Supreme Court Rules Strip Search of Child Illegal - US Supreme Court | Cases | Justices - FOXNews.com

Supreme Court Rules Strip Search of Child Illegal - US Supreme Court | Cases | Justices - FOXNews.com: "The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a school's strip search of an Arizona teenage girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen was illegal."

I don't understand why anyone would think it is ok to strip-search someone just because another student claimed she had ibuprofen!

Ethanol Standards: Why Federal Policy Is Crazy | Harry de Gorter and David R. Just | Cato Institute: Commentary

Ethanol Standards: Why Federal Policy Is Crazy | Harry de Gorter and David R. Just | Cato Institute: Commentary: "The EPA's sustainability standard is based on 'life-cycle accounting' (LCA), a 'well to wheel' measure of greenhouse gas emissions in the production of gasoline and a 'field to fuel tank' measure for ethanol production. While attractive in theory, LCA fails to recognize that if incentives are given for ethanol producers to use relatively 'clean' inputs (e.g., natural gas and land previously used for soybean cultivation), the 'dirtier' inputs (e.g., coal and land previously dedicated to rainforests) that might otherwise have been used will simply be used by other producers to make products not covered by the sustainability standard.

In short, sustainability standards reshuffle who is using what inputs with no net reduction in national emissions. LCA measures are therefore misleading and may not measure the actual greenhouse gas emissions saved by ethanol production."

Does aid to Africa help Africans?

Geldof Humanitarian Gig | Marian L. Tupy and Michela Wrong | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Africa, however, would surely be better off if rich countries followed the much-lambasted Italian example and cut their aid budgets. Decades of academic research have failed to show a positive correlation between foreign aid and economic development. In Africa, the correlation between the two is negative. In addition to breeding corruption, aid acts as a disincentive to genuine political and economic reform."

Some form of restraint in our choice of medical procedures is going to be necessary

The Non-Debate over Non-Reform | Arnold Kling | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Some form of restraint in our choice of medical procedures is going to be necessary. The debate we should be having is over whether restraint in our use of medical services should be initiated by government officials or left to consumers. The Democrats want to avoid that debate. Instead, they make it sound as if they can make excess health-care spending disappear by magic. But even if we were to stipulate for the sake of argument that all of the supposed savings from preventive care, electronic medical records, and eliminating the waste and greed supposedly inflicted by insurance companies and doctors will actually materialize, the excessive use of medical procedures would still be the main problem with our health-care system."