You're Invited to Waiting for Superman Movie Night
Please join us for a showing of Waiting for Superman Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:30 PM Doors Open 7:00 PM Movie begins Popcorn, Candy and Soft Drinks will be served. Please RSVP to Mary at 303-279-6536 X102 or Mary@i2i.org
Poverty, equality, and the free-market
“If left wing political theory is true, we should expect to see huge inequalities in the ownership of goods sold in the market, but fairly equal consumption in health care & education. But there’s the irony. The exact opposite of this prediction has been borne out!’
Pipeline Brings Attention to Tar Sands
The New York Times editorialized against a pipeline aimed at bringing petroleum from Alberta into the United States, saying the pipeline “would traverse highly sensitive terrain” and the oil involved would generate too much carbon emissions. As far as “highly sensitive terrain” goes, the federal government’s environmental review found “no significant impact” from the pipeline. […]
The latest Obamacare case was wrong to uphold Medicaid expansion—Part II
On August 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down Obamacare’s mandate that individuals buy insurance, but upheld the Medicaid mandates imposed on states. As I already have explained, the Medicaid ruling was wrong under the Constitution’s original meaning. In this post, I explain why the ruling also is incorrect even […]
Hanushek Connection: Lobato Testimony, Funding Research, Waiting for “Superman”
National education expert Dr. Eric Hanushek was in Denver this week to testify in Colorado’s Lobato court hearing about the lack of correlation between increased K-12 funding and academic results. His appearance brings to mind two timely connections: Our own Ben DeGrow cited Hanushek’s school funding research (though not by name) on air for this Sunday’s episode of Your Show. And Hanushek is one of the experts featured in the acclaimed education film, Waiting for “Superman,” which will show at the Independence Institute on Tuesday, September 13.
Canada: the soul-destroying search for a family doctor
Journalist Gloria Galloway relates her exhausting search for a family doctor in Ottawa, Canada. Colorado also has a shortage of primary care docs. Will the woes of Canadian patients come to Colorado?
The Myth That Will Not Die
Transportation planning today suffers from several common fallacies, including the myth of the great streetcar conspiracy and the notion that we should spend billions of dollars on obsolete forms of transportation to give people “choices.” But the most troublesome myth is the notion of induced-demand, that is, that new roads will automatically become fully congested […]
Rick Hess: Why Don’t Unions Stand Up for Effective Principals, Ed School Reform?
Time is of the essence today, so one of my Education Policy Center friends will simply take a quick moment and point you to a very insightful blog passage about the dynamics of education reform. Take it away, Dr. Rick Hess:
…it strikes me as ludicrous for the unions to sit quietly by and share the […]
Create jobs by repealing ObamaCare
Repeal of ObamaCare would probably do wonders to spur hiring, especially for permanent positions. Compensation for such jobs usually includes a benefits package with health care insurance, as well as a money wage or salary.
Why Conservatives Hate Trains
Debates over high-speed rail and federal transit funding have inspired a number of writers asking why conservatives hate passenger trains. Most of them get it wrong. The real answer is: they don’t. They just hate subsidies, at least if they are fiscal conservatives (as opposed to social conservatives like the late Paul Weyrich). Case in […]
In Two Major Studies on Academic Standards, Colorado is Statistical Oddball
How did Colorado get to be the oddball? It’s got to be more than just so I would have something to tell you about. Oddball at what? you ask. Okay, let me back up and give you a little context.
Yesterday Harvard professor Paul Peterson wrote yesterday on Education Next about a new U.S. Department […]
Debate Over Future of BLM Lands
Andy Stahl debates the DeFazio forest trust proposal with Douglas County (Roseburg) Commissioner Doug Robertson. Robertson also chairs the association of counties that collect revenues from the lands in question. Instead of dividing the lands in two, Robertson proposes to give all the lands to a single board of trustees set up something like the […]
