Saturday, June 3, 2023
Medicare_at_Risk
Medicare is shaping up to be a deciding factor in the debate over our nation’s future. As Heritage’s Bob Moffit and Alyene Senger explain in a recent paper, “Why Traditional Medicare Must (and Will) Be Reformed,” the status quo in Medicare is unsustainable and unacceptable due to the program’s structural...
Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
Suppose someone wanted to dumb down a country. How would they accomplish this? In fact, no research is required. We don't need to speculate about what the most brilliant Pavlonians might do. American public schools have been dumbing down students for most of a century. The best techniques have been discovered,...
The positive momentum from the “Year of School Choice” in 2011 is being carried over into 2012, with several states primed to implement major reforms.  Louisiana, already a pioneer in the school choice movement, is poised to make its New Orleans voucher program available statewide, allowing...
Special Report from AIM’s Center for Investigative Journalism By Arne Steinberg* Executive Summary Ken Burns is known as a PBS documentary creator, but he is actually a significant cog in the left-wing propaganda machine. His taxpayer supported PBS documentaries are shown in public schools across the U.S., presented to students as unvarnished fact....
John Goodman
Here is the bill. Here is the CBO score. Here is the House Republican summary of the bill. Republicans seem to have great difficulty reminding people that the George W. Bush tax cuts are the reason why middle income families have not been paying about $2,000 more in taxes...
In Reason magazine, Baylen Linnekin writes about “the sickening nature of many food-safety regulations,” like the  “poke and sniff” inspection method mandated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture “that likely resulted in USDA inspectors transmitting filth from diseased meat to fresh meat on a daily basis.”...
On Monday—two years after President Obama signed Obamacare into law—the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the health law’s constitutionality.  Heralded as the case of the century, the oral arguments heard and, ultimately, the Court’s decisions will set the precedent for hundreds of future legal...
<!, rush a 1,059-page bill to a floor vote only two days after the text was released on November 30? Fourteen years ago, while the nation was distracted by the 9/11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush was determined to enact “No Child...
If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be comical. Our schools seem to be run by Italian cruise ship captains. In a society, where everyone is immersed in language and surrounded by words, we somehow manage to have an illiteracy crisis. Recent government tests show that two-thirds of the kids...