February 2007 Volume 14 Number 2

An Amazing Legacy

February 01, 2007

OCPA's Brian Hobbs writes about an unsung hero for liberty and humanity, William Wilberforce. Read More >

Freedom Fighter

February 01, 2007

I began college in the fall of 1980, a couple of months before the election of Ronald Reagan. Given how the nation and its opinions have changed since then, it seems like a million years ago. In the fall of 1980 I did not have what anyone would consider well-formed political opinions, aside from the usual belief in the greatness of this nation and the reality of the Americ... Read More >

Oklahoma Voters Favor Transparency Website

February 01, 2007

A strong majority of Oklahoma voters favor the creation of a searchable website that tracks government spending. A statewide survey commissioned by OCPA and conducted January 21-23 by Cole Hardgrave Snodgrass & Associates asked 500 registered voters: "It has been proposed that the Oklahoma state government set up a searchable website which would allow ... Read More >

Classic Response

February 01, 2007

Though the nation's educational darkness is great, there is in fact a renaissance under way. This revival bodes well for the future of freedom in America. By now we're all familiar with the bad news in American education. Students assaulting teachers. Teachers having sex with students. High school graduates who can't read their diplomas or place the American Civil Wa... Read More >

Taxpayers Left Holding the Baby

February 01, 2007

How did we get to a situation in which government support of maternal care is the norm? Part of the answer is that we changed the norms about when and how to have babies. Read More >

Letting Business Help

February 01, 2007

With recent election results splitting control of the Oklahoma state government, legislators must now confront the challenge of crafting bipartisan initiatives. There is a prime opportunity for enlisting such broad support, which has not yet been fully developed: educational choice. Legislation in favor of educational choice appeals to broad swaths of Democra... Read More >

Don't Enact a Stupidity Tax

February 01, 2007

Many years ago, I discovered one day that my nearly new chainsaw wouldn't start. No matter what I tried, the motor remained dead. So I took it into the local repair shop. When I picked up my chainsaw, it cost me $16 to discover that I had inadvertently activated the emergency cutoff switch. Laughing, I realized that the repair bill represented a tax on my own stupidity. ... Read More >

Reforming Public Education: The Impossible Dream

February 01, 2007

No institution in American life has experienced so many attempts to reform it, with the expenditure of tremendous sums of money and time and so little result, as has the system of public education. And the efforts continue to this day. There seems to be no limit to the inability to recognize and accept the futility of all such efforts. Ongoing attempts to ref... Read More >

As Busy As Ever

February 01, 2007

When anyone asks how things have changed for OCPA over the last 13 years, I always pause a moment and then respond, "Thirteen years? Has it been 13 years?" It just doesn't seem that long. Maybe it's the pace around here. So many speakers, policy papers, media interviews, and newspaper columns. So many faces, so much good work. As we enter this new year there ... Read More >

Quote/Unquote

February 01, 2007

?It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love.? Adam Smith ?A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it ? this man can always teach it with ... Read More >

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