June 2007 Volume 14 Number 6
- Thinking Like Lawyers
- June 01, 2007
- Like many in my profession, I dreamed of being a lawyer from a very young age, inspired by both the Atticus Finches of fiction and the Abraham Lincolns of real life. I have never lost my love for the law and the pride I have in the noblest practitioners of it. Yet despite my love for the law and for genuine lawyers, as a member of this great profession I am ... Read More >
- Oklahomans Oppose Government Preschool for Toddlers
- June 01, 2007
- You may recall that in February Governor Brad Henry proposed launching an effort "to ensure that each school district can ultimately offer the option of early childhood education for every three-year-old in Oklahoma." The state legislature promptly nixed the idea, and new survey data may help explain why. It turns out that Oklahoma voters, by a margin of bett... Read More >
- How School Choice Will Benefit Teachers
- June 01, 2007
- Public school teachers aren't true professionals, they're public employees. They aren't paid better because they insist on maintaining their status as hired hands. Will they ever trust themselves to succeed, or are they too insecure and too addicted to a public sinecure? Many teachers regard themselves as professionals and conduct themselves accordingly.... Read More >
- Liberalism's Echo Chambers
- June 01, 2007
- Why have so many state and local chambers of commerce become lobbyists for big government? The Chamber of Commerce, long a supporter of limited government and low taxes, was part of the coalition backing the Reagan revolution in the 1980s. On the national level, the organization still follows a pro-growth agenda-but thanks to an astonishing political transform... Read More >
- Conservatism for Oklahoma's Second Century
- June 01, 2007
- The 2006 elections were a shock and a lesson to American conservatives, whose political strength has waned to pre-1994 levels. In Oklahoma, although conservative legislative gains continued, a collapse of Republican strength in statewide races is illustrated simply. On election morning 2002, the ;P held six of the 11 elected statewide non-federal positions. On... Read More >
- The Real Reason to Cut Taxes
- June 01, 2007
- Speak to anyone who advocates cutting taxes, and they'll tell you that tax cuts are desirable because an extra dollar in the hands of a household or a business is better than an extra dollar in the hands of the government. An economist would tell you that money (on the margin, of course) spent privately is more efficient than money spent by the government. Resources devote... Read More >
- Court Tosses Meritless OEA Lawsuit
- June 01, 2007
- As a frequent critic of our state's Supreme Court, it would be remiss of me not to comment when they get one right. On May 8 the Court not only correctly affirmed Judge Dan Owens's dismissal of the OEA's challenge to the state's educational financing system, but also, speaking through Justice Taylor, it explained its decision in a concise, logically compelling opinion that... Read More >
- Inconvenient Truths
- June 01, 2007
- Here's one: Al Gore's deceptive propaganda film is full of wrong, misleading, and disingenuous claims. The largest single factor driving the debate on global warming is the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth. The movie has been marketed as a scientific documentary, but in fact it is an artful and deceptive propaganda film. The claims made in A... Read More >
- Hard at Work, As Always
- June 01, 2007
- There is always more to do. Never does a week go by that we don't find ourselves contemplating the many new opportunities we have to impact public policy. That's the nature of our work. We invite leading thinkers to discuss their ideas at OCPA events; national figures visit our headquarters for face-to-face dialogue; and OCPA staff is seen at countless gatherings of policy... Read More >
- Quote/Unquote
- June 01, 2007
- ?Art, music, film, dance, poetry?all the arts?have long been our greatest tools to explore the regions of imagination that defy our efforts to think rationally about subjects that our emotions tell us are too painful to contemplate.? Al ;re, speaking April 25 at the Tribeca Film Festival ?Obama is stressing his Lincoln parallels, as in his choice of Springfield... Read More >
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