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‘Defund the Police’ Mayors Used Taxpayer Cash to Hire Their Own Private Security—Adam Andrzejewski

August 6, 2021
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Mayors in cities across the United States who called for defunding the police were at the same time using taxpayer dollars to hire additional private security for themselves, suggesting that they were aware their policies were making cities less safe. To learn more about this, we sat down for an interview with Adam Andrzejewski, CEO…

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Deep Dive (April 21): National Debt Hits $123 Trillion, $800,000 per Taxpayer: Study

April 21, 2021
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A new report found America’s national debt now exceeds $123 trillion. That’s four times the U.S. Treasury Department’s figure of $28 trillion. What does that mean in terms of taxpayer dollars? The $123 trillion figure means close to $800,000 per taxpayer, while the official figure of $28 trillion means around $180,000 per taxpayer. As to…

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Wuhan Lab Eligible to Receive US Taxpayer Funding Through 2024, NIH Confirms

February 18, 2021
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is authorized to receive taxpayer funding for animal research until January 2024, the National Institute of Health told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The WIV is at the center of widespread speculation that COVID-19 could have entered the human population in China due to an accidental lab leak. Researchers…

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Bad Habits in Government? Noooooo!

January 18, 2021
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Commentary Habits matter. Good ones can help us by standardizing useful behaviours, but others can hurt by entrenching practices we possibly shouldn’t be doing. And ask any nail-biter how easy it is to break a habit. While some habits are annoying to us personally, others carry heavier implications. They can harm our public life. When…

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