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That’s the equivalent of what he asked Cabinet agencies to save when he requested they each cut $100 million out of their billion-dollar budgets. Economist Greg Mankiw compares it to saving $3 a year and putting $30,000 on the family credit card. Megan McArdle is sympathetic.
The AP writes:
” The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal [...]
A group living near the California-Oregon border is fed up with both states and wants to secede to create the 51st state, the “State of Jefferson.”
The movement is not just a modern one:
“Talking about secession has been a quasi-joking conversational saw since 1941, when five counties in the area started things by actually declaring themselves [...]
This is the conclusion of my two-part series discussing why science would be better if it left government funding behind. In the first post, I discussed why government should not be given control of scientists’ work, what government have done when they did have this control, what they will continue to do, and how [...]
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal government project allocation, and the power of money, is ever present, and is gravely to be regarded.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The government should stay out of science completely. Science, scientists, taxpayers, and the world would be better off for it. Research scientists are usually [...]
It was expected for awhile, but this week, Toshiba finally abandoned HD-DVD, meaning that Blu-ray will be the next-generation DVD format of choice for those wishing to upgrade on the current style of DVDs.
Why did Blu-Ray win out? It’s a better product, with a better name, bought by more customers. It’s as simple as [...]
Last October, when in Washington DC to attend the Defending the Dream Summit, I went into the Cannon House Office Building to meet with a few representatives.
The security into the building is not tight at all, considering that members of Congress are more easily accessible than in the actual Capitol building and can be seen [...]
Many “progressives” see a rise of socialism as a newfound utopia– no suffering, no pain, no having to work all day, no children in trouble, and apparently no consequences, either. This thinking is nothing new. Jerome K. Jerome wrote about it in his short story “The New Utopia” 100 years ago, quite well in my [...]
Since 1906, the United States Department of Agriculture has employed more than 60 “tick riders,” federal workers who patrol the Texas-Mexico border on horseback and inspect cattle and livestock herds for signs of Mexican livestock and the resultant infestations of the “fever tick.”
Apparently the fever tick is a really bad thing that we don’t want [...]
Ye Olde Waffle Shop, on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, recently celebrated the 35th anniversary of their opening by bringing back their original 1972 prices for a day. The differences in prices are absolutely shocking (graphic courtesy of The Daily Tarheel).
Why would waffles costing $1.25 in 1972 now cost $5.55?
The answer lies in the [...]
Big-government lovers like denying it, but a study has concluded that nonprofits save society money, both short-term and long-term, in a way that government does not and cannot.
The study was conducted by nonprofit leaders regarding organizations located in the Washington DC area– local, national and international. The source is biased, sure, but I’d love to [...]