Shavar Jeffries, blogging over at the Black Professors blog, continues to write about school choice and its importance to the black community (and by assocation, the latino community as well).
This time however, the post is about School Choice and its connection to the Civil Rights Establishment. Professor Jeffries writes:
According to the Joint Center for Political […]
“In the wake of the spike in fuel prices, many Americans demand that politicians do something. You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. Despite a long history of their economic calamity, some Americans and politicians are calling for price controls or, what amounts to the same thing, […]
John Fund, writing in the Wall Street Journal writes about a large high school district in my very own city of San Diego deciding to completely go charter:
Despite Big Labor’s success in defeating California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reform initiatives last month, a few brave officials are still willing to challenge the public employee unions […]
“The reason I wrote that post was not to express, or invite, pity. Rather the opposite. I was responding to something I thought I saw in [another] post: a healthy skewering of the sense of entitlement my generation was raised with. Every generation, of course, ends up coming to terms with the disappointing realization that […]
The Pew Research Center has the results on polls showing how people view Wal-Mart.
Here is a summary of the results. Notice the high favor ratings for Wal-Mart in all categories asked.
Here is a breakdown of Wal-Mart shoppers.
Notice the economic breakdown? It is primarily the poor that shop at Wal-Mart, and it is primarily the […]
“In other words, the post seems to suffer from the view of abortion that pro-choicers like to sell themselves: that it is the province of desperate women unfairly singled out by fate. Let me offer an alternative, and in my view much more plausible view: abortions are obtained by women largely because they, or their […]
Martin Feldstein, professor of economics at Harvard University, makes the case for making Bush’s tax cuts permanent:
Thanks to the tax legislation enacted in 2003, dividends and capital gains are now taxed at a maximum rate of 15%. The President’s Advisory Panel on Tax Reform recently proposed that the 15% rate be made permanent and extended […]
“The worst thing about the Living Constitution is that it will destroy the Constitution. You heard in the introduction that I was confirmed, close to 19 years ago now, by a vote of 98 to nothing. The two missing were Barry Goldwater and Jake Garnes, so make it 100. I was known at that time […]
Juan Forero writes in the International Herald Tribune:
Morales gave the kind of leftist speech that increasingly strikes a chord with Latin America’s disenchanted voters, railing against privatization, liberalized trade and other economic prescriptions backed by the United States….
Morales, 46, a former llama herder and coca farmer leader who has a slight lead in the polls […]
” If you don’t believe in originalism, then you need some other principle of interpretation. Being a non-originalist is not enough. You see, I have my rules that confine me. I know what I’m looking for. When I find it — the original meaning of the Constitution — I am handcuffed. If I believe that […]
So goes the title of a great post by Shavar Jeffries, Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School.
In a post over at the Black Professors blog, he makes the case of why school choice is so important for Black children, a case that in many ways, parallels why school choice is so important […]
“If you believe, however, that the Constitution is not a legal text, like the texts involved when judges reconcile or decide which of two statutes prevail; if you think the Constitution is some exhortation to give effect to the most fundamental values of the society as those values change from year to year; if you […]
What are some of the economic reasons for a lower income tax on ‘the rich’? Is it really just ‘a massive giveaway to the wealthy’, as the left likes to say?
Bruce Bartlett, former senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis and former deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. […]
“My Constitution is a very flexible Constitution. You think the death penalty is a good idea — persuade your fellow citizens and adopt it. You think it’s a bad idea — persuade them the other way and eliminate it. You want a right to abortion — create it the way most rights are created in […]
“For anywhere other than Antarctica and a few sparsely inhabited islands, the first condition for a healthy environment is a strong economy. In the past third of a century, the American economy has swollen by 150 per cent, automobile traffic has increased by 143 per cent, and energy consumption has grown 45 per cent. During […]
For those of you interested in the Gay Marriage debate, The Volokh Conspiracy blog, a blog of mainly law professors and academics, sponsored a discussion where one week the pro-Traditional Marriage point of view was presented, and another week the pro-Gay Marriage point of view was presented. Giving the traditional marriage defense was Maggie […]
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