From The Heritage Foundation

Congress put school vouchers to the test in 2004 when it authorized the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP), a federally funded voucher program serving low-income students in the nation’s capital. It has awarded $7,500 scholarships to more than 3,700 students over the past six years.
Congress mandated a formal evaluation of the [...]

From Nebury Port News

SALISBURY — Frustrated by unsuccessful negotiations, Town Manager Neil Harrington wants the state to take by eminent domain a beach property that has failed to sign on with a private developer hoping to revitalize Salisbury Beach’s deteriorating center.
“I have asked our legislators to look into the possibly of the state taking the [...]

From The Oklahoman

LeBron James isn’t the only reason Florida is making national news. Florida’s education reforms are being praised and implemented by other states hoping to mirror Florida’s strong academic gains. On the other hand, Oklahoma’s beginning steps toward educational progress are receiving about as much national attention as Kevin Durant’s quiet re-signing… until now.

Since [...]

From Fox News

As the House prepares to launch on Thursday a rare, public ethics inquiry into alleged misdeeds by New York Rep. Charlie Rangel, it is clear that Rangel remains defiant. He is fighting the House Ethics Committee tooth and nail, claiming that he wants to “make certain, before this election, people know who Charlie [...]

From Politico

The news that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich folded like a cheap suit in the wake of a brazen political attack on the tea party movement was sad. But not surprising.
As far back as his second term in Congress, in 1980, Gingrich sided with big labor interests until brought to his knees by a [...]

Contrary to Barack Obama’s rhetoric about protecting consumers, his new financial reform law represents a dangerous big government power grab that willfully ignores the true roots of the recent financial crisis.
It is also the latest example of America’s “march to Marxism,” the not-so-gradual implementation of a command economic system in which the free market is [...]