By Patrick B. McGuigan | CapitolBeatOK
From the editor’s notebook — A new program to offset Oklahoma’s weak performance in Algebra and mathematics, Oklahoma Christian University’s Brain Bush moves to the “think tank” world, and a retired university professor makes a second run at public office.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi has unveiled a digital pilot programintended [...]

By Frank Keegan | State Budget Solutions

Every year state politicians loot the pensions of more than 17 million public workers and retirees to "balance" budgets, yet those workers keep putting the looters back into office while fighting the few who try to head off this $4-trillion national economic catastrophe.

A look at the latest U.S. Census data shows [...]

By JACK SPENCER | Michigan Capitol Confidential

LANSING – Former Vice President Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, but apparently President Barack Obama wants voters to believe he created trash collectors and bus drivers.
His first campaign ad of 2012 uses claims made in a debunked study that counted such jobs to boost its “green energy” job count above 2 million.
The [...]

By Thomas A. Firey | Maryland Reporter
ANNAPOLIS – In a recent editorial that was generally critical of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s FY 2013 budget plan, theWashington Post lauded one proposal: requiring local school systems to pick up half the cost of their teachers’ pensions and other retirement benefits. Calling the proposal “courageous,” WaPo explained:
As it works now, localities set the salaries [...]

By John Hood | Carolina Journal
RALEIGH – The market process is not a theory. It is not an ideology. It is simply the most efficient means human beings have ever come up with for resolving a wide range of conflicts.
Many of these conflicts arise because different people want to do different things with the same resource. [...]