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Ray Lucia’s Mythic Lift

By: Margaret A. Little June 19, 2020
Peggy Little
Ten years ago, Ray Lucia was a successful San Diego-based financial advisor who through in-person seminars, webinars, books, radio and TV appearances promoted an uncontroversial and academically recognized method of savings for retirement. His “buckets of money” strategy encouraged dividing and diversifying savings among safer to riskier “buckets” and then spending in retirement from the…
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Grading Agency Progress on Executive Order 13891: A Scorecard for Section 3(a)

June 11, 2020
Kara Rollins
Last fall, President Trump issued two Executive Orders aimed at reining in unlawful administrative state action. Together, the orders represented a welcome change for regulated parties, who too often find themselves in regulatory agencies’ crosshairs with little notice or understanding of what, if any, law or regulation they allegedly violated. But the Executive Orders are…
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The Constant Need to Check the Government

June 5, 2020
Jared McClain
  Most people have heard that “absolute power corrupts absolutely,” but we have to worry before corruption is absolute. Seemingly small, every-day abuses of power can have real effects on our lives and can slowly chip away at our resolve and our faith in government. Power is on the minds of Americans this year more…
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SJC decision on Baker’s powers is poorly reasoned

June 1, 2020
In the News
​The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled on Thursday that Gov. Charlie Baker’s various COVID-19 orders were authorized by the Massachusetts Civil Defense Act of 1950, and did not violate the plaintiffs’ due process rights or right to assemble under either the state or federal constitutions. The court’s opinion is superficial and poorly reasoned at…
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We Must Invest in Infrastructure to Rebuild Our Communities, Our States, and Our Country

May 29, 2020
Harriet Hageman
  As we poke our heads above ground to survey the damage visited on our shores by the coronavirus, it is imperative that we move forward with an intelligent, focused, and effective plan of action for rebuilding the economies and promise of our communities, our states, and our country. While the politicians and bureaucrats moved…
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Oh Wisconsin! It’s time for legislators to do their jobs

By: Margaret A. Little May 18, 2020
Peggy Littlecategory_listCovid-19 Articles
“When the tyrant first appears, he is a protector.” Plato, The Republic On March 24, 2020, Wisconsin’s Interim Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm issued a stunningly broad order taking control of the lives and activities of every single individual and business in the State of Wisconsin under rules and conditions that she herself determined and…
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