1889 Institute Blog Headlines

The High Duty of Elected Officials and Ways They Fall Short

11/30/2020

With an election just completed (the alleged voting, anyway), a legislative session coming up, constant talk of spending to offset the impacts of COVID-19, and elected officials trying to mandate our way out of a disease, the duty of elected officials in their official positions is worth considering. The 1889 Institute recently published a booklet for state lawmakers that discusses various issues...

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The High Duty of Elected Officials and Ways They Fall Short
November 30, 2020 at 10:20AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Public Unions and Obscure Election Dates Create a Perfect Storm

11/23/2020

Wouldn’t it be great to pick your boss? I don’t mean choose between two competing job offers based on which boss you prefer. I mean that you and your coworkers get together and pick a boss based on who is going to be the easiest to work for: someone who won’t interfere with your work, won’t call you out when you’re acting against the interest of your customers, someone who will sing your praises...

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Public Unions and Obscure Election Dates Create a Perfect Storm
November 23, 2020 at 08:19AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

How Biden/Harris and Well-educated Sophisticates Are Wrong in the Age of COVID-19

11/18/2020

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris often declared during the campaign that “We believe in science.” And judging by the tendency of the college-educated, especially among the sophisticates living on the coasts, to agree with Harris’s positions on everything from climate change to proper precautions amid COVID-19, belief in “science” seems to many a mark of knowledge and wisdom. But is it? The...

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How Biden/Harris and Well-educated Sophisticates Are Wrong in the Age of COVID-19
November 18, 2020 at 09:38AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Follow the Science: Eliminate Social Distancing and Focus Resources to Protect the Vulnerable

11/16/2020

As the country entered into an election year, COVID-19 reared its head and became an unusual campaign issue. Exposed to extreme politization, facts were buried in an abundance of misinformation perpetuated by the invocation of “science.” With the overly polarized rhetoric of stump speeches mercifully behind us, it is time to return to the rigor and integrity in research that public policy...

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Follow the Science: Eliminate Social Distancing and Focus Resources to Protect the Vulnerable
November 16, 2020 at 09:46AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Be Careful What You Wish For

11/11/2020

The state of Oklahoma has California in its sights. People and businesses seeking greater opportunity are fleeing California, and justifiably so. The most humane thing for Oklahoma to do is open our borders and offer economic asylum to the oppressed refugees of the People’s Republic of California. However, I urge caution.In an age dominated by masked faces and super-sensitivity to the spread of...

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Be Careful What You Wish For
November 11, 2020 at 09:05AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Why We Need to Reject Equality of Outcome

11/9/2020

The United States of America was founded on the principle of equality. This principle has guided the country throughout its history. There have been times that we have fallen short of this goal, the most obvious example being slavery. However, lately there appears to be disagreement on what really constitutes equality. For some, equality means guaranteeing a certain outcome for all, regardless of...

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Why We Need to Reject Equality of Outcome
November 09, 2020 at 09:52AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

OG&E and the Corporation Commission Arent Doing Their Jobs

11/4/2020

At the time of this writing, it’s been a full week since there was power at my home. I live within OG&E’s electrical grid, so when it comes to being without power this past week, I’m nothing special. Many of OG&E’s customers had no power for days, and some will have no power for well over a week. By the time power is restored to everyone in their service area, OG&E’s own estimate is...

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OG&E and the Corporation Commission Aren’t Doing Their Jobs
November 04, 2020 at 02:05PM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

An Immodest Proposal to Improve Term Limits

11/2/2020

No person elected to any office in the executive or legislative branch of any state, county, or local government shall be eligible to run for the same office in the election immediately succeeding their elected term of office. In 1990 Oklahomans voted, by a two-to-one margin, to enact term limits for state legislators. Certainly, voters must have believed they needed to be saved from...

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An Immodest Proposal to Improve Term Limits
November 02, 2020 at 09:25AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org