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Oily prodigal son returns
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 10:00pmWhy do we believe the things we do? In criminology I spend a lot time refuting the popular belief that crime could be reduced if only we had tough enough sentences. Proponents of “getting tough”...
Budget news mostly good, some bad
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 10:00pmThere was good news and bad news about the federal government’s finances this week. Let’s start, and end, with the good news.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week estimated that...
Plugging leaks the right way
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 9:00pmWhen it comes to prosecutors’ investigations of leaks, you can count on journalists to dispense with impartiality and scream bloody murder. Upon learning that the Justice Department had seized the...
Two schools marry while one gets a divorce
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 9:00pmOn Monday, the State Board of Education agreed to let the 357-student Bradley School District merge voluntarily with the not-that-much-bigger Emerson-Taylor School District. It’s a marriage of...
Looking back — and forward
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 9:00pmA hundred years ago, anyone who might have predicted in 1913 the monumental, man-made catastrophes that would occur in the rest of the 20th century would have been considered warped, if not...
Tuition
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 9:00pmI repeat myself, intentionally:
In a column several weeks ago, when the General Assembly was in session, I mentioned sharing a luncheon table with a university official, a vice president for...
Facing facts about illegal immigration
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 9:00pmIf rain is pouring and you don’t want to get wet, you have a few choices. You can stay inside. You can put on a raincoat, grab an umbrella and brave the torrent. Or you can step outside and demand...
Scandals intensify fears of government
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 7:52pmThe Obama administration is weathering the storm of two Washington scandals — one involving the unfolding details of the attack in Benghazi and the second, revelations that the Internal Revenue...
Lies about Libya
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 13, 2013 9:10pmThere can be honest differences of opinion on many subjects. But there can also be dishonest differences. Last week’s testimony under oath about events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 makes...
Worthy of debate
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 13, 2013 9:07pmBill Halter may or may not win the Democratic nomination to be the next governor of Arkansas, but the central idea in his campaign should be a subject for major debate in the 2014 gubernatorial...