Liberty
Government pulls student loan money from ‘worthless’ programs
Rikki Schlott writes for the New York Post about a policy shift involving college student loans. Students will no longer be able to take out federal loans to pay for…
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Liberty
American Politics As ‘Amplified Rage’
Jonathan Turley writes for The Hill about a disturbing shift in American political discourse. Nobel Laureate Albert Camus once said, “Insurrection is certainly not the sum total of human experience…
Law & Public Safety
Biden Threatens Equality Under the Law
Dan Lennington writes for National Review Online about a major threat tied to bad Biden administration policies. Since the 1960s, presidents have gone out of their way to honor and…
Law & Public Safety
Lawsuits Challenge Race-Based Bailouts in COVID Stimulus Plan
Kevin Daley of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a legal challenge for federal COVID-19 relief measures. Conservative legal groups are challenging the racially driven repayment programs Democrats included in their…
Education
Big Government, Big Price Tag – Part 2
Introduction Public-sector unions are central to some of the most contentious public policy issues in contemporary America. Do unions improve or impair the political process and elections? Do police unions…
Health Care
States moving on AHPs, CON
The Affordable Care Act regulates much of how state health insurance markets are allowed to operate. However, states still have some policy levers to use to reform their healthcare markets.…
Education
Bullied kid Keaton Jones deserves school choice
The heartbreaking video of bullied middle-school student Keaton Jones has gone viral. If you haven’t done so, watch it. I suspect that the bullying at Horace Maynard Middle School near…
Liberty
Pronoun trouble
No, I’m not referencing the famous “Rabbit Seasoning” interchange between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Instead, I’m highlighting a mildly disturbing column at National Review Online from Jay Nordlinger. Recently,…
Liberty
Mental Vacation
My attendance at Asheville City Council’s formal Tuesday meetings has been far from stellar. I skipped out before the meeting was over the first time I went. That was about…
Liberty
AA/US merger route shifts, round 1
Big announcement from American Airlines (AA) and US Airways (US) over how they’d be handling their mandated slot sell off at New York’s LaGuardia (LGA) and Washington’ Reagan National (DCA)…
Education
More evidence for the notion that college is oversold
George “College is oversold” Leef is not likely to find much that surprises him in a recent Bloomberg Businessweek article about the value of a college education. How much is…
Liberty
For the Diversity-Trained, Anger-Managed
Surely you’ve heard about all the programs to train Western North Carolina kids for brewing jobs. Now, Southwestern Community College in Sylva is offering a curriculum on shuffling and dealing…