Critics of higher education claim that todays college graduates know far less than those of forty years ago. At the same time, students of U.S. labor markets claim that a college degree is worth more than ever. Have American institutions of higher education discovered a modern philosophers stone? Can students study less, party more, and watch their future wages turn to gold?
READ MOREAfter 20 years of automatically funding Planned Parenthood, the Colorado health department finally put the contract for rural women’s health services out to bid. In an even more radical step, Jane Norton, the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, announced that obeying the law would be a requirement for prospective bidders. Article 5, Section 50 of the Colorado Constitution forbids using public funds to “pay or otherwise reimburse” any entity “either directly or indirectly” for the performing an induced abortion. Money is fungible and Planned Parenthood does abortions. It cannot bid.
READ MOREIn the June 11 Denver Rocky Mountain News [LG1], Ken Gordon, Colorados House minority leader, called for a special session of the Colorado General Assembly to discuss youth violence. Despite a 1993 special legislative session that banned juvenile possession of handguns, Mr. Gordon fears children may die if we fail to limit youth access to guns. He wants more reasonable restrictions. Even though these restrictions are the same measures that populate the laundry lists of laws proposed groups dedicated to disarming private citizens, Mr. Gordon still claims to support the constitutional right to bear arms.
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