May 10, 2012
Opponents of charter schools fear the loss of existing public schools' students and money, but the mass exodus to private schools and better performing school districts has already begun in a trend projected to continue.
April 26, 2012
Despite the successes in environmental quality improvement in the U.S. since the early 90s, the EPA has promulgated more regulations in the first two years of the Obama Administration than it did during the entire first term of the Clinton Administration.
April 5, 2012
Public charter schools may be our only chance to change the lives of students at high risk to drop out of school, yet the AEA’s campaign to discredit public charter schools has resulted in the spread of deliberate misinformation
March 28, 2012
Are the penalties for violating Alabama’s laws against gambling so weak that crime literally does pay?
March 16, 2012
Surveys suggest that a liberal takeover of public education could be deprogramming religion and conservative values in college students. Alabama Policy Institute President Gary Palmer sheds light on an alarming trend.
February 23, 2012
Every member of Congress, every governor, and every member of the federal judiciary along with the President of the United States took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Yet ...
February 8, 2012
February 6th would have been Ronald Reagan’s 101st birthday. Considering the current condition of America and the world, I tried to imagine what he would say if he were still with us. Here are some of my thoughts.
February 3, 2012
With the shipwreck of the luxury cruise ship the Costa Concordia, one of the most honored codes of seamanship, indeed of Western manhood, was violated … the code of “women and children first.”
January 27, 2012
Obama and Democrats have cast themselves as the protectors and defenders of the poor and down trodden. Yet their anti-fossil fuel agenda has created a highly regressive hidden tax that disproportionally falls on low- to middle-income families.
January 13, 2012
Alabama is once again at odds with the U.S. Department of Justice … this time over the voter ID law that the Alabama State Legislature passed during the 2011 legislative session.