Gee, do ya think? We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists:
A new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, reveals that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, even though their test scores and time spent studying are decreasing.
Texas is getting a lot of attention for it's $8.8 billion surplus, created mostly by a boom in salex tax revenue (people spend more in a healthy economy) as well as taxes on oil and natural gas revenues. Mary Katharine Ham at Hot Air points out that Texas isn't the only state with a sunny fiscal outlook:
I don't know why I get a kick out of this little story, but I do:
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. - A World War II veteran from Indiana who served in France during the war has been reunited with his Army-issued duffel bag nearly seven decades after it went missing.
Here's the kind of epic battle in which there are no innocent bystanders, just lucky ones:
Target has Amazon in its crosshairs. Fed up that customers scan the store’s aisles with one eye on their smartphones, and often end up making purchases online for less — a practice known as showrooming — the big-box retailer Tuesday promised to match Amazon’s prices year round.
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Hey, way a couple of years, and there may spring up a "birther" movement on the left, too:
Ted Cruz may have the aura of a future presidential contender, but is he even eligible to run?
More people than ever are likely to be classified as mentally ill in the next few years, but not because more of us are really going off the rails. The definition of what mental illness is keeps getting expanded:
Here we go again. While I still think teaching cursive writing is important and losing it as a skill would make us poorer (see here), I'm not sure this is a good idea:
Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far-flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out vehicle fuel.
Robert Samuelson asks a very reasonable question: If we can't kill farm subsidies, what can we kill?
I don't find this as alarming as I guess I'm supposed to:
Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror.
