Chicago Teachers 1 School Children 0. The Chicago teachers strike is over, but the public didn't win. Schools will still transfer bad teachers to other schools because it's nearly impossible to fire them. When bad teachers go from school to school, principals call it "the dance of the lemons." It would be funny if those teachers didn't slowly wreck ... MOREJohn Stossel - Strangulation By Union
Chicago Teachers 1 School Children 0. The Chicago teachers strike is over, but the public didn't win. Schools will still transfer bad teachers to other schools because it's nearly impossible to fire them. When bad teachers go from school to school, principals call it "the dance of the lemons." It would be funny if those teachers didn't slowly wreck ... MOREMoorad Choudhry: In Defense Of The Free Market
The freedom to choose. I don’t imagine that too many of you would have heard of Easterhouse, a
Manchester band from the 1980s that recorded some electrifying songs
with a strong political content on the (also Manchester-based) Rough
Trade label. They were never on Top of the Pops or MTV. I saw them live a
couple of times, let's put it ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Marijuana Rebellion
Prohibition under attack. By the time the 21st Amendment ended national alcohol
prohibition in December 1933, more than a dozen states had already
opted out. Maryland never passed its own version of the Volstead
Act, while New York repealed its alcohol prohibition law in 1923.
Eleven other states eliminated their statutes by ... MORE
America Being Transformed Into A Giant Surveillance Grid
19 signs. You are being watched. The control freaks that hold power in the United States have become absolutely obsessed with surveillance. They are constantly attempting to convince the American people that we are all "safer" when virtually everything that we do is watched, monitored, tracked and recorded. Our country is being systematically transformed ... MOREDWI Checkpoints Work, But Are They Constitutional?
by Erin Schultz. Last week, we asked a few local bar owners how DWI task force checkpoints affected their business over
the summer, and reader reaction to the piece ranged from vehement
support of the checkpoints to questioning if they are Constitutional or
not. Here are a few comments generated from the issue. Feel free to chime ... MOREMatt Welch: Obama's Weak Endorsement Of Free Speech
Shame on "those who slander the prophet of Islam." Today, President Barack Obama
delivered four pretty good paragraphs to the United Nations about
the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and the
underlying principles of free speech and
tolerance-of-minority-viewpoints it reflects. In the
as-prepared transcript ... MOREChristopher J. Conover: Study Finds US Slips In Freedom
Overspending, overregulation impedes freedom. Health care policy can be tricky to navigate. One reason stems from the difficulty of measuring its intangibles — differences in the quality of life, for example, or the social value of extending life for a few days. A new report from Canada's Fraser Institute has does the hard work of putting a number on a ... MORECyberbullying Law Threatens Student Speech In N.C.
by John K. Ross. This summer, prompted
by complaints from teachers, North Carolina legislators passed a
law
criminalizing student-on-teacher cyberbullying. The measure creates
a Class 2 misdemeanor—on par with simple assault or resisting
arrest and punishable by up to 60 days in jail or a $1,000 fine—for
students who use computers with ... MORE
Julian Sanchez: Our Dishonest Debate Over NSA Spying
Secret FISA court rules the Fourth Amendment be damned. The House of Representatives recently signed off on another five years of sweeping warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency, voting by a wide margin to extend the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008. But the debate on the House floor showed that the law’s ... MOREThomas Sowell: Obama Vs. Obama
Obama 2 pulls the curtain on Obama 1. Many voters will be comparing Mitt Romney with Barack Obama between now
and election day. But what might be even more revealing would be
comparing Obama with Obama. There is a big contrast between Obama based
on his rhetoric ("Obama 1") and Obama based on his record ("Obama 2"). ... MOREEyder Peralta: 2012 SAT Reading Scores Lowest In 40 Years
Based on 1.7 million test scores. NPR's Claudio Sanchez brings us this bit of bad academic news: The class of 2012 scored the lowest average SAT reading score since 1972. A bit of good news is that math scores were up. Claudio filed this report for our Newscast unit: "Writing, too, is down nine points since the SAT introduced a writing section in 2006. ... MOREJuror Says Religion Not A Factor In Nullification Decision
A system coming down on peaceful men isn't right. It wasn’t Douglas Darrell’s Rastafarian religion that persuaded a Belknap County Superior Court jury to acquit him of growing marijuana recently, according to a woman who served on that jury. “It was the fact that the system was coming down on a peaceful man, and it wasn’t right,” ... MOREE Spitzer: We Must Defend Even The Ugliest Free Speech
-- Especially when there are riots. At the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly this week, plenty of voices will be heard, including that of the hateful president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and not one of those voices will be censored. Rarely has the value of free speech been so threatened. The arc of the unfortunate story is now well-told: ... MOREIra Stoll: Obama's Fact-Challenged Tax Claim
Where are the “fact-checkers” when you need them? On CBS News’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, President
Obama said,
“Taxes are lower on families than they've been probably in the last
50 years. So I haven't raised taxes.” As of Monday morning, neither the Washington Post’s
Pinocchio-awarding Fact-Checker,
nor the Annenberg Public Policy ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Economics Of Peace
Freedom allows wealth; wealth allows freedom. How would a free market entrepreneur approach Afghan foreign policy? After all, our politicians seem incompetent on foreign policy given the soaring suicide rate among active duty U.S. military personnel, increasing insider attacks against NATO troops by our Afghan “allies” and numerous civilian ... MORE
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