For years conservatives have railed about the creeping welfare state. They have tried to tag liberals with being soft on national security, both for courting those who faulted America and for faulting others who courted it.
Yesterday’s post reported the research of Londa Schiebinger that women academics and professionals did twice the housework of men, ten hours vs. five a week, which put women scientists’ career advancement at a disadvantage.
The Times of Malta (April 7, 2010) reported that the Maltese Finance Ministry was finalizing plans to introduce a 15 percent flat tax to attract foreign experts who work on a temporary basis in high-income jobs.
Yesterday, April 7, marked California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s 72nd birthday. That makes him the same age as John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. If elected governor this fall, Brown would be America’s only septuagenarian head-of-a-state.
Co-bloggers Arnold and Bryan have posted recently on their view that "libertarian paternalism" would be more attractive if its advocates pushed to replace existing paternalist policies with softer "nudging" paternalist policies. Scott Sumner has said something similar.
Obama signs a treaty with the Russians and he established limits on using nuclear weapons. Also, why drop "Islamic radicalism" from list of terror terms?
A certain kind of mind believes that human beings exist as objects to be experimented upon as society is perfected by the privileged class -- a utopia engineered by elites. There's a reason why Engels called it Scientific Socialism. Thomas Sowell alluded to it when he wrote…
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev acknowledges that he has no power. Coup leader Roza Otunbayeva says parliament is dissolved and that she'll govern until an election is held in six months.
On March 29, it was a typical Monday morning in Moscow when hundreds of Russians filed into the Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro train stations to commute to work. Then disaster struck.
Iran appears to have hardened its position on three UC Berkeley graduates who have been held in the country since last summer, accusing them of having links to U.S. intelligence.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice was in San Antonio Wednesday evening. She was the featured speaker at Trinity University's 2010 Flora Cameron lecture on politics and public affairs.
with John Abizaidvia American Enterprise Institute
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Containment and deterrence are both easier said than done. To treat containment or deterrence simply as a rhetorical alternative to military action without making the preparations to conduct military strikes is not only irresponsible, but can also encourage Iranian aggression.
Hailed as a national model by conservative academics and politicians, legislation that would make it easier to fire Florida teachers and link their pay to student test scores was expected to go to Gov. Charlie Crist.
Over at Eduwonk, Andy Rotherham is hosting a debate between Ed Next’s Paul Peterson and Diane Ravitch. Peterson (Saving Schools) and Ravitch (The Death and Life of the Great American School System) both have new books out that diagnose the problems with America’s schools and offer a way forward.
As April 15 approaches like an incoming monsoon, millions of Americans brace for the pain of writing checks to the IRS. Even worse, this annual discomfort begins even earlier, as taxpayers generate a cyclone of documents just to calculate their tax liability.
U.S. officials said Thursday they're working closely with Russia to respond to the uprising in Kyrgyzstan despite previous conflict over a military base in the Central Asian nation.
Steve Poizner today announced the leaders of his Education Coalition and detailed his plan for reforming California’s K-12 and higher education systems.
