And here’ssome scholarly researchfrom Katherine Hirschfeld at the University of Oklahoma (h/t:Scott Johnson). …the Cuban government continues to respond to international criticism of itshuman rights record byciting…praise for its achievements in health and medicine…th...
P.S. Government spending is only growing slightly faster than GDP in Brazil. That might be a mitigating factor, but the problem is that Brazil started with an excessive burden of spending, which government consuming more than 40 percent of the nation’s economic output. P.P.S. What especial...
Computer use as an adult: check my bills, check my savings, look at pricing for home improvements, check the scores, send & answer emails, read blogs if I’m lucky. Has there been any foundational libertarian academic work done in the last 35 years? I mean, when I was in college, yo...
Share Today in history: On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. Also on this date: This Nov. 13, 2008 file photo shows the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/...
One educator from Gates Lane said kids going to B&G Club had higher MCAS scores. [This is also not answering the question] Roy: looked into programs with B&G Club and the Y, these are fantastic programs. We need to figure out way to get funding to take burden away from the parents. ...
We can only measure inputs (like spending and classroom size) and try to correlate them to measures of output (like SAT scores and graduation rates) that poorly represent consumer value. Of course, if we left this all to the private sector, we wouldn't need to measure any of this!!
Libertarians – and economists – haven’t done a good job of explaining the benefits of free trade. Telling the man on the street that free trade is a fundamental truth has not worked. “Democracy” is anothermajorissue; people throw the word around like a baseball, but its fundamentals ...
electricity.Waste that is not burned is taken to a dump.One kind of dump for the disposal of solid wastes is a sanitary landfill.This method involves burying the wastes and bulldozing soil over them.Parks,baseball fields,airports, and other developments may be built on completely filled ...
In this case, Delaware is the worst state (which may explain something about Joe Biden), though New York and California continue to get poor scores. I’m not going to bother showing the fourth quartile because it is nothing but Mexican states. ...
Since I was in Palm Beach for a baseball tournament, I decided to crash the Trump victory party. It was a very happy crowd as you can imagine, especially once Fox News said Trump won Pennsylvania. And you can see I had a pretty good view when Trump came out for his speech. But let...