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The Aurora Shootings
The horrendous and calculated, July 20th shootings in Aurora, Colorado, are a great tragedy not just for the victims and their families but for everyone who can clearly see the utter evil of such acts...
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How Much Does Health Insurance Affect Health? Some Surprising Answers
There have been a number of claims that lack of insurance is life threatening. The most recent and well known is an Institute of Medicine (IOM) study claiming that 18,000 people die every year because...
View ArticleGeorgia On My Mind
I am leaving tomorrow to teach in a week-long economics program for college students in the Republic of Georgia. Georgia was one of the Soviet republics until the Soviet Union dissolved 21 years ago,...
View ArticleOutsourcing Public Schooling
What do you do with a public school district that spends more than $16,500 per student, runs deficits upwards of $11 million, and where student performance has stalled? Outsource school management,...
View ArticleGoldwater Was Right about the Dangers of “Big, Inflationary Government”
In Sen. Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign ad against big government, the narrator warns a young boy who’s parking his bike at grandma’s house, “Don’t look now young man, but somebody has his hand in your...
View ArticleCountry’s Largest Roman Catholic Education System Embraces “Entrepreneurial...
A private foundation will begin managing the country’s largest Roman Catholic education system on September 1. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will transfer management of 17 high schools and four...
View ArticleA Simple Way to Control Healthcare Spending
As I wrote in my recent book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, there is something rather simple the federal government could do that would have enormous impact in controlling healthcare costs:...
View ArticleHospital Pricing Strategies
CNN and Time Magazine discovered how hospital charges mounted for one family. Nurses pricked the patient’s finger for a glucose test 190 times. At $39 a pop that totaled $7,410. A breathing ventilator...
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Time for Taxpayer Protections on California Transportation Projects
The new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is $5 billion over its original budget and nine years past its initial completion date. Such massive cost overruns and delays have shocked the...
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New York Times Wrong about Government Childcare Delivery
When it comes to government-run childcare and preschool, the delivery is worth all the labor pains—so says University of Massachusetts, Amherst, economics professor emerita Nancy Folbre in her recent...
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More Money, Less Liberty, Impoverished Education
A new study from the Southern Education Foundation finds that half of all public school students now live in poverty. The poverty measure they use is eligibility for the federal free and reduced-price...
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Schooling for Profit: Doing Good for Students while Creating Wealth for Staff
Making money is anathema to members of the government schooling establishment (of course, begging for public subsidies then complaining it doesn’t have enough certainly isn’t). So what if a schooling...
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Markets versus Government: Real Alternatives versus Possibilities
One difference between choice in markets versus choice in government is that in markets, people choose among alternatives that already exist, whereas with government, people choose among alternatives...
View ArticleShocker: Common Core Is about Politics, Not Academic Standards
In what should be a surprise to no one, once we let Washington determine what schoolchildren should study in school, the curriculum is going to be politicized. It is already well publicized that the...
View ArticleTwelfth Grader Schools School Board over Common Core National Standards
Earlier this month a Farragut High School senior, Ethan Young, explained to the Knox County, Tennessee, school board why he believes the local school district should dump Common Core national...
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Lessons from a German Homeschooling Family about the Nanny State
The saga of a German homeschooling family represents a needed refresher course about the true origins of our fundamental rights. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, along with their seven children, were on...
View ArticleNew Video with Ron Paul: “Defining Liberty: The Future of Freedom”
How can Americans overcome record government spending and debt, escalating healthcare costs, intrusive federal surveillance, endless wars, ongoing economic malaise, high unemployment, failing schools,...
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No Joke, Paul Krugman Praised Veterans Health System As National Model
Phoenix Veterans Affairs HealthCare System In 2011, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote that the federal Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system is a “huge policy success story, which offers...
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Do Private Prisons Make Financial Sense for States?
Most states use contract prisons for some of their corrections needs, often in the hope of saving money, but is contracting out really all that worthwhile for states? The current debate about prisons...
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Obama’s Latest Hostile Takeover Target: Private Career Colleges
The Obama administration’s latest college crusade claims it will help students. In reality, it’s a hostile takeover attempt by government of the private for-profit career college sector that will hurt...
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