A serious proposal to improve American education. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday proposed a major change in the government's education policy that would tie federal funds to students and not schools and greatly expand school choice. "I'm going to expand parental choice in an unprecedented way," Romney says ... MORESarah Hulsenga: Romney To Greatly Expand School Choice
A serious proposal to improve American education. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday proposed a major change in the government's education policy that would tie federal funds to students and not schools and greatly expand school choice. "I'm going to expand parental choice in an unprecedented way," Romney says ... MOREEddy Dlfenbein: 100 Million Americans Without Jobs
The national unemployment rates gets lots of attention, and lately more attention has been paid to the workforce participation rate since more Americans have given up looking for a job, but we can also see that an astounding 100 million Americans don’t have jobs. Specifically, these are people who are part of the civilian over-16 non-institutional ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: Church Of The Holy Contraception
The new mandated societal imperative. Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. Though it's commonly said that social conservatives would force us to live under theocratic rule if they could, these days the group most successful in imposing its worldview on others happens to be ... MORE
Johan Goldberg: Obama, Romney And The 'Social Market'
Which kind of capitalism is in our future? ‘This is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is going to be about,” President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit. The “this” in question is Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital and what it says about Romney’s economic vision for the country. Team Romney should have ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Is That A Spy In Your Pocket?
Warrantless cellphone tracking threatens your privacy. In January the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that tracking a suspect's movements by attaching a GPS transmitter to his car counts as a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. But because the majority opinion emphasized the physical intrusion needed to surreptitiously install ... MORERichard F Miniter: Education Decline, One Step At A Time
SMART arguments for dumb ideas. Some time ago, I joined the National Council for the Social Studies, the NCSS. I've since had that membership canceled -- I suspect because they read some of my pieces and realize I'm neither a social studies teacher nor a groupie. However, thanks to that fleeting association, I remain on several NCSS e-mailing lists ... MORECal Thomas: The Citizen And The Government
A moral, political and economic lesson. In the Aesop Fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant," there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summer days singing and hopping and having an all-around good time while industrious ants work and march and struggle to carry ... MOREWashington Times: Land Of The Drones
Government is gaining ground in the sky. In the Age of Obama, Uncle Sam is watching. High-tech surveillance aircraft once limited to the use of the world’s largest military organizations are now finding their way to local law-enforcement agencies. With the ability to put an eye in the sky over every square inch of U.S. soil, these machines ... MORELet's Not Forget Why Our Ancestors Came Here
by Richard Rahn. If you are a nonimmigrant American reading this, do you know why your ancestors came to America? The fact is, a large percentage of immigrants were trying to escape various forms of government persecution, including religious and tax persecution. The American Revolution was set off, in part, by a tax on tea that ranged from about 10 percent to 33 percent ... MOREHow Strong Property Rights Promote Social Equality
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by Timothy B. Lee. In today’s poetic justice news, Star Wars creator George Lucas is planning to take revenge on his meddlesome Marin Valley neighbors. For years, he’s been trying to get permission to build a new studio in Marin County. But his neighbors wouldn’t budge, insisting that it was a place for homes, not businesses. So now Lucas is pulling out ... MOREThomas Sowell: Big Lies In Politics
Unrealistic hopes spawn liars. The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them, and only in the short run. The current outbreaks of riots in Europe show what happens when the truth catches up with both ... MOREGreg Beato: Michelle Obama Shrinks Your Snickers
King-sized no more. In 1998 a Colorado handyman got swept up in an avalanche that buried his snowmobile and left him stranded in a blizzard. For five days and four nights, rescue teams struggled to locate him. Luckily, the Snickers bar he had in his pocket was a king-sized version. Every one of its 510 calories helped him survive his ordeal. ... MORE
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