The Other Union Ruining Schools
Probably the biggest reason for the inner-city atrocity this ad targets is not teachers unions or the “culture of can’t” but the lack of another kind of union: marriages.
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Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Two and a Half Cheers for Ryan-Murray
Calling the Ryan-Murray budget deal “A Huge Republican Cave-In” is not accurate.
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Education · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Public Schools Cause Social Tension- Neal McCluskey
Public education imposes a “one-size-fits-all” and attempts to satisfy everyone’s preferences and moral values, but it’s just not possible. And in turn, it creates social tensions that could be dissolved with the freedom to congregate in mutual self-interest.
Common Core: The Biggest Election Issue Washington Prefers to Ignore
Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recent comments disparaging “white suburban moms” for protesting new national tests and curriculum mandates are not the isolated remarks of an out-of-touch elitist. His attitude is typical among bureaucrats from both parties regarding Common Core, but politicians who ignore this sleeper topic endanger themselves in 2014 and 2016.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory
Trofim Lysenko became the Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the 1930s under Josef Stalin. He was an advocate of the theory that characteristics acquired[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Privatize the Federal Aviation Administration!
If you flew somewhere this week, or know anyone who flew this week, you’ve likely either experienced or heard about flight delays due to President Obama’s cynical strategy to make[...]
The Worst Five Years Since the Great Depression
In February, 2009, I wrote for the Wall Street Journal an article entitled Reaganomics versus Obamanomics. The article explained that the emerging Obamanomics was pursuing exactly the opposite of every policy of the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty · Politics
Phil Mickelson Earned His Money and Should Retract His Apology About Taxes
Phil Mickelson, the affable “aw shucks” fan-favorite on the PGA Tour and one of the game’s greatest golfers, really stepped in it this week. He ticked off liberals by hitting[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Don’t Fear the Fiscal Cliff
Despite the lies, spin, and spun lies pouring from the mouths of nearly everyone involved in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations or speaking for those who are involved in them, some[...]
FIRE · Health Care · Liberty · Politics
Biden’s Lack of Conscience
Vice President Joe Biden, never one to allow the facts to stand in the way of a snide comment, was in typical form in his vice presidential debate with Paul[...]
HBO’s ‘Newsroom’ Oblivious to Irony of its Citizens United Rip
The new HBO series “Newsroom” by celebrated lefty screenwriter Aaron Sorkin features “ripped from the headlines” plots – as long as the headlines were published two years ago. It has[...]
Economics · Environment/Energy
How Market Forces Preserve Resources for the Future
Cato Policy Analyst Marian L. Tupy had a cool blog post about how capitalism can be good for the environment. But wait…don’t private markets and the unregulated pursuit of profit[...]
Domenech on Ricochet: Libertarian Tent-Shrinkers
[Editor's note: Originally posted at Ricochet.com.] One of the reasons that American libertarians as a political movement never amount to anything is that they can be incredibly intolerant people. This[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
Paul Krugman, Occupy Wall Street, and the Never-Ending Push to Tax the Rich
Last week in the New York Times, economist Paul Krugman called for higher taxes than the Clinton era, citing how increased revenues need to be in the picture and not[...]
Bill Niskanen, RIP
The economics profession has lost one of the giants. His best known work is a positive, as opposed to a normative, theory of bureaucracy. Bureaucracy and Representative Government was published in 1971.[...]
H.L. Mencken on Snyder v. Phelps
The libertarian take on the Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday in the Westboro Baptist/military funerals case may be boiled down to the old nostrum that we may disagree with what the[...]
Liberty · Politics · Regulation
Lawmakers Turning Us Into a Nation of Criminals; Where Does the Constitution Authorize the Drug War?
The Wall Street Journal on Monday informed us that “state legislators passed about 31,000 new laws in 2010, down slightly from the previous year.” That works out to about 620[...]
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Readable Links- Kirsten Powers: Liberals' mob rule
- Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol - The Washington Post
- Thoughtcrime at Mozilla — Jonathan Last Online
- A Conversation Between Milton Friedman and Gary Becker
- Organic activists need GMOs now more than ever
- Bullies drove Eich from public square: Column
- Jonah Goldberg: Climate activists uncaged
