Does House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remember what happened in the 2006 elections? She represents the people’s republic of San Francisco, but she must recall that the rest of California overwhelmingly rejected ex-actor/director Rob Reiner’s government-run universal preschool initiative last June. Yet, at her recent children’s summit, Pelosi ushered in a parade of notables advocating for more government preschool.

Last week the United States Supreme Court ruled that states may enact "paycheck protection" laws requiring unions to obtain the permission of members before using dues for politics. The ruling is expected to provide a major boost to efforts to protect workers from being forced to fund candidates they do not support simply by being a member of a labor union.

Trial lawyer Ralph Cook, in his June 12 letter titled "Misleading claim," criticized the findings of our tort study "Jackpot Justice" by attacking another study we relied on for portions of the data.

If you want to build a good house, you start with a good foundation. If only the Pacific Research Institute, which incorrectly states that the U.S. civil justice system costs taxpayers $865 billion a year, had followed that advice.

When it comes to health care, U.S. states are, well, all over the map. A new study finds large disparities in how different states perform in reference to quality of health care, with some states outdoing others by a factor of two or even three.