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Higher Education Financial Focus Should Look Outside

Nothing tends to focus the mind more than impending doom in the form of the speeding train that is our current financial crisis. Colleges and universities across the nation are studying spreadsheets as if presidents and provosts were scholars examining the Dead Sea Scrolls, but the focus on higher education should not be self-involved but rather on the students in our classrooms.(read more)

They’ve Had Their Six

How will you spend your tax cut? I expect to save some and pay off some bills, but I will not be making any major purchases, such as a car. I will certainly not be employing anyone with my tax cut, and I cannot see how my new spending habits will lead to anyone becoming employed. (read more)

Rockstar Politics Must be Careful Not to Go Off-Tune

Barack Obama has been criticized for allowing his celebrity appeal to trump policy issues during his struggle for the presidency, but it is exactly Obama’s “rock star” status which will save the world. (read more)