The Other Addiction Crisis Facing America: Government Spending
We are facing an addiction crisis in the U.S.; elected officials are hooked on spending your money and we have to help them break the habit.
What 10 Million+ FCC Comments Tells Us
By making policy, instead of simply implementing and enforcing policy, the FCC has usurped the role of Congress, and people are responding accordingly.
Lessons from the Republican Health Care Disaster
Republicans said for years they wanted to repeal Obamacare in the worst way—and they did.
'You Dingbats Can't Go Home Until You Do Your Job'
If the GOP leadership were to postpone or cancel the August recess, members of Congress would have time--and a lot more pressure--to accomplish what they promised they'd do.
Mackowiak: Compromise Bathroom Bill Threads the Needle
On March 17, Tom Giovanetti, an influential conservative and president of the Institute for Policy Innovation, penned an opinion column for The Dallas Morning News that offered his creative solution.
IPI Commends FCC Chairman Pai for Move to Begin Restoring Light-Touch Federal Broadband Regulation
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is undertaking the important work of setting Internet policy back on its well-established framework of light touch federal regulation by overturning the Obama administration’s ill-advised reclassification of broadband under Title II.
Texans Testify Against Transgender Bathroom Bill Through the Night
Tom Giovanetti said the House bill was an improvement from a Senate version because it was a small-government solution that limits the creation of additional protected classes of people. “It will limit the ability of cities to get involved in this type of social justice activity,” he told the committee.
A Limited Government Solution to the Bathroom Controversy
In the debate over bathroom access for transgendered persons, the best solution is not to expand government power, but limit municipal overreach. Those in favor of precluding cities from social justice do-goodism should embrace solutions such as Texas’s CSHB 2899, which limits municipal power— rather than an unworkable attempt by the state to police bathroom access.
A Limited Government Solution to the Bathroom Controversy
It should be no surprise that the best solution to the transgender bathroom controversy is to limit rather than expand government power. Texas and other concerned state legislatures should assert their authority as creators of their municipalities to limit the ability of their municipalities to engage in such civic mischief.
No Basis for Conservative Opposition to the Texas Central Rail Project
There is no principled conservative objection to the privately financed Texas Central Rail project, but those trying to kill the project ARE violating several conservative principles.