Yearly Archives For 2011

Regulatory Studies

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Government regulations cost an average of $10,585 per employee for firms with less than 20 employees, according to a study done by Lafayette college economists Nicole and Mark Crain, published by the Small Business Administration.

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Post’s For-Profit Prop

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Further embarrassment ensued when Graham essentially took the Fifth and refused to name the members of the House and Senate he has personally lobbied in order to stave off proposed federal regulations that will cut into the profits of a Washington Post Company subsidiary, Kaplan.

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Under No Flags

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“The idea of people owing allegiance to one country, that’s not very common in the world today.”—Margaret Stock, adjunct instructor, University of Alaska-Anchorage, at the Center for American Progress, May 11, 2011.

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Apostasy on the Left

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Although she still considers herself a liberal, veteran journalist Claudia Dreifus found out just how intolerant the Left can be when she critiqued one of their totems in the book she co-authored, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—And What We Can Do About It.

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