Our Dad

U.S. Senator Scott Brown's daughters, Arianna Brown and Ayla Brown, talk about their dad.

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[MSimky]

They could be taxed and regulated to reduce the amount of pollution involved. These are called Pigouvian taxes and are accepted by virtually all economists.

But Scott Brown went out of his way to protect polluting oil companies and keep their taxes outrageously low.

He voted against

S 940 - Amending Oil Company Tax Laws

He'll vote against funding for alternative energy too, so we can't find a better alternative.

[MSimky]

And anecdotes notwithstanding, As eduction policy, Charter Schools have been abject failures. Read the Stanford CREDO Study.

Charter schools generally perform worse than public schools after you control for innate student ability. And they don't cost any less either.

[MSimky]

Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia. He's not a Republican politician and nothing he has done has anything to do with Republican policies. In fact, he's probably not even a Republican. He's an atheist, he's married to Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair's former secretary, and he's affiliated with "Creative Commons" which is a left wing open source group that fights against exclusive property rights (i.e., copyright).

[MegaAstrodude]

"When have Republicans ever done anything to improve education?"

Jaime Escalante, who became a staunch opponent of the teacher's union, took students from a crumbling inner-city public school to build an AP math program that was rivaled only by exclusive private schools in terms of scores.

Jimmy Wales has introduced a public, free, and enormous encyclopedia whose accuracy rivals the most prestigious in the world.