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February 19, 2016

@BIGGERPIEFORUM – More flood for less rain

More flood for less rain. After the great Mississippi River flood of 1927 congress told the US Army Corps of Engineers to make sure it didn’t happen again. The Corps has been trying for almost 90 years. The result? More flood for less rain. This pithy assessment of the Corps work is from John McPhee’s…
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October 29, 2015

BIGGERPIE – It’s the monopoly, stupid.

It’s the monopoly, stupid. The main problem with K-12 public school education may not be the lack of funding. It’s more likely the lack of competition. Public schools are government monopolies. Monopolies are protected from competition. They don’t have to innovate to improve to survive. So they don’t. They just get ever more bureaucratic and…