The passage of H.R. 4628 on Friday signaled a troubling return to the days of promoting bad policy for the sake of what Washington insiders perceive to be “good” politics. Thirty Republicans, led by Rep. Rob Woodall (R-GA), stood firm in their belief that the government should not be in the business of subsidizing higher [...]

As the battle for school choice continues in State Houses across the country, momentum is building to reduce the burden of the federal education bureaucracy. Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT) introduced the Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success (A-PLUS) Act (H.R. 2514/S. 827) last summer in order to shift educational accountability away from the federal government [...]

We knew that. You knew that. Apparently even Vice President Joe Biden knew that. Yet still, he and President Obama believe more government subsidies are the answer! During a visit to Florida State University (this blogger’s Alma Mater) on Monday, the Vice President was asked how he felt about government subsidies interfering in the free [...]

President Obama’s plan to lower college tuition costs is a lot like his plans to solve other problems: crowd out competition and force everyone into the higher-cost standard-bearer. Just look at  his corporate tax plan. Instead of competing with other countries by lowering our corporate tax rate (something that has broad, bipartisan agreement), the President [...]

Last night, President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. The speech (unsurprisingly) contained no little content and in fact read like the stringing together of MSNBC’s liberal “Lean Forward” commercials.  It came as no surprise that the speech contained no new ideas, but what is a [...]