Steven Pearlman offers a sobering analysis of why just tinkering with government spending–whether increasing it or decreasing it–will not bring the uneployment rate down significantly: The reason there were 8 million additional jobs back in 2007 is that demand for goods and services was artificially
A Washington, D. C., business district that has been having problems with teenagers getting into fights has installed a technological solution: Gallery Place business owners met with District officials a few weeks ago to voice their concern that loitering teenagers who sometimes get into fights
Canadian journalist Ezra Levant gives some background on a major player in American politics: George Schwartz was born in Hungary in 1930 — not the luckiest time and place to be born a Jew. George’s father Theodore tried to change the family’s fortunes by changing
Robert J. Samuelson notes that decades of educational reform policies have yielded nothing that works: Standard theories don’t explain this meager progress. Too few teachers? Not really. From 1970 to 2008, the student population increased 8 percent and the number of teachers rose 61 percent.
More reckless fanaticism, this time from a tiny congregation that plans on publicly burning a Koran: Gen. David Petraeus, head of Multinational Forces in Afghanistan, repeated his warning Tuesday that any plans to burn the Muslim holy book — considered a major offense in the
CNN, of all places, has a helpful followup to our discussions of youth ministry, drawing on some recent books to describe the whole range of teenager belief. If you are a parent of teenagers or a pastor, you will want to read the whole article:
The November election will be interesting for all kinds of reasons. Among them is that Californians will vote on legalizing marijuana. Not just medical marijuana, legalizing the personal possession and growth of the weed. It also gives cities and counties the local option of taxing
Physicist Stephen Hawkings says that there is no need of a deity to have created the universe. Instead, according to this review of his new book, he posits the existence of billions of universes, at least one of which (ours) happens to have the physical
Did you get anything out of the vocation essay (below) that you never thought of before?
T. Webb wrote this in a comment on the article: Dr. Veith, How I wish, oh how I wish that what you are writing were true. I hear of people who have a “dream” of doing something or other people who get up every morning
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