“President Obama’s health-care goals may be garnering attention, but his higher-education proposals are no less ambitious. If adopted, they could transform the financial aid landscape for millions of students while expanding federal authority to a degree that even Democrats concede is controversial. At stake is a plan to expand the Pell Grant program, making it an entitlement akin to Medicare and Social Security.” (Washington Post, Monday)

Obama has a knack for going in precisely the wrong direction.

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“Should Government Subsidize Higher Education?” by James L. Payne