Like anyone really expected money to save teachers’ jobs would be used to hire teachers: As schools handed out pink slips to teachers this spring, states made a beeline to Washington to plead for money for their ravaged education budgets. But now that the federal government has come through with $10 billion, some of the [...]
Over the past few days I did a bit of driving around. The Mrs wanted to pick up some things at some pretty widely separated locations – so, off on the road we went. First down to Los Angeles, then turning around and up to St George, Utah. It was an instructive trip on the [...]
The un-named bill – from Techdirt: It appears that our friendly Senators were in such a rush to get this bill through that they forgot to name it. Jim Harper noticed this when the bill showed up as the oddly named The___Act of ___ in his always excellent Washingtonwatch site. Apparently, the Library of Congress’ [...]
Ed Note: In response to a request noted over at Instapundit, I offer this updated post which first appeared in March. The question is, “How do we get out of this WITHOUT printing money?”, which I take it to mean, “how do we get out of this without doing all the stupid things we’ve done?” [...]
Chuck DeVore notes an interesting phenomena: According to Moody’s, the average state per capita debt of the 28 Obama states is $1,728 while the average debt in the 22 McCain states is less than half, at $749. This information alone says a lot about voters and their attitude towards government and debt. Voters with a [...]