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Attacking lobbyists wrong battle
Read more: Attacking lobbyists wrong battleProfessor Williams explains to us that given the “awesome growth of government control over business, property, employment and other areas of our lives” Washington politicians (and I would add state and local politicians too) are in the position to grant valuable favors. “The greater their power to grant favors, the greater the value of being…
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Who is more compassionate?
Read more: Who is more compassionate?Arthur C. Brooks, writing in the January 16, 2006 Wall Street Journal, debunks a stereotype about conservatives (those in favor of smaller government) being less compassionate and caring than those who are in favor of more government spending on social programs.
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Book Review: Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families
Read more: Book Review: Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s FamiliesPublic schools are a great intrusion on liberty. Attendance is compulsory, as is paying for the public schools. Could the government devise a better way to expand its influence? “Despite the claim of moral neutrality, public education is linked to a particular set of values, namely, the values of the modern welfare, or social-service state.…
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Book Review: Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools and Why it Isn’t So
Read more: Book Review: Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools and Why it Isn’t SoEducation policy, says Jay P. Greene, is dominated by myths. Myths aren’t lies. They’re intuitive, they seem to be true, and we want them to be true. There is probably some evidence supporting the myth. But if the myth isn’t true, if it isn’t accurate, and we make policy decisions based on the myth, we…
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On Paul Mirecki
Read more: On Paul MireckiThere are two aspects to the Paul Mirecki matter that I haven’t seen discussed, or discussed only in passing.
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Kansas Media Spin on Moderates and Conservatives
Read more: Kansas Media Spin on Moderates and ConservativesHere’s a very good piece on Kansas politics written by Karl Peterjohn of the Kansas Taxpayers Network. Karl has amazing knowledge of Kansas politics and politicians of the past two decades. I wish he would write a book about it. Kansas Media Spin on Moderates and Conservatives Karl Peterjohn, Executive Director Kansas Taxpayers Network The…
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How government makes us unhappy
Read more: How government makes us unhappyArthur C. Brooks, associate professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Affairs, has a commentary in the December 8, 2005 Wall Street Journal titled “Money Buys Happiness.” Rich people, the author tells us, are much more likely to say they are happy. Although we are becoming richer as a whole, the percent of people…
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More Under Reported Kansas News
Read more: More Under Reported Kansas NewsMore Under Reported Kansas News By Karl Peterjohn, Executive Director Kansas Taxpayers Network There are at least two stories that have not received the mainstream news media attention that they deserve in Kansas. Kansans need more information than they have received and the readers should decide whether the following is unreported or just under reported…
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More favorite computer and Internet things
Read more: More favorite computer and Internet thingsMore things I like and use. The first article is here: Favorite Internet and computer things.
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Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity
Read more: Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and ProsperityThis is a wonderful book that can teach anyone what is important to know about economics. It teaches the insights that people can use to understand and evaluate the mechanism of our economy and government themselves. It is not a textbook with charts, graphs, and formulas. It requires no special prerequisite from the reader.
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Wal-Mart. More hypocrisy.
Read more: Wal-Mart. More hypocrisy.Currently it is quite fashionable to criticize Wal-Mart as the starting point for everything evil about American business. Critics allege that Wal-Mart earns too much profit, pays its employees too little, doesn’t provide its employees health insurance so they have to rely on the government, it exploits low-paid workers in China, and might even be…
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The Random Walk Guide to Investing
Read more: The Random Walk Guide to InvestingThe title of this book derives from the author’s famous book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, published in 1973. That book, and this too, refer to the theory of efficient markets. In the author’s words: “The main premise of the theory is that the stock market is an extraordinarily efficient institution for reflecting without…