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The Problem With So-Called Evidence-Based Policy
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6 years ago
How do we follow the evidence to make purely political decisions? The authors describe two types of evidence: off-the-shelf evidence and pragmatic evidence. Off-the-shelf evidence, according to...
Preamble To R.I.S.E. | Freedom's Journal Institute for the Study of Faith and Public Policy
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6 years ago
The founders of the United States were not conservatives. The principles enumerated by Dr. Wallace are part of the bedrock of American liberal/progressive values. Upon that bedrock we have built...
Urban Legends: The Dixiecrats and The GOP
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6 years ago
Black conservatives dispelling urban legends. What today is called conservatism was extraordinarily liberal when the American Revolution was fought and the United States was founded.
How to Stop Innovation From Breaking America
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6 years ago
The social cost of technological innovation can be easily recognized. IMO the importance of disruptions in the authoritarian hierarchy of social organization are being overlooked. While...
Biden faces backlash for saying 'America was an idea' that 'we've never lived up to'
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6 years ago
Is President Joe really willing to tell our children the factual history? The real history is that the Democratic Party has been the party of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow. The real history...
COVID-19: Distancing and masks are not enough
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6 years ago
At this point you'd think there would be enough real-world field observations available to make these laboratory experiments and models unnecessary. We're still relying on scientific speculation...
New Research Helps Explain Dramatic Declines in COVID-19 Death Rates
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6 years ago
Not surprising that a new pandemic disease would kill the most vulnerable first. But that isn't the real story hidden in the numbers. Before the pandemic the goal of medical care had been to...
Trump Wanting Stimulus Checks in People's Pockets Is Democrats' Leverage in Negotiations, Pelosi Says
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6 years ago
The country is being held hostage by party politics. I'm not sure anyone knows what's in the Democrat's $2.2 trillion legislation but we can be certain that a large chunk of that is not for...