Stephen Moore, whose son graduated from Northwestern to the tune of $62,500 a year for room board and tuition, explains why Hillary Clinton’s college tuition plan won’t work. In fact it will only make things worse in an industry (higher education) that has seen little productivity improvement. Hillary’s plan would only make the crisis worse […]
Archives for August 2015
MAP: Victims of Chinese Cyber-espionage
NBC News reports the frightening frequency of Chinese cyber-attacks by posting a map of attack victims produced by the NSA. Robert Windrem reports: A secret NSA map obtained exclusively by NBC News shows the Chinese government‘s massive cyber assault on all sectors of the U.S economy, including major firms like Google and Lockheed Martin, as […]
VIDEO: War Is the Health of the State
From Cato Institute: The Founding Era was a violent one, and yet the Framers of the Constitution took great pains to constrain the government’s war power. Christopher A. Preble discusses modern rejoinders to the fear of an executive branch empowered to make war.
Do Republicans Want Trump Out?
Pat Buchanan writes, “there is a plot afoot in The Washington Post Conservative Club to purge Trump from the Republican Party before the primaries begin.” Pat continues that George Will wants Trump “excommunicated” and locked out of all GOP debates until he kneels and takes a loyalty oath to the nominee According to the Washington Posts’ […]
Is Hillary the Titanic?
There has been no mention of Hillary Clinton’s ethics by any of her rivals—not even from Bernie Sanders, who surged ahead of Mrs. Clinton in the recently released New Hampshire primary poll. Democrats are “beginning to freak out”, writes Kimberley Strassel in the WSJ. Here is Mrs. Clinton trying out an inequality argument, as she […]
Carly Fiorina—Anti-Crony Capitalism
In an interesting theme in Carly Fiorina’s campaign—opining on the crony capitalism that is so much a part of our economy and politics—she notes, “What we have now is less and less free market and more and more crony capitalism.” The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains: Crony capitalism is an insidious system in which businesses’ […]
Larry Bird Interview
The Indiana Pacers will bring out the Hickory jerseys in select games this year to honor the 30th anniversary of the Hoosiers. Here’s a great interview with Pacers President Larry Bird taking a walk down memory lane with Dan Patrick:
“Superfund Blitzkrieg”
The Wall Street Journal writes in Notable & Quotable: From a letter to the editor in the Silverton (Colo.) Standard published July 30 regarding an Environmental Protection Agency plan to plug a leaking mine in the area; on Aug. 5 the EPA, trying to stop a leak at the nearby Gold King mine, accidentally released […]
How to Buy a Boat Part IV
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a boat. So with that in mind, Skip and I planned out our road (and sea) trip to Long Island. We chose Long Island because there were about five to ten boats of the specific make and model we were targeting for sale at various […]
Remembering the Beatles
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Marc Myers explains Beatlemania, writing: From a cultural standpoint, Beatlemania in 1965 far exceeded teenage rages for Frank Sinatra in the 1940s and Elvis Presley in the ’50s—thanks largely to the proliferation of television sets and portable phonographs. In the months before their appearance at Shea Stadium, the Beatles unleashed […]