow states to replace many of...
View ArticleSlaying dragons
Sun don't go downpurple and scarlet and bluelet me pause herethese precious moments are fewWhen the moon has taken the sky's throneand turned all the land to shadowthat's when I dream of the little...
View ArticleMitch Daniels and ObamaCare, Round Two
By Michael F. CannonIn a March 4 article for National Review Online titled, âMitch Danielsâs Obamacare Problem,â I explain how Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) is undermining the effort to repeal...
View ArticleMonday Links
By George Scoville How can we have an "adult conversation" on the budget if the White House won't release its budget and deficit projections to the public? A new guide to India's uneven spread of...
View ArticleThe Risks of âJohn Doeâ Wiretaps
By Julian SanchezThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has unearthed an interesting case of an improper use of surveillance in an investigation where the FBI had obtained "roving wiretap" authority. In a...
View ArticleSCOTUS Issues a Super-Zelman Decision on Education Tax Credits
By Adam SchaefferToday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the Zelman decision for education tax credits. More than that, it's Super-Zelman. The findings in Zelman apply just as well to...
View ArticleDoes Virginia Even Have Standing to Challenge Obamacare?
By Ilya ShapiroAs I described yesterday in the context of Cato's latest brief, Virginiaâs challenge to the constitutionality of the individual mandate is now on appeal before the Fourth Circuit (the...
View ArticleChina Cracks Down on Ideas. And Music. And Advertising.
By David BoazThe government of China finally confirmed that it has detained the artist Ai Weiwei. Meanwhile, Evan Osnos writes from Beijing for the New Yorker about China’s “Big Chill”: Step by...
View ArticleHappy Tax Freedom Day!
By Daniel J. MitchellIf you are an average American, today is a great day. According to the Tax Foundation, you have finally worked long enough and earned enough money to satisfy the annual tax demands...
View ArticleâWinningâ
By Andrew J. CoulsonI have an op-ed in the Huffington Post today arguing that it’s possible to ensure universal access to education without compelling anyone to support types of instruction that...
View ArticleWhistleblowing Scandal at UCLA
By Ilya ShapiroLately I seem to have been blogging — and filing briefs – a fair bit on campus First Amendment issues, regarding both students and professors. The threats to free speech and...
View ArticleEnsuring that Indianaâs New Voucher Program Lives up to Budgetary Expectations
By Adam SchaefferA new voucher program in Indiana looks likely to be signed by Gov. Daniels soon, but without a slight modification it may not have the benign budgetary impact that is expected. As...
View ArticleWill Indiana School Choice Infringe Upon Liberty?
By Neal McCluskeyThere’s more bad news about the school choice bill awaiting Gov. Mitch Daniels’ signature in Indiana. Yesterday, Adam Schaeffer wrote about its possible negative fiscal impact if...
View ArticleTight on Standards, Loose Grip on Reality
By Neal McCluskeyAs promised (actually, a week later than promised) I have read the Fordham Institute “Briefing Book” for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act. As expected, it’s big on trumpeting...
View ArticleA Seroquel Clinical Trial And Academic Freedom
The sad case of Dan Markingson appears to have no end. The latest twist is playing out as an issue of academic freedom at the University of Minnesota where, seven years ago, researchers ran a clinical...
View ArticleMore dangerous nonsense from the University of Westminster: when will...
One of my first posts about nonsense taught in universities was about the University of Westminster (April 2008): Westminster University BSc: âamethysts emit high yin energyâ. since then, there...
View ArticleWho Is Really "Bullying?" - Academic Leaders and the Stifling of Critics of...
Universities, which are supposed to discover and disseminate knowledge, ought to be the foremost defenders of free speech and a free press. However, in the past decades, university executives have...
View ArticleIndiana Voucher Law a Defeat for Educational Freedom
By Adam SchaefferIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed an expansive new voucher law today. It’s a disaster for educational freedom. Read the full explanation here. The voucher program has been widely...
View ArticleEducational Freedom in Pennsylvania
By Andrew J. CoulsonThe Pennsylvania state House has just passed an expansion of its existing k-12 scholarship-donation tax credit program. The vote was a deafening 190 to 7 in a state that has voted...
View ArticleThe Presidentâs Next Middle East Speech
By Christopher PrebleThe news media is abuzz with speculation about what President Obama will say in an address this Thursday at the State Department. The topic is the Middle East, and White House...
View ArticleThis Time They Said, âWeâre Goingâ
By David BoazTwo weeks ago I wrote about the documentary “Stonewall Uprising” and the line from a police official that caught my attention: âThis time they said, âWeâre not going.ââ Thatâs...
View ArticleWind on skin
Easter is just one of those days of traditional finery I cannot seem to squelch with my most tom-boy mom style. Shirt and tie, toe the line, proud of our judgement.As the sun warms the earth now, I am...
View Articlejoy without lament is a deflated balloon
This guest post comes from one of the wise and questioning bloggers I know, Joy from Joy In This Journey.A father, oldest daughter lying in a cemetery a few miles from the church, stands with arms...
View ArticleWednesday Links
By George Scoville Next up for marriage equality: Perry v. Schwarzenegger. Please join us at 12:00 p.m. Eastern today as co-counsels for the plaintiffs Theodore Olson and John Boies join Center for...
View ArticleIn His grip, yet free
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. (John 10:27-28) 10 years ago, I met this...
View ArticleWhat Did Orwell Say?
By John SamplesSteve Simpson and Paul Sherman of the Institute for Justice have written an excellent short essay about Stephen Colbert’s effort to undermine the Citizens United decision. But the joke...
View ArticleDonât Let the Aphorism Be the Enemy of Thought
By Andrew J. CoulsonI am often told that pointing out the serious shortcomings of government-funded school vouchers and the relative superiority of education tax credits is a case of “making the...
View ArticleRemembering Those Who Died for Us, 2011
It’s hard to repay the debt of a human life. Yet today in the United States, we remember those who died for us, fighting in wars to keep our freedoms safe from those who would take them away from us....
View ArticleHurt
I swallowed 24 pills. Half of me hoped 24 is enough. The other half hoped 24 wasn't enough. I told my husband, and he found this bottle, the bottle I bought in 2003 because it was on the list of things...
View ArticleCurricula with an Agenda? It Ainât Just Big Coal
By Neal McCluskeyToday the Washington Post has a big story on efforts by the coal industry to get public schools to teach positive things about â you guessed it â coal. The impetus for the article...
View ArticleDownsizing the Department of Labor
By Tad DeHavenThe Department of Labor has been added to Cato’s Downsizing Government website. Proposed spending cuts are $143 billion. The following essays examine the department’s activities: Failures...
View ArticleAre Corporations People When They Make Video Games?
By Julian SanchezI note that I’m not hearing many critics of Citizens United decrying yesterday’s very welcome Supreme Court ruling, in which the majority held unconstitutional a California statute...
View ArticleEconomic Freedom
By Caleb O. BrownSome smart folks have drawn strongly on the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report to put together a short video extolling the virtues of economic freedom....
View ArticleGay Marriage in New York
By David BoazIn the Wall Street Journal today, Cato senior fellow Walter Olson praises the New York legislature both for passing a marriage equality bill and for including guarantees of religious...
View ArticleSupreme Court: Data Mining OK, Even When Physician Privacy Is Compromised
The Supreme Court has sided with Big Pharma in their challenge to the Vermont Law limiting the pharmaceutical Industryâs access to physician prescribing information. The nationâs high court handed...
View ArticleBacon with a Soupçon of Hypocrisy
By Jason KuznickiNPR’s Morning Edition today ran a surprisingly sympathetic report on “libertarian summer camp“Â â the Porcupine Freedom Festival, held every year in New Hampshire. How did it go?...
View ArticleBest of Our Blogs: July 5, 2011
Another holiday’s come and gone. Whether you celebrated Canada Day or Independence Day, you may be basking in the glory of a glorious holiday or exhausted from another family gathering of trying to...
View ArticleIndependence - Get Some!
Independence is defined as the quality or state of being independent. Essentially, not dependent.Having just celebrated the 4th of July, which we know is celebrated in honor of our freedom and...
View ArticleVive La Revolution?
By David BoazToday is the 222nd anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, the date usually recognized as the beginning of the French Revolution. I’ll be speaking this weekend at...
View ArticleAyn Rand on the Front Page of Ecuadorâs Major Newspaper
El Universo, the newspaper with the largest circulation and the paper that publishes my weekly column, ran a mostly blank front page today that features only this quote from Ayn Randâs Atlas...
View ArticleProfessor Geoffrey Petts of the University of Westminster says they âare...
Jump to follow-up On 23rd May 2008 a letter was sent to the vice-chancellor of the University of Westminster, Professor Geoffrey Petts Dear Professor Petts You may be aware an article by Zoe Corbyn,...
View Article#Nymwars: Content is King, and King is Content.
My patience has ended. I'm just about to pull the pin on Google+ so that I can take some time and think about my reliance on other Google services. The entire debate tells me that for whatever reason,...
View ArticleDis-ImpactED Nurse
This week Ian Millerâs blog impactednurse.com along with his twitter account and Facebook page have been removed as a result of 'issues' with his employer (The Canberra Hospital). (Source: Life in...
View ArticleHereâs Where Better Schools HAVE Scaled Upâ¦
By Andrew J. CoulsonEarlier this summer, I released a study comparing the performance of California’s charter school networks with the amount of philanthropic grant funding they have received. The...
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