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‘Batchelder logic’

Some facts intervene with this illogic. We added roughly $607 billion per year to the debt under the Bush administration … a shabby record no doubt, and one I deplore. But the first three years of the Obama administration have added an average of $1.116 trillion annually to the deficit. At that rate, four years […]

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Epic fail for Doc Hoc

English professor Kurt Hochenauer presumably grades student essays on the basis of both style and logic. By those criteria, his July 7 Commentary (“At what price?”) calling for more school spending is stylistically fine, while rating a D-minus on common sense. Hochenauer is mistaken on at least three key points. First, he equates per-pupil spending […]

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