Month: September 2008
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Carol Rupe, Kansas School Board Member, Speaks for the Wichita School Bond Issue
In a letter to the Wichita Eagle, Kansas school board member Carol Rupe makes the case for supporting the Wichita school bond issue. It’s not remarkable that a member of the public school bureaucracy would support increased spending on schools. Her letter is remarkable, however, in what it says, and what it doesn’t say. For…
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The Problem of Environmental Calculation
One of the things about radical environmentalists is that they seem to learn a lesson, only to fail to learn from it. What do I mean? Recently, New York Times writer David Pogue rehashed in a column titled The Bottom Line of the Eco Balance Sheet the “calculus of green” as it relates to the…