Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Americans driving, or walking, through blocks of shut-down businesses and foreclosed-upon homes while greeting their unemployed neighbors or perhaps looking for jobs themselves may wonder what happened to the so-called stimulus money that Congress voted to spend earlier this year.

Every chief executive in the past 20 years has vowed to be, as one of them put it, “the education president.” All have failed for the same reason: as with most aspects of life, top-down government solutions to education just don’t work.

Yet another charming characteristic of America’s 40^th president was his attitude towards so-called elites

Occasionally, Washington outsiders have tried to tame the ultimate company town but few were as stunningly successful. A look back at his arrival shows that other than the favorite restaurants, little has changed in the capital.

In securing the Republican presidential nomination, Ronald Reagan bested some high ranking Senate Republicans, including the then-minority leader, a victory which would come back to haunt him.

Commentators of all political stripes who tell you how times have changed in the last 30 years ignore the startling similarities.

“The Berlin Wall speech is a perfect microcosm of Ronald Reagan’s entire political career,” writes Steven Hayward in The Age of Reagan.

When two college students pretending to be a prostitute and her pimp sought help from ACORN employees, staffers couldn’t do enough for them as the two claimed to be importing underage girls to work as ladies of the evening. The Asssociation for Community Organizers for Reform Now responded with a lawsuit.

“Truly, the more you know about him, the more there is to like.”

Despite a clear video and print record that has emerged over the past year and a half that shows that the groups encourages underage girls to lie about their birth year and aggressively promotes abortion among blacks, Planned Parenthood continues to enjoy the support of the educational establishment.

Where do politicians get the idea that they can spend their way out of a recession? Maybe from the universities they incubate from.

There might be something to these cruises after all. On a recent Hillsdale College excursion esteemed economist Walter Williams provided a civics refresher for cruisers that few in his professional environs of academia can even grasp.