It’s been ten years. Federal government intervention into America’s local-and-state-run public schools has spent a lot of money, but not resulted in much good, down at the student level:
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Tom Sowell on warm, fuzzy words and phrases
Punching fog, warming up fuzzy phrases, and understanding “social justice”:
“Society” is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. The justice society can provide cannot require either complete knowledge or total power. Pretending it can, or should, is pure folly.
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Video: What If?
Judge Andrew Napolitano has a few questions:
Last year at this time, I was in Omaha, Nebraska, testifying at a court challenge to the petition drive I had run to put a recall of Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle on the ballot. Recall opponents had hurled baseless charges of “fraud” throughout our signature drive, an increasingly common smear used by the professional left. In the court case, their attorney also tried the old racist tactic of demonizing me as an evil outside agitator. The judge found their charges meritless, writing in his opinion, “Plaintiff introduced evidence to attack the credibility of certain circulators and a Paul Jacob, the coordinator for the paid circulators.… This Court found Paul Jacob credible and accepted his testimony as truthful.”
Those powerful political forces opposed to citizens having a say on the ballot, whether through recalls or initiatives or referendums, have made a habit of using nasty, scorched-earth, character-assassinating tactics. They think they can keep good, decent people away from any effort to hold government accountable by being especially dishonest and despicable. We have to prove them wrong at every turn – as we did in Omaha last year.
Nobel Laureate economist explaining why drug prohibition makes no sense:
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Video: You’re not the boss of me
The first in a series, “Common Sense Principles”:
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Video: No Adoring Cheerleaders
Tim Eyman, Washington State’s most creative and dedicated initiative activist, summarizes his approach to politics and governance:
“Consent of the governed” may indicate legitimacy, but “dissent” makes possible efficacy.
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Video: My Friend Sarah
The world’s a complex place, and it takes some thought to make sense of it. One of the more useful tools for understanding the social world is economics. And, once you begin thinking in economic terms, there are consequences, as this delightful video from a few years ago neatly shows:
I’m impressed how a simple story line and touch of whimsy helps get the ideas across.
Excellent testimony by Prof. Russ Roberts of George Mason University about the government bailout of the financial sector. Naming Bush, Obama and Congress, Prof. Roberts charges: “You’ve helped risk-takers continue to expect that the rules that apply to the rest of us don’t apply to people with the right connections. You’ve saved the system, but it’s a system not worth saving. It’s not capitalism; it is crony capitalism.”
Let’s keep this common sense in mind.
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High Finance Q & A
This comedy routine from Australian television — sort of a take-off on the famous Abbott & Costello sketch “Who’s on First?” — may be more spot-on about the continuing financial crisis than it is ha-ha funny. Brew a strong cup of coffee, sit down in a very stable chair and watch: