by jstewardfree | Oct 9, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Joe Barrett | Survey Finds More School Officials Concerns About Keeping Up Enrollment Maintaining strong enrollment is becoming a bigger worry for college administrators as cash-strapped families begin to balk at rising tuition bills, according to a survey by...
by jstewardfree | Oct 7, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Jacqueline Harvey | The expansion of physician-assisted suicide from the West to the East coast makes its legalization in other neighboring states much more likely. On May 20, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed “The Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life...
by jstewardfree | Oct 3, 2013 | Grey Matter
A Citizen Perspective It’s impossible to default on the debt—-years down the road, maybe. Average monthly interest costs are $18 billion…we take in on average $225 billion. By law, the president must pay interest first before anything else. In addition to...
by jstewardfree | Oct 2, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | For decades, even centuries, we’ve been warned that overpopulation will lead to mass starvation. But the cataclysm has yet to come…. If there is ever a Hall of Fame for Pernicious Ideas, Thomas Malthus’s “An Essay on the Principle of...
by jstewardfree | Sep 30, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Mark J. Perry Bill McBride at Calculated Risk provides the interesting animated chart above of America’s population distribution by age from 1900 through 2060 (updates every few seconds in five-year intervals), based on population data from the Census Bureau...
by jstewardfree | Sep 27, 2013 | Grey Matter
By James Tonkowich | A dear friend’s daughter just graduated from a small, highly respected liberal arts college with her Bachelor of Arts in psychology “with all the honors, rights, and privileges to that degree appertaining.” What precisely those honors, rights and...
