Test-taking frauds. Nearly two years ago, U.S. News & World Report came out with a story titled "Educators Implicated in Atlanta Cheating Scandal." It reported that "for 10 years, hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals changed answers on state tests in one of the largest cheating scandals in U.S. history." More than three-quarters of the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Dishonest Educators
Test-taking frauds. Nearly two years ago, U.S. News & World Report came out with a story titled "Educators Implicated in Atlanta Cheating Scandal." It reported that "for 10 years, hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals changed answers on state tests in one of the largest cheating scandals in U.S. history." More than three-quarters of the ... MOREAmericans Are The Most Spied On People In History
Big Brother is in the building. TechDirt notes: In a radio interview,
Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin (who’s been one of the best
at covering the surveillance state in the US) made a simple observation
that puts much of this into context: the US surveillance regime has more data on the average American than the Stasi ever did on East Germans. ... MOREEric Frankson: Sobriety Checkpoints Violate Our Rights
The gutting of the Fourth Amendment. Until 1990, sobriety checkpoints were illegal
in California and the United States. But a Supreme Court decision
overturned 200 years of protection from illegal search-and-seizure. The Supreme Court case Michigan Department of State Police vs. Sitz changed how we party and how we view the police. ... MOREGene Healy: The Five Worst Op-Eds of 2012
The New York Times comes on strong. For three years running, I've closed the Old Year with a
seasonal burst of bile, my annual Five Worst Op-Eds column. As before, this year's malicious listicle rewards bad arguments and bad writing, with extra points for warped values. 5. Eric Posner, "The World Doesn't Love the First Amendment," ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: Labeling Law Will Hurt American Pizza
Congress needs to order a slice of wisdom. This week, as a new Congress was being sworn in, the Food and
Drug Administration
released two sets of controversial and long-delayed food-safety
rules. Another FDA rule that’s been long in the making is the agency’s proposed menu-labeling rule. The purpose of that rule, first proposed
in 2010 as ... MOREStop Talking About Freedom And Start Protecting It
Lawmakers pay lip service to liberty while trampling it. This year’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, California featured the Department of Defense’s “Freedom Isn’t Free” float. While nothing is close to free when DOD is involved—the B-2 bomber that made a fly-by as parade-goers cheered cost more than twice its weight in gold—the rose- ... MOREMark J. Perry: The Truth About Those 'Big Oil Subsidies'
A lesson in political double-talk. Do a Google search for the term “subsidies for oil companies” and you’ll get more than 600,000 results. Try a search for “subsidies for Big Oil” and you’ll get almost 700,000 results. The term “tax breaks for Big Oil” has almost half a million results. Then do a Google search for “tax breaks for green energy”
and you’ll only ... MOREGet Ready For An ObamaCare Tax Onslaught
by Grace-Marie Turner. The third wave of ObamaCare taxes began on January 1, the latest
blitz before the tsunami of changes from the health overhaul law hit in
2014. These new and higher taxes are being levied to partially pay
for ObamaCare’s massive new subsidies for private health insurance and
expansion of Medicaid. The most controversial of ... MOREThomas DiLorenzo: The Rationally Misinformed Voter
A populace designed to serve. In the sub-discipline of economics known as public choice, an important concept is the theory of "rational ignorance." First articulated by political scientist Anthony Downs in the 1950s, and expanded upon by economist Gordon Tullock and others, the theory of rational ignorance holds that it is perfectly rational for ... MORE
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