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Ecuador Rejects Leftist Incumbent, Votes for Economic Freedom
Last weekend, Ecuadoreans did something they haven’t done since 2006: They voted in significant numbers against the socialist Alianza Pais party of three-term leftist President Rafael Correa. After a suspiciously delayed ballot count, electoral authorities finally certified on Feb. 23 that more than 60 percent of Ecuadoreans voted for a candidate other than Correa’s hand-picked…
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Why Trump’s Call to Investigate Vote Fraud Is Valid
President Donald Trump recently called for an investigation into vote fraud. His press secretary Sean Spicer added: “This isn’t just about the 2016 election. This is about the integrity of our voting system.” And there is a problem: Liberal activists have all too often rejected and fought against bipartisan efforts to fix these critical problems….
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Michael Novak, Friend of Economic Freedom
The news of Michael Novak’s death Feb. 17 saddened close friends and colleagues in the community of think tank scholars who drew so much from his writings and lectures. Novak’s perspectives expanded our conceptual grasp of economic liberty beyond dry formulas to include a more complete picture of the creative, human, and virtuous nature of…
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The Secret Service Needs an Overhaul to Keep the President Safe
The Secret Service currently polls as the worst place to work in the federal government, as mistakes and disciplinary issues have become bigger and more public. It’s been clear that changes needed to be made. Last week Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy announced his decision to resign from the agency. Clancy was appointed in…
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Trump Right to Fix Obama’s Unlawful Transgender School Policy
The Trump administration acted Wednesday night to fix the Obama administration’s unlawful “gender identity” school policy and return authority to parents and teachers in the states. Civil rights officers in the Department of Justice and the Department of Education issued a joint letter saying the administration was rescinding the policy, which had required schools to allow…
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Latest Court Decision Blocking Texas’ Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood Shows Need for Congressional Action
A U.S. district judge has blocked the state of Texas from cutting off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding. This is the sixth instance in which a court has prevented a state from denying Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood: Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana have also attempted to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for funds. On Dec….
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Obama Bests Monroe, Madison, Clinton on Historians’ List of Great Presidents
Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the Union and ended slavery, is our greatest president while immediate predecessor James Buchanan, who dithered and dallied while war clouds gathered, is the worst of 43 presidents. Ronald Reagan, who ended the Cold War without firing a shot and restored Americans’ confidence in themselves, ranks ninth while Barack Obama, who…
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How Reined-In Government Regains the Trust of Americans
A dangerous “us versus them” attitude is festering in Washington these days. It’s not surprising with headlines about congressional Democrats and party officials expressing an “anti-Trump all the time” strategy. The media is stoking the perception that Washington is riven by divisions about to boil over. The New York Times had a recent front-page article…
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Big Challenges Await Seema Verma, Trump’s Choice to Oversee Medicare, Medicaid
The Senate Finance Committee has completed nearly four hours of confirmation hearings for Seema Verma, President Donald Trump’s nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A Senate hearing is always a challenge for a new administration, but the Hill got it right: Verma, the daughter of immigrants from India, “cruised” through the…
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Conservative News | Mississippi Politics & News | Political Commentary & Opinion | Political News | State Politics & News
Creating Jobs in Mississippi’s Golden Triangle
Entrepreneurial dynamism has lagged in America for the past eight years, according to The Heritage Foundation’s 2017 Index of Economic Freedom. Yet someone in Mississippi’s Golden Triangle has been creating jobs for the American people. That person is Joe Max Higgins, an economic development official who has been going the extra mile for his fellow…
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There’s Nothing Free
It was Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman who made famous the adage, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Friedman could have added that there is a difference between something’s being free and something’s having a zero price. For example, people say that there’s free public education and there are free libraries, but public…
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Credit Where Credit Is Due: Leave Tuition Tax Credit Scholarship Options to the States
The Trump administration is reportedly considering working with Congress to establish a federal tuition tax credit scholarship program. Such tuition tax credit scholarship programs make sense at the state level, and have worked well and grown in popularity over the past decade. They are now in operation in some 17 states throughout the country. But…
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Trump’s Stellar Pick for National Security Adviser
Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is a perfect fit for the position of national security adviser, and it is no surprise that his selection by President Donald Trump has delighted many in the defense and national security community. Trump announced Monday night that McMaster will replace Michael Flynn, the retired Army general who resigned a…
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Latest Case of JAG Malpractice Shows Pressing Need for Reform
The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (the top military court) has slammed another Army trial prosecutor for egregious misconduct in an Army court-martial. This is the second case in as many years that this court has castigated an Army prosecutor for misconduct. In 2015, the court found serious problems with the way another…
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How Lawmakers Can Prevent Workers’ Retirement Savings From Becoming Wards of the State
Americans should be wary about giving governments the authority to manage their retirement savings free from federal protections. On Thursday, the House passed two resolutions of disapproval that would roll back the Obama administration’s special exemption that allows state and some local governments to run their own retirement savings plans free from federal rules and…
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Why the Assault on Campus Free Speech Threatens Our Republic
It’s no secret that free speech is increasingly under threat on U.S. college campuses. A number of University of Chicago activist groups, including U of C Resist and UChicago Socialists, demanded that the university rescind its offer for Corey Lewandowski to speak on campus. In a letter sent to campus officials, students felt that any dialogue…
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The Pro-Life Legacy of Norma McCorvey, the ‘Roe’ of Roe v. Wade
Jane Roe did not live out her life by the script. As the “Roe” of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, she would have been expected to be a staunch pro-choice advocate for the rest of her life. She wasn’t. Roe, whose real name was Norma McCorvey, died Saturday in Texas of a heart…
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Michael Novak and America’s Moral Ecology
“Americans are good at going to meetings, and that’s a tremendous skill to have,” said Michael Novak in a 2009 lecture at The Heritage Foundation. Leave it to Michael Novak to ennoble the bane of professionals’ existence. Americans “figure out what they need to do and organize themselves to do it,” he explained. “It’s essential…
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