Sheldon Richman has this outstanding piece today regarding the concept of freedom vs. compulsion. In it he criticizes comments made by former Bush speechwriter and policy adviser ... Keep Reading
Welfare & Poverty
Poverty and the Public Schools
Hood gives the N&O and Comrade Schofield a lesson in statistics and common sense on the issue of schoolchildren and poverty (after bad reporting by the N&O Schofield ... Keep Reading
Coverage Isn’t Out of Reach
So writes Max in his op-ed than runs in today's News & Observer about the SCHIP expansion bill. Read it here. ... Keep Reading
You Made Your Bed
Hooker Odom doesn't like that private facilities prostitute themselves to get money from the public coffers (no pun) and that their executives make big bucks. But such is the ... Keep Reading
Save the Children: Promote Globalization & Capitalism
Rich Lowry at National Review writes about the good news just released by a United Nations Children's Fund report, which finds that deaths of young children worldwide have hit an ... Keep Reading
Healthcare: Coletti Spells it Out for the Demogogues
This is an excellent piece on some of the issues in healthcare reform. Those who blindly blame greedy corporations for our healthcare woes never look to the actual source of all ... Keep Reading
Charlotte Observer Fawns Over Dubious Study
The Charlotte Observer crafts another pitch for government growth and redistribution around this highly dubious study from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Among the more dubious ... Keep Reading
Minimum Wage Blues
Congress, in exchange for caving on war funding, must have struck a deal to get in their economically unsound minimum wage legislation that is sure to hit to small businesses ... Keep Reading
Expanding SCHIP
The Democratically dominated N.C. General Assembly is keen to expand the SCHIP part of Medicaid (families with children). A good compromise may be found here. ... Keep Reading
Speaking of Poverty
Food for thought for our 'progressive' friends, from Arnold Kling. The moral? Unrestricted capitalism is by far the best poverty alleviation tool. This suggests to me that the term ... Keep Reading
