November 2010
2 posts
Does Competition Improve Public Schools? →
A little light reading for your Thanksgiving break (note: sarcasm on the “light” part. But definitely worth reading).
September 2010
6 posts
Glenn Reynolds: Higher education's bubble is about... →
“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal...”
– President Franklin Pierce in an 1854 veto. (via hipsterlibertarian)
“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more...”
– Barry Goldwater (via masstrovato)
Japan and US: Two Innovators Bound to Same Fate? →
Debt, financial crisis hurt U.S. competitiveness →
GOP outpaces Dems on Twitter →
August 2010
1 post
Wishful Thinking on Iran →
May 2010
1 post
Take the Tiger Town Observer's Online Survey Here →
April 2010
3 posts
2 tags
Impending US Finance Reform →
Sentimentalist journalism or not, this line is scary:
“The bill would create a consumer protection agency and give the US government the power to dismantle large, troubled financial firms.“
Even if they’re troubled, the government having that power sounds dangerous.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mirch McConnell said “what we need to do is make it virtually, if not...
Obama v. Roberts: The Struggle to Come →
Error means $59.8 million in state budget cuts →
March 2010
2 posts
Hotheaded Emanuel may be White House voice of... →
February 2010
7 posts
HONOR FREEDOM
This weekend at CPAC, I met Jeffrey Scott Shapiro. He’s apparently friends with Stephen Baldwin, who introduced him at XPAC at CPAC.
He presented his entire mission of HONOR FREEDOM, which seeks to restore the reputation of President Bush from the vicious attacks and rumors that were spread around about him in pop culture and the “mainstream media.”
A liberal lawyer in Washington, DC, he has...
Gregg vs. Orszag
Check out this video of Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) raking White House Budget Chief Peter Orszag over the coals for wanting to use the leftover TARP money for essentially more bailouts. Link here.
And I mean over the coals.
Via the Daily Caller
January 2010
46 posts
Fact Check: How State of Union Compares With... →
Posted by Joshua Morgan, Editor-in-chief
10secs! Til
Tto staff following huffington post drinking rules!
Let me be clear, change isn’t easy, make no mistake! http://myloc.me/3gtu4
LOL @ joe biden for laughing when obama said “get some” http://myloc.me/3gwxz
O Rahm sighting!
Now on to education…obama wants YOU to get a college degree!
Don’t walk away from reform! (let’s get ‘er done!)
Spending freeze didn’t receive much applause.
O promises again to end war in Iraq, Afghanistan. #sotu
Lol @ republicans for laughing when pres said freeze
“not interested in punishing banks”. Oh really?
Now he wants YOU to go into public
service
Sarah palin. Groooooan
Potus abt to enter!
RT @CatoInstitute: Copying France instead of Hong Kong doesn’t seem very smart. -@DanielJMitchell #SOTU
Cheers!
Michelle obama’s dress is bipartisan! Blue +red= purple!
Recovery act. Really? Haven’t we
already
established that it didn’t work?
Lol Joe biden
Nancy pelosi looks…really stiff
The Twelve Virtues of Rationality →
Posted by Abby Olin, media director
Obama Seeks Partial Three-Year Spending Freeze →
“President Obama, after spending hundreds of billions his first year, now is seeking a partial three-year federal spending freeze that would reduce budgets by less than 1 percent.”
“…estimate projecting the 2010 federal deficit to hit $1.35 trillion — Obama’s spending freeze would be expected to save up to $15 billion the first year. “
...
Capitalism Without Guilt — ARCTV
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By Yaron Brook
This is a lecture delivered by Yaron Brook at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS). This talk is delivered in English, but the introduction is given in Hebrew. The English portion of the recording begins at 5 minutes.
Posted by Abby Olin, media director
Americans For Better Immigration | Report Card for... →
“All Members are scored according to how they have used immigration to force U.S. population growth, sprawl and congestion. Here are examples of what grades mean:
A+ Virtually always supports lower immigration and lower U.S. population growth
C Half the time has acted for lower immigration and half the time has acted for higher numbers
F- Virtually always acts to force higher immigration...
Scott Brown and the Liberal Campus - Edward Tenner →
By Edward Tenner
“Imbalances are good for conservatives at liberal schools (and naturally vice versa) by pressuring them to support their values.
Posted by Abby Olin, media director
Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left →
By PATRICIA COHEN
“The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research suggests that critics may have been asking the wrong question. Instead of looking at why most professors are liberal, they should ask why so many liberals — and so few conservatives — want to be professors.”
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