March 2009 Volume 16 Number 3
- It's Our Liberty, Stupid
- March 01, 2009
- By Patrick B. McGuigan
A few years back, Justice Antonin Scalia said of a bad U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion: "Most bad precedents come as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. This one comes as a wolf."
That aptly describes my feelings about the grotesquely mischarac-terized federal "stimulus" package recently signed into law.
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- A Tale of Two Management Teams
- March 01, 2009
- By Bruce N. Shortt
Let's conduct a thought experiment. Suppose you have a critical project that is being carried out by two independent management teams. One team has a well-established track record of success even though it has always had very limited resources. The other management team fails at nearly everything it touches, despite having vastly larger resources than the other team. Nevertheless, the failed management team wants to regulate the successful management team. Would you agree to it?
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- Crowding Out Oklahoma's Private Sector
- March 01, 2009
- By J. Scott Moody and Wendy P. Warcholik
In the debate in Washington, D.C. over the so-called stimulus package, there is one basic truth that has largely been ignored: Only the private sector can create new wealth and income; government can only spend what it first takes from the private sector.
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- Oklahoma's Dwindling Private-Sector Economy
- March 01, 2009
- Personal income is an important economic measure of a state's well-being. Higher levels of personal income mean that a state's residents are able to purchase more goods and services such as homes, cars, education, and health care. Read More >
- Revolutionary 'Stimulus' Bill Rewrites the Social Contract
- March 01, 2009
- By Edwin J. Feulner
For the last 35 years, educators and analysts at The Heritage Foundation have been intimately involved in the nation's great public policy debates. In all that time, we have never encountered legislation with such far-reaching and revolutionary policy implications as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. And never have we seen a bill more cloaked in secrecy or more withdrawn from open public exposure and honest debate.
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- Making the Dream Real: Betty Mason's Choice
- March 01, 2009
- By Patrick B. McGuigan
Betty Mason, public school educator for decades and former superintendent of the Oklahoma City public school system, is spending her "retirement" years as superintendent of St. John Christian Heritage Academy. The private school sits on the north side of the beautiful campus of St. John Missionary Baptist Church, high on a hill east of N. Kelley Avenue on Oklahoma City's east side.
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- MLK III: Education 'Must Be Born Anew'
- March 01, 2009
- "It is no secret that public education in this country is in trouble," civil-rights activist Martin Luther King III once told OCPA. "For poor children and children of color the problem of equal access to quality education is magnified. ... America's educational systems are wholly lacking in preparing our youth for the 21st century, and accordingly, must be born anew." Read More >
- The Seen and the Unseen
- March 01, 2009
- By Henry Hazlitt
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics, or medicine-the special pleading of selfish interests.
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- The Free-Market Brain Trust
- March 01, 2009
- By Brett A. Magbee
Throughout the history of man, ideas have always had consequences. At OCPA hardly a day goes by in which we don't see that truth validated. We always are thinking about cause and effect. That's why we focus on a principled perspective of governing ideas.
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- Quote/Unquote
- March 01, 2009
- "As
stewards of the economies of our respective states and regions, we urge
... you to sign the [stimulus] bill when it reaches your desk ..."
From a letter to President Obama signed by Gov. Brad Henry and 18 other governors. Apparently a politician is the steward ("a person who manages another's property or financial affairs") of Oklahoma's entire $139 billion economy. Read More >
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