…The best ideas from the institutes
When I was a young nerd, alerting kids about the exposure of their epidermis was a favorite school-bus taunt, a great one to use on kids whose vocabulary wasn’t above grade-level like mine. “Epidermis” is, of course, a fancy word for skin. A good deal of everyone’s epidermis is showing most of the time, and […]
Filed under: American Foreign Policy, American Domestic Policy by
No Comments »
The Washington Post claims that Philadelphia’s contracting out of 45 public schools to private management firms represented a test of whether “the free market could educate children more efficiently than the government.” It represented no such thing, and to claim otherwise the Post must not understand the city’s the contracting arrangements or the nature of free […]
Filed under: American Foreign Policy, American Domestic Policy by
No Comments »
Today I saw a John Edwards bumper sticker — the first one I can really recall — on a beautiful Audi convertible parked in a luxury development in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. Just an idle question: Do you think it’s more likely that this John Edwards supporter is part of Edwards’s much touted […]
Filed under: American Foreign Policy, American Domestic Policy by
No Comments »
Vint Cerf is the nominal “father of the Internet,” and currently a vice president and “Chief Internet Evangelist” at Google. His employer recently unveiled an “Internet for Everyone” public policy program, which I view with skepticism. (Julian Sanchez nailed the free-lunchism of “Internet for Everyone,” saying, “All this may have a whiff of ‘and a […]
Filed under: American Foreign Policy, American Domestic Policy by
No Comments »
Sen. John McCain issued a ringing endorsement of the Supreme Court’s Heller decision:
Today’s ruling recognizes that gun ownership is a fundamental right – sacred, just as the right to free speech and assembly.
You can’t get much stronger than that. Except . . . wait . . . what was it McCain said about our sacred right […]
Filed under: American Foreign Policy by admin
No Comments »
It’s not one of the big cases decided by the Supreme Court this term, but Indiana v. Edwards shows how these justices are all over the map — from a libertarian legal perspective. The issue was whether a person can choose to represent himself in court in a criminal case. This corner of the law was […]
Filed under: American Foreign Policy, American Domestic Policy by
No Comments »
Nice health care lecture
The Commonwealth Foundation
Cato Institute
