How do you find an effective teacher? Ask a kid - FoxNews.com

How do you find an effective teacher? Ask a kid - FoxNews.com: "— The average student knows effective teaching when he or she experiences it.

— In every grade and every subject, a teacher's past success in raising student achievement on state tests is one of the strongest predictors of his or her ability to do so again.

— The teachers with the highest value-added scores on state tests, which show improvement by individual students during the time they were in their classroom, are also the teachers who do the best job helping their students understand math concepts or demonstrate reading comprehension through writing.

— Valid feedback does not need to come from test scores alone. Other data can give teachers the information they need to improve, including student opinions of how organized and effective a teacher is."

Obamanomics Leaving World Nervous | Daniel J. Mitchell | Cato Institute: Commentary

Obamanomics Leaving World Nervous | Daniel J. Mitchell | Cato Institute: Commentary: "When I was growing up, China's Communist leaders would attack the United States as 'capitalist running dogs.' How the world has changed: Chinese leaders now publicly fret about America's reliance on 'outmoded central planning.'"

"Ironically, the rest of the world has learned that easy money and deficit spending are a bad recipe, yet the White House somehow thinks that going back to Jimmy Carter's policies is the right approach for America."

Top GM exec says federal pay limits hurt company - FoxNews.com

Top GM exec says federal pay limits hurt company - FoxNews.com: "The top executive at General Motors said Friday that the automaker's attempt to rebound from its bankruptcy is being hindered by salary limits the government has clamped on executives at companies that accepted federal bailouts."

If you choose to receive special gifts from the government, you can't complain when their rules hurt you.

High-speed rail in Wisconsin off track? | New Richmond News | New Richmond, Wisconsin

High-speed rail in Wisconsin off track? | New Richmond News | New Richmond, Wisconsin: "Had the Milwaukee to Madison line gone through, Walker said, taxpayers would have been 'on the hook' for as much as $7.5 million in annual operating subsidies to keep the line operational."

The Fantasy of Wealth Redistribution - Lorenz Kraus - Mises Daily

The Fantasy of Wealth Redistribution - Lorenz Kraus - Mises Daily: "you cannot chop to pieces and spread among the people an oven — and still have a working oven. You must respect the integrity of all capital goods for them to function. A power plant would have to be ground up into atoms and divided into baggies to get equality.

By their nature, capital goods cannot be redistributed among the people in any sense that results in equality and wealth. The redistribution of wealth, if taken seriously, necessarily means the complete and utter destruction of wealth. Socialism is nihilism, the destruction of values.

Communists never successfully distributed wealth equally. This is inherent in the nature of wealth. Because wealth cannot be subdivided (only rights to wealth can) to the masses, they seized wealth for their own clique. Everyone else starved. This is how the integrity of wealth asserts itself when seized. Socialists do not fight over air; their infighting is over this radio station, that printing press, these tanks, or this bit of rancid meat."

"hundreds of millions of people have thought that redistribution of wealth will lead to personal gain. Obama's redistribution of wealth brought economic destruction."

"Where in socialism do you, oh peasant, lay claim to your part of the public schools, the postal service, or the prisons? There is no similar mechanism to illustrate your ownership of the nationalized steel mill, auto company, coal mine, bank, or national park — and there is not much of a mine or mill left after it is nationalized or burned down.

Take out private-property rights and wealth vanishes. We revert to the ravaging of the commons and to mutually assured destitution."

Feds block workers from WikiLeaks, mirror sites | Privacy Inc. - CNET News

Feds block workers from WikiLeaks, mirror sites | Privacy Inc. - CNET News: "Mark Leininger, Fermilab's computer security manager, wrote in an internal newsletter that WikiLeaks' Web site was being blocked because workers at the Batavia, Ill.-based lab could be at risk if they view classified information without being specifically approved for it."

Reminds me of an ostrich sticking its head in the ground.

FoxNews.com - Ben Bernanke Says Congress Should Not Cut Spending or Boost Taxes

FoxNews.com - Ben Bernanke Says Congress Should Not Cut Spending or Boost Taxes: "Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP, said Bernanke is right that the Fed's purchases won't significantly change the amount of money circulating in the economy. That's mainly because banks aren't lending most of the money they already hold in reserve. When the Fed buys Treasurys, it increases the reserves in the banking system. For those reserves to actually 'create' money, the banks would have to lend it."

So it only sows the seeds for inflation.

Botched execution survivor stays on Ohio death row - FoxNews.com

Botched execution survivor stays on Ohio death row - FoxNews.com: "Broom has said he was stuck with needles at least 18 times, with pain so intense that he cried and screamed.

He was sentenced to die for the 1984 rape and slaying of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton"

Tryna Middleton probably cried and screamed too!

Campaign For Liberty — Waterboy

Campaign For Liberty — Waterboy: "David Axelrod argued the lie again today when he said we can't afford to spend our money on a tax cut for the rich when there are more important things to spend it on. Where to begin....a) leaving rates alone is not a cut, b) keeping your money is not spending, and c) it is not our money, it belongs to whoever earned it. But these are the liberal talking points, repeated over and over and over again, as if the quantity of repetition might improve the quality of the argument. It won't.

The no-tax-increase-is-spending argument is absurd on its face. If not raising taxes is the same as spending, then is electing not to steal money from a church the same as making a contribution? Do you think the IRS will let me deduct all the money I was going to steal from charities but then decided to let them keep?"

More Gridlock, Please | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary

More Gridlock, Please | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary: "We know from history that during periods of divided government, which tends to lead to gridlock, government spending increases by an average of less than 2% annually. In contrast, under unified government with cooperation rather than gridlock, spending grows by an average of more than 5%."