May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
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Colorado School Leaders, Check Out Digital Learning Webinar: Wed., March 300
- March 24, 2011
Hey there – YOU! I mean, hear ye, hear ye…. Colorado school and school district leaders, I wanted to share news of an upcoming online event that you may find very valuable as you seek to pursue academic excellence in these trying budget times. Education Week is hosting a webinar next Wednesday, March 30, from […]
READ MOREObama’s Libyan Operations are Unconstitutional0
- March 24, 2011
You can sympathize with the humanitarian motives of our Libyan intervention while still doubting its constitutionality. The Constitution prescribes the rules about how the United States is to enter a war, and the Obama administration has violated those rules. The administration argues that the hostilities, because limited, do not rise to the level of “war,”
READ MOREThe Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Preexisting Conditions0
- March 24, 2011
Imagine that you live in a world with no medical insurance, you take the risk to start the first insurance company, and competition springs up. Then a customer walks in to your office and wants you to sell him insurance. He has pre-existing conditions, but expects that you sell him a policy at the same price as more healthy people. Yaron Brook and Dan Watkins explain the absurd implications of this at Forbes.com: The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Preexisting Conditions.
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Studies Show Vouchers Help Kids, Schools; What About Research of Douglas County?0
- March 23, 2011
Thanks to Greg Forster and the Foundation for Educational Choice, we now have the newly-released report A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Vouchers, which brings together the 27 studies “using the best available scientific methods” to show “that vouchers improve outcomes for both participants and public schools.” My suggestion for the next object of study? Douglas County’s new pilot voucher program.
READ MOREColorado Health Insurance Exchange bound to be strangled by federal controls0
- March 23, 2011
“[A] fire hose of [federal] subsidies explains why it is far more likely that Obamacare will corrupt Utah[‘s exchange] than Utah will manage to redeem Obamacare,” writes John Graham. The same applies to Colorado.
READ MOREAntiplanner’s Library: Fool’s Gold0
- March 23, 2011
As previously noted, the Antiplanner has been reading a lot of books about the financial crisis lately. Some have tried (but failed) to be comprehensive. Most cover just a slice of the crisis, such as Bear Stearns (House of Cards) or Lehman Brothers (A Colossal Failure of Common Sense) One of the most valuable books […]
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