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Pair of Ohio tort reform hearings tomorrow
PRI in the News
By: John O'Brien
4.30.2007
May 1 may be an important -- and crowded -- day in the Ohio Supreme Court. That's the day oral arguments will be heard in two cases that could shape the future of consumer protection lawsuits in the state.
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Gov. Henry should seize opportunity
PRI in the News
By: John Engler
4.27.2007
The Oklahoma Legislature has passed a bill that would put the state at the forefront of a growing civil justice reform movement - but only if Gov. Brad Henry signs it.
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New Global Warming Film Confronts Al Gore
PRI in the News
By: Michelle Oddis
4.26.2007
Tuesday night was the last of three screenings across the country for the Pacific Research Institute’s (PRI) film An Inconvenient Truth, or a Convenient Fiction. PRI teamed up with Steven Hayward, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute to create this rebuttal to Gore’s Academy Award winning power-point presentation An Inconvenient Truth. It should be required viewing for those who claim they are “green” (and even those who are only a little queasy).
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Earth Day 2007 - Time for a Review
PRI in the News
By: Michael R. Fox Ph.D.
4.25.2007
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the annual events have been an unrelenting criticism of the United States and its supposed abuses of the planet. Each seems presented as if the American environment were getting progressively worse.
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New Washington Tool: The Docubuttal
PRI in the News
By: Matthew Swibel
4.25.2007
If past increases in the earth's temperature preceded increases in greenhouse gases by as much as 1,000 years, could Al Gore have gotten wrong the reason for global warming and its linkage with greenhouse gas emissions?
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Wearing the white hat for a green cause
PRI in the News
By: Randy Wyrick
4.25.2007
Ignore the End Of The World Glee Club. When it comes to doing the right thing for our environment, we’re the good guys. Yeah, we, too, hear the constant Climate Change Chorus, sung loudly by Al Gore and the Global Warmers. And we hope it didn’t devour too many of our world’s precious natural resources manufacturing his Academy Award, although we’re pretty sure that particular carbon footprint would have been offset by him carpooling carpooling too the ceremony in a hybrid with Michael Moore, instead of taking a private jet.
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The Justice Lottery
PRI in the News
4.24.2007
In a new study, appropriately entitled “Jackpot Justice: The True Cost of America’s Tort System, The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) finds that the indirect costs associated with tort litigation in America “strengthens our view that more must be done to make our system of civil justice truly fair and equitable for all.”
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Lower prices will expand coverage
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.24.2007
We can expect to hear a lot this week about how to insure the 44 million Americans – or 6.5 million Californians – who lack health coverage. Unfortunately, many of the ideas being thrown around are wildly off-target.
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Forbes Commentary
Environment Op-Ed
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
4.23.2007
Right now the U.S. economy is "decarbonizing," that is, lowering the amount of carbon emissions per dollar of economic output, at a rate of about 1.5% per year. This is encouraging. The problem is that our economy grows faster than that rate--2.5% to 3% a year on average--so our overall carbon emissions continue to rise.
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Put progress on track
PRI in the News
4.21.2007
Public high schools must answer the cry for accountability from parents and the community. However, when the most basic benchmark - graduation rates - is constantly under question, it makes accountability impossible.
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Getting cleaner every day
PRI in the News
By: Patrick McIlheran
4.21.2007
Maybe "dying" is a too dramatic when talking about the Kinnickinnic River. Cheryl Nenn, a Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers activist and no Pollyanna, says the stream's ranking last week by another group as one of America's 10 most endangered isn't exactly scientific. It's a means of getting attention.
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We’re Not Going to Melt
Environment Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.19.2007
As Earth Day dawns for the 38th year, climate change tops the agenda of environmental activists, thanks to former Vice President Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary and a flurry of scientific studies attempting to make sense of our planet’s dynamic climate
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A Convenient Fiction
PRI in the News
By: Fred Barnes
4.18.2007
Steve Hayward's rebuttal to "An Inconvenient Truth" won't thrill either the environmental crowd or Hollywood's liberal elite.
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Don't Believe the AARP
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.17.2007
The nation's most powerful lobbying organization just put Nebraska in its sights. The AARP is flooding newspapers and radio waves with advertisements in an effort to persuade Sen. Nelson to open the door to price controls on prescription drugs.
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Drinking the Kool-Aid
PRI in the News
4.17.2007
Editor -- Thank you for publishing Jennifer Nelson's April 13 column, "Robbing SUV owners to pay hybrid buyers," that counters the arrogance of your April 13 global-warming editorial, "Fighting climate change."
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What Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to get his groove back
Education Op-Ed
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
4.16.2007
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Reform Agenda went down in defeat nearly two years ago in an ill-advised referendum. Ever since, he’s been showing signs of post-partisan depression, drifting farther and farther left. A new education report released last month could be just what the Governator needs to get his groove back.
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Jackpot Justice Study on WWJ-DET (CBS) News
PRI in the News
By: John Truscott
4.15.2007
Lawsuit abuse. We all know it exists and costs our economy a lot of money. but do we know the true cost. a recent study by the Pacific Research Institute pegged the annual cost for the entire country at $865.37 billion.
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PRI study based on fact
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
4.15.2007
Public Citizen's Laura MacCleery describes the Pacific Research Institute's new study on the American tort system as "riddled with error" and "masquerading as research" ("PRI study flawed," April 8).
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A convenient film review
PRI in the News
4.14.2007
I went to the premiere of this film, "An Inconvenient Truth...or Convenient Fiction" at the Embarcadero the other day. I wasn't sure what to expect -- certainly anything that smacks of global warming is certain to arouse passions.
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In a Filmdom Premiere: A Foe for Gore
PRI in the News
By: Jesse McKinley
4.14.2007
The screening here on Thursday night had many elements of a classic filmworld shindig. There were gift bags and television cameras, cold cocktails and hot popcorn. Ushers showed V.I.P.'s to their seats, and local politicos rubbed shoulders with the movie's backers and flacks.
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New Film Takes Aim at Gore's "Inconvenient Truth"
KCBS News Clipping
4.14.2007
“An Inconvenient Truth or Convenient Fiction” is a much lower budget film than Al Gore’s award winning documentary on global warming. The star is a senior fellow of San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute, Steven Hayward, who takes what he calls a “less alarmist” view of global climate change.
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State taxes poorest unfairly, study says
PRI in the News
By: George Avalos
4.13.2007
Low-income people must endure an unfair tax burden in California, whereas high-income taxpayers enjoy a relatively light tax load, according to a report released Thursday.
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Get Real - The Net Is Not Neutral
Technology Op-Ed
4.13.2007
Comcast recently surprised users when it cut off Internet access to those it considers "bandwidth hogs." The incident calls for an examination of the link between net neutrality and digital piracy.
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Tribute to Dorian Fisher Adams
Press Release
4.13.2007
After a lengthy life promoting freedom and liberty, Dorian passed away peacefully in San Francisco on April 3. She was a wonderful friend and mentor to me and I learned a great deal from her. She will be sadly missed.
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New Movie Disputes Gore
PRI in the News
By: Heather Ishimaru
4.12.2007
It's not something we'll want to brag about, but California is number one; number one in emissions from cars and trucks - that from an environmental group which re-crunched years of EPA numbers. Of course, we're also number one in the number of cars and trucks. All these things go into the global warming debate - a debate that is far from dead.
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San Francisco Think Tank Unveils New Global Warming Documentary
Press Release
4.12.2007
The science of global warming is far from settled according to An Inconvenient Truth . . . or Convenient Fiction?, a new Pacific Research Institute (PRI) documentary premiering this week in San Francisco (view trailer at www.aconvenientfiction.com). The documentary takes on former Vice President Al Gore, Hollywood, the media, and environmental extremists by presenting a more balanced perspective on the global warming debate.
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Jackpot Justice - KOIN talk radio
Radio Interview
4.6.2007
Lawrence J. McQuillan was interviewed by Mark Carbonaro, KOIN talk radio, Monterey, California on the findings of the study "Jackpot Justice: The True Cost of America's Tort System."
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Charters on the Coast
PRI in the News
4.6.2007
If the recent budget battle in Albany in which the teachers union and its allied lawmakers killed a proposed tax deduction for private or parochial school tuition and imposed mandatory unionization on charter schools that grow larger than 250 students in the first two years wasn't enough for you, consider California.
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Universal winners and losers
Health Care Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
4.6.2007
The Canadian experience confirms that government monopoly health care, though billed as "universal," has trouble delivering the goods. Nevertheless, similar schemes being advanced in America find favor with Big Labor, with good reason.
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Personal injury cases cost U.S. $865 billion
PRI in the News
By: Lewis Fuller
4.1.2007
With April 15 on the horizon, millions of Americans can soon expect to be writing a check to the IRS. While they have their checkbooks out, they may as well make out another one for $9,827, payable to personal injury lawyers. For the entire country, the bill comes to $865.37 billion.
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At-risk health coverage
Health Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
4.1.2007
I hope Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reads this report about the effect of outlawing underwriting in California's market for association health plans a decade ago.
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Thick skins; Tort system is tanning our hides
PRI in the News
4.1.2007
The state's $7 billion budget sailed through the Legislature at a record clip - until it was clipped by the poison pen of Gov. Brad Henry. We wish reform of the tort system, which costs Americans $7 billion every three days, would get such enthusiastic attention.
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