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Monday, June 28, 2004


Cool is Another Word for "Gimme Cash."
Attempts at central planning can be somewhat amusing when they aren't deadly.

Writing in the Detroit Free Press, Dawson Bell finds that a discussion of how to make Michigan "cool" to the youth turned out to be dominated by, as one participant put it, "well-meaning but clueless old farts."

Bell's reaction? That "is to be expected when government agencies take on a subject like cool."

He finds that the "cool" fad has several themes: pork-barrel spending by another name, incomprehensible mumbo-jumbo, and sloppy thinking.

Yep. Get the basics right--good services, low-taxes, solid options in schooling.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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