Franke: Student Loan Redux
by Mark Franke The student loan crisis is back in the news and will get much more attention now that the election is past. The very real questions about the unsupportable rise in the cost of college, the amount of borrowing which occurs and the abysmally low graduation rates are still unanswered. Maybe they will Read the full article…
Franke: Let’s Give Thanks, Not Covet or Scoff
by Mark Franke Has there ever been a time and place whose residents were blessed as generously as we Americans are in this year of our Lord 2022? I am a student of history and I sure can’t think of one. So why do we engage in so much interminable complaining? Could it be that Read the full article…
Morris: FTX and our Pretend Money
by Leo Morris Came across this amusing story the other day: “According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,” the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter “is home to around $700 quintillion” worth of precious metals, “— that’s $100 billion for every one of the seven billion people on Earth.” Of course, the story is Read the full article…
The Outstater
Ouch, the Bigot Card Is Played “Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.” — C.K. Chesterton IN A 50-YEAR JOURNALISM CAREER it was bound to happen, especially given the times. They have played the “bigot” card on me with the Read the full article…
The Outstater
Trash In, Trash Out I LOVE THE IDEA of recycling. It makes such illuminating public policy. Recycling is good. I know that because people, some of them in high office, have been telling me that for the last 20 years. Indeed, they made it mandatory. What they did not tell me was that it made no sense. “Americans Read the full article…
Morris: Principles Are Why We Vote
by Leo Morris There is an old joke whose origins are unknown but which you have probably heard in more than one movie or TV show. P.J. O’Rourke borrowed it for the title of one of his cynical books about politics: Don’t vote – it just encourages them. But that really is our function as Read the full article…
