Illinois Gov. George Ryan and South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges, for example, have proposed more money for education in their states. This is, on one level, annoying in its repetitiveness. But it also speaks to a deeper flaw: intellectual laziness. If you really believe that your anecdote ...
Maryland was the last state to end capital punishment, in 2013. Three other moderate-to-liberal states have done so in recent years: New Mexico in 2009, Illinois in 2011, Connecticut in 2012. But the last conservative state to do so was North Dakota in 1973. The death penalty now is le...