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1 week ago | 
eurasiareview.com | K. Lloyd Billingsley
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is deploying the Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) to investigate weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community. While investigating the CIA, NSA, and such, the DIG sleuths should take a hard look at the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), established in the 1950s to prevent infectious diseases from arriving on American soil. Events in recent years give the people cause to wonder.
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1 week ago | 
independent.org | Ross Marchand |Phillip W. Magness |K. Lloyd Billingsley |Jonathan Hofer
Mary Theroux and Let Colleges Fail, by Richard Vedder mentioned on KSFO radio’s Armstrong & Getty program
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1 week ago | 
independent.org | Ross Marchand |Phillip W. Magness |K. Lloyd Billingsley |Jonathan Hofer
In this episode Scott welcomes economist John Cochran who specializes in financial economics and macroeconomics. He’s the Rosemary and Jack Anderson senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Previously he was a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and before that at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. He also writes the very popular Grumpy Economist blog.
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1 week ago | 
independent.org | K. Lloyd Billingsley
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is deploying the Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) to investigate weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community. While investigating the CIA, NSA, and such, the DIG sleuths should take a hard look at the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), established in the 1950s to prevent infectious diseases from arriving on American soil. Events in recent years give the people cause to wonder.
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1 week ago | 
independent.org | Ethan Yang |Phillip W. Magness |K. Lloyd Billingsley |Ross Marchand
On March 14, a group of Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation that would ban all student visas for Chinese nationals, sparking controversy and outrage. Although the Stop CCP VISAs Act is unlikely to pass, it signals a growing concern and frustration with Chinese influence in American higher education, particularly attempts at espionage and institutional capture.
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1 week ago | 
independent.org | John Goodman |Phillip W. Magness |K. Lloyd Billingsley |Ross Marchand
Some time ago, my think tank commissioned Dr. Lori Taylor, at that time an economics professor at Southern Methodist University, to do a study of Dallas public schools. The study measured the productivity of the schools by comparing the test scores of students in the current year with the scores of those same students in the previous year.
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1 week ago | 
independent.org | Phillip W. Magness |K. Lloyd Billingsley |Ross Marchand |John Goodman
For Immediate ReleaseApril 15, 2025Oakland, Calif.—The concept of “creative destruction” was introduced by economist Joseph Schumpeter to describe the natural process by which competitive markets dismantle established practices, thus making way for innovation. That process needs to occur in American higher education—but is blocked by regulations and subsidies from government and short-sighted donors.
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1 week ago | 
independent.org | Phillip W. Magness |K. Lloyd Billingsley |Ross Marchand |Ethan Yang
HighlightsAmerican universities are consistently ranked among the best in the world, but their place at the top is precarious. Richard Vedder lists ten major problems plaguing higher education:Enrollments have been falling for over a decade. Public support and confidence in higher education is very, very low. “Unpopular” ideas are often suppressed or ignored. Intellectual diversity is declining—just the opposite of what one would hope for on a college campus.
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1 week ago | 
eurasiareview.com | K. Lloyd Billingsley
Los Angeles County has selected the McChrystal Group to “conduct an independent review of the evacuation policies and emergency alert notification systems utilized by the County and its partners in responding to the Palisades and Eaton Fires.” The group “is led by retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal, former leader of the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command, and has extensive experience with disaster response reviews, including an ongoing review concerning the North...
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.org | K. Lloyd Billingsley
In early January, raging fires destroyed or damaged more than 6,000 homes in and around Los Angeles. By March 24, more than two months later, only four rebuilding permits had been approved. Fire victims have a right to be baffled.
In January, the California Coastal Commission (CCC) exempted homes, businesses, churches, schools, and other structures that had been destroyed or damaged by the fire from Coastal Act permitting requirements.
