Obama’s High-Speed Bus Plan
Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan Note the cost savings: $15 billion for high-speed rail vs. $46,000 for high-speed buses. More evidence of the wastefulness of high-speed rail.
HB 1365 Update: Roundup of Arguments on Xcel's Four New Plans
A Quick Review of HB 1365… HB 1365, the Clean Air Clean Jobs Act, mandates that Xcel file a plan by August 15 2010 that would: be implemented by December 31, 2017; meet “reasonably foreseeable” state and federal air quality regulations; achieve at least 70% reductions in nitrogen oxides emissions from at least 900 megawatts […]
What Republicans can do about ObamaCare
Republicans will have a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year. Michael Tanner at Cato outlines what they can, and cannot, do to stop ObamaCare (HR3590).
Lawsuits vs. mandatory insurance could prevail
When 21 states and several private groups initiated lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care law earlier this year, critics denounced the suits as frivolous political grandstanding. But it is increasingly clear that the plaintiffs have a serious case with a real chance of victory.
Urban Sustainability
Portland, Oregon is full of sustainability advocates who look forward to petrocollapse and “experiment” with such things as country living and learning to live as voluntary peasants. Two such sustainability advocates are trained engineers and have a blog promoting urban gardening and raising chickens as if these were somehow new ideas. Apparently, these engineers have […]
Congratulations to Michelle Pearson, Colorado’s 2011 Teacher of the Year
With a little snow finally starting to fall around here, it’s time to go outside and play. So instead of any sort of grand analysis today, I just want to extend my congratulations to Michelle Pearson — who last week was named Colorado’s 2011 Teacher of the Year:
Pearson comes from a teaching family; both the […]
New Mexico Governor Rips a Page from the Ritter Playbook
There is no more dangerous an individual than an ambitious lame duck Governor like Colorado’s Bill Ritter or New Mexico’s Bill Richardson. With nothing to lose politically, such executives are free to entrench unpopular policies via the regulatory state. Of course, NO ONE understands the impossibly arcane mechanics of the regulatory bureaucracy, so these Governors’ […]
More Proof ObamaCare Is a Sop to Industry
“ObamaCare‘s biggest cheerleaders are the insurance and drug industries. … barring repeal and despite the Obama administration’s fatuous rhetoric about standing up to the special interests, ObamaCare will shower those industries with massive subsidies.” – Michael Cannon, Cato Institute
Back in the Air Again
The Antiplanner is flying today to Helena, Montana, to speak at a Montana Policy Center forum for state legislators. I’ll be back Wednesday and I hope I won’t miss too many days of blogging this week.
Why law professors don’t tell us much about our Constitution
Real scholarship is about facts, not argument.
Is This What Waiting for Superman Would Look Like If Made in Taiwan?
It’s Friday. Time to lighten up with a 90-second summary of the new education reform movie Waiting for Superman produced by Taiwanese animators, a video you simply have to see to believe (H/T Jay Greene):
Michelle Rhee as a martial arts heroine …
Transit Unions: Victims or Bullies?
A Portland transit union leader says his members have been “victimized” by a free-market group that posted their salaries on line. But who is the real victim here: the people collecting the salaries or the people whose taxes pay the salaries even if they never ride transit? Back in June, a free-market group in New […]
