California’s Proposition 1 Is Perverse Virtue-Signaling – OpEd
Imponderables about California’s Proposition 1: Abortion in California is already, indisputably legal during the first six months of pregnancy, and
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Author: Mary L. G. Theroux
Mary L. G. Theroux is Senior Vice President of The Independent Institute. Having received her A.B. in economics from Stanford University, Ms. Theroux is Managing Director of Lightning Ventures, L.P., a San Francisco Bay Area investment firm, and Vice President of the C.S. Lewis Society of California.
Website: http://www.independent.org/
Articles by Mary L. G. Theroux :
Presidential Role Model – OpEd
On President’s Day weekend, let us commemorate the record of the best president in U.S. history: John Tyler. A random
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Remembering Desmond M. Tutu – OpEd
Following Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu’s recent death, in reading an article about his funeral, I was stopped by its description of him as
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What The FDA And NIH Have To Say About The Vaccine – OpEd
Fact-checkers screening for “misinformation,” please note: everything that follows are direct quotes from the FDA Authorization Letter for COMIRNATY, the FDA-approved COMIRNATY
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Free Speech Is Hard: Its Alternative Is Worse – OpEd
It’s hard to hear ideologues spouting ideas you know are fully wrong, even harder when you know that the implementation
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2024: California Provides A Peek At What’s Ahead For US Under Dems – OpEd
Americans who may be curious about what life under Democratic party control will bring don’t need a crystal ball. Having
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Fearmongering v.2021 – OpEd
“It feels like we’re in the abyss right now, sinking toward the bottom,” said Dr. John Swartzberg of the UC Berkeley School
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Leviathan’s Covid Concentration Camps – OpEd
New York wants to give its governor absolute discretionary power to lock people up. Expect other states to pick up
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Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics – OpEd
Ronald Coase (from whose essay,”The Lighthouse in Economics” our logo is derived) is rightly renowned for questioning widely-held theories—such as the Lighthouse
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Goya’s Capitalism Is Saving The Poor In Argentina – OpEd
What do a Jesuit Priest working in the poorest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, and Goya’s controversial CEO have in common?
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