Best: Mississippi. Worst: Oregon. The Urban League performed this calculation to create “apples to apples” comparisons between the states by normalizing age, demographic, and income groups’ representation in the sample. It is intended to measure the effectiveness of schools in improving outcomes vs just measuring the absolute values, which are distorted by vast differences...
In one of my posts yesterday, I went over how the French and German governments’ heavy-handed treatment – in some cases, outright persecution – of ‘right-wing’ parties and their members was backfiring on the establishment pretty spectacularly. It has to be maddening to the Brahmins of Brussels and their...
The past week has reminded everyone about two sure-fire ways to lose money in the stock market: Buying … and selling. That’s even more true when doing either in a panic. And that’s especially true when using the stock market as a casino rather than as a vehicle for long-term investment. ...
Dr. Peter Marks is being treated as a hero for standing up to RFK, Jr., but in any normal universe the bureaucrat would be treated as a pariah. Forget for the moment that Marks is hardly the self-sacrificing saint and expert people claim he is, and get down to brass tacks about why he...
The idea is not new. Even action against the cartels wouldn’t necessarily be new, nor would cooperation with Mexico’s government to fight them. The scale contemplated for a new war against the Mexican drug and trafficking cartels would be unprecedented, however, as would be the open possibility that Donald Trump might not bother to engage...
If it seems like we here at Hot Air have been writing a lot about Britain lately, that’s because we have been. Ever since America and our British brothers got beyond those little spats we had in 1776 and 1812, the two countries have been as tight as brothers. We occasionally bicker like family members,...
Closing the tabs … Ed: Hope you missed me as much as I missed you! === I understand why men like Oliver, who’ve consistently mocked anti-science people on the right, sold out initially. They didn’t want to blow up their careers. Taking fashionable anti-women’s rights positions was the cost of doing business. But it’s...
There was another narrow but significant win for the Trump administration at the Supreme Court today. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled the administration could use the Alien Enemies Act against foreign gang members for now. However, there is a catch. The Justices didn’t actually rule on whether the use of the act was...
Who needs enemies with stalwart friends like this? As stock markets tumble in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Republicans in Congress were watching with unease and talking of clawing back their power to levy tariffs — but almost none seemed ready to turn their words into action. The Republican president is upending...
I’ve written about this topic several times and the general conclusion is that remote learning during the pandemic was terrible for nearly all kids but especially for those near the bottom, the ones who benefitted most from personal attention from teachers. However, this article suggests there has to be more to the story because of one...
You can’t take ‘man on the street’ interviews TOO seriously. They serve as a great way to amuse yourself or to feel much smarter than others, but to maintain my integrity, I have to admit that there is always a lot of cherry-picking to get the juiciest bits. On...
Hint: It ain’t the one with the mirror on the wall. Not by a long shot. That film didn’t even score a bronze this weekend. First, though, let’s focus the film that did take the gold medal. The much-anticipated A Minecraft Movie expertly leveraged its gamer IP into a blockbuster opening weekend. The estimated gross...
I’m not sure what President Trump’s precise tariff plans are at this point but the general goal seems to be to renegotiate trade deals with countries around the world in ways that made trade more favorable to the US. Here’s what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday on Meet the Press. ...
Okay. So there’s a bridge, a bridge too far, and then there’s just tossing yourself off one without thinking twice. That’s pretty much what the head of the Democratic National Committee, one soy boy named Ken Martin, decided he would do earlier today. The spark that lit little Ken’s...
I just happened to run across a statistic that made my jaw drop. I poked around a bit and it was everywhere. Google is filled with “news” stories going back a week, the New York Times originally ran with it until revising their story, and it showed up on Mentour Pilot, one of my...