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Health-care system needs more caring
Houma Today(LA) News Clipping
By: Dr. Randolph M. Howes
4.29.2008
Presidential candidates condemn Americans for not providing health insurance to 47 million fellow citizens but the Washington Times carried an article by Sally Pipes, of the Pacific Research Institute, and presented facts that indicate political debaters try to unfairly paint us as evil, dispassionate and heartless Americans.
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Celebrate river's revival
Traverse City Record-Eagle Op-Ed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.28.2008
When I was a child, my father took me fishing on the Detroit River, where we caught plenty of perch and silver bass, but no whitefish. I might catch one in 2008 because whitefish are reproducing in the Detroit River for the first time since 1916, as the U.S. Geological Survey recently reported.
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The Real Cost of Tackling Climate Change
Wall Street Journal
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
4.28.2008
The usual chorus of environmentalists and editorial writers has chimed in to attack President Bush's recent speech on climate change. In his address of April 23, he put forth a goal of stopping the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2025.
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Still more work to do
Letter to the Editor, Naples Daily News (FL)
By: Carlos Muhletaler
4.28.2008
Less than two weeks remain in the 2008 Florida legislative session and it appears that common-sense legal reform will not be addressed. Unfortunately, Florida’s budget crisis has commanded the attention of our legislators, and important legal reforms like “expert witnesses” and “emergency health-care providers” will probably not be heard this session.
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Report shows lawsuit reforms boost local economy
Southeast Texas Record News Clipping
By: Marilyn Tennissen
4.28.2008
More than a billion dollars have been added to the local economy and more than 8,000 jobs have been created in Southeast Texas thanks to lawsuit reforms, a national economist reported Monday.
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Keep health data private
Press Enterprise (CA) Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
4.26.2008
Those who think the government's tentacles have not strangled enough of American health care should pay heed to developments in health information technology.
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Beware 'less-than-best' schools
Pasadena Star-News (CA) Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
4.26.2008
FORBES magazine recently released another popular "best" list, this one rating the top suburbs in America. The selections derive from several factors, including school quality. The indicators, however, do not necessarily guarantee a top-quality school.
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Businesses fear N.J. courts
The Record (Hackensack, NJ) News Clipping
By: Hugh R. Morley
4.24.2008
A national business group has given its verdict on New Jersey's legal climate, and it's not good.
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Earth Day lessons for California
The Eureka Reporter Op-Ed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.24.2008
SACRAMENTO — Earth Day events here were rather different this year. Car dealers showcased their latest hybrids, hippies were little in evidence, and the crowd was more upscale. There was even, yes, valet parking for bicycles. The baleful note of past events was missing and for that there is some justification.
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The case for the flat tax
Letters to the Editor - Sacramento Bee
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
4.24.2008
In the April 17 editorial "Taxes done and mailed; let's consider reforms," The Bee says: "An ideal tax system would be flat overall, with progressive income taxes offsetting regressive property, sales and excise taxes...."
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Is ‘Cap-and-Trade’ Good for California?
Sacramento Union Op-Ed
By: Thomas Tanton
4.24.2008
The California Air Resources Board is mulling a mix of regulations, fees and market-like mechanisms to impose on California, to comply with the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act. That 2006 law requires California to cut greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels within 12 years, but it gives the board some latitude in determining how to achieve the goal. Two proposals are now being considered.
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W.Va. ranked 50th in legal climate
Register-Herald Reporter News Clipping
By: Mannix Porterfield
4.23.2008
Once again, the debate over West Virginia’s rankings in the legal climate is raging, inspired by a fresh study performed for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce putting the state dead last.
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Study ranks W.Va. court system last again
West Virginia Record News Clipping
4.23.2008
For the third consecutive year, the Mountain State is ranked 50th in the 2008 State Liability Systems Ranking Study, which was released Wednesday by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform.
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Good news, as well
The Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) News Clipping
4.22.2008
Earth Day was held this week, which is an appropriate time to make an assessment. Generally, the environment in Jacksonville is pleasant.
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Happy Birthday Vladimir Lenin, And Oh Yeah - Happy Earth Day Too
KXMB-Bismark News Clipping
By: Alan Caruba
4.22.2008
As we approach the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union (oops, I meant Earth Day) it's so easy to confuse the two because they occur, quite by coincidence I'm sure, on the same day. Anyway April 22 will bring forth an avalanche of the usual accusations that America is a sinkhole of pollution, et cetera.
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Happy Earth Day
Human Events Op-Ed
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
4.22.2008
More than 30 years ago political scientist Anthony Downs discerned what he called the “issue-attention cycle,” a five-stage process by which the public and especially the news media grow alarmed over an issue, agitate for action, generate piles of scary headlines, and then begin to draw back as we come to recognize that the problem has been exaggerated or misconceived, and the price tag for action comes in.
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Prebuttals, Insults and Intellectual Honesty
Point of Law News Clipping
By: Carter Wood
4.22.2008
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform on Wednesday is releasing its 2008 Lawsuit Climate report, an annual exercise in which the ILR surveys in-house counsels on their perceptions of how reasonable and balanced each state's tort liability system is.
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Get Out and Enjoy Earth Day
Front Page Magazine Op-Ed
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
4.22.2008
Earth Day 2008 brings good news about the environment but also reveals a strange dynamic. Despite a nearly non-stop public dialogue, including an Oscar-winning movie and two Nobel prizes, Americans are actually taking less time to experience the environment. They would be better off if they went outside and enjoyed it for a change.
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Earth Day 2008: Clearing the air ...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial
4.22.2008
It's time to clear the air about how the United States affects the environment -- and how extremist environmentalism could affect the U.S.
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A well-intentioned bad idea
Orange County Register News Clipping
4.21.2008
There's troubling legislation in Sacramento to open the state's lucrative public employee retirement system to private employees. Unfortunately, there's little opposition, which may make the scheme inevitable.
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Politics, Not Climate
Canada Free Press News Clipping
By: Alan Caruba
4.19.2008
If you think global warming is about climate, think again. It’s all about politics and, if you don’t believe me, maybe you will believe Fred Krupp, the president of the Environmental Defense Fund.
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Tax Day Is Over, but Internet Tax Threats Loom
Tech News World Op-Ed
4.18.2008
As Americans stretched to pay the tax man this week, California Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-Montebello) was working on the sly to institute a new digital tax. Such a move is not only short-sighted, but also could seriously harm the state's competitiveness.
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Commie Dearest
Sacramento Union Op-Ed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.17.2008
The Senate Education Committee held a hearing earlier this month on SB 1322, which allowed members of the Communist Party USA to teach and hold meetings in California’s public schools. This measure, authored by state Sen. Alan Lowenthal, a southern California Democrat, has left many puzzled.
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Why Google Won't Spare Any Change
East Valley Tribune Op-Ed
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
4.12.2008
What can you buy for $45 billion? Just about anything you want — except, of course, the world’s second-mostpopular search engine. Yahoo recently rejected Microsoft’s enormous offer. And now the jilted tech giant has responded by saying it won’t pay a penny more.
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Cheap as Intel chips? Not if EU gets its way
Prophet.net Op-Ed
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
4.11.2008
INTEL'S chief executive recently travelled to Brussels to defend his company against government attack. The EU's two-day closed-door hearing comes just one month after the European authorities had stormed Intel's offices in a surprise early morning raid.
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Environmentally, We’re Number One
Canada Free Press News Clipping
By: Alan Caruba
4.10.2008
As we approach the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union…opps, I meant Earth Day…it’s so easy to confuse the two because they occur, quite by coincidence I’m sure, on the same day. Anyway April 22 will bring forth an avalanche of the usual accusations that America is a sinkhole of pollution, et cetera.
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Governor has good plans for uninsured
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Op-Ed
By: Diana M. Ernst
4.10.2008
In the wake of the Massachusetts health reform and California's recent attempt at an overhaul, more states are jumping on the bandwagon to "cover the uninsured." That can be a tricky matter, like health reform in general.
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2008 Environmental Index Debunks Myth that U.S. Lags Europe in Environmental Performance
PRI Press Release
4.10.2008
The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) today released the 2008 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, an annual report highlighting the significant environmental developments and milestones in the United States and worldwide. The 2008 edition debunks the widely held perception that the U.S. lags Europe and other leading nations in environmental performance.
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There is good in drug advertising
Wenatchee World News Op_Ed
By: John R. Graham
4.7.2008
There was quite an uproar when the politicians who decide what information Americans may or may not see attacked Pfizer for using a certain physician in its ad campaign for Lipitor, the popular anti-cholesterol pill.
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The Worst Places To Get Sued In America
Forbes.com News Clipping
By: William Pentland
4.7.2008
By the time most law students have finished the first year of law school, they've had the responses "yes" and "no" surgically excised from their thoughts and replaced by the signature American legalism--"it depends."
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Oil Prices
Library of Economics and Liberty Op-Ed
4.7.2008
On March 3, oil prices surpassed the inflation-adjusted record set back in 1980 during the Iranian hostage crisis. Since then, they have set all-time highs—over $111 per barrel as of this writing. These sky-high prices, as well as the "unconscionable" profits earned by the oil companies, have led to predictable calls for government to hike taxes on Big Oil and to subsidize alternative energy sources.
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Bay State model bodes ill for the nation
Sunday Republican Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.6.2008
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are creating quite a spectacle as they joust over the minutia of their respective health care plans in their attempts to secure the Democratic vote. To witness the real action in health care politics and policy - and catch a glimpse of the future under either Obama or Hillary and a Democratic-controlled congress - we should turn our attention to Massachusetts.
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Abuse
Boca Raton News Clipping
4.6.2008
Carlos Muhletaler hits the nail on the proverbial head. Muhletaler, executive director of Boca Raton based Florida Stop Lawsuit Abuse, told Boca Raton News: “Floridians wonder why we pay higher prices for products and service, why we have a shortage of physicians, why companies are very hesitant to come into the state and why small business is reluctant to re-invest and grow? It’s because lawsuit abuse is hurting Florida’s overall economy,” says Muhletaler.
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The Beginning of the Longevity Revolution
Tech News World Op-Ed
4.4.2008
At last week's Aging in America conference in Washington, attendees were greeted with multiple displays of technology aiming to help older people live better. A technological divide exists between the "oldest old" and the "recently old" baby boomers, but technologies developed for both groups may also be able to help younger generations fight aging.
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Home-school ruling gets failing grade
Orange County Register Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
4.3.2008
The March arrest of a Los Angeles public-school assistant principal on charges of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student is the most recent in a burgeoning line of sexual and criminal misconduct cases involving public-school teachers and administrators. Yet, a recent California court decision would force parents who home-school because of safety, moral and educational concerns to send their children into a public-school system that is dysfunctional and often dangerous.
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McCain's health proposal aims to tackle costs
MarketWatch News Clipping
By: Kristen Gerencher
4.3.2008
Given the amount of attention focused on the differences between the Democratic presidential candidates' health-care proposals, you might think presumed Republican nominee Sen. John McCain didn't have one of his own.
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Bernanke on the Hot Seat
CNBC TV News Segment
4.2.2008
PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins is a guest panelist on "Kudlow & Company" discussing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernard Bernanke's latest moves.
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Market Drilldown
CNBC TV News Segment
4.2.2008
PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins is a guest panelist on "Kudlow & Company" discussing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernard Bernanke's recent testimony on Capital Hill and the economy.
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