Monthly Archives: November 2009

Nathan Moore and Big Light: One Beautiful Girl

By Ray Watkins | Published: November 25, 2009
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Reagan’s Birds Come Home to Roost

By Ray Watkins | Published: November 23, 2009
The recent protests over fee increases in California's higher education system are worth watching and worrying over for a lot of reasons, as a recent post on "Education is a Right" makes clear. "If California has taught us anything," writers Greogory Candenna, "it is that the amount of fee hikes states and regents will impose on students to mitigate budget shortfalls is limitless." He's not exaggerating. Fee increases have tripled the cost of college in California over the last decade. These are Reagan's birds come home to roost in every sense. As Governor of California Reagan made his disdain of student protesters all too clear. The anti-war movement convinced Conservatives that too much education-- like too much government-- is...
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