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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…
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Every state left behind
Read more: Every state left behindIn Kansas, according to Standard & Poor’s Statewide Education Insights, about 60% to 70% of students are proficient in reading, as evaluated by the Kansas state reading test. But on the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests, only 33% to 35% of Kansas students are proficient. A similar discrepancy exists in the math test scores.
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Book review: Class Warfare
Read more: Book review: Class WarfareIn Lake Wobegon, “every child is above average,” Garrison Keillor says. In my personal experience, I can’t think of any parents I know who don’t have children who are not gifted or doing much better than average. After learning about the theory of Multiple Intelligences in chapter four of this book, I now know why…