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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">douglas Carswell was<b style=""> appointed </b>President & CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy in January 2021.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since taking on the role, Douglas has helped secure:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The largest tax cut in Mississippi history, with the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">state income tax slashed to a flat 4 percent.</span></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A universal occupational licensing law, making it easier for people to find work in Mississippi.</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A law to combat Critical Race theory</b> which prevents public money being used to divide America.</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Previously a Member of the British Parliament, Douglas co-founded Vote Leave, the official campaign that won the Brexit referendum. He played a pivotal role in securing the Brexit vote in the first place, changing parties and calling a Special Election on himself in 2014 (which he won with the largest increase in voter share in any election in British history).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2022, the State Policy Network awarded the Mississippi Center for Public Policy the “Biggest Win for Freedom” Award for securing historic tax cuts.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Douglas was twice voted a Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year in Britain.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A non-executive director at the UK Department of International Trade since 2020, during that time the UK has successfully secured multiple free trade agreements around the world.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Douglas sits on the Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs, a think tank that has published works by no less than twelve Nobel Prize laureates. Douglas has published multiple policy papers in his own name.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Douglas has appeared regularly on Fox News, the Ben Shapiro Show and local television and radio shows across Mississippi. The author of four books, Douglas has been invited to speak to young audiences from Oxford, England to Oxford, Mississippi.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Douglas received a BA (Hons) degree in history at the University of East Anglia, before reading for his master’s degree at King’s College, University of London.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Raised in Uganda, Douglas is now settled in Mississippi,</b> with his wife Clementine, young daughter Kitty - and Crumble, the dog.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx 6 23</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>
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</div><div>Why do some people prosper while others fail?</div><div>By Douglas Carswell</div><div>June 15, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>Why is economic output per person seven times higher on one side of the US-Mexico border than on the other? Why is the average Canadian twelve times richer than the average Moroccan, despite having similar size populations?</div><div>
</div><div>We are often invited to believe that a society’s relative success has a lot to do with its geography or climate. Not so.</div><div>
</div><div>There are plenty of resource-rich countries in Africa, blessed in every imaginable way by geography and climate, that still produce only grinding poverty. Conversely, there are plenty of resource-poor places, such as Japan or Iceland, that prosper.</div><div>
</div><div>Much more important than a country’s natural resources is its political economy.</div><div>
</div><div>If property rights are insecure, power arbitrary and taxes high, a society will remain poor. If, on the other hand, people are free to spend more of their own money and make their own choices for themselves and their families, society overall will thrive.</div><div>
</div><div>Perhaps the single best illustration of this is Korea. Since the end of the Korean War, the Korean peninsula has been divided. North Korea has been run by a communist dictatorship, under which there are no property rights and rules for everything, including what you can wear. South Korea, especially since the 1980s, is an open, free-market society, with relatively low taxes and light regulation.</div><div>
</div><div>The North today can barely feed itself. The South is as wealthy as Europe or the US.</div><div>
</div><div>Korea shows us what happens when a society is subjected to two different extremes – one free market, the other a tyranny.</div><div>
</div><div>Making sure that every society is run along free market principles is essential to maximize prosperity. But even with the most liberty-minded policies in place, would everyone in a free market society flourish?</div><div>
</div><div>In the late 1960s, a Stanford psychologist, Walter Mischel, undertook a famous experiment. He offered kids a marshmallow on the understanding that they could either eat the marshmallow right away, or they could wait a few minutes and have two.</div><div>
</div><div>What Mischel was doing was measuring each child’s time preferences. Those kids that were prepared to wait had what we call a low time preference. The less patient kids that opted to have one marshmallow right away, had what we call a higher time preference.</div><div>
</div><div>Having assessed each kid’s time preference, Mischel then tracked their progress over the years that followed. He discovered a startling correlation between having a low time preference (being prepared to wait) with academic and other kinds of success. Those inclined towards instant gratification, his research seemed to suggest, would be less successful.</div><div>
</div><div>Time preferences, it seems, play an important part in how we as individuals do. Might time preferences also have a role in explaining the different trajectories societies take?</div><div>
</div><div>Could it be that the USA, Canada, Finland and Japan are relatively rich because they are countries with low time preferences? There is a body of evidence to suggest that poorer countries, like Mexico and Russia have higher time preferences, and that really poor countries like Tanzania and Nigeria have really high time preferences.</div><div>
</div><div>The conventional explanation for this is that prosperity produces lower time preferences. Might it not be the case that lower time preferences produce prosperity?</div><div>
</div><div>If being wealthy explained your time preferences, not the other way around, you might expect that people with comparable incomes in different countries had similar time preferences. They don’t. As with Mischel’s marshmallow experiment, the implication is that time preferences impact outcomes, not the other way around.</div><div>
</div><div>Mainstream economists have a lot to say about how individuals transact with other individuals. They less often look at how we as individuals transact with our future selves.</div><div>
</div><div>Surely how people in a society transact with their future selves is critical in explaining economic outcomes? In a society with a low time preference, people are more likely to defer consumption and save. Dropout rates in education are likely to be lower. Capital and knowledge will accumulate from one generation to the next.</div><div>
</div><div>Time preferences are a key factor driving a society’s economic development. What about propensity to commit crime? Presumably, if you are willing to risk seeing your future self sent to prison in return for the chance of an immediate material reward you have a different time preference to someone that isn’t?</div><div>
</div><div>Time preferences can clearly be influenced by public policy. Hyperinflation, for example, would give people a powerful incentive to spend, rather than save. Some research has suggested that exposure to communism had impacted the time preferences of East Germans, compared to those who lived in West Germany (albeit that the effect is wearing off and Germans overall have some of the lowest time preferences in the world).</div><div>
</div><div>When considering some of America’s deep-rooted, inter-generational socio-economic challenges, we ought perhaps to think a little more about time preferences. Here’s a heretical thought; how might time preferences vary across the country?</div><div>
</div><div>What can we do to lower time preferences? Can one actually lower time preferences, or is it perhaps a case of not raising them?</div><div>
</div><div>Idealists believe that if only we adopted the right policies, we would get better outcomes. A conservative idealist should recognize that there are some aspects of human nature that we can neither change nor perfect. Time preferences might be one of them.</div><div>June 15, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>Mississippi successes stories</div><div>June 5, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>Jail is the solution to America’s crime horror story</div><div>June 1, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>What does it mean to be conservative?</div><div>May 31, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>A Veteran’s View of Memorial Day</div><div>May 29, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>Do we put too many people in prison?</div><div>
</div><div>doug c</div><div>Mississippi, it is often said, has an incarceration problem. Our state locks up too many people for too long, we are told.   </div><div>
</div><div>Over the past two decades, Mississippi’s prison population has in fact fallen.  In January 2014 the prison population of our state was 21,008.  By January 2022, that figure had declined by almost a fifth to 16,931. </div><div>
</div><div>Those who argue Mississippi should incarcerate fewer people have been getting exactly what they asked for. </div><div>
</div><div>Now let’s take a look at what has happened to violent crime in our state over that time.</div><div>
</div><div>From 2016 to 2022, violent crime in our state increased by 741 percent, according to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.  We went from 538 violent crimes a year to 4,529.  That is 3,991 more violent crimes and more victims.</div><div>
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</div><div>Anti-prison advocates like to argue that locking people up in large numbers does not work.  Crime, they point out, was high even when Mississippi locked people up in greater numbers than almost anywhere else in America.  The trouble is that Mississippi after these anti-incarceration reforms is a vastly more violent place than Mississippi was without them. </div><div>
</div><div>In 2013, the year before Mississippi enacted legislation designed to reduce the rate of incarceration, 28 people out of every 100,000 Jackson residents were murdered.  By 2021, that number had nearly quadrupled to 101 homicide victims per 100,000 residents in our capital city. </div><div>
</div><div>Of course, just because there has been a surge in violent crime at the same time that the prison population has been reduced, it does not automatically follow that the former has been caused by the latter. </div><div>
</div><div>The reality is, however, that across America the average state prisoner released has around five previous convictions.  That means that we have a pretty good idea of who is committing the lion’s share of the extra crime; those that have already been convicted and released. </div><div>
</div><div>"But it is so expensive to lock up so many people!" the reformists insist.  </div><div>
</div><div>It is expensive to maintain prisons, just as it is expensive to maintain our country’s borders.  But there are some things that the government needs to do even if costly. </div><div>
</div><div>As Shad White, our State Auditor has shown, leniency is expensive, too.  According to estimates by the State Auditor, each homicide in Mississippi costs taxpayers between $900,000 and $1.2 million.  On top of that, of course, come all kinds of other costs paid for by the victims of the violent crime.  </div><div>
</div><div>"But what about the human cost of incarcerating people?" the anti-prison advocates are quick to ask.  "Locking people up harms families, and the children of inmates suffer." </div><div>
</div><div>Anyone who assumes that releasing violent criminals back into the bosom of their families will automatically be good news for those families might not have met many violent criminals.   </div><div>
</div><div>Eight years ago, back when every policy-maker in Jackson seemed intent on drifting along with the anti-incarceration vibe, we were told that there were better ways to reduce crime than by filling the prisons.</div><div>
</div><div>Unfortunately, we have yet to find them.  When you factor in selection bias, there is remarkably little evidence that most rehabilitation programs have the efficacy that those who run them want them to have. </div><div>
</div><div>Anti-prison advocates are currently campaigning to have Mississippi’s Parole Board release more parole-eligible prisoners from custody. </div><div>
</div><div>It is true that our Parole Board currently approves a lower percentage of parole applications now than it has done for years.  But that is because there has been a massive surge in the number of people automatically entitled to apply for early release to the Parole Board.  </div><div>
</div><div>Why the increase in parole applications?  Because of legislation that the anti-prison advocacy groups helped pass which automatically entitles violent offenders to appeal to the Parole Board in the first place.  </div><div>
</div><div>The Parole Board has recently been criticized for getting some parole decisions wrong.  I can’t help wondering if the Board might have done a better job if they had not been flooded by new cases at the insistence of anti-prison activists. </div><div>
</div><div>The tragedy of this misguided anti-prison agenda is not only that it is driving a surge in crime.  It has detracted from Mississippi implementing the type of prison reform that conservatives ought to support.   </div><div>
</div><div>More needs to be done to make our prisons more humane.  The prison system ought to do a far better job of differentiating between violent criminals and the non-violent.  With so many young men graduating from the prison system each year, surely we could do a better job of ensuring they emerge with a better set of life skills?    </div><div>
</div><div>These reforms are only going to be attainable if we have a prison system that achieves its primary purpose; locking up bad people in order to prevent them from doing bad things to good people.  </div><div>
</div><div>There is now overwhelming evidence that we should abandon Mississippi’s flirtation with an anti-incarceration agenda – and it is not just a question of crime.  If Mississippi wants to see the kind of economic growth that other states have experienced, we need to reduce our crime rates.  </div><div>May 22, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div><b>Are our police systemically racist?</b></div><div>May 15, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>Criminal Justice Reality</div><div>May 9, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>Three Steps America Can Take To Save Your Dollar’s Value And Status</div><div>May 8, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>Mississippi needs to look at the other side of the criminal justice debate, Rafael Mangual says in Jackson</div><div>May 8, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>Will the South Become America’s Economic Powerhouse?</div><div>April 25, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The world needs the freedom to use fossil fuels, Alex Epstein says in Jackson</span></div><div>April 20, 2023</div><div>POLICY</div><div>Mississippi is part of a Southern success story </div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mississippi, it is often said, has an incarceration problem. Our state locks up too many people for too long, we are told.   </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the past two decades, Mississippi’s prison population has in fact fallen.  In January 2014 the prison population of our state was 21,008.  By January 2022, that figure had declined by almost a fifth to 16,931. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those who argue Mississippi should incarcerate fewer people have been getting exactly what they asked for. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now let’s take a look at what has happened to violent crime in our state over that time.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From 2016 to 2022, violent crime in our state increased by 741 percent, according to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.  We went from 538 violent crimes a year to 4,529.  That is 3,991 more violent crimes and more victims.</font></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1em 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://mspolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/unknown.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://mspolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/unknown.png" alt="" class="wp-image-18253" width="416" height="387" srcset="https://mspolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/unknown.png 651w, https://mspolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/unknown-300x279.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; border-style: none; vertical-align: bottom;" /></font></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-prison advocates like to argue that locking people up in large numbers does not work.  Crime, they point out, was high even when Mississippi locked people up in greater numbers than almost anywhere else in America.  The trouble is that Mississippi after these anti-incarceration reforms is a vastly more violent place than Mississippi was without them. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2013, the year before Mississippi enacted legislation designed to reduce the rate of incarceration, 28 people out of every 100,000 Jackson residents were murdered.  By 2021, that number had nearly quadrupled to 101 homicide victims per 100,000 residents in our capital city. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, just because there has been a surge in violent crime at the same time that the prison population has been reduced, it does not automatically follow that the former has been caused by the latter. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The reality is, however, that across America the average state prisoner released has around five previous convictions.  That means that we have a pretty good idea of who is committing the lion’s share of the extra crime; those that have already been convicted and released. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"But it is so expensive to lock up so many people!" the reformists insist.  </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is expensive to maintain prisons, just as it is expensive to maintain our country’s borders.  But there are some things that the government needs to do even if costly. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Shad White, our State Auditor has shown, leniency is expensive, too.  According to estimates by the State Auditor, each homicide in Mississippi costs taxpayers between $900,000 and $1.2 million.  On top of that, of course, come all kinds of other costs paid for by the victims of the violent crime.  </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"But what about the human cost of incarcerating people?" the anti-prison advocates are quick to ask.  "Locking people up harms families, and the children of inmates suffer." </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anyone who assumes that releasing violent criminals back into the bosom of their families will automatically be good news for those families might not have met many violent criminals.   </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eight years ago, back when every policy-maker in Jackson seemed intent on drifting along with the anti-incarceration vibe, we were told that there were better ways to reduce crime than by filling the prisons.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately, we have yet to find them.  When you factor in selection bias, there is remarkably little evidence that most rehabilitation programs have the efficacy that those who run them want them to have. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-prison advocates are currently campaigning to have Mississippi’s Parole Board release more parole-eligible prisoners from custody. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is true that our Parole Board currently approves a lower percentage of parole applications now than it has done for years.  But that is because there has been a massive surge in the number of people automatically entitled to apply for early release to the Parole Board.  </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why the increase in parole applications?  Because of legislation that the anti-prison advocacy groups helped pass which automatically entitles violent offenders to appeal to the Parole Board in the first place.  </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Parole Board has recently been criticized for getting some parole decisions wrong.  I can’t help wondering if the Board might have done a better job if they had not been flooded by new cases at the insistence of anti-prison activists. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The tragedy of this misguided anti-prison agenda is not only that it is driving a surge in crime.  It has detracted from Mississippi implementing the type of prison reform that conservatives ought to support.   </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More needs to be done to make our prisons more humane.  The prison system ought to do a far better job of differentiating between violent criminals and the non-violent.  With so many young men graduating from the prison system each year, surely we could do a better job of ensuring they emerge with a better set of life skills?    </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These reforms are only going to be attainable if we have a prison system that achieves its primary purpose; locking up bad people in order to prevent them from doing bad things to good people.  </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is now overwhelming evidence that we should abandon Mississippi’s flirtation with an anti-incarceration agenda – and it is not just a question of crime.  If Mississippi wants to see the kind of economic growth that other states have experienced, we need to reduce our crime rates.  </font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OUR TEAM</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>Douglas Carswell</div><div>President & CEO</div><div>Aaron Rice</div><div>Director, Mississippi Justice Institute</div><div>Anika Page</div><div>Director of Operations</div><div>Tyler B. Jones</div><div>Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs</div><div>Ava Grace Coley</div><div>Intern</div><div>Edward Wilson Jr.</div><div>Intern</div><div>CONTRIBUTING FELLOWS</div><div>Ilya Shapiro</div><div>Honorary Fellow</div><div>Brandon Cline</div><div>Mississippi State University</div><div>J. Brandon Bolen</div><div>Mississippi College</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Anja Baker</span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Center for Pregnancy Choices</b></div><div>
</div><div>Edward Wilson Jr. is a summer intern for the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.</div><div>
</div><div>Born and raised in Jackson, Edward recently graduated from Jackson Preparatory School and will attend the University of Mississippi in the fall as a member of the Honors College, Croft Institute Scholar, and Lott Leadership Institute Student. Edward has a great passion for public policy and government reform, recently finishing his 4-year Debate Captain Career as the 2nd place National Finalist in the Congressional Debate at the 2023 National Speech and Debate Association Championship tournament.  </div><div>
</div><div>Edward, as a product of charter and independent schools himself, strongly believes in school choice reform. Edward believes the internship at MCPP will help him become better prepared in understanding the role of secondary institutions linking government accountability to the people they serve.</div><div>
</div><div>Throughout his stint at MCPP, Edward will be preparing research for upcoming policy papers, as well as assisting in our direct mail efforts across the state.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MJI Fights to Protect the Right to Life</font></font></font></font></div><div>November 10, 2022</div><div>OSHA to Withdraw Vaccine Mandate after Supreme Court Sides with MJI and Other Challengers</div><div>May 24, 2022</div><div><b>Ole Miss Backs Down from Punishing Free Speech after YAF Threatens Litigation</b></div><div>May 24, 2022</div><div>
</div><div>aaron usmc amputee</div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last year, the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter at </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Ole Miss</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> took part in Young America’s Foundation’s Freedom Week, an event held on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, during which students educate their peers about the reality and danger of the progressive social movement.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As part of Freedom Week, the Ole Miss YAF chapter constructed a mock “Berlin Wall” made of drywall at the famous “Grove” on campus. The students spray-painted the wall with “microaggressions,” “safe spaces,” and other terms leftists use in their attempts to squelch free speech and then tore down the mock Berlin Wall as a symbol of communism and tyranny</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The entire point of the Berlin Wall activity was to showcase how the anti-free speech policies pushed by campus leftists are creating a new “wall” between young people and freedom – a point which seemed to be lost on some of the <b>campus administrators who appear to want to use thin excuses to punish the YAF chapter members for their speech</b>.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Luckily, cooler heads prevailed and Ole Miss decided against punishing the students after YAF, represented by the Mississippi Justice Institute,<b> threatened to sue the university for violating its members’ constitutional rights.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During the Berlin Wall activity, members of Ole Miss YAF were approached by university administrators and questioned about their activities. The administrators expressed their disapproval of the event, took notes about it, and then left.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A month after the Berlin Wall activity, the Ole Miss YAF chapter received a letter from the university’s Office of Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct. The letter notified the YAF members of a report alleging that the organization had <b>held an “unregistered event”.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ole Miss has a policy that requires certain large, organized speaking events to be registered and approved by the university in advance. Ole Miss YAF’s Berlin Wall event did not meet any of the criteria to require registration, but out of an abundance of caution, the student group did submit a registration form four business days before the event. That same university policy that required certain events to be registered also said that applicants would receive a response within three business days</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After not receiving a response four business days later, and knowing that their event did not require registration to begin with, the Ole Miss YAF chapter went forward with their Berlin Wall activity. A month later, and after being questioned by campus administrators, they received the letter alleging that they held an “unregistered event.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The YAF members were then informed that they would be subjected to a judicial review process to determine whether they had violated any university policies and whether any punishments should be imposed. <b>Or, they could agree to an administrative punishment that would prevent them from registering any events for 30 days.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Mississippi Justice Institute (MJI), a nonprofit constitutional litigation center, was retained by YAF</b> and sent a letter to the university stating, among other things, that “Ole Miss YAF believes that its Berlin Wall activity was protected free speech” and that “if any of the University’s policies would have required prior approval by the University for Ole Miss YAF’s Berlin Wall activity, those policies would be unconstitutional for a variety of reasons.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MJI’s letter also warned that “Ole Miss YAF considers the free speech rights of its members to be of the utmost importance to the members themselves, to the mission of Ole Miss YAF, and to society at large, and is, therefore, prepared to take further action to protect the rights of its members.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After receiving MJI’s letter, officials at Ole Miss discussed the situation with MJI’s attorneys. <b>Those officials indicated that the real concern may have been that YAF members used a mallet to destroy the mock Berlin Wall, </b>even though the charge leveled against the students was for holding an “unregistered event.” The university officials did not even attempt to justify the university’s decision to charge YAF with holding an “unregistered event.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Ultimately, the Ole Miss YAF students agreed not to bring a mallet to future Berlin Wall activities, and Ole Miss terminated the administrative proceedings against the student group. A win for free speech and common sense!</b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read more about this case <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/ole-miss-backs-down-from-punishing-free-speech-after-yaf-threatens-litigation/?fbclid=IwAR3pWJbHLe4UfJXW8Alzo8L7DqZqc2-0x1WhkOdbLl9iQwf82Ks8C1A1puA" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">here.</a></p></div><div>Protecting eyelash extension artists' ability to work</div><div>December 22, 2020</div><div>Lawsuit challenges home health business restrictions</div><div>December 9, 2020</div><div>Unconstitutional open carry ban</div><div>April 28, 2020</div><div>City drops drive-in church service ban after lawsuit</div><div>March 9, 2020</div><div>Lawsuit challenges state's censorship of free speech on weight loss</div><div>February 28, 2020</div><div>Challenging Jackson's ban on free speech outside abortion clinics</div><div>October 10, 2019</div><div>Tupelo backs away from food truck regulations after MJI letter</div><div>August 12, 2019</div><div>New regulations expand emergency telemedicine in Mississippi</div><div>August 12, 2019</div><div>Companies can continue to sell "veggie" burgers in Mississippi</div><div>August 12, 2019</div><div>Mississippi eyebrow threader files lawsuit against pointless licensing requirements</div><div>August 7, 2019</div><div>MJI wins open meetings complaint in Natchez</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">whole lotta WOGs</font></font></font></font></div><div>Cal Wells</div><div>Chair, Board of Directors</div><div>Gloria Walker</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>Alan Wilson</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>Ashley Meena</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>Mac McGehee</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>John Marchetti</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>Price Johnson</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>Jim Herring</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>Doug McDaniel</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>Arty Finkelberg</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>Thomas Dunbar</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>990</div><div>Total Revenue</div><div>$2,658,175</div><div>Total Functional Expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$4,545,487</div><div>Net income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>-$1,887,312</div><div>Notable sources of revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total revenue</div><div>Contributions<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$2,519,947<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>94.8%</div><div>Program services<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$151,699<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>5.7%</div><div>Investment income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$353<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.0%</div><div>Bond proceeds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Royalties<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Rental property income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net fundraising<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>-$14,732<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Sales of assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net inventory sales<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Other revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$908<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.0%</div><div>Notable expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total expenses</div><div>Executive compensation<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$393,950<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>8.7%</div><div>Professional fundraising fees<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$82,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>1.8%</div><div>Other salaries and wages<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$2,244,784<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>49.4%</div><div>Other</div><div>Total Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$1,299,437</div><div>Total Liabilities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$212,617</div><div>Net Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$1,086,820</div><div>Key Employees and Officers<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Compensation</div><div>Martha Bergmark (Board Member/Founder/Senior Counsel)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$210,047</div><div>Joseph Reilly Morse (President/CEO)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$170,475</div><div>Jeremy Eisler (Attorney)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$134,541</div><div>+ Show more</div><div>FISCAL YEAR ENDING DEC.</div><div>2014</div><div>PDF</div><div>
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</div><div>990 (FILED ON NOV. 16, 2015)</div><div>
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</div><div>990</div><div>Total Revenue</div><div>$3,966,974</div><div>Total Functional Expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$4,516,182</div><div>Net income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>-$549,208</div><div>Notable sources of revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total revenue</div><div>Contributions<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$3,720,013<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>93.8%</div><div>Program services<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$244,945<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>6.2%</div><div>Investment income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$563<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.0%</div><div>Bond proceeds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Royalties<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Rental property income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net fundraising<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Sales of assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net inventory sales<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Other revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$1,453<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.0%</div><div>Notable expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total expenses</div><div>Executive compensation<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$634,307<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>14.0%</div><div>Professional fundraising fees<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$54,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>1.2%</div><div>Other salaries and wages<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$1,986,401<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>44.0%</div><div>Other</div><div>Total Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$3,409,157</div><div>Total Liabilities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$435,026</div><div>Net Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$2,974,131</div><div>Key Employees and Officers<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Compensation</div><div>Martha Bergmark (Board Member)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$201,187</div><div>Joseph Reilly Morse (President/CEO)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$169,500</div><div>Beth Orlanksy (Key Employee)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$132,891</div><div>+ Show more</div><div>FISCAL YEAR ENDING DEC.</div><div>2013</div><div>PDF</div><div>
</div><div>990</div><div>Full Text</div><div>
</div><div>990 (FILED ON DEC. 2, 2014)</div><div>
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</div><div>990</div><div>Total Revenue</div><div>$4,747,166</div><div>Total Functional Expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$4,064,409</div><div>Net income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$682,757</div><div>Notable sources of revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total revenue</div><div>Contributions<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$4,363,047<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>91.9%</div><div>Program services<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$382,823<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>8.1%</div><div>Investment income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$1,292<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.0%</div><div>Bond proceeds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Royalties<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Rental property income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net fundraising<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Sales of assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net inventory sales<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Other revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$4<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.0%</div><div>Notable expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total expenses</div><div>Executive compensation<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$686,479<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>16.9%</div><div>Professional fundraising fees<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$54,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>1.3%</div><div>Other salaries and wages<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$1,672,865<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>41.2%</div><div>Other</div><div>Total Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$3,786,312</div><div>Total Liabilities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$262,973</div><div>Net Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$3,523,339</div><div>Key Employees and Officers<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Compensation</div><div>Martha J Bergmark (Former President)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$175,000</div><div>Joseph Reilly Morse (President/CEO)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$136,500</div><div>Beth Orlanksy (Key Employee)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$126,562</div><div>+ Show more</div><div>FISCAL YEAR ENDING DEC.</div><div>2012</div><div>PDF</div><div>
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</div><div>990</div><div>Total Revenue</div><div>$3,405,486</div><div>Total Functional Expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$3,783,986</div><div>Net income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>-$378,500</div><div>Notable sources of revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total revenue</div><div>Contributions<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$3,264,006<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>95.8%</div><div>Program services<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$140,703<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>4.1%</div><div>Investment income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$236<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.0%</div><div>Bond proceeds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Royalties<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Rental property income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net fundraising<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Sales of assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net inventory sales<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Other revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$541<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.0%</div><div>Notable expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total expenses</div><div>Executive compensation<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$248,819<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>6.6%</div><div>Professional fundraising fees<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$50,400<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>1.3%</div><div>Other salaries and wages<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$1,826,815<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>48.3%</div><div>Other</div><div>Total Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$3,070,758</div><div>Total Liabilities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$230,178</div><div>Net Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$2,840,580</div><div>FISCAL YEAR ENDING DEC.</div><div>2011</div><div>PDF</div><div>
</div><div>990</div><div>Raw XML</div><div>
</div><div>990</div><div>Total Revenue</div><div>$4,759,723</div><div>Total Functional Expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$2,593,354</div><div>Net income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$2,166,369</div><div>Notable sources of revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total revenue</div><div>Contributions<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$4,625,015<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>97.2%</div><div>Program services<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$94,447<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2.0%</div><div>Investment income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$2,375<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.0%</div><div>Bond proceeds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Royalties<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Rental property income<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net fundraising<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Sales of assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Net inventory sales<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Other revenue<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$37,886<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.8%</div><div>Notable expenses<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Percent of total expenses</div><div>Executive compensation<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$0<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Professional fundraising fees<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$50,850<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2.0%</div><div>Other salaries and wages<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$1,433,024<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>55.3%</div><div>Other</div><div>Total Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$3,427,297</div><div>Total Liabilities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$208,217</div><div>Net Assets<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$3,219,080</div><div>FISCAL YEAR ENDING DEC.</div><div>2010</div><div>PDF</div><div>
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