June 13, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 13, 2025
How is the Department of Defense making it easier for military families to homeschool and what role will the Georgia Promise Scholarship play?
Topic: United Nations
May 28, 2021 • Commentary
A Day of Honor, a Sacrifice of a Lifetime
Nearly 5 million people died in the Korean War, a conflict that began in June 1950 and ended in July 1953. More than half of those killed were civilians – a civ
January 22, 2021
Friday Facts: January 22, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: The debate about education funding is not new, as demonstrated in this clipping from a 1992 editorial in The Augusta Chronicle. As the Foundation celebrates its […]
July 12, 2019
Friday Facts: July 12, 2019
It’s Friday! Events August 27: “Election Integrity: Facts, Fraud and Fiction,” is the Foundation’s August noon Policy Briefing Luncheon at the Georgian Club. The speaker is Hans von Spakovsky of […]
April 19, 2019
Climate Change Agreements: Solutions in Search of a Problem
Earth Day arrives again on April 22, and along with it the also-predictable heated rhetoric by climate change alarmists who bolster their claims with articles and opinions and state, “Facts […]
November 10, 2017
Despite the Hype, Changes in Sea Level Turn on a Dime
Anybody paying attention to 2017’s hurricanes and, even more recently, the Paris Agreement, is aware that political posturing amplifies how complicated and controversial is the science of climate change and, […]
October 13, 2017
Feeding on Problems: From World Hunger to Abundance
By Harold Brown Remember when India was a poster-country for overpopulation and starvation? In just one sign, The New York Times carried more than 100 articles per year from 1965 […]
June 2, 2017
Friday Facts: June 2, 2017
It’s Friday! Events There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is a free doughnut today! Today’s National Donut Day, the food holiday featuring free doughnuts at shops […]
June 2, 2017
An Unhealthy Obsession with Climate Change
By Harold Brown On June 1 came the encouraging news that President Trump has decided the United States will exit the U.N. Paris climate agreement. The agreement imposes huge burdens […]
October 30, 2015
Friday Facts: October 30, 2015
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress […]
October 23, 2015
Friday Facts: October 23, 2015
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Think tanks stand outside election cycles and alongside people who see politics as a means to ratify sound policy and don’t see policy rhetoric as […]
February 24, 2015
Checking Up On Health: February 24, 2015
ObamaCare, vaccination accusations and why your doctor’s late. Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Dealing with insurance companies in the ObamaCare era has become convoluted and […]
April 4, 2014
Friday Facts: April 4, 2014
It’s Friday! Events April 24: Matt Candler, founder and CEO of 4.0 Schools, keynotes, “School Choice: Big Gains in The Big Easy,” the Foundation’s Leadership Breakfast at 8 a.m. at […]
February 8, 2013
Friday Facts: February 8, 2013
February 8, 2013 It’s Friday! February 19: The Foundation’s Leadership Breakfast at Cobb County’s Georgian Club, 8 a.m. on Tuesday, February 19, is keynoted by the Cato Institute’s Randal O’Toole. […]
March 14, 2012
Health Care: A Road Map to Innovation
By Ross Mason The United States spent $2.4 trillion on health care in 2011. If that represented a country, it would be the world’s sixth-largest economy. Health care accounted for […]
December 9, 2011
Friday Facts: December 9th, 2011
It’s Friday! – Monday is the deadline to sign up for “Portland: Model or Maverick?” the Foundation’s final Leadership Breakfast of 2011. The event begins at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, December 14, […]
September 30, 2011
September 30th, 2011
It’s Friday! Events – October 24: Invitations have been mailed for the Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and Freedom Award dinner, scheduled for the evening of Monday, Oct. 24, at the Renaissance Waverly Atlanta. Speakers […]
June 17, 2011
Friday Facts: June 17th, 2011
It’s Friday! Quotations – “I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.” – George Bernard […]