Yea, I thought about naming it something more seasonally appropriate but this piece has nothing to do with Christmas but everything to do with the classroom.
It seems as if the Federal Government wants to give local school districts a very large amount of money to improve education but it is tying it to teacher evaluations […]
Now, this isn’t a blog about Governor Sanford and his problems, though we are reminded that when one “preaches” about one set of values and then lives and entirely different set of values, it is very difficult for people to hear the truth.
And while I am saddened by the death of Michael Jackson, it isn’t […]
The late F. Donald Coggan (1909-2000), the former Archbishop of Canterbury wrote a wonderful little book many years ago entitled, Christ and Our Crises. It is delightful to read and quite insightful. Over the years I periodically take it off my book shelf and read portions of it again. I was reading it the other […]
Well, the most obvious answer to the question is yes, the future shall be different from the past. But I wouldn’t have anything to write about if that were the case, now would I? But, to paraphrase George Santayana, if I see the future as the past, then my life would be condemned and I […]
One of the disappointing messages sent to the American people from its leaders in the days after 9/11 was that the best way to defeat terrorism was to continue to live life as usual. Rudy Giuliani told New Yorkers to go to the the movies and George W. Bush encouraged us to go shopping. Our […]
Cato will be liveblogging the State of the Union Address. As an organization who is strongly committed to constitutional government they are quick to point out much of the nonsense from the Bush Obama Era. It will be a greatly educational event.
In the midst of all the hoopla in Washington in an effort to pass the so-called stimulus package that contains more pork than hog heaven, one business is now hiring.
No, it is not all the banks and the automobile manufacturers that the federal government is “bailing out”; it is the one business that the government […]
As we look back on the last 8 years with a self described Conservative in office, it is useful to examine the policies enacted, rather than the rhetoric. Michael D. Tanner has done a fantastic job detailing several of the allegedly conservative policies of George W. Bush here.
A few examples:
Increased federal domestic discretionary […]
There was an interesting article in The Christian Science Monitor the other day (“Wanted: More science and math teachers in the US”) that caused me to wonder: should I laugh or should I cry? The premise of that article is that there is a drastic shortage of qualified science and mathematics teachers in this country […]
GW Bush claims to “believe in the free market.” If faith without out works is dead, then lets take a look at his works. A look at the numbers tells the story.
With thanks to www.reason.com (“Bailout Balance Sheet”, November 7, 2008 by Katherine Mangu-Ward and Anthony Randazzo) here are the totals–so far […]
Top 1% of wage-earners pay 34.27% of taxes
Top 5% of wage-earners pay 54.36 % of taxes
Top 10% of wage-earners pay 65.84% of taxes
Top 25% of wage-earners pay 83.88% of taxes
Top 50% of wage-earners pay 96.54% of taxes
The bottom 50% of wage-earners pay less than 4% of taxes.
Sources: Internal Revenue Service
Tax Policy Center
Tax Foundation
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Both candidates proclaim a belief in free markets and yet both voted for the theft by threat of force of $850 billion of our money and neither have spoken out against the upcoming taxpayer pillage on behalf of the Detroit Big Three. Both consistently rail against big oil, big pharm., wall street fatcats, corporations […]
Alexander Tyler in 1787 spoke about the election occurring in a little more than a week from today. Don’t ask me how he knew the specifics of McCain and Obama’s plans to offer up every possible goody one can imagine from moratoriums on consequences to refinancing on the taxpayers dime, but he told us […]
Which presidential candidate’s tax policy will reduce the national debt? Actually neither– both plans will increase the federal deficit substantially over the next ten years.
The details can be found at the non-partisan Tax Policy Center.
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Cross-Posted at Allan R. Bevere
Great article from Bradley Harrington. Here are some excerpts.
There was once a time, many decades ago, when the Republicans advocated liberty and individualism; when the GOP supported capitalism, free enterprise, and private-property rights; when the party opposed poverty-inducing schemes such as Social Security and food stamps; when they would have viewed institutions such as […]
Eleven reasons America is the new top socialist economy
This article from Market Watch popped up on my bank’s news aggregator. For obvious reasons I did not post a link or screen shot. Could not find it on the Market Watch site so I copied and pasted it here. Pretty fun. Do […]
