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There is a deliberate effort in academia to downplay, or in the case of this piece, distort and even place blame on the Protestant Christian educational movements of early America.…

Another key constituency are the school builders. Schools are in constant need of construction and renovation (often because they are poorly built). It is one of the larger budget …

Hey, Finland pays their teachers less than the U.S. does. http://www.cato.org/blog/no-teachers-finland-are-not-paid-do... Also, charter schools are public schools. They just have m…

Actually most U.S. cities are in a huge rebound...from better policing and the memory of the 1960s riots is fading. Houston is our new Chicago.

Today's Boston can't even build a traffic tunnel. The Big Dig was a disaster-- took decades, costs billions more than planned, and was so shoddy the finished roof fell and killed s…

The actual problem was the federal Interstate Commerce Commission regulated routes and ticket prices and wouldn't give passenger rail companies the flexibility needed to compete wi…

The main obstacle in the U.S. is that the interstate passenger rail system was nationalized by Congress. Congress forces unprofitable long-distance routes on Amtrak and keeps the m…

There's also SilverStripe, a pretty well known CMS. http://www.silverstripe.com/

You should control for geographical differences in pay and language distribution. California likely has more Ruby programmers-- the higher cost of living and higher salaries there …

"...the nation’s journalists have moved a bit to the right since the 1990s, but are still considerably more liberal than the general public." http://www.journalism.org/node/2304

California is so large it has many great public schools, but other states like Virginia (UVA and William & Mary) have public schools that rival the best in California, and most lar…

Student loans are unsecured, so if they could be discharged, the market rate would be akin to a credit card with a huge balance-- 15% to 20% a year in the current interest rate env…

These entrepreneurs all appear to be legal immigrants. Most of the "ranting" in the U.S. is towards the law-breaking immigrants who now want amnesty. There is a consensus in Americ…

Haitian immigrants?

It is a UK developed plane and did do well in the Falklands-- a testament to the skill of British pilots as much as anything. In the U.S., one third of our Harrier fleet has crashe…

When the carriers are sunk, it is our submarine fleet with its cruise missiles that will carry the day.

It's actually really stupid. Car sharing models mean you'll have a car waiting for you at the destination. There's no reason to bring your own steel and rubber.

American high speed rail was more advanced in the 1930s than it is today. The Zephyr diesel passenger engine was faster than Amtrak's Acela speeds today.

There were two fatal high speed accidents just this summer in Europe-- the Spanish one killed 80 people.

I'm sure that kid will feel the same way about paying for your Social Security someday.

Musk is not financially Gates but he's already had a greater impact. PayPal, Telsa, SpaceX, and even that Solar company could easily be more important than creating the most succes…

Absurd to blame Murdoch for a war that had majorities of Congress vote for it. If any media outlet deserves some blame for Iraq, it was the New York Times. In any event, the Iraq w…

I want a straw that tests for adulterated alcohol-- specifically for a bar serving filtered rubbing alcohol instead of the real stuff.