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Blog Archive 2009
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President-elect Obama wants to lure conservative support for his stimulus package by including tax cuts in the package. Will it work? Not if conservative legislators remember the principle that there More...
Government “Investment” and the Rule of Law
Columnist Jonathan Weil thinks Bernard Madoff’s ponzi scheme “wasn’t much different than the business models at some of the nation’s largest failed financial institutions”—the ones now rewarded with a More...
Innovation in Higher Education Financing
An alternative to government-subsidized student loans may be coming soon to the United States. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow reports for the Dallas Morning News that the company Lumni plans to begin selling hu More...
How Will the Economy Impact Fundraising?
This month’s Development Exchange at the Koch Foundation features The Heritage Foundation’s John Von Kannon discussing the impact of bad economic news on charitable giving. The event begins at noon on More...
Paul Weyrich, R.I.P.
Longtime conservative leader Paul Weyrich died early this morning. Weyrich was the founder of the Free Congress Foundation, and was well-known as the host of a weekly meeting where leaders of conserva More...
Letting Companies Fail Creates Jobs
Proponents of propping up failing automakers at taxpayer expense so that they can continue to pay out on overly generous union contracts should take note: That policy has been tried before. The Britis More...
Second Amendment Book Bomb Update
David Theroux of the Independent Institute sends word that the group’s Second Amendment Book Bomb is definitely having an impact on the sales of Stephen P. Halbrook’s, The Founders’ Second Amendment: More...
Do You Know Your Bill of Rights?
You probably already know that today is Bill of Rights Day, the day we celebrate the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. But did you know that the words “Bill of Rights” appear nowhere in those t More...
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Conservative Calendar
Wednesday Jan 07
Assessing the Bush Presidency and the Obama Promises......at
The Independent Institute
The Independent Institute
Friday Jan 09
Do We Need Another New Deal?......at
Metropolitan Club
Metropolitan Club
Monday Jan 12
Shaping the New Administration’s Counterterrorism Strategy......at
The Cato Institute
The Cato Institute
Monday Jan 12
The Ten Commandments......at
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
Tuesday Jan 13
Opening Pennsylvania Government: Transparency Symposium......at
Pennsylvania Manufacturer's Association Building
Pennsylvania Manufacturer's Association Building
Tuesday Jan 13
John Stossel: Author, ABC News Correspondent and 20/20 Co-anchor......at
River Crest Country Club
River Crest Country Club
Thursday Jan 15
Our Next Exigency: How Ought Health Care be Reformed?......at
St. Cecilia Music Center: Dexter Ballroom
St. Cecilia Music Center: Dexter Ballroom
Wednesday Jan 21
The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong with Rights......at
Institute of Economic Affairs
Institute of Economic Affairs
Thursday Jan 22
Saturday Jan 24
Free People, Free Markets: The Foundations of Liberty......at
Independence Institute
Independence Institute
Wednesday Jan 28
Energy Lessons from Brazil......at
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
Wednesday Jan 28
Is the Free Market Under Threat?......at
Institute of Economic Affairs
Institute of Economic Affairs
Friday Jan 30
The Imam Returned: Thirty Years of Revolution in Iran......at
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
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