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Tax Cut Opponents Are Simply Wrong
Most liberal-left activists simply cannot support tax cuts. They can’t help it. It is in their DNA. They firmly believe that money spent by government is always better than money spent by taxpayers. They don’t understand that more money in the taxpayers’ pocket means more money spent on shoes, movie tickets, dinners out and new clothes. The economy improves when this happens and that means more money to the government without tax increases. Continue reading
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Scrap the SOL's and Move On
( This article is responded to by John Butcher in the next column.) Maybe it’s time for Virginia to scrap the Standards of Learning (SOL) tests. The SOLs arose in the mid-1990s as a way to provide feedback to the … Continue reading
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Reform the SOLs, Don’t Kill Them
SOL Results Have Guided Home Purchase Decisions, With the Effect of Harming Low-Performing Schools
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Today’s Journalism – We Deserve Better
Everyone in high school is taught about the low water mark in yellow journalism — Remember the Maine. We are taught that the era of “yellow journalism” died with the rise of editorial standards in the 1930s and 1940s in … Continue reading
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Some Manufacturing Sectors Are Doing Well
Most people probably wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that employment at online retailers or internet publishing and web search portal firms grew at a double-digit annual average pace over the last 10 years ending with 2016.
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