…for spring break and all I’m going to say is that it’s not to see the pyramids. I’ll be back Tuesday.
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Archive for March, 2008
Mar26th2008
Mar25th2008
“What I have always liked about Obama (and what Paul Krugman appears to hate) is that he sees the America not as a system of antagonisms defined along race or class lines, but as a fundamentally cooperative venture for mutual advantage. What I have never liked about Obama is his apparent failure to grasp how […]
Mar24th2008
“No developed country approaches American giving. For example, in 1995 (the most recent year for which data are available), Americans gave, per capita, three and a half times as much to causes and charities as the French, seven times as much as the Germans, and 14 times as much as the Italians. Similarly, in 1998, […]
Mar19th2008
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From a professors perspective. He shows how the dumbing down of our education system by ‘feel good’ math instructions has resulted in a drastic decrease in the quality of education.
For those who would argue that traditional methods of teaching mathematics will not work, here […]
Mar17th2008
“Not only are government subsidies for government tuition unnecessary, they also victimize the truly disadvantaged people in our society: those who lack the educational qualifications to go to college in the first place (usually due to a combination of poor public schooling and a flawed family environment). These people pay some of the taxes that […]
Mar14th2008
Kevin Carey, research and policy manager at Education Sector, writes in the Chronicles of Higher Education:
The fact that increased prices go hand in hand with more-selective admissions is all the better, since that leads to increased status, wealthier alumni, and higher rankings in U.S. News & World Report. In a normal market, businesses can cut […]
Mar12th2008
The Age Of Milton Friedman
Published by in Capitalism, Communism, Economics and General. 10 CommentsHarvard economist Andrei Shleifer has a new paper on The Age Of Milton Friedman that begins with:
The last quarter century has witnessed remarkable progress of mankind. The world’s per capita inflation-adjusted income rose from $5400 in 1980 to $8500 in 2005.Schooling and life expectancy grew rapidly, while infant mortality and poverty […]
Mar11th2008
Brad Schiller, professor of economics at American University and the University of Nevada, Reno writes on the inequality myth:
While there is some substance to these fears of widening inequality and middle-class stagnation, the situation is not nearly as clear-cut. Demographic changes in the size and composition of U.S. households have distorted the statistics in important […]
Mar10th2008
The New York Sun reports:
The candidate who looks strongest on the education issue at the moment is Senator McCain. It hasn’t escaped the Arizona Republican, apparently, that the daughters of both Senator Clinton and Obama attended elite private schools of the kind that can be accessed by pupils from ordinary families only where there are […]
Mar7th2008
Parents Want Choice
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 3 CommentsSchool choice that is.
“100 Texan families camped outside a charter school for two days because parents want to enroll their kids in River Oaks rather than their traditional public school”. LibertyIsForMe has more here.
Mar6th2008
The New York Times writes about a cancer patient in the British Health Care System:
Debbie Hirst’s…breast cancer had metastasized, and the health service would not provide her with Avastin, a drug that is widely used in the United States and Europe to keep such cancers at bay. So, with her oncologist’s support, she decided last […]
Mar5th2008
Republicans And Immigration
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 11 CommentsJohn McCain, as everybody had been expecting, has officially clinched the Republican nomination. This just goes to show something I had believed all along: Republicans, as a whole, are not anti-immigration.
The Republican relationship with immigration is a lot like the Democrat relationship to education - you have a few people that make alot of noise […]
Mar4th2008
Environmentalism: Luxury Of The Rich
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Environment, General and Personal. 11 CommentsGoing through the trouble of getting my smog check this weekend reminded me of one of my pet peeves in politics: wealthy environmentalists feeling moral about themselves while others (primarily the poor) pay the burden.
Here in California, in order to register your car you have to get a smog check every two years. They typically […]
Mar3rd2008
John McWhorter On BloggingHeads
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues), ModernPolitics and affirmative action. 0 CommentsA video of John McWhorter and Glenn Loury can be found here. McWhorter with Megan McArdle can be found here.
Update: Another one here (this video is a must watch, far better than the two above. Again, highly recommended!).
Mar3rd2008
“Trade is just one manifestation of consumer sovereignty. Just as there are, by Blinder’s calculus, winners and losers from consumers shifting their expenditures from goods made in America to goods made abroad, there are winners and losers from consumers shifting their expenditures from goods made in Illinois to goods made in Arizona - and […]
