Common Sense For New Hampshire

Yesterday’s Asbury Park Press front page hit-piece on Christie’s flubbing some jobs data in various public appearances glosses over the most significant fact in the article.  Along with some apparent mis-statements about private sector job growth – I wonder if the author, Michael Symons, had all those numbers in his head, or if he had to look them […]

I really don’t understand Christie’s reaction to Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling. At a news conference he said of the decision “I intend to comply with the Supreme Court’s order” but later at a town hall meeting he said “You don’t elect the Supreme Court; you don’t expect them to be making law……But today, they made […]

There are two articles side by side on the front page of today’s Asbury Park Press.  Here is the first sentence of each article: The state Supreme Court is widely expected today to order New Jersey to spend hundreds of million of dollars, or more, on local public schools. and: New Jersey residents voted with […]

Just like nobody could foresee the bursting of the housing bubble (except those who did foresee it), nobody, or at least nobody in power, currently sees the bubble being blown up in higher education. The similarities between the education market and the pre-bust housing market are too big to ignore (unless you are a politician).  It starts with the government […]

State Senator Mike Doherty (R-23) (I believe he is Matt’s twin brother, obviously separated at birth) has put together a plan to dump the Marxist (from each according to his ability, etc etc) school funding formula currently being forced on us by the State Supreme Soviet Court.  His proposal, dubbed the “Fair School Funding Plan”, […]