No Teaching Experience Required for Common Core
What do a one-time wedding planner, a saleswoman, and a medical technician have in common? None of them has teaching experience. Yet, that doesn’t matter according to Pearson, the corporation…
Privacy: Hotels get it now too
The Fourth Amendment finds victory today in the Supreme Court case ruling of City of Los Angeles v. Patel. In a narrow 5-4 decision, the Court upheld a foundational principle…
Net Neutrality Rent Seeking Begins
When the FCC announced that it would regulate the internet under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, we predicted a number of undesirable outcomes. One of these concerns was…
Horne v. Dep’t of Ag: Raisins are Property Too
Ten years after the Supreme Court decided Kelo v. City of New London, almost to the day, the Court, in Horne v. Department of Agriculture, protected property rights in…
Third Grader Banned From School Party Because of Common Core Opt-Out
New Jersey parent Michele Thornton’s 9-year old daughter, Cassidy, was recently banned from attending an end of the year party for students at her elementary school because Michele had…
Grassroots Response to Kelo Decision
Today represents the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London. The Supreme Court issues decisions in around eighty cases each year. Some of…
Kelo v. New London: How the Supreme Court Gutted Constitutional Protections for Private Property
Ten years ago today, the United States Supreme Court fundamentally changed the meaning and purpose of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, which allows for the use of eminent…
Large Union Plans to Cut Pensions
Unions are supposed to protect and look out for the best interests of workers. Some believe that without unions, employers would continually take advantage of employees. Why then is one…
CBO Warns of Mounting Debt, Crickets from Congress
This week, the Congressional Budget Office came out with its Long-Term Budget Outlook for 2015. The report foreshadows growing deficits, mounting debt, and economic harm if the status quo…
$3 Billion in ObamaCare subsidies May Have Gone to the Wrong People
Before policymakers debate over whether or not government should intervene in private industry (the answer is no!), they should start asking themselves whether or not government is competent enough to…