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The MMA Fighter Who Loves the Constitution 

I’ve never been athletic. My only team sports experience was the crucial role of waterboy for my high school rugby team. A few years...
Economic Freedom

A Surfer Caught Inside a Legal Nightmare 

When a surfer gets trapped between an incoming wave and the shore, it’s said he’s been “caught inside.” Surfers dread being caught inside. You...
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The Strange Story of Title IX 

The newspaper quote is surprisingly diplomatic for a man named Moose.  “We have no desire to discriminate against women,” Edward “Moose” Krause, the longtime athletic...
Property Rights

Sorry, the Gym Is Closed

Helping Americans stay fit and healthy has always been a passion for Yvette Franco-Clark and her husband Randy Clark. Few people are fortunate to...
Property Rights

When the Government Takes Private Property for Sports Stadiums

Willie Mays was out at home plate.  It was August 10, 1955, and the New York Giants were playing a night game against the Brooklyn...
Regulation

A New Horse in the Race

Disqualified.  Four days after a 2024 horse race in New Mexico, Oscar Ceballos, the jockey who’d placed second, got bad news: He’d been disqualified, suspended,...
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Meet Colorado’s Wicked Witch of the West

Taralyn Romero's property dispute with her Colorado town earned her the title “The Wicked Witch of The West.” 
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The Government’s Magic Trick for Gifted Programs and Schools 

New York City has been cutting programs for gifted and talented students and changing admissions at specialized high schools.
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No Place Like Home: Selling ‘Inclusionary Housing’ in a California Town

“Is there a reason none of your email addresses got the letter I sent yesterday?” Jessica Pilling calmly asked the members of the Healdsburg...
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Don’t Say the Word ‘Tornado’

The circus was packing up when the dark clouds appeared.   The Gollmar Brothers—cousins to the Ringlings—had just performed in New Richmond, Wisconsin, a tiny town...
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Higher Wages for Everyone! 

Freelance is one of those delightful words that wears its history on its sleeve: It was first used to describe medieval knights who weren’t...
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