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Matt Bai and David Leonhardt agree that the rising cost of state government and the lack of fiscal restraint on the part of local and state government leaders has lead us to the budget crisis that many states are facing…

By Gary E. Clayton and Martin Gerhard Giesbrecht

A Policy Issue in Education: No Child Left Behind

¶ … Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Specifically it will discuss how the United States deals with OPEC and oil prices, and how the United States has failed to create a viable energy policy that will allow the…

The American Revolution was an unusual battle that was mostly fought with words and speeches, rather than cannons, muskets and rifles. While there were casualties, this paper attempts to look at the underpinnings and root cause of this Revolution. It helps those with superficial knowledge, gain a greater insight to what this war was all about.

We often hear the road to hell is paved with good intentions and we can certainly use the history of Tammany Hall as an example of how this occurs. Tammany Hall was born from good intentions for the residents of New…

It has become common to condemn government bureaucracy as wasteful and inefficient. According to the chapters "Ethics for bureaucrats" and "The problem of professional ethics" from the book Public service, ethics, and…

Health Insurance Association of America HIAA: Lobbying efforts

One of the biggest scandals involving print journalism in recent history has recently been uncovered in England -- and it involves one of the most popular tabloids in the UK, The News of the World.

Legalize it: Hypocrisy and Inefficiency in Marijuana Laws