Will Wilkinson’s provides another reason to support vouchers,
Imagine you live in a town where you are required to pay several thousand dollars of taxes each year into a public fund that is used to buy food for the entire community. There is a publicly elected “Menu Board” that determines each year’s offerings. You wanted rye […]
Archive for December, 2004
Dec15th2004
Dec15th2004
“America’s foes have long asked where its people have obtained their moral authority to do anything they considered just and imperative. Who gave Americans the right to break from England? Who gave the North the right to wage a bloody civil war to end slavery? Slavery, after all, had ancient roots and could be found […]
Dec14th2004
Thomas C. Reeves, Senior Fellow of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, writes,
It is hardly a secret that this nation’s public schools are in a lot of trouble. Despite claims by teachers’ unions and Democrats, the major problem is not money. The United States spends significantly more on education than any other industrialized nation in the […]
Dec14th2004
Dr. Roy W. Spencer, Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama, gives some much needed balance in the global warming debate.
Update: Other good articles.
Dec14th2004
The Economist writes,
the Democratic Party is ceasing to be a mom-and-pop party. Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation points out that the fertility rate in the Kerry states is 12% lower than in the Bush states. Vermont, the home of Howard Dean and perhaps the most left-wing state in the country, produces an annual […]
Dec14th2004
“Therefore I submit to you, gentle reader, that the real debate signified by the [embryonic] stem cell controversy is only superficially about science. What is really at issue is philosophy, namely, What philosophy shall guide us? On one side we have those who propose a philosophy that has long gone by the name Utilitarianism. The […]
Dec13th2004
“A finer breakdown of American teenagers’ test scores shows that while white and Asian American students meet international standards in math, blacks and Hispanics fall well below those standards. Those students who are already less fortunate have the most to lose by turning classrooms into chatter sessions. The children of affluent and well-educated parents can […]
Dec13th2004
Chrenkoff has an informative post on “How Poland came to say “Non” to France and hitch up with America”.
Strategically, Poland’s American reorientation has everything to do with the Cold War history. Post 1945, the United States has become everything that France was not anymore - a great power, an anti-communist bastion, the leader of […]
Dec13th2004
“The problem is deeper than John Kerry … [and the] result is a lack of liberal passion for winning the war on terrorism — a lack of passion that has cost Democrats dearly at the polls…. MoveOn was founded in the late 1990s to oppose Bill Clinton’s impeachment. But it responded to Sept. 11 by […]
Dec12th2004
“It is time for the leadership of the Democratic Party to face the facts. … Republicans have been committed, methodical and are clearly winning the battle for the Hispanic voters. If Democrats do not undertake a major paradigm shift in how they deal with (the) Latino vote, the future of the party is in serious […]
Dec12th2004
“It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic”. –Thomas Sowell
Dec11th2004
“It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with “solutions” to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last […]
Dec10th2004
“For Social Security is a government program that works, a demonstration that a modest amount of taxing and spending can make people’s lives better and more secure. And that’s why the right wants to destroy it”. –Paul Krugman
That’s Paul Krugman a couple days ago.
However, Paul Krugman is on record calling the shortfall a […]
Dec10th2004
Armstrong Williams, one-time assistant to Clarence Thomas, has more to say on the recent attacks on minorities by liberals.
He writes,
His defamatory comments about Associate Justice Clarence Thomas as a prospective chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court support a corrupt racial universe, in which the best and brightest black thinkers are blacklisted by the […]
Dec10th2004
Brief bio’s on some of the new members of the Bush Administration,
Al Gonzales - the child of migrant workers and the product of public elementary and secondary schools; attended the Air Force Academy then Rice, and Harvard.
Condoleeza Rice - the daughter of a minister who grew up in segregated Birmingham. A graduate of college […]
Dec10th2004
British philosophy professor Antony Flew now believes in God.
Update: Here is an interview with him and more here.
