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Piracy: Yet 1 more reason for drilling
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 11.30.2008
Somali pirates recently seized the Sirius Star, a supertanker headed for North America with 2 million barrels of oil. In the process, the pirates unwittingly strengthened the case for more domestic oil production in this country.
To heal itself, California must stop spending
Submitted by Kurt E. Hahn on 11.30.2008
Last week, the Central Solano Citizen/Taxpayer Group joined a score of local California tax groups and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association in telling our governor and Legislature in no uncertain terms that they need to cut state spending, not raise taxes.
Letter: Litigation costs hurt Bay State doctors, hospitals
Submitted by Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D on 11.28.2008
Kudos for your Nov. 20 editorial on the devastating impact of rising malpractice insurance premiums and defensive medicine costs on the North Shore Birth Center and other medical facilities in Massachusetts.
Decision against Wyeth would clog courts
Submitted by Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D on 11.26.2008
Your editorial on the ramifications of a ruling against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals for the U.S. health care system was right on the money, particularly regarding the potential for a torrent of frivolous and wasteful lawsuits.
Is The Big Three Crisis Obama’s PATCO?
Submitted by Jason Clemens on 11.26.2008
President-elect Obama faces serious economic challenges, including demands for a bailout of the Big Three automakers. America’s new president can find lessons in the way Ronald Reagan, the last president to assume office amidst such turmoil, handled a similar labor-dominated crisis.
More Economic Freedom = Lower Jobless Rate
Submitted by Mark J. Perry on 11.25.2008
SAN FRANCISCO – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, recently released the U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2008 Report, a ranking of economic freedom in the 50 states. Published in association with Forbes, the Index scores states based on 143 variables, including regulatory and fiscal obstacles imposed on businesses and residents.
Beware shift in balance of power
Submitted by Jason Clemens on 11.24.2008
Labor laws are intended to balance power between employers and employees -- actually unions who represent employees. Changes to labor laws that tilt the balance too far in either direction impose serious costs on workers and our economy.
The Worst States For Business
Submitted by Kurt Badenhausen on 11.24.2008
For the past three summers, Forbes has ranked the best states for business and featured states with attractive business climates. Virginia's on top, with Utah and North Carolina right nearby. Now we look at the other end of the scale. The three states at the bottom are all led by first-term governors trying to overcome problems that have plagued their states for decades. Each of them has been actively introducing solutions to help improve their business climates.
Did the Fed, or Asian Saving, Cause the Housing Bubble?
Submitted on 11.19.2008
Just about the only good thing to come out of the housing bubble is that many financial analysts are coming to see the virtue of the Austrian theory of the business cycle. Specifically, though Greenspan did his best to blame deregulation and foreigners who saved too much, many people now think that the Maestro's ultra-low interest rates in the wake of the dot-com crash may very well have sowed the seeds for our current crisis.
Don't Let Tort Lawyers Undermine the Constitution
Submitted by Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D on 11.19.2008
The U.S. Supreme Court just heard arguments in Wyeth v. Levine, a case with profound implications for the health of all Americans.
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