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I recently wrote about how ‘per-student cost’ is misused in discussions about school funding. But it does have a place in decisions about school funding, if used properly. Imagine that you go to a car dealer, and he shows you a car, with the features that he thinks you need, at a price that he …
In many jurisdictions, a routine encounter with the police (for example, a traffic stop, or a peaceful protest) may lead to an officer posing some variant of the question: ‘For my safety, are you carrying a weapon?’ The idea is that if you are, the officer would relieve you of the weapon for the duration …
If you’ve been ‘open breathing’ during the last several months, you’ve no doubt run into people who have given you a smile, or a thumbs-up, or even spoken encouragement or thanks for doing what they’re afraid to do. In a recent conversation with a friend, we agreed that where any abrogation of basic rights is …
The first thing to say about them is that there aren’t any to speak of. The second thing to say about them is that even if some protesters are armed, Sununu’s hypocrisy on the matter is stunning. For months, His Excellency has been using the explicit threat of actual violence to ruin the lives and …
‘Money should be attached to students instead of to institutions’ is a new catch phrase that I’ve been hearing and reading a lot lately. It seems to be replacing ‘money should follow the students’, which apparently failed to get the traction that it was supposed to. The problem with both of these is that they …
I just watched a CNN video in which Dr. Anthony Fauci says that he went to the North Pole to personally vaccinate Santa Claus, ‘measure his levels of immunity’, and clear him to go into people’s homes on Christmas without fear of spreading COVID-19. My first thought was that having blatantly lied on national television, …
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In a recent Grok post, this question was posed: ‘Defund the Police You Say … Okay … Now What?’ The author’s answer is that violent crime should be expected to go up, and that recent events have confirmed this prediction. But that’s only half the story, and the less interesting half. Like many people, the …
Many people have heard about the guidelines instituted by the New York City Commission on Human Rights, allowing fines of up to $250,000 for addressing someone using ‘the wrong pronouns’. Or they’ve heard about Canadian Bill C-16, which made even the inadvertent use of ‘the wrong pronouns’ a class of hate speech, punishable by law. …
I see your baseless claim of transphobia, and raise you with my disability Read More »
The Supreme Court has one primary job, which is to preserve the illusion that it can do whatever it wants. Everything else that it wants to do relies on the persistence of that illusion. An important part of preserving that illusion is avoiding the appearance of being political. That’s why Obamacare wasn’t struck down — …
The Supreme Court May Have Fatally Underplayed Its Hand Read More »
It’s rumored that as of January 1, any resident of the state will have to apply for permission to express ideas about a list of ‘assault topics’ on social media. The initial list of topics is still under construction, but is expected to include statements contradicting ‘settled’ positions on any of the following: The results …
