Upcoming Institute Events at CPAC

The Institute will host two events at this year's CPAC in Washington DC February 9-11. Watch for more information.

• Governor Sarah Palin will be the featured speaker at the Student Mentoring Luncheon. This event will be open only to female undergraduate students.
• Media Panel with experts in media including National Review online editor Kathryn Lopez, S.E. Cupp, and Regnery Publishing president Marji Ross (pictured right).

Sen Rand Paul: "TSA's Intrusions Undermine Security"

Many air travelers will relate to Senator Rand Paul's experience this week with TSA officials, which cost him a needlessly missed flight. Travelers may also wonder, as does the Senator: "Have the terrorists won?  

National School Choice Week Jan 23-27

For decades conservatives have advocated giving all families the freedom to choose from among all available schooling options—public, private, parochial and home—without having to pay twice for the education service for their children (i.e., public school taxes plus tuition). Today the desire for school choice spans all socio-economic, political, and ethnic groups, as this video celebrating last year's events and activities shows:
 

School Choice Could Help States Balance Budgets

"Nearly all of America's 50 states are facing budget deficits," writes education professor William Jeynes, who maintains that education spending, which consumes nearly 50% of state budgets, is the biggest driver of those deficits. Since private schools operate at roughly 60% of public schools' per student costs, "states would save money by implementing programs that pay for children to attend these schools instead of more expensive public ones"... 

Obamacare: Replace and Repeal!

Health care expert Sally Pipes has published a practical, nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step plan that can make the slogan Replace and Repeal! a reality. She penned a series of three op-eds as an overview:

Where to Start in Repealing Obamacare

End Obamacare's Taxes Before They End Lifesaving Medical Advances

How Real Reform is Different from Obamacare

Note: Sally Pipes will be a featured speaker at the Institute's Western Women's Summit April 12-14, 2012, in Santa Barbara CA. 

Keystone: Losing Friends, Gaining Enemies

In a scathing commentary at Canada Sun News on the rejection of the Keystone Pipeline, Ezra Lavant lambasts environmentalists and the American president for choosing America's enemies over her northern friends:


Full 12 minute video here.  

'Groupthink' Diminishes Learning, Creativity & Productivity

"Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink," writes Susan Cain in the NYTimes. But, she says, research strongly suggests Groupthink robs us of our individual creativity, productivity and ability to achieve. It also tends to make us more hostile and less healthy... More. 

Iron Lady: "Most Anti-Female Film in Quite Some Time"

"'The Iron Lady' is an utter travesty, both in content and in form," writes Examiner Movie Critic Kelly Jane Torrance. "The woman born Margaret Roberts won a place at Oxford on scholarship, studied science, and became a chemist. She became friends with many of the leading free-market thinkers of her time. The woman on screen gets all her ideas from her father...The film was written by, directed by, and stars women. But it's the most anti-female film I've seen in quite some time." 

Conservatives Remain Largest Ideological Group

For the third straight year, reports Gallup, "conservatives have outnumbered moderates, after more than a decade in which moderates mainly tied or outnumbered conservatives."
 

Liberals' Rendezvous with Regret

Liberals' "largest achievement is today's redistributionist government," writes George Will. "But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to distribute power and money to the strong, including itself. Government becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as society’s primary allocator of wealth and opportunity. Therefore it becomes a magnet for factions muscular enough, in money or numbers or both, to bend government to their advantage."

Rather than producing "social harmony by decreasing antagonisms arising from disparities of wealth," the Left's redistributive policies increase social strife, increase wealth disparity among citizens, and increase governments at the expense of the people—utterly destroying any hope of achieving its stated mission.