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Billions for Teacher Unions, Nothing for Students

Here’s a story problem to get kids ready for the new school year: If Congress borrows $10 billion to bail out the public schools, and if toilet paper costs fifty cents a roll, how many rolls of toilet paper will

The Public is Learning the Truth about Net Neutrality

And as with all Leftist things, the more they know the less they like On August 11, more than 150 organizations (including 35 TEA Party groups), state legislators and bloggers signed onto a pair of letters urging the Federal Communications

Recovery Blunder: Jobless Claims Highest in 9 Months

From the Associated Press: Employers appear to be laying off workers again as applications for unemployment insurance reached the half-million mark last week for the first time since November. Initial claims for jobless benefits rose by 12,000 last week to

Happy Cost of Government Day

For the last 7 1/2 months your labor has belonged to someone else – the state. You have slaved away for the majority of the year to pay for the bailouts, subsidies, vote buying, earmarks and redistribution schemes that make

Taxation: What's the Ideal Point on the Laffer Curve?

There’s been a bit of chatter in the blogosphere about a recent post on Ezra Klein’s blog featuring estimates from various economists about the revenue-maximizing tax rate. It won’t come as a surprise that people on the right tended to

Thursday Open Thread: Soviet Union Edition

Today, in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev was put under house arrest in an attempted coup by pro-communism forces. Countered by the leadership of Boris Yeltsin, the coup would fail.