http://www.insideronline.orgRSS feed for the InsiderOnline.org Blogen-US Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:15:00 ESThttp://www.heritage.org/ui/icons/thflogo.gifhttp://www.insideronline.orginsideronline.org http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=12D01284-94A2-1F9F-745C8BDD29676D17 Cramming down health care costs with government purchasing power (i.e., "the public option") might seem like a good idea, since many other countries appear to spend on health care only about half per capita what the United States spends without... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:17 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=12D01284-94A2-1F9F-745C8BDD29676D17 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=123BFE76-EBDD-B321-7F01516EE8E14C5C The real unemployment rate is 17.5 percent. That's the so-called U-6 rate, which counts not only those who are out of work and seeking a job, but also those who've given up looking for work as well as part-time workers who... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:36 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=123BFE76-EBDD-B321-7F01516EE8E14C5C http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=12168C18-EE8C-942B-77944992440981E7 Congratulations to the Independence Institute, which this week celebrates 25 years of promoting liberty and limited government in Colorado. Last week, the Denver alternative weekly Westword mercilessly lampooned the Independence Institute with a two-page cartoon spread. Surely, getting under the... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:55 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=12168C18-EE8C-942B-77944992440981E7 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=0EB5CE7B-C194-D9E6-EBF046584F8B00ED • The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide is the reference work on the Constitution that non-lawyers have been waiting for. At a length of exactly one volume, it's the perfect size to keep handy for those extemporaneous constitutional colloquiums that... Insider The Insider Online Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:10 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=0EB5CE7B-C194-D9E6-EBF046584F8B00ED http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=0D7A1678-F3F8-0C27-87CAD6B9310E56B3 Heritage Foundation fellow and former Attorney General Ed Meese III on the decision by current Attorney General Eric Holder to put 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and five other terrorists on trial in civilian court in New York City: It... Insider The Insider Online Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:25 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=0D7A1678-F3F8-0C27-87CAD6B9310E56B3 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=08495101-D390-32FF-D8FED30C45C44D7B Congratulations to our Heritage colleague Matthew Spalding, whose book We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future is number two in nonfiction on the Washington Post's bestseller list this week. Spalding's book is essential reading for anyone... Insider The Insider Online Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:14 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=08495101-D390-32FF-D8FED30C45C44D7B http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=02CC52C4-A81D-7667-08002FDB4CB6319F The government's Web site that is supposed to tell taxpayers how their stimulus dollars are being spent, and which spends $84 million per year to do so, shows that $6.4 billion of the stimulus has been spent in 440 congressional... Insider The Insider Online Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:39 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=02CC52C4-A81D-7667-08002FDB4CB6319F http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=FF395F5B-B860-6E50-3A145F4E52F87591 President Obama's claim that the stimulus bill has "saved or created" 640,000 jobs is inflated by at least 75,000 jobs, according to the Washington Examiner's compilation of news reports. The count, however, is a work in progress, so the real... Insider The Insider Online Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:00 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=FF395F5B-B860-6E50-3A145F4E52F87591 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=FE041695-C506-59A6-9114CCEFA88E8983 Lovers of liberty will find much to like in the proposed new Georgian constitution. The "Draft Liberty Act" caps government spending at 30 percent of gross domestic product, caps the public debt at 60 percent of GDP, and requires a... Insider The Insider Online Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:22 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=FE041695-C506-59A6-9114CCEFA88E8983 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=EE6208DE-FD04-DC81-E710C8A0DFF8C29C "Primary- and secondary-school enrollments," observe Chester Finn and Frederick Hess, "have risen by about 10 percent since 1970, but the teacher rolls grew by 61 percent during the same period - an addition of some 1.4 million instructional personnel." They... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:31 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=EE6208DE-FD04-DC81-E710C8A0DFF8C29C