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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Immigration Reform Needs to be Realistic
Our economy is in desperate need for more middle-class job creation. Recent statistics continue to show a very weak recovery – one of worst recoveries since World War II. Once Congress gets back to it, the immigration debate needs to … Continue reading
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Governor’s Race Produces New Educational Accountability
Ken Cuccinelli can’t catch a break. From the left, opponent Terry McAuliffe charges that his tax plan will cut funding to education – a false claim ignoring the truth noted by Democratic blogger Ben “Not Larry Sabato” Tribbet: that Cuccinelli … Continue reading
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Confusing Ability with Intent: Why the NRA Should Not have Joined Forces With the ACLU
The recent controversy concerning alleged “unconstitutional” National Security Agency (NSA) collection of vast telephone “metadata”—records already collected by private sector telecommunications companies that identify what phone numbers were connected with what other phone numbers along with when the calls occurred … Continue reading
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Standards of Learning (SOLs) are Changing
Here’s a pop quiz: since their inception in the 1990s, the Standards of Learning tests have (a) relied exclusively on multiple-choice questions, (b) rewarded rote memorization, (c) resulted in ever-higher passing rates, or (d) none of the above. Go to … Continue reading
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Reconstructing the Interstates with Toll Finance
(This first ran in Surface Transportation Innovations). For several years I have thought that, given the non-sustainability of fuel taxes for highway funding, the only way we are likely to be able to reconstruct the Interstate highway system as it … Continue reading
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