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Attracting Retirees to Oklahoma
The weather this week has been as nice as Florida's. No, really it has. Now I know what you are going to say, "Yeah right -- just wait a ...
McJobs are Real Opportunity
In my last FaxLineReportI told you about my son's lawn mowing business and the lessons he's learned from trying his hand at the free ent...
Lessons in Free Enterprise
This year my 15 year old son, Andrew, decided to make a little money mowing lawns. He set his price at $12 per lawn. That includes mowin...
Taxing Future Generations
I'm a little worn out listening to the constant drumbeat ... do you hear it? It's - for - the - children. It's - for - the - children. It...
Consent of the Governed
- Robert McClure, president and CEO of The James Madison Institute, recently wrote an insightful piece in Business Matters entitled "Yo...
Policy Experts Rank Most Harmful Federal Programs
Recently Human Events polled 36 distinguished public policy experts and scholars ranging from Nobel laureate Milton Friedman to former Ho...
Dr. Coburn's Diagnosis
Last week the junior senator from Oklahoma caused quite a ruckus when he sought to remove some federal pork from pending legislation. Ac...
The Lottery is Poor Public Policy
Well, the lottery is here -- isn't it grand?! Now rather than address the actual policies that create our economic problems we can just l...
Judge Rules on Eminent Domain Abuse
As the eminent domain battle wages on, casualties are mounting. Because of the Supreme Court's recent Kelo decision, few property owners ...
What's Good for Government, is Good for Citizens
The Washington Times reports that about 6,000 Riviera Beach, Florida residents with lower economic means will be displaced to build a bi...
Posse Comitatus Act - An Important Protection
In 1980,I was part of a Hunger Task Force for the United Methodist Church to Haiti. When we arrived at the airport in Port-au-Prince the ...
Free Enterprise as Hero
Perhaps the devastation of the hurricane we call "Katrina" is as much of an object lesson as it is a tragedy - and it is a genuine traged...
On the Honorable William Rehnquist
The news of Chief Justice William Rehnquist's death marks the end of a distinguished career. He was appointed in 1971, serving on the Su...
Property Owners Learn: Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
As mentioned in previous OCPA FaxLine Reports, the issue of property rights is resonating across a broad cross section of America. It is ...
Eminent Domain for Private Profit
The recent u.s. Supreme Court case, Kelo v. City of New London, has opened the floodgates for eminent domain abuse. The Institute for Jus...
Kelo and Just Desserts
What goes around comes around. Logan Darrow Clements is hoping to build a hotel on the land where Supreme Court Justice David Souter's h...
Property Rights and Economic Growth
These names will go down in history books for changing the original intent of the Fifth Amendment: Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Kennedy, So...
Liberal Justices, Property Rights and Public Scrutiny
Everyone knows liberals are really on the side of the little guy. At least that's what they claim. That is, er -- until it's an issue bet...
Dinesh D'Souza: Ideas for Reform
Dinesh D'Souza is a bright guy. In a February PBS broadcast debate on Social Security, D'Souza cut right to the chase: "When I went to co...
Social Security: Government Ponzi Scheme?
John Berlau, a Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, recently reviewed a book by Mitchell Zuckoff...
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Competition is benefiting Oklahoma he...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 -
Income-tax-sandwich watch
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 -
Free Market Friday: Saving retirement
Friday, June 14, 2013 -
All three branches disappoint on laws...
Thursday, June 13, 2013
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Why school boards often don’t represent their c...
Monday, November 21, 2011 -
At a glance: State ballot questions
Tuesday, October 09, 2012 -
Oklahoma’s Improved Economic Performance Sugges...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 -
Mitch Daniels, straight shooter
Tuesday, January 29, 2013















