Student Loan Forgiveness Not the Answer
It certainly isn’t. The kids — and the public at large — need to feel the pain of the bloated and wasteful “higher” education system. Until they do it won’t be fixed. From the…
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The Economy Is Not a Machine
The following extended excerpt is from a post by Bill Bonner at LewRockwell.com titled “The Fatal Flaw at the Heart of Modern Economics.” The title above is the subheading for what follows: First, an…
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The Need for Balance between Generations
And to round out NCPA Day here at Dispatches here’s #3: While politicians are talking about balance between cuts and revenues, or between total spending and taxes, few are talking about the need for…
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Looking Back — and Forward
Another excellent column from Thomas Sowell: A hundred years ago, anyone who might have predicted in 1913 the monumental, man-made catastrophes that would occur in the rest of the 20th century would have been…
Read MoreBarack Obama and the End of an Era
Our second post from AT for today — an excerpt from a recent article by Steve McCann: While the nation slumbered, content in its prosperity, the American left, during the past fifty plus years…
Read MoreZ-gram 04: Retired teachers don’t want to pay IL pension taxes either – 17,483 live elsewhere.
Who can blame them? I’m thinking about moving out of Illinois too. I mean it is obvious that the politicians in IL are not going to solve the real long-term pension problem which is…
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IRS Targeting Tea Party Is The Logical Conclusion Of Big Government
From Conservative HQ: Big government liberals are prone to “outsmart themselves” by pushing a laudable goal, say clean air or water, to a frightening and Orwellian conclusion — such as flying drones over the…
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4 Reasons America Is Falling Apart
Excerpts from a post from Gil Weinreich from AdvisorOne.com about Niall Ferguson subtitled “British historian recounts reasons why U.S. institutions are failing but offers hope of recovery if U.S. embraces long view”: Niall Ferguson,…
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“Few lawmakers really understand the current size of government and the scope of redistribution”
The above isn’t the headline of the article excerpted here from Chris Edwards, it’s a good (and not surprising) line from the Heritage Foundation study he addresses in the article: Conservative and libertarian scholars are clashing over the findings and political implications of the new Heritage Foundation immigration study. The study spans 92 pages and is jam-packed full of statistics and detailed calculations. […]
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Another Example of Editorial-Page Fiction at the New York Times
From Daniel Mitchel: Are there any fact checkers at the New York Times? Since they’ve allowed some glaring mistakes by Paul Krugman (see here and here), I guess the answer is no. But some…
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The IRS and Big Government: An Outlaw Tax Collector
Two articles from National Review about the most recent IRS scandal: The IRS and Big Government Obamanomics has spurred increasing distrust of government — and that was before the tax scandal. By James Pethokoukis…
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What CEOs have to say about the worst states for doing business
Of course Illinois is ranked near the bottom of this list. From ConservativeIntel: Chief Executive Magazine has put out its annual business ranking of the 50 states — a ranking based on a survey…
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Ready for Another Debt Limit Fight?
From Heritage: Yes, it’s time to talk about the debt limit again. Every time the U.S. bumps up against its debt ceiling, we start the cycle all over again. President Obama insists he won’t…
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Why Were Young People Hit Harder by the Recession?
From the NCPA: Younger people were hit harder by the recession than older people. What explains the disparity? One of the biggest factors, a new paper suggests, is the larger mortgage debt young households…
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School Board in Colorado Refuses to Negotiate with Teachers Union
Very interesting news from Colorado — and something that needs to start a massive trend if we’re to fix education, fix state spending, and save the country: Douglas County Colorado lies immediately south of…
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