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next, glenn reynolds argues that americans need to start looking for alternatives to our public and higher education systems which he argues are either subpar, too expensive or both. he proposes a multipronged approach made up of charter or private schools and online education. this is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. i've never been lapidary before that i knew. [laughter] well, one small correction to what john said, 10,000 page views from a link is not bad, but i've discovered that you can double, triple or even quadruple the number of people so long as it contains the word "boobies." [laughter] because this is the internet, after all. i've never been able to do that with one of john's posts, but maybe he'll be inspired now to offer something. [laughter] well, john's introduction is exactly right. my take on education in america, and it's actually both higher education and k-12 education, comes from herb stein's famous statement. some people actually call it stein's law, originally propounded as if something cannot go on forever, it will stop. and frequently compresse

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michelle malkin had coverage of kelly's protestant glenn reynolds covered the protests.rica, most americans you i am sure have been unhappy with what had been going on in washington since the bailout and i think everybody remembers what happened when president bush famously said and i'm paraphrasing, i have abandoned the principles of free-market. do you remember that? did that make any sense to you? it made sense to john mccain. it made sense to barack obama so we had an election and we lost. what i knew and what stacy knew and what kelly knew is this, that americans did not agree with that. there were millions of americans who believed in constitutional limited government but nobody in washington was representing us so what we did is we started three separate on line communities of conservatives. eric odum started a group called don't go hashtag don't go in the summer which was basically telling congress don't go before you do your business and then in late november after the election night put up a list on twitter. i just put a list of conservatives who were on twitte

. -- thank you very much glenn reynolds. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> host: louis people when they look at you would