Tom Scocca, at Slate: In today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription only), George Mason economics professor Donald J. Boudreaux defends the greatness of the free market, and argues for privatizing education, by posing a thought experiment: “Suppose that groceries were supplied in the same way as K-12 education.” __ The result, according to Boudreaux, would be …
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I think this litigation will create jobs in the private sector
Now that Mitch Daniels has blocked access to basic health care for 20,000 people in Indiana on orders from a powerful constituency within the GOP, he’s heading out to launch his national career. While he’s doing that, I’d like to go back to Indiana for a moment and look at some uncomfortable facts that contradict …
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What we’ve got here is more than failure to communicate
Doug Mataconis thinks that convincing the public to gut Medicare may be as simple as putting together a Draper-worthy PR blitz: Republicans may find that they are losing the public relations battle over entitlement reform and deficit reduction… [….] For better or worse, the public has become used to these programs in their present form, …
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Cinco de Mayo
Don’t let this get in the way of your tequila blackout, but: Cinco de Mayo is NOT Mexico’s Independence Day, the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico, which occurs on September 16th. Cinco de Mayo is a holiday that is virtually ignored in Mexico. My mom’s the kind of Mexican who is still smarting …
First Clown Car Enters the Circus Ring Tomorrow
Dave Weigel, at Slate: “The Line-Up for the First Republican Presidential Primary Debate: Cain, Johnson, Paul, Pawlenty, Santorum“. Click the link for proper explanation & analysis, because the title here gives you mine.
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Open Thread: Bad Example, Mr. Ambassador
Tom Scocca, at Slate: “Pakistan’s Ambassador Might Want to Reconsider Comparing Osama bin Laden to Whitey Bulger“.
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