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Feb. 28, 2015 25 Takeaways From America's Biggest Conservative Conference READ THIS    |    TWEET IT    |    SHARE IT State Says 70-Year-Old Flower Shop Owner Discriminated Against Gay Couple READ THIS    |    TWEET IT    |     SHARE IT How Does Your State Rank in Church Attendance? READ THIS    |    TWEET IT    |    SHARE IT What Patricia Arquette Got Wrong About the Founders and Women READ THIS    |    TWEET IT    |    SHARE IT How a Free Clinic Is Saving Health Care in America WATCH THIS    |    TWEET IT    |    SHARE IT EDITOR'S PICK Why Texas' Attorney General Is 'Very Confident' in Immigration Fight WATCH THIS    |    TWEET IT    |    SHARE IT POLICY PICTURE Share on Facebook | Tweet It 214 Massa

Updated daily, InsiderOnline ( insideronline.org ) is a compilation of publication abstracts , how-to essays , events , news, and analysis from around the conservative movement. The current edition of The INSIDER quarterly magazine is also on the site. February 28, 2015 Latest Studies 45 new items, including a Yankee Institute report on how renewable mandates raise electricity prices, and a Buckeye Institute report on the pitfalls of Medicaid expansion for Ohio Notes on the Week Don’t expect the Internet to evolve now, the FCC is lawless, the Left is getting ready to burn more heretics, and more To Do Find out how the Supreme Court’s next decision will affect health care Latest Studies Budget & Taxation • Medicaid Expansion Relies on Uncertain Funding – Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions • Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Ontario – Fraser Institute • Export-Import Bank Impervious to Reform – The Heritage Found

The Goldberg File By Jonah Goldberg February 27, 2015 Dear Reader (Unless you see a black and blue dress, in which case you're more useless than a Southern California llama wrangler or a Clinton ethics adviser), Over 20 years ago, when I was briefly living in Czechoslovakia, I visited Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp. Tens of thousands of Jews were killed there. Even so, as Nazi concentration camps go it was pretty nice. That was by design. The Nazis used it as a Potemkin "Jewish settlement" in an effort to persuade the International Red Cross that the Nazis weren't mistreating the Jews. To that end, they shipped out the malnourished and spruced the place up in advance of the Red Cross's arrival. In the grand scheme of things, this was just a small part of the Nazis' effort to hide the fact that they were liquidating the Jews of Europe. They couldn't hide their anti-Semitic brutality of course, but eve