Liberty
About all those new apartments
Mentioned a story from the AP recently about millennials’ home buying preferences (want to buy, can’t afford it), which leads to: Some of the cost burden stems from a shift…
IPad
line of tablet computers developed by Apple
Education
New Assessments for Kindergarteners – Bigger Concern Is Data Collection
North Carolina kindergartners arriving at school this fall will be given the new Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA). In fact, this assessment has to be completed the first 60 days of…
Liberty
There’s an App for That
The New York Times reports from New Orleans that a private police force called the French Quarter Task Force has significantly reduced crime by deploying round-the-clock patrols consisting of “armed…
Liberty
Forbes probes the link between free trade and jobs
The latest issue of Forbes magazine features Steve Forbes‘ assessment of the impact of global trade on jobs. A CRITICAL RAP against the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is that it will…
Liberty
Despite problems, America thrives
There’s no shortage of bad news for Victor Davis Hanson to document when it comes to the Obama administration. But Hanson’s latest column at National Review Online reminds us how…
Regulation
The minimum wage: Guaranteeing more jobs … for machines
Alex Adrianson of the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog examines an interesting side effect of efforts to increase the government-mandated minimum wage. Rising labor costs—whether caused by higher minimum wages…
Regulation
TIME profiles a leading minimum wage foe
This forum is full of entries detailing the problems associated with raising the government–mandated minimum wage. The latest TIME magazine focuses on the politics of the debate, profiling a leading…
Liberty
Another Example Of Why Producers Should Be Thanked, Not Attacked
One of my biggest pet peeves about liberalism is that it encourages people to attack and mock the producers in our society, to be jealous and allege they don’t “deserve”…
Education
Instapundit Reynolds ponders the need for a major education shake-up
Glenn Reynolds discusses with National Review Online key themes from his new book about impending changes in American education. KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: So what’s the cocktail-party answer to what “the…
Health Care
themPod revisited
Not long ago I pointed out a rather glaring flaw in President Obama’s notion that he is building an “iPod government” through fiat: We like our iPods ultimately because it’s…
Health Care
Ignoring the ‘i’ in the vision of ‘iPod government’
A sudden apostacy in Ezra Klein has led him to write about “How the iPod President Crashed: Obama’s Broken Technology Promise.” It opens thus: In the 2008 election, President Obama’s…
Liberty
Troy probes the power of pop culture and the presidency
Tevi Troy discusses with U.S. News & World Report some key themes from his new book, which documents 200 years of presidential responses to popular culture. How did the literary…