|
School Choice is the Cure for Over-priced, Underperforming Public Schools
Human Events Op-Ed
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
11.30.2007
For too long, families in California and across the country have assumed that poor-quality schools are an inner-city problem plaguing low-income parents who cannot afford to move near supposedly superior suburban schools. At more than one in 10 California public schools in neighborhoods with median home price approaching, and even exceeding, $1 million, less than half of students in at least one grade are below proficiency levels in English or math on state tests. Hundreds more affluent, suburban high schools statewide are graduating students who are not college-ready.
Read more
|
|
|
Wide-Open Wireless
Tech News World Op-Ed
11.30.2007
Many telecom observers were stunned this week when Verizon (NYSE: VZ) announced it would open up its network to "wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company." This change in policy is good for consumers and worth closer examination, especially on the business side.
Read more
|
|
|
The Myth of the Middle-Class School
Human Events Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
11.29.2007
As middle-class suburban homeowners cling precariously to their dwellings in the midst of the current housing slump, many comfort themselves, as they write out their high mortgage payment checks, that at least their children can attend good neighborhood public schools. Unfortunately for these parents, all too often these supposedly “good” public schools have bad records when it comes to student achievement.
Read more
|
|
|
Litigation Lunacy
Los Angeles Daily Journal Op-Ed
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
11.28.2007
Anna Nicole Smith’s life was a tabloid’s dream. Even though she passed away almost one year ago, her saga lives on in the media through battles ranging from paternity disputes to prescription drug abuse to disputed legal fees. As the 9th Circuit gets ready to take up her case again, her true legacy comes to light — undermining both federalism and America’s legal system.
Read more
|
|
|
The Health-Care Cost Crisis Is All Too Real
Wall Street Journal Clipping
11.26.2007
John R. Graham in "The Health Cost Myth" (op-ed, Nov. 13) sees no problem with our rising health costs because our economic productivity is very high and, after paying for health care, we still have on average more money left per capita in our economy than other countries.
Read more
|
|
|
Don't Let Patent Regs Kill Golden Goose
Investor's Business Daily Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.20.2007
Google has achieved wild success and cultural notoriety by operating under the corporate mantra "Don't be evil." But when it comes to patent reforms currently under consideration in Congress, Google — along with several other tech heavyweights — seems to be straying from the company line.
Read more
|
|
|
Dismal economic indicators
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
By: Ralph R. Reiland
11.19.2007
The bad news about Pittsburgh is that even the good news is a reflection of what's wrong.
Read more
|
|
|
Let Them Eat Laptops
National Center for Policy Analysis
11.19.2007
Early reviews of One Laptop per Child's (OLPC) finished product -- the XO, or "$100 laptop" -- extol its many innovative features. None of these reviews, however, mention what the XO fails to provide, such as a source of clean drinking water, abundant and nutritious food, or medicines for curable diseases, says Daniel Ballon, a Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.
Read more
|
|
|
California’s Expensive ZIP Codes Deliver Cut-Rate Education Results
Heartland Institute Clipping
By: Dr. Matthew Ladner
11.19.2007
Opinion polls have long shown stronger than average support for school choice among Hispanics and African-Americans. Suburban complacency could explain much of this gap. If so, this fascinating book by a team of Pacific Research Institute scholars comes as an alarming wake-up call to well-to-do Californians who believe America's education crisis is someone else's problem.
Read more
|
|
|
Rational approach won't work against irrational beliefs
Yuma Daily Sun (AZ) Op-Ed
By: Tibor Machan
11.17.2007
As rational animals, human beings do best when they think matters through and act accordingly. This is no less true in public policy matters. From the time of Socrates, political philosophers have urged us to be rational in our political affairs.
Read more
|
|
|
Considering an Open Future
Tech News World Op-Ed
11.16.2007
Presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Texas) became the "Internet" candidate this month when 36,672 people contributed more than US$4 million online to his campaign in a single 24-hour period. This impressive feat demonstrates the power of an open source culture, a lesson that should not be lost when it comes to other important issues.
Read more
|
|
|
Experts Praise SCHIP Veto
Heartland Institute Clipping
11.16.2007
Until now, the federal government has not taken action against states which have enrolled middle-class children in SCHIP instead of lower-income kids.
Read more
|
|
|
"Muni Wi-Fi" and Other Broadband Blunders in Oregon
Capitalism Magazine Clipping
By: Vincent Penzo
11.16.2007
The development of municipal wireless broadband networks has been popular with local government officials across the country, including the city of Portland. However, a closer look at a southern Oregon city reveals "Muni Wi-Fi" could be the latest losing gamble for taxpayers.
Read more
|
|
|
Media, Global Warming and Junkscience
Hawaii Reporter Clipping
By: Michael R. Fox Ph.D.
11.15.2007
I am always amazed that in a nation of high technology and science the media are so spectacularly and relentlessly ignorant of the scientific processes. Worse many interest groups exploit this to their own advantage and agendas. Over the years the media have lost their curiosity and the willingness to do their own homework.
Read more
|
|
|
RomneyCare Revisited
Townhall Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.15.2007
It’s one thing to pass a law, hold a press conference, and boldly declare to have solved an intractable public policy problem, such as the lack of universal health insurance. It’s quite another to actually have the so-called solution deliver as promised.
Read more
|
|
|
When it comes to Wi-Fi, where’s the profit?
Capital Weekly Op-Ed
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
11.15.2007
Plans to blanket Sacramento with free municipal Wi-Fi lack both the funding and technology to succeed, according to two recent articles in the Sacramento Bee. Sacramento’s proposal is based on the same miscalculations that have doomed similar networks nationwide.
Read more
|
|
|
Can Free Markets Be Designed?
Forbes Op-Ed
11.15.2007
Are free markets fundamentally flawed? That's the question many have been asking ever since the 2007 Nobel Prizes in economics were awarded last month.
Read more
|
|
|
Lawsuit Charges Comcast with Deception
CIO Today Clipping
By: Richard Koman
11.15.2007
A California man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Comcast, charging that its blocking of certain applications constitutes fraudulent and deceptive business practices and a breach of contract.
Read more
|
|
|
Ohio can give Michigan the business
Ohio Beacon Journal Clipping
By: Paula Schleis
11.14.2007
In Wall Street Journal ad, OSU president plays up superior ranking awarded by magazine In a survey of how the world perceives individual states, Ohio had the best image in the Midwest. Michigan was fifth.
Read more
|
|
|
The Health Cost Myth
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
11.13.2007
'As major employers, we are engaging in one of the most crucial domestic policy debates of our time -- fixing our nation's health-care crisis, reducing out of control costs, and ensuring every American has affordable health care," said CEO Steve Burd of Safeway, a supermarket chain, earlier this year.
Read more
|
|
|
How Consumer-Directed Health Care Will Benefit Hawaii
Hawaii Reporter Op-Ed
By: Diana M. Ernst
11.8.2007
Proposals for universal insurance dominate the debate over health care, but many of them would make problems worse with expensive mandates and bureaucratic programs. The state of Hawaii is a prime example.
Read more
|
|
|
Middle Class Melt Down
Goldwater Institute Clipping
By: Dan Lips
11.7.2007
New book highlights failure of public schools to educate middle class students
Read more
|
|
|
Let Them Eat Laptops
Tech Central Station Op-Ed
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
11.7.2007
Mass production will soon begin on the XO, the "$100 laptop" that MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte believes will change the world. Behind the dream of empowering children through technology, however, lies a reality more complicated and far less idealistic.
Read more
|
|
|
Second opinion?
Kankakee Daily Journal Book Review
By: Mike Grimsley
11.3.2007
With the release of Michael Moore's "Sicko," a documentary on the U.S. health care system, and the upcoming election hot topic of health care reform, it's time for voters to get an education on the current status of health care.
Read more
|
|
|
Why Fat Laws Fail
Sacramento Union Op-Ed
By: Diana M. Ernst
11.2.2007
In the last decade, California governors have signed a number of bills designed to keep California's kids lean and healthy. Jay Leno dubbed such measures the "No Child Left With a Big Behind Act," but their failure is no laughing matter.
Read more
|
|
|
Confronting Childhood Obesity
Philanthropy Magazine Clipping
11.1.2007
There is no better demonstration of the demonstration of the historically unprecedented prosperity of the United States than that a major health concern of its poorest citizens is obesity.
Read more
|
|
|
