August, 2011 - Independence Institute

You're Invited to Waiting for Superman Movie Night 0
- August 29, 2011
Please join us for a showing of Waiting for Superman Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:30 PM Doors Open 7:00 PM Movie begins Popcorn, Candy and Soft Drinks will be served. Please RSVP to Mary at 303-279-6536 X102 or Mary@i2i.org
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Poverty, equality, and the free-market 0
- August 29, 2011
“If left wing political theory is true, we should expect to see huge inequalities in the ownership of goods sold in the market, but fairly equal consumption in health care & education. But there’s the irony. The exact opposite of this prediction has been borne out!’
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Pipeline Brings Attention to Tar Sands 0
- August 29, 2011
The New York Times editorialized against a pipeline aimed at bringing petroleum from Alberta into the United States, saying the pipeline “would traverse highly sensitive terrain” and the oil involved would generate too much carbon emissions. As far as “highly sensitive terrain” goes, the federal government’s environmental review found “no significant impact” from the pipeline. […]
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The latest Obamacare case was wrong to uphold Medicaid expansion—Part II 0
- August 28, 2011
On August 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down Obamacare’s mandate that individuals buy insurance, but upheld the Medicaid mandates imposed on states. As I already have explained, the Medicaid ruling was wrong under the Constitution’s original meaning. In this post, I explain why the ruling also is incorrect even
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Hanushek Connection: Lobato Testimony, Funding Research, Waiting for “Superman”0
- August 26, 2011
National education expert Dr. Eric Hanushek was in Denver this week to testify in Colorado’s Lobato court hearing about the lack of correlation between increased K-12 funding and academic results. His appearance brings to mind two timely connections: Our own Ben DeGrow cited Hanushek’s school funding research (though not by name) on air for this Sunday’s episode of Your Show. And Hanushek is one of the experts featured in the acclaimed education film, Waiting for “Superman,” which will show at the Independence Institute on Tuesday, September 13.
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Canada: the soul-destroying search for a family doctor 0
- August 26, 2011
Journalist Gloria Galloway relates her exhausting search for a family doctor in Ottawa, Canada. Colorado also has a shortage of primary care docs. Will the woes of Canadian patients come to Colorado?
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