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The value of human capital

“Laws for the liberal education of youth … are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”

The political process

Political parties are private outfits. They are free to conduct their business any way they see fit. Members who don’t like the way current party leaders do things are free to promote a new slate of officers, or take their support to another existing party, or even launch their own.

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It’s satire, ladies and gentlemen

The cover of this week’s edition of The New Yorker magazine features a cartoon of Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting Sen. Barack Obama with his wife, Michelle.

Just a few more conditions

These are heady times for the regulators at the Federal Communications Commission. The five members of the FCC board have before them a proposal that the nation’s two satellite radio providers — XM and Sirius — merge into one in order to ensure the service survives.

No to ‘conventional thinking’

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain entered what some would consider the lion’s den Wednesday, addressing the annual convention of the NAACP in Cincinnati.

The ‘prerogative of the people’

The biggest remaining question is why — since the Nevada Supreme Court ruled state term limits valid in 1996 — the high court decided to give the “I want to stay in office forever” gang another shot at the basket, this week.

The death of common sense

Overturning two earlier rulings, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said last week an Arizona middle school assistant principal violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old public-school student by ordering her to be strip searched to determine whether she had in her possession a prescription-strength ibuprofen.

Ignoring the court

It’s been barely three weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Second Amendment, tossing the District of Columbia’s strict ban on handgun ownership as an unconstitutional infringement on the individual right to bear arms.

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