Why pay taxes when so much of your hard-earned money goes to fraudsters instead of doing good? Government bureaucrats and elected politicians, mostly Democrats, scream in outrage when any effort is made to crack down on fraud by requiring proof of where the money is actually going. They wring ...
Let's dispense with the convenient fiction: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not the primary threat to our communities. The real danger lies in the growing normalization of disorder, intimidation and lawlessness -- often wrapped in the language of "justice" but driven by something far ...
What extras do you have in your living spaces, or maybe even hanging around at work? Let’s talk about food. How many of you have full freezers, refrigerators, pantry and food shelves that are filled to the brim with foods you don’t use? When my refrigerator freezer gets fuller than ...
Here's a recent story from the Chicago Tribune that jumped off the page when I read it. Northwestern University is finishing up the construction of a new $800 million football stadium. This is supposedly a nonprofit "educational" entity. Uh-huh. Northwestern -- an "institution of higher ...
A new state budget season has begun and here at the Michigan League for Public Policy, we'e urging the Michigan Legislature to make sure students in our state have the support they need to thrive in their classrooms. That starts with stronger investments in our K-12 education system. While ...
To help celebrate my recent birthday, a small group of friends asked me what I’d like to do to mark the milestone. There are a couple of quietly beautiful things about that question. First, they wanted to take time out of their lives to celebrate me. That alone feels overwhelming and ...