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Relevance: 19% Posted on: October 17, 2017
You can’t suspend the law of gravity. Nor, apparently, the laws of bureaucratic lethargy and inertia. Diana Rickert was a policy analyst with the Illinois Policy Institute who accepted a job with the administration of Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner. She lasted six weeks. The assignment: combine and streamline several governmental…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: January 5, 2016
In The Mouse That Roared, a 1955 comic novel by Leonard Wibberley, a tiny English-speaking country in Europe loses market share for its only export, a wine label, to a cheap American knock-off. Seeking compensation for the loss, the duchy decides to do the only rational thing: declare war on…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: July 3, 2014
The United States of America is exceptional in at least one way: it was founded by folks who made very clear that the reasons for breaking with past allegiance and alliance — indeed, subjugation — rested, finally, on an idea: liberty. No doubt that was just an excuse for some…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: September 9, 2014
Customers in Germany and elsewhere have flouted irrational attacks on the popular ride-sharing service Uber. As I have explained before, Uber’s software lets passengers and drivers connect in a way that bypasses regularly regulated taxicabs. Cabbies don’t necessarily oppose the innovation. Many see Uber’s app as a nifty way to…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: July 17, 2012
Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey, calls himself a “social media enthusiast,” and recently engaged Reddit.com’s public, for whom he clarified his stance on drug prohibition: The so called War on Drugs has not succeeded in making significant reductions in drug use, drug arrests or violence. We are pouring…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: November 22, 2019
Back in the 1970s, the late Phyllis Schlafly charged that, if the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) were ratified, women would be subject to the military draft. Funny thing, though — the ERA was not ratified, yet any return to the draft means our daughters would be forced into combat just…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: October 10, 2012
Logic and evidence? Or bullying and intimidation? A member of a local Pennsylvania teachers union has demanded the resignation of the vice president of the West Chester Area School Board, Heidi Adsett, for suggesting in a letter to the editor that, instead of threatening to strike, teachers unsatisfied with hefty…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: October 23, 2014
Things are what they are, not their opposite. Can we accept that as a starting point? Not if we’re scoring ideological points regardless of the cost to clarity. Newsweek calls drug-war violence in Long Island “a harrowing example of free-market, laissez-faire capitalism.” To this, Cato Institute’s David Boaz objects that…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: July 4, 2012
The most important document in American history is titled this way, in five lines: “In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776./ A DECLARATION / By the REPRESENTATIVES of the / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, / In GENERAL CONGRESS assembled.” This “Declaration of Independence” begins with one of the best preambles ever: “WHEN in…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: July 4, 2015
“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, & to assume among the powers of the earth the equal & independant station to which the laws of nature & of nature’s god entitle them,…