PEW Foundation has a new study on state investment strategies regarding innovation.
Investing billions of dollars in everything from nanotechnology to health care and agricultural science R&D funds are being used by states as diverse as New York, Minnesota, Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia and Arizona. California alone has committed $3 billion to a 10-year investment in [...]
Dr. Milton Friedman addressed ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) last month. CSPAN saw fit to air his remarks which I saw on cable yesterday.
Dr. Friedman mentioned how important it was for citizens in a democracy to possess a basic functional literacy about how their government worked, the principles upon which the government was founded, and [...]
Jason DeParle of the NYT writes about a movement promoting greater access to US spending data.
“Sunshine’s the best thing we’ve got to control waste, fraud and abuse,” he said. “It’s also the best thing we’ve got to control stupidity. It’ll be a force for the government we need.” Senator Tom Coburn, OK
Coburn is right. Of [...]
Why is it our government feels the need to monitor our communications to protect us from the terrorists being financed by the gasoline we buy - for which our government feels no need to create alternatives?
Here is a classic thinking question for undergraduate political science students.
If you work in a government, and that government is run by officials elected by the public, are you your own boss? Discuss why and why not.
So, the Supreme Court offers their answer in Garcetti et al vs. Ceballos (pdf). The press is talking about [...]
After a weekend of stories suggesting that House Speaker Hastert was wrong in decrying the FBI raid of a member's office, and revelations that the Attorney General and some Deputies threatened to quit if the President made the FBI apologize, the WSJ enters the fray with an editorial suggesting not only was the line crossed, but [...]
Yes - I can tie all 4 together. Friedman's column today says the nation who gets to the green technologies first - wins rights to this century. A friend of mine who helps start-ups succeed told me yesterday that for every $1 in federal subsidies for corn grown to support ethanol production, there are $11 [...]
Story in AJC tells how Cobb COunty schools will miss out on $250,000 in lower phone costs because an answer from a company bidding on services got "eaten" by the anti-spam software.
The real story here is how government loses money by not doing the right thing. The procurement people knew the company, expected an answer [...]
Lots of opinionating going on about the ruling by Judge Constance Russell on the single-sex marriage amendment. Only one dared to print what the State Constitution says about amending the Constitution - Mr. McKee of Marietta.
Meanwhile, the Augusta Chronicle thinks it is an outrage that a judge should make us follow our own Constitutional rules [...]
Jim Wooten's editorial today briefly mentions "social contract" - which is one of the center principals that our Founding Fathers based this country's governance upon. We, all of us, need to remember it's all about us and not so much about "me".
