Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to districts that mostly elect Democrats. By Tarren Bragdon and Joe Horvath Wall Street Journal What’s a good way to erode Americans’ trust in elections further? The answer can be found in North Carolina, where Gov. Roy Cooper recently vetoed a bill that would ban private funding for public election administration. Such funding was rampant in 2020—in North …
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California: More Concerned About Hog Homes than People’s Homes
It’s no question that the mounting homeless population in California is not only a national disgrace but also a public health emergency. Yet Californians continue to keep their eye OFF the ball. In 2018, California enacted by a 2-to-1 ratio a new farm animal welfare law that requires that any “breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves be given enough space to stand and turn …
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Something We (Almost) All Can Support: Teaching the Success Sequence in School
For nearly 20 years, two scholars at the American Enterprise Institute, Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill, have spoken across the country about a way to end poverty and welfare. They called this path out of welfare and dependency “the Success Sequence.” What is the Success Sequence? It tells kids to, in this order: “graduate high school, get a job, and then get married before having …
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