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Clean Air Through Liberty 9 Aug 2012 | 10:29 pm
Kathleen Hartnett White, director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is a contributing author to a new report, "Environmental Conservation: Eig...
The Role of States in Anti-trust Enforcement 3 Aug 2012 | 10:29 pm
July 31 would have been the late economist Milton Friedman's 100th birthday. Dr. Friedman believed that "instead of promoting competition, antitrust laws tend to do exactly the opposite." Complicating...
The Left's Dubious History of Income Inequality 12 Jul 2012 | 06:20 pm
Claims that the gap is growing between America's richest and poorest are built on a foundation of flawed research, according to a report published this week by the Laffer Center for Supply-Side Econom...
Why the Declaration of Independence Still Matters 3 Jul 2012 | 09:29 pm
This week marks the 236th anniversary of America's Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. This document, while old and brief, remains one of the foundational documents of our country's politi...
The ObamaCare Tax 29 Jun 2012 | 02:29 am
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, affirmed the constitutionality of ObamaCare - not on the basis of Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce but rather its taxing authority....
The Future Face of Higher Education 21 Jun 2012 | 06:59 pm
With enrollment in online coursework growing at 10 times the rate of higher education enrollment overall, the 83rd Texas Legislature should remove barriers to the expansion of online higher education,...
The Road to Freedom with Arthur Brooks 7 Jun 2012 | 05:59 pm
A newly published book, The Road to Freedom, establishes the moral imperative of free enterprise. By appealing to the writings of the Founders, social science research, and public opinion data, the bo...
12 Steps for Overcoming Overcriminalization 31 May 2012 | 06:59 pm
In 2010, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published a checklist titled "Analyze before You Criminalize." The checklist was-and still is-intended to assist legislators in halting the rise of overcrim...
The EPA's Pretense of Science 24 May 2012 | 06:54 pm
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relied on four highly questionable assumptions in 2009 to drastically inflate the health benefits from far-reaching new rules, according to a new report, "EPA'...
The Texas Public Higher Education Almanac 17 May 2012 | 09:22 pm
This week, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board released the 2012 edition of its compilation of statistics on Texas public colleges and universities. Dr. Thomas Lindsay, director of the Found...
