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Daily Archive for September 27th, 2007

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Making College Affordable?

President Bush signed legislation increasing the maximum Pell grant amount by about 25% over the next 4 years. In real terms, that is still probably a decrease. The larger point of course is whether or not this will actually do anything to make college more affordable?   Let’s think of what could possibly happen? If […]

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Even more bizarre and totalitarian in its implications is the often proposed concept of a child’s “right to be wanted.” Apart from the impossibility of using violence to enforce an emotion on someone else, such a criterion would arm outside parties, in practice the State, with the power to determine when “wanting” exists and to […]

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