Seeing Stars: College Remediation Doesn’t Work

by Randall Smith | 7:00 am, December 8, 2011

In memory of Dragnet costar Harry Morgan (who was also great in “Support Your Local Sheriff”), it’s just the links.

Colorado

Remediation in college “is wholly ineffective.” The solution is to improve K-12 education.
A group of voters is challengi…

Greek Tragedy Headed For a Finnish?

by Joshua Sharf | 10:16 am, August 24, 2011

Remember the first guy in line at that beautiful ol’ Bailey Building and Loan?  The guy who wants every last penny of his account out, so he can put it under his mattress? Well, George Bailey is Greece and that guy is Finland. The Finns, as a condition of a loaning Greece more money, wants [...]

What We’re Up To

by Jon Caldara | 3:23 pm, August 16, 2011

Few things I want to highlight real quick:
Editorial page editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette Wayne Laugesen was kind enough to write a little blurb about and link to the show we did a couple weeks ago. We talked about the horribly fallacious campaign to smear the Springs with deputy director of the Colorado chapter [...]

What To Do When Congress Won’t Rein In Itself

by Jon Caldara | 3:49 pm, August 10, 2011

I’ve talked a number of times about how we can tackle our federal government’s spending problem. Each time the subject gets brought up, I must make mention of the Constitution’s solution to the problem. Our Constitutional scholar Rob Natelson puts it like this: the Founders envisioned a time when the problem would be Congress itself. [...]

The “Economic Silent Spring”

by Jon Caldara | 12:38 pm, August 9, 2011

In a perfect world, our queen MAD (Mothers Against Debt) Mom Amy Oliver would be the 21st century’s Rachel Carson. And I don’t mean that in the environmental way. What Rachel Carson did in 1962 with her book Silent Spring was to start a worldwide environmental movement. The book helped launch the ban on DDT. [...]

Bipartisanship… Ugh.

by Jon Caldara | 11:10 am, August 8, 2011

[Copyright Ben Hummel at PolitixCartoons.com]

Cuts? What Cuts?

by Jon Caldara | 11:59 am, August 5, 2011

Was anyone out there happy with the debt deal Congress just made? I haven’t seen much in the way of praise for the deal, either from the left or the right. The left doesn’t like the “draconian cuts” made to their beloved social programs, while us free marketers don’t like the complete lack of any [...]

A Transfer on the Road to Serfdom

by Joshua Sharf | 10:51 pm, August 3, 2011

As an emblem of what Walter Russell Mead calls, “the Blue Social Model,” there’s almost no place Bluer than New York.  So it seems fitting to pay homage to the home of the modern patronage state in a post devoted to transfer payments. We all know that transfer payments – Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, [...]

The Spending Crisis

by Vande Krol | 7:28 pm, August 3, 2011

Breathe a sigh of relief – the debt ceiling has been raised. By and large, it’s pointless. Both parties have raised the debt ceiling time after time.  Its purpose is to limit the national debt, but since it always gets raised, it limits n…

If You Hold the Sword, You Can’t Hold the Purse

by Jon Caldara | 8:54 am, August 2, 2011

Even though the whole debt ceiling fiasco is on its way out, I want to point this iVoices.org podcast in your direction. Last week a new narrative emerged from the debt ceiling = default storyline. It advanced the idea that the president could raise the debt ceiling unilaterally – Congress be [...]

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