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Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics, or medicine-the special pleading of selfish interests.

Government gets its money by either taxing the private sector or borrowing from the private sector. In extreme cases, the government can print its own money.

Should the unsuccessful regulate the successful?

Betty Mason, public school educator for decades and former superintendent of the Oklahoma City public school system, is spending her "retirement" years as superintendent of St. John Christian Heritage Academy.

"A House committee Wednesday approved a measure to require state employees and agency heads to report how much time they spend talking with legislators promoting or opposing legislation," The Oklahoman reports.

Hillary Clinton once averred that the president needs to be "ready on day one to be commander in chief of the U.S. economy." Umm, no. And no governor, Republican or Democrat, should fancy himself the "steward" of Oklahomans' property or financial affairs. Brad Henry is the commander-in-chief of the state militia, not the commander-in-chief of the state economy.

Health-care expert Grace-Marie Turner, who has written for OCPA before, demonstrates that freedom is waning and Hillary is getting the last laugh.

Ah, what the geography majors are studying in Norman these days.

It takes 18 Oklahomans in the private sector to fund one Oklahoma state government job.

"My sister-in-law came to visit me last week from her new home in Silver Spring, Maryland," World magazine essayist Andrée Seu wrote in November. "When the economy threatened, she left a good job in the private sector in Florida for the greater security of a job with the Department of Veterans Affairs."