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Sep 20, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Matthew Spalding
At the beginningof the current national debate concerning immigration, The HeritageFoundation described the principles that should informimmigration policy, suggested some considerations forpolicymakers, and proposed several first steps in developing such apolicy. These principles have guided and will continue to guideHeritage Foundation analysis of this question, and they shouldguide lawmakers and policymakers in evaluating particularproposals that come before them.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Matthew Spalding
In recent decades, America’s educational institutions have completely departed from their original mission and have finally reached a stage where the very concept of “higher education” is ambiguous and arbitrary. For instance, consider the case of New College of Florida, which has just been censured by the American Association of University Professors for an alleged breach of governance.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
conservativereview.com | Matthew Spalding
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
thefederalist.com | Matthew Spalding
I voted to abolish the gender studies program at New College of Florida. Critics of the decision to eliminate gender studies have since labeled it an attack on education itself. But as a matter of academic integrity and intellectual honesty, the board has a firm basis to remove gender studies as an area of concentration at the state’s liberal arts honors college. Gender studies is not a science. Pretenses of legitimacy obscure its lack of scientific rigor and replicable research.
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Aug 5, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Adam Carrington |Kimberly Ross |Matthew Spalding |Ben Carson
Chevron deference, or the legal principle that the federal courts exercise deference to agency interpretations of laws and regulations, is a controversial practice that accumulates vast amounts of unconstitutional power in the federal bureaucracy. Indeed, it moves control of the government further and further away from the people. In this coming Supreme Court term, however, Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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Aug 5, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Kimberly Ross |Matthew Spalding |Mike Gonzalez |Jon Miltimore
For the second time in its history, the United States saw its AAA rating on long-term debt downgraded by a credit rating firm.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Matthew Spalding |Mike Gonzalez |Kaylee White |Diante Johnson
Right now, there’s bipartisan energy in the nation’s capital regarding the need to push back on the influence of the Chinese Communist Party. The new Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is at the center of Washington’s anti-CCP efforts, and so far, one of the committee’s top goals has been to boost the American economy as tensions continue to rise.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Mike Gonzalez |Kaylee White |Romina Boccia |Matthew Spalding
Fair-minded civics curricula teach that America’s founding principles were exceptional for their time and have outlasted and extinguished slavery, racism, and other violations of our natural rights. That lesson is all the more important considering a 2022 poll showing a record-low level of civics education, the understanding of one’s government and civics structure, among the public.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Matthew Spalding |Mike Gonzalez |Romina Boccia |Kaylee White
Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) signed a flurry of legislation on the evening of July 28, perhaps in the hopes that the late hour and date would stifle rigorous coverage of the new laws. One bill included in the mix was Illinois House Bill 3751, which will now allow noncitizens who are work-eligible under federal law to serve in law enforcement positions throughout the state.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
heritage.org | Matthew Spalding
For most of American history, the average farmer, shop owner or entrepreneur could live an entire life without getting anything from the federal government except mail service. But those days have gone the way of the Pony Express. Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that 49% of the population lives in a household where at least one person gets some type of government benefit.
