Why Our Education System Is Failing

Two unrelated events last week provide some clues as to why our education system is failing. First, Canada College in San Mateo, California, held a job fair — for kindergartners! Apparently there is nothing too silly to spend the taxpayers’ money on, even...

A Tax Plan Worse Than Nothing

The Bush administration is rapidly losing control of the tax legislative process. Its unwillingness to acknowledge that its plan needed to be totally rethought once a $350 billion revenue loss cap was imposed in the Senate has created an anarchic situation in...

It’s a Gas

Although he’s in Houston and I’m in Washington without one of those phone cams that the Iraq war made famous, I can see Marshall Adkins jumping up and down with enthusiasm. “Rigs are going to go berserk for the next five or six years!”...