Posted by Neal McCluskey on August 19, 2010
Yesterday, FoxNews.com posted a story on what appears to be a growing problem for public school systems across the country: accommodating Muslim holidays. Unfortunately, the report didn’t contain the solution to the problem. It did, though, contain a very succinct discussion of the root of the problem; an example of the good intent that causes people to ignore the [...]
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Tags: Christian, common sense, Education, Education and Child Policy, education system, educational choice, educational freedom, Fed, funding, government schools, jurisdictions, michael bloomberg, New York, philosophy, Political Philosophy, public education, public school, regulations, Rule of Law, universal education, winners and losers | 
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Posted by Mark A. Calabria on June 15, 2010
By Mark A. Calabria
While I never had much hope that this Congress would actually fix the real causes of the financial crisis – loose monetary policy, Fannie/Freddie – I had hoped that they wouldn’t do a lot to make an already bad situation worse. Boy, was that hope naive.
Take the area of federally provided deposit insurance. There is a [...]
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Posted by Mark A. Calabria on May 28, 2010
By Mark A. Calabria
A new Rasmussen poll has 80% of the American public supporting an audit of the Federal Reserve. Only 9% of the public oppose, with the rest unsure.
Unfortunately the poll did not ask specific questions over whether such an audit should cover monetary policy or just the Fed’s 2008 bailout activities. So while the poll is likely [...]
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Tags: Bailout, Fed, Federal Reserve, Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy, monetary policy, ron paul | No Comments »
