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  • Interesting Idaho Teacher Merit Pay Plans Inspire Idea for Potato Head Costume0

    • October 31, 2011

    This spring I told you about some yummy tater-tot-like education reform laws passing in Idaho. Seriously. Well, now Jessie Bonner of the Associated Press reports that one of the key reforms is coming to life throughout the Gem State:

    A database compiled by the state Department of Education shows schools districts have adopted a mixture of […]

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  • Mandatory health insuance both a tax & not a tax0

    • October 31, 2011

    The so-called Justice Department wants the Supreme Court to *not* consider mandatory insurance as a tax when deciding to hear the case, but after it does decide, the DOJ’s lawyers will argue that it’s a tax. Continue reading

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  • LaHood Looks Forward to “Wonderful Opportunities”0

    • October 31, 2011

    Secretary of Immobility Ray LaHood announced recently that he plans to step down from his post at the end of President Obama’s first term and that he is looking forward to some “wonderful opportunities” in the private sector. This naturally raises the question of what kind of opportunities await a bumbling has-been who betrayed his […]

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  • A Big “You Got It, Dude” to Pennsylvania Senate for Passing School Choice Bill0

    • October 28, 2011

    You’ve seen me write before about 2011 as the “Year of School Choice”, right? That summertime proclamation came about the same time as the Pennsylvania legislature stalled on a major proposal to create school vouchers, though so many other states created or expanded educational choice programs. Well, maybe — and let me emphasize maybe — […]

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  • How Congress Took Control of Indians’ Lives0

    • October 28, 2011

    Just as Congress has stretched its Interstate Commerce Power into authority over the entire national economy, so it has used the Indian Commerce Clause to justify micro-managing the lives of American Indians and of their tribes. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. The Articles of Confederation gave Congress power over Indian “affairs,” but in

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  • Getting Priorities Straight0

    • October 28, 2011

    Facing a $12 million to $17 million budget shortfall next year, Portland’s TriMet transit agency is cutting bus service for lack of funds. But it has enough funds to spend $250,000 on a giant sculpture of a deer with a baby face. The agency has already cut bus service by 13 percent and light-rail service […]

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