The Myth of Slashed Education Funding

By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  July 12th at 10:10 AM  | 

No matter where you live I am sure you have heard the same argument I hear continually: “Republicans are slashing spending and hurting kids.” Health care, education, you name it, this is the refrain. The problem? It’s not true. In May I offered a chart that highlighted how spending is not the path to growth.  Today I want to focus on education.  Look at the | Read More »

Zero-Tolerance Idiocy Continues

By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  February 19th at 08:59 AM  | 

The Columbus Dispatch has the details: A Northland High School student could be expelled after playing with a Nerf foam-dart gun in school. Devon Smith, 14, said he could not resist firing the toy at a friend after a classmate brought it to class. “He was shooting at another one of my friends, and I moved closer, and I had a shot and missed somebody,” | Read More »