Defund the Police

Unintended Consequences

Earlier this year, the Burlington Vt. City Council bought into the defund police movement and jumped in with both feet. Something, however, did not go as expected.

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Democrats Support Unions - Oppose Educational Excellence

Are We Rewarding Behavior That Should Be Discouraged?

Are we rewarding behavior that should be discouraged? Mike Rowe is on a book tour. His new book is “The Way I Heard It”. Recently he made an appearance on Fox Business. There he took a question from the host about his thoughts on federal student loan debt. Being the person he is, this is … Read more

The Shrill Kathy On Fame And Infamy

“Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.” —Donald Rumsfeld 

Kathy_Sullivan_Shrill_KathyKathy Sullivan, in an opposite editorial yesterday asked in the Union Leader, “Is Bill O’Brien really better known than Franklin Pierce? Naturally, this was yet another hit piece on Bill O’Brien. Ben Franklin once quipped, “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Politics meets social science. Result?  A conflation of unintended consequences… the outcomes of which were neither foreseen nor intended.  It was the

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