The Unbroken Window

So, while not killing the mess that is ObamaCare, Congress managed to kill a program that actually saves money and helps poor inner-city children. But Father Hesburgh ought not focus his attention on the current Administration for their failure to fund the DC Voucher program. Instead, he ought to lash out at the looters at [...]

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Is it me, or does it seem that the folks in the “E”nvironmental community actually WANT to see the globe get warmer and the environment get destroyed? After all, any time we show evidence of how things have been getting better, all kinds of things start getting hucked our way. And if it is in [...]

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Gruber and Dynarski report in a recent NBER Working Paper: The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. … We exploit a unique and previously undocumented source of variation in private school tuition to estimate this key parameter. A majority of Catholic [...]

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And Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., a prominent abortion rights supporter who has gathered the signatures of more than 40 representatives who refuse to back a health bill that contains the restrictions, said the bishops had been allowed to overstep their bounds. “No one group should get to dictate the outcome of legislation in Congress,” DeGette [...]

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Is there any data or evidence that could potentially be shown to you that might make you reconsider your faith in the topic? I’ll make it simpler, is there any data or evidence that at least will make you reconsider how useful the climate models are? The strange temperature trends in the tropical upper troposphere [...]

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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether the mere presence of a cross within a 1.6 million acre national preserve runs afoul of the Constitution, because it is effectively a religious symbol. I hope it upholds the ban. Not because I am anti-religion, but because I hope it paves the way for a broadening [...]

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“Liquidation Sale.”

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The people who already lived in Jackson County were not happy about the monumental influx. The Mormon immigrants for the most part hailed from the northeastern states and favored the abolition of slavery; Missourians tended to have southern roots – many of them actually owned slaves – and were deeply suspicious of the Mormons’ abolitionist [...]

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The Dow closed at 7949 on the day of the inauguration. Today, as I write this (May 13), the Dow stands at 8282. Phew. Thank goodness.

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Well said from a former colleague of mine, John Barry. On “Earth Day” our children’s schools will be festooned with reminders of the supposed importance of recycling. No one will question the presumed moral imperative that “everyone should recycle.” Education, in short, will yield to indoctrination. All too often in our schools, recycling is not [...]

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