Developing and advancing policies that enhance people’s freedom.

CHAMPION MESSAGE

"I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years. They took me wherever they wanted. I wore whatever they said. Every sentence they ordered me to say, I repeated. Whenever they saw fit, they exploited me."

- Kimia Alizadeh, Iran’s Only Female Olympic Medalist Defects Over ‘Lies’ and ‘Injustice’

HURTING
NOT HELPING

California’s AB5 Put Hundreds of Freelancers out of Work

The Story

Hundreds of freelance writers and journalists started 2020 with a pink slip because of a new California employment law meant to target the gig economy.

In Short

The law is a win for revenue-hungry lawmakers, as companies will now have to pay payroll taxes on new employees and comply with other labor regulations. This law should be very concerning for anyone who supports flexible work opportunities and freelancers. AB5 is not a victory for workers but, rather, a defeat for independent work.

CAN YOU SAY
HYPOCRISY

After a Texas man stopped a killer at the West Freeway Church of Christ, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren implied that she doesn't feel safer knowing that an ordinary man at church had the means to stop the killer in six seconds. Despite the fact that Senator Warren has some sort of armed security, either Secret Service or Capitol Police, she would rather that ordinary citizens not have those same resources.

TWO TRUTHS & A LIE
STRAW BANS

Can you identify which of the following is NOT true about straws?

A: Plastic drinking straws make up a very small percentage of ocean pollution.
B: Most ocean plastic pollution originates in the United States.
C: Straw bans harm the disability community.

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She Thinks Podcast Episode

2020 Democratic Candidates' Assault on School Choice and Charter Schools

CAPSULE
REVIEW

The Latest Elitist Move to “Help” Urban Poor: Banning Dollar Stores

Some activists claim that the presence of dollar stores reduces the chances that a grocery store that's more acceptable to the elitists will open in the neighborhood. IWF Director of Cultural Programs Charlotte Hays says, "The elitist campaign to impose their values through regulation is going to harm the very people in whose name they claim to be acting."

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CNN Reportedly Offers Settlement to Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann

CNN has made a settlement offer of an undisclosed sum to Covington Catholic High School senior Nick Sandmann, multiple media outlets reported. Sandmann’s lawyers say that any money garnered from the legal challenges is not to enrich young Sandmann but to “deter the defendants” from doing this to somebody else in the future.

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Talking Points for Tots: Time Mag Wants to Help You Tell the Kiddies about Soleimani

Time magazine published in TimeforKids a guide on how to address the death of Soleimani with children. It will leave kids utterly confused and deeply ignorant, but other than that... it's perfect.

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