Whatever their differences, the federal COVID-19 spending proposals advocated by Senate Republicans and House Democrats...

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August 3, 2020 | Weekly Newsletter

Economic Recovery Requires the Government to Stop What It’s Doing ([link removed])
By Benjamin Powell (The Hill, 7/29/20)
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Whatever their differences, the federal COVID-19 spending proposals advocated by Senate Republicans and House Democrats would fail to stimulate the economy in the short run and would make the economy worse in the long run. Neither proposal is designed to improve public safety or lift the state-imposed lockdowns, and each would entail more public debt and future tax hikes. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] The Terrible 10 A Century of Economic Folly ([link removed])
By Burton A. Abrams
How Does New York City Get Away With This? ([link removed])
By Stephen P. Halbrook (America’s 1st Freedom, 7/26/20)
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New York’s hostility toward the private ownership of firearms for self-defense is more than a century old. It all started with the Sullivan Act of 1911, the first law in any state (other than the slave codes) to require a license for mere possession of a pistol, even in the home. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] The Founders’ Second Amendment (2019 edition) Origins of the Right to Bear Arms ([link removed])
By Stephen P. Halbrook
California Legislators Violate Our Constitutional Rights ([link removed])
By Ronald L. Trowbridge (American Thinker, 7/10/20)
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Have the Golden State’s leaders forsaken the precepts of a democratic republic? Judging by his stay-at-home orders and business closures, undermining of the gig economy, and support for restrictions on a landlord’s right to sell to the highest bidder, Gov. Gavin Newsom has become a monarch. READ MORE » ([link removed])

Open Letter to Suspend California AB-5 From 153 Economists and Political Scientists in California ([link removed])
By Williamson M. Evers, David J. Theroux
Eugenics in High School History: Failure to Confront the Past ([link removed])
By Thomas F. Cargill (The Independent Review, Summer 2020)
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Judging by a representative sample of textbooks, America’s high-school students get little exposure to the history of eugenics and scientific racism. One reason might be that the relationship of these movements to Progressivism is too close for comfort. READ MORE » ([link removed])

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The Great College Depression Begins: Three Ohio Tales ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder (Forbes, 7/20/20)
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Ohio’s colleges are in the same predicament as others in the nation. With falling enrollments, rising expenses, loss of athletic revenue, declining state subsidies, falling endowment income and donor grants, half-filled dorm rooms, and declining international enrollments, the outlook for most is bad. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Restoring the Promise Higher Education in America ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder
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