The Education of Tommorow … Today!
In the second half of this short 1967 video about the first personal computer in Britain, the narrator describes how...
A Sky-Is-the-Limit Federal Budget
In Charles Dickens’ classic novel David Copperfield, one character observes the need for careful budgeting: “Annual income, twenty pounds; annual...
Death Panels and the Market
Within the health care debate that has taken place during the past year, “death panels” and health care rationing were...
Health Care Reform Another Step in Decline of Our Economic Freedom
The passage and signing of the president’s massive health care reform legislation are the latest chapters in the socialization of...
The Perils of State Curricula
As many of you are probably aware, the Texas State Board of Education voted on Friday to make a number...
Maybe When Service Drops to One Day a Week, We Can Eliminate Its Monopoly Protection?
The U.S. Postal Service doesn’t want to deliver mail on Saturday anymore. Facing a large budget gap, the USPS is...
Missouri Dental Association Promotes Its Agenda
Two op-eds, attributed to different members of the Missouri Dental Association (MDA), appeared in the Columbia Missourian and the Examiner...
Judge Suggests That Missouri Should Be Run Like a Business
Last week, Judge William Price, the chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court, delivered the State of the Judiciary address....
Real Tort Reform
It appears that the Missouri state Supreme Court may be poised to strike down the $350,000 cap on damages for...
Government Employees: The Final Frontier
Britain has determined that it can no longer justify paying someone the equivalent of $73,000 a year to monitor UFO...
Will Future Health Care Look Like Canada’s or Britain’s?
A shorter version of this article first appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. Commentators in the current health care...
What Will Future Health Care Look Like?
Today, Rik Hafer, chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville and research fellow with the...
“On Life’s Vast Ocean Diversely We Sail”
Two stories on the Drudge Report feature kids sailing (or wanting to sail) solo around the world. The first is...
Environmental Benefits of High-Speed Rail Overstated
Eric Morris recently wrote a post for Freakonomics that attempts to evaluate some of the proposed benefits of a high-speed...
Rating Schools in Britain
I came across this story by way of the Panama City Renaissance School blog. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has...
Vice Presidents and Lieutenant Governors: Should They Be Abolished?
An op-ed in the LA Times (link via Freakonomics) advocates that we abolish the position of vice president. As I...
Bombardier: A Postmortem
Bombardier Aerospace has announced that it will produce its new jets in Canada rather than in Missouri. For Bombardier’s shareholders,...
License Me, Please, Please, Please …
According to legend, when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown, the British military band played "And The World Turned Upside...
No Child Left Behind
It’s hard to determine what combination of goals, evaluations, and consequences will get public school districts to improve. But No...
Language, Dress of Thought
The English-language cartel is pushing for more regulations: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The House voted Wednesday to require commercial drivers...
