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Education then and now – Thomas Sowell http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4530

Political corruption – Thomas Sowell What really needs to be done is to put a limit of one term in one office and a waiting period of several years before being elected or appointed to another office in government. In other words, make political careers impossible. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/01/24/183503.html

Myth – School Don’t Have Enough Money – John Stossel  The hate mail is coming in to ABC over a TV special I did Friday (1/13). I suggested that public schools had plenty of money but were squandering it, because that's what government monopolies do….The truth is, public schools are rolling in money. If you divide the U.S. Department of Education's figure for total spending on K-12 education by the department's count of K-12 students, it works out to about $10,000 per student.  http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/JohnStossel/2006/01/18/182750.html

Stupid in America – Chuck Muth http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=196

Why are most Jews secular? – Dennis Prager http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2006/01/24/183533.html

Not counting foreign immigrants, Massachusetts has been losing more people than it attracts every year since 1990. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/jeffjacoby/2006/01/16/182453.html

The myth of price gouging http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4538

The left hates inequality – not injustice – Dennis Prager The Left is now, as it has always been, the child of the French Revolution and of Karl Marx. For both, the greatest evil is not injustice, not cruelty, not even murder; it is inequality. …As is true of most the Left's values, this ideal of favoring the little guy in a courtroom runs directly counter to a basic Judeo-Christian value. Exodus 23:3 expressly prohibits it: "Do not favor the poor man in his grievance." …The Left rejects the notion that the primary purpose of education, whether middle school, high school or college, is simply to educate young people. The purpose is to promote the values the Left believes in, from environmentalism to sex education to multiculturalism and its understanding of tolerance. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2006/01/17/182480.html

Attacking lobbyists is the wrong battle – Walter Williams A much better explanation for the millions going to the campaign coffers of Washington politicians lies in the awesome growth of government control over business, property, employment and other areas of our lives. … Here's just one among possibly thousands of examples. If Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) used goons and violence to stop people from buying sugar from Caribbean producers so that sugar prices would rise, making it easier for ADM to sell more of its corn syrup sweetener, they'd wind up in jail. …Congress simply does the dirty work for them by enacting sugar import quotas and tariffs. …Nearly two decades ago, during dinner with the late Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek, I asked him if he had the power to write one law that would get government out of our lives, what would that law be? Professor Hayek replied he'd write a law that read: Whatever Congress does for one American it must do for all Americans. He elaborated: If Congress makes payments to one American for not raising pigs, every American not raising pigs should also receive payments. Obviously, were there to be such a law, there would be reduced capacity for privilege-granting by Congress and less influence-peddling. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2006/01/18/182482.html

The senate confirmation hearings told us more about the senators than about Judge Alito – Thomas Sowell  Those Senators who smear and denounce judicial nominees on nationwide television, and then afterwards hypocritically assure them privately that there was "nothing personal" are, in a certain twisted sense, correct. They would have lied and smeared anyone else in the same situation. .. This is also not about Samuel Alito personally in a different sense. The larger question is how we are going to get the good people that we need on our courts, if they have to go through smears and petty harassment during confirmation hearings. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4540

Democrats tried to smear Alito – Star Parker Racism is a serious charge and I certainly would oppose the appointment of a racist to the Supreme Court or to any court. But the issue here was and is not whether Samuel Alito is a racist. It is obvious he's not, and these Democratic senators know that. The issue is public posturing to cast aspersions on a man's character in order to undermine his confirmation prospects. The race card was pulled out as another tool from the character assassination toolbox used for this end. … If they truly cared about the issue and about the plight of blacks they wouldn't be casual in using racism as a political tool to further another agenda, and they would be paying attention to the real problems in the black community. … The abortion scenario in America today is one of white liberals rolling out the welcome mat for black women to destroy their babies. Black America is destroying itself under the encouraging and approving eye of white, liberal, elitist America. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/StarParker/2006/01/16/182454.html

Poverty Worship Alaska Natives like Gemmill living just south of ANWR fear that opening even the coastal plain to drilling would hurt the Porcupine caribou herd they depend on for their subsistence lifestyle.

“Subsistence lifestyle?” Gemmill somehow considers maintaining a “subsistence lifestyle” the answer to her prayers? You mean to say this woman worships poverty?  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4533

Revolting development – eminent domain in Norwood -  It turned out the area was plagued by "obsolete platting" (small front yards), "faulty street arrangements" (two cul-de-sacs), "incompatible uses" (businesses close to homes), "nonconforming uses" (homes and businesses that did not meet zoning and building requirements imposed after they were constructed), and "diversity of ownership" (homes and businesses owned by different people). http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/jacobsullum/2006/01/18/182749.html

Political Corruption Part II – Thomas Sowell The over-riding quest for re-election is at the heart of the corruption of public officials who betray the public trust in order to get the money needed to pay for their political campaigns. It is hard to see how that corruption can be ended, except by ending re-elections with a limit of one term and a ban on running for another office for several years. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/01/25/183702.html

Paul Weyrich on Alito http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/pweyrich/2006/pmw_01161.shtml

Five Democrat Workers on Trial in Wisconsin for election day activities Prosecutors accused the five of slashing 40 tires on get-out-the-vote vans at a Republican campaign office in the early hours before the Nov. 2, 2004, election, causing more than $5,000 in damage. http://www.gopwing.com/modules.php?sid=1069

Will the University survive? http://www.mises.org/story/2013

Stupid in America When government controls the education of the child, the government is also going to educate that child to its own purposes. …The answer then is to return education to the intent of our Founding Fathers — outside the control and regulation of government at all levels.  http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter79.htm

In government we trust – Walter Williams Wal-Mart was so efficient that there was talk among some Louisiana officials of letting Wal-Mart take over FEMA's job and a suggestion that Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott run FEMA. …In 1871, a fire virtually destroyed Chicago. In 1900, a category 4 hurricane wiped out Galveston, Texas, and killed as many as 12,000 people. In 1906, an earthquake leveled San Francisco. Loss of life was estimated at nearly 3,000 people, and the damage estimated at the time was $400 million -- about $8 billion in today's dollars. After those massive disasters, each city recovered. I'd like to have an explanation, from those who'd argue that federal disaster relief and an agency like FEMA are the only ways to recover from a disaster, how these cities recovered. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2006/01/25/183500.html

Europe condemns communist regimes http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1694867,00.html

Evolutionists going ape over intelligent design http://www.newswithviews.com/Jackson/nicholas10.htm

Christians vs. The World http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/douggiles/2006/01/21/183334.html

Imprisoning our children? Reiner’s spending taxpayer money to run the campaign that makes parents think we’re not good enough to teach our children the alphabet, numbers, and other basics…I’ve written about B.F. Skinner and his utopian novel, Walden Two; you’re not paying attention if you think his ideas aren’t behind these universal preschool issues….If our elementary education is compulsory, then how can we possibly live in a free country? In a free society, education is voluntary….Go ahead and sit back and do nothing. And hope that your great-grandchildren remember, at least slightly, what free will and truly free thinking were all about. And hope that they remember their parents, from whom they will be separated, perhaps at birth.. http://www.newswithviews.com/Vaughan/tricia8.htm

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