by cblpi_admn | Dec 16, 2014 | News
Nicole Poole is a student at Valdosta State University and served as an intern this summer at our Headquarters in Herndon, Virginia. CBLPI president Michelle Easton interviewed this young, emerging leader in December 2014. What was it that attracted you to the Clare...
by cblpi_admn | Jun 1, 2013 | Energy & Environment, Policy Paper
By Becky Norton Dunlop Principles matter. Without sound principles to guide decisionmaking, good public policy can easily be derailed by pure emotional appeal, manipulative advocacy, and greedy con artists. The following eight time-tested principles are essential to...
by cblpi_admn | Mar 4, 2013 | National Security & Immigration
By K.T. McFarland When I started out in the national security world at age 18 working for Richard Nixon, when I went to graduate school, and when I worked at the Pentagon, I would frequently be the only woman in the room. I would always get the question, what's a...
by cblpi_admn | Mar 28, 2012 | Economy & Jobs, Policy Paper
by Veronique deRugy. As you know, March is Women's History Month, so our schoolteachers are going to be teaching the kids of America how women fought for their freedom and won the right to vote and the right to own property. What is going to be utterly lost is the...
by cblpi_admn | Mar 24, 2012 | Education
The history of U.S. education is fascinating. Before the mid-1800s, elementary and secondary education was based entirely on parental choice. Between the 1800s and the 1970s, government controlled-education was in ascendancy until it eventually permitted almost no...
