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Colorado voters get another bite at ‘free’ school lunch apple 0
- FISCAL
- June 27, 2025
Colorado’s “free” school lunch program could finally be getting a well-deserved reality check, depending on what voters have to say about it come November. Governor Polis recently signed two bills concerning the state’s Healthy School Meals for All program (HSMA): House Bill 25-1274, which essentially asks voters to both de-TABOR existing revenue as well as
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Justice Clarence Thomas’s Wise Words About ‘Experts’0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- June 22, 2025
Experts and professional associations always have been influenced by economic considerations. Today, few are immune from political pressure as well.
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How Magazine Bans Thwart Self-Defense 0
- Prohibition of Arms
- June 21, 2025
Originally published on Reason.com Proponents of bans on standard firearms magazines claim that the bans do not affect lawful self-defense, and do impair mass shooters. Supposedly, victims will be able to escape or fight back during the “critical pause” when a mass shooter is swapping magazines. The claims are not plausible, as explained in an amicus
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“The Original Constitution”—Long-Awaited 4th Edition Arrives!0
- CONSTITUTION
- June 20, 2025
The latest edition responds to new controversies surrounding an old document.
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The Supreme Court’s Unanimous Religious Freedom Ruling Explained 0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- June 20, 2025
The media claim that there is a firm 6-3 Supreme Court is untrue, as demonstrated by this freedom of religion case.
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Denver’s budget mess—the cost of “progressive” policies 0
- CONSTITUTION, TABOR
- June 16, 2025
Here’s the political lesson, Colorado: Socialist and other leftist policies screw things up. Free market policies make life good. It seems to be a law of nature, like gravitation.
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