Showing posts with label performance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label performance. Show all posts
Here’s Why It’s All But Impossible To Fire A Fed
by Kathryn Watson. Federal workers are far more likely to be audited by the IRS or get
arrested for drunk driving than they are to be fired from the civil
service payroll for poor performance or misconduct. The odds are one-in-175 for the IRS audit and one-in-200 for the
drunk driving arrest, while the odds for a fed to be fired in a given
year are one-in ... MOREBarry Farber: America The Humiliated
A tribute to our Secretaries of State. In the mid-1930s, before TV, there was a popular radio talent show called “The Major Bowes Amateur Hour.” The winners were treated well, and so were most of the losers. But when a losing singer or comic or tap dancer was really bad he was treated in a way that defies belief in today’s more civilized society. ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Demand For Villains
Racism is a convenient rationale. The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood. The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. That assumption carries great weight in far more ... MOREWalter E Williams: Education Insanity
The problem is not money. Some credit Albert Einstein, others credit Benjamin Franklin, with the observation that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results." Whomever we credit, he was absolutely right. A perfect example of that insanity is education in general and particularly black ... MOREFlint Lead Poisoning: The Anatomy Of Government Failure
by Shikha Dalmia. In the simple morality tale that is modern mainstream liberalism, government spending leads to good things and cutting government spending leads to bad things. So when news broke that
Flint, Michigan’s, water system was laced with lead and may have
poisoned up to 2 percent
of city residents, including 23 children, they ... MOREStephanie Slade: Why Polls Don't Work
Election predicting hits an accuracy crisis. On October 7, 2015, the most famous brand in public opinion polling announced it was getting out of the horse-race survey business. Henceforth, Gallup would no longer poll Americans on whom they would vote for if the next election were held today. "We believe to put our time and money and brain-power ... MOREThomas Sowell: Complicating The Obvious
Electronic "improvement" rears its ugly head. Engineers who design computerized products and services seem to have an almost fanatical determination to avoid using plain English. It is understandable when complicated processes require complicated operations. But when the very simplest things are designed with needless complications ... MORELu Wang: 2015 - The Year Nothing Worked
Stocks, bonds, cash go nowhere. Worst year for asset allocation funds since 1937. The idea behind asset allocation is simple: when one market struggles, it’s OK because an investor can jump into another that is thriving. Not so in 2015. In fact, if you judge the past year by which U.S. investment class generated the largest return, a case can be ... MOREAndrew Napollitano: A Midwife To Chaos And Her Perjury
A confirmed liar asks for your vote. The New York Times' Maureen Dowd captured the moment last weekend when she referred to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "the midwife to chaos" in Libya. Dowd apparently came to that conclusion after watching Clinton bobbing and weaving and admitting and denying as she was confronted with ... MOREHow Much Is A College Football Player Worth?
by Alexis Garcia. Hint: More than the NCAA wants to admit. College football has returned to the airwaves and with it the debate over paying student-athletes. Though the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) brought in nearly $1 billion dollars in revenue last year, the organization continues to resist compensating student-athletes ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: What If Hillary Clinton Doesn't Care?
Contempt for the American people. What if former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been pulling the wool over our eyes for years? What if, while she was secretary of state, she ran two secret wars, one in Libya and one in Syria? What if there already were wars in each of those countries, so she used those wars as covers for her own? ... MOREWe're Doing Our Trophy Kids A Great Disservice
by Stephen Moore. Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison became an overnight cultural hero when he announced this week that he doesn't want his kids to accept trophies they "haven't earned." Harrison tweeted that he was returning his sons' "participation trophies," all the rage in kids' sports these days. Awards, he said, should be for ... MOREMark Cuban Says Tech Bubble Is ‘Far Worse’ Than In 2000
Launching "into the giddy phase. "What a week for Mark Cuban. Fresh off being tapped for the role of the president alongside Ann Coulter in the upcoming blockbuster “Sharknado 3,” the brash billionaire’s bearish forecast has landed him a spot in MarketWatch’s call of the day. “If
we thought it was stupid to invest in public Internet websites that ... MORE
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