|
Health Care Budget Realities
National Center for Policy Analysis News Clipping
1.30.2009
A pair of new reports on health care spending reveal that we can't afford President Obama's health care plan, says Sally C. Pipes, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute and author of "The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide."
Read more
|
|
|
Charge health insurance equally
Omaha World-Herald (NE) Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
1.30.2009
January President Barack Obama and his new health czar, former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, have promised big changes for our health care system. In a number of states, though, many of their government-heavy ideas have already been tried — and failed.
Read more
|
|
|
Health-care budget realities
Washington Times Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.30.2009
Before President-elect Barack Obama attempts to overhaul America's health-care system and put us on the road toward "universal" coverage, he should have a chat with his new budget director, Peter Orszag.
Read more
|
|
|
Honor Friedman by allowing students to be 'free to choose'
Orange County Register Op-Ed
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
1.29.2009
On this date two years ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed Milton Friedman Day in California to honor the late Nobel Prize-winning economist and the governor's "intellectual hero, whose ideas proved "life-changing." Now it's time the governor and Legislature allow Friedman's ideas to change the lives of California parents and students.
Read more
|
|
|
Some Stimulating Reading
National Review News Clipping
By: John Hood
1.29.2009
With the bloated, ramshackle, pork-laden, grotesque corruption of a “stimulus bill” now headed to the U.S. Senate, here’s a handy list of arguments and sources as we debate America’s new lurch towards European-style social democracy:
Read more
|
|
|
Lessons from Virginia to California
Sacramento Union Op-Ed
By: Evelyn Stacey
1.28.2009
Last week, the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, along with the Black Alliance for Education Options, released a new survey on parents’ views about educational choice. The survey was given to residents throughout Petersburg, Norfolk and Richmond, Va., but the results speak volumes to parents everywhere, especially California.
Read more
|
|
|
CNBC News - Central Bank's Next Move
CNBC News Segment
1.28.2009
What to expect from the Fed, with Michelle Girard, RBS Greenwich Capital and Lee Hoskins former Cleveland Federal Reserve president, senior fellow at Pacific Research Institute.
Read more
|
|
|
The CTA's radio ads: Don't believe a word of 'em
San Diego Union Tribune Blog
By: Chris Reed
1.27.2009
I was going to do a post dissecting the CTA's absurd radio ads claiming that schools had faced billions of dollars in cuts in recent years -- not true -- and saying state schools had the worst funding in the nation -- not true. But Vicki Murrary of the Pacific Research Institute beat me to it, so I won't double up on her work:
Read more
|
|
|
Reform, Not Report Cards, Will Cure Schools
Freedom Politics Op-Ed
1.27.2009
In an effort to show greater accountability for results, school districts across the country from Florida to Missouri to California are issuing so-called school report cards, which contain data on various indicators of student and school performance.
Read more
|
|
|
Overhauling health care could boost the economy
San Diego Union Tribune News Clipping
By: Dean Calbreath
1.25.2009
There are plenty of reasons to overhaul our creaky health care system, ranging from its status as the most expensive system in the world to its failure to provide for the health of millions of our fellow citizens.
Read more
|
|
|
Pattern is playing out again
Ottawa Daily Times (IL) Op-Ed
By: Jason Clemens
1.23.2009
There is no doubt that the United States and much of the world are in perilous economic times. Sensing opportunity in crisis, many left-leaning politicians and experts, including President-elect Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, are calling for a potentially massive expansion of the state without explaining how such action will actually solve our current problems.
Read more
|
|
|
Obama Set to Change Science and Tech
TechNewsWorld Op-Ed
1.23.2009
When Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States this week, he promised that his administration would "restore science to its rightful place." Whether reality will fit the rhetoric remains to be seen, and there are reasons to be both optimistic and a little wary.
Read more
|
|
|
Governor’s tort reform will yield jobs
The Telegraph (Macon, GA) Letter to the Editor
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
1.22.2009
I commend Gov. Sonny Perdue for his efforts to enact meaningful tort reform in Georgia (“Perdue says tort reform needed,” Jan. 14). During this time of economic crisis, no state can afford to endure the unnecessary costs of an inefficient tort system.
Read more
|
|
|
California School Days
Investor's Business Daily
1.21.2009
The argument over what to do about America's struggling schools is still raging. Programs such as No Child Left Behind have achieved some success by introducing a measure of accountability into the process. But American students continue to get clobbered on international tests by other countries whose school systems spend less money per student and have larger average class sizes.
Read more
|
|
|
Kids Need More School Choice
Human Events Op-Ed
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
1.21.2009
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposes shortening the school year by five days to save $1.1 billion and help shrink the state’s $42-billion deficit. State superintendent Jack O’Connell opposes the idea, declaring that a longer school year is needed to prepare students for “the competitive global economy.”
Read more
|
|
|
Conventional Farming & Environmental Protection
Peace and Justice Series (Duluth, MN)
1.21.2009
Lecture from the Alworth Center for the Study of Peace and Justice, at The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota. Conventional Farming & Environmental Protection - by Amy Kaleita, Ph.D.
Read more
|
|
|
The Unseen Culprits in America’s Financial Crisis
Human Events News Clipping
By: Lewis M. Andrews
1.21.2009
To the long list of villains in America’s unfolding economic crisis … the politicians who encouraged risky lending, the bankers who bundled questionable mortgages into marketable securities, and the ratings agencies that gave inflated grades to sub-par debt … add the thousands of supposedly responsible citizens who served as volunteers on their community school and finance boards.
Read more
|
|
|
Union stand could boost GOP clout
LA Daily News (Woodland Hills, CA) Op-Ed
By: Jason Clemens
1.21.2009
NOW that President Obama is settling into office, there is an issue Democrats will be forced to face: Is card check certification Obama's Hillary Care? The answer to this question will have profound consequences for the Democratic Party, the labor movement that invested huge sums of money in the 2008 election, and U.S. workers more broadly.
Read more
|
|
|
Murphy's motives
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review News Clipping
1.19.2009
Sometimes we really have to wonder about the motives of those who purport to represent the greater good in Washington. Take, for instance, Congressman Tim Murphy.
Read more
|
|
|
Teachers Have Options Outside of Forced Unionism
Charter School Business Op-Ed
By: Evelyn Stacey
1.16.2009
The Association of American Educators, along with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, kicked off a back-to-school season campaign this fall to inform teachers and the public about the many organizations that give them insurance and benefits—all without the costly union dues attached.
Read more
|
|
|
Does "Depression Economics" Change the Rules?
Ludwig von Mises Institute Op-Ed
1.12.2009
Wily competitors have known for ages that if you can't win the game, you can simply change the rules. Now, during normal economic times, if somebody recommended that the government borrow a trillion dollars and spend it on anything that moves, most economists (as well as common sense) would say, "That's nuts."
Read more
|
|
|
Reform Our Schools Mr. President Elect
Publius Forum News Clipping
By: Israel Teitelbaum
1.9.2009
Honorable President-elect Barack Obama: In nominating Arne Duncan to serve as Secretary of Education, you stressed the need for school reform.
Read more
|
|
|
Will 2009 Be the Year of Multiple Digital Identities?
TechNewsWorld Op-Ed
1.9.2009
Just days after microblogging company Twitter was hacked, a group of entrepreneurs and policy activists gathered at Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters to discuss "Privacy 2009: The Year Ahead." The discussion, cohosted by Tech Policy Central, demonstrated that the privacy debate is starting to mature.
Read more
|
|
|
Serious Goals for California in the New Year
Sacramento Union Op-Ed
1.8.2009
The past year certainly boasted some highlights, including the Olympics and a much-anticipated national election, but with 2008 behind us, the mood is not exactly upbeat in California. The economy has cooled off, and the “Golden State” finds itself staring down the barrel of a two-year deficit of $40 billion, or more. The state needs to thrive again, and there is a way to bring that about.
Read more
|
|
|
An Emergency Review
Townhall.com News Clipping
By: Thomas Sowell
1.7.2009
Before you do anything else, make a note to read "The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care" by Sally C. Pipes. It might literally save your life, by checking the political stampede toward a government-controlled medical profession-- usually presented politically as "universal health care."
Read more
|
|
|
New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom
PRI Press Release
1.7.2009
The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, today released The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More, a report that highlights the best scholarly studies measuring the benefits of economic freedom. In producing the study, the authors chose the most recent and academically rigorous peer-reviewed studies in top academic journals.
Read more
|
|
|
First, do no harm
Colorado Biz Today News Clipping
By: Tony Gagliardi
1.7.2009
As we close out the year in one of the worst recessions in modern history, Congress and the Colorado Legislature will be looking to do something — whatever that is — because people want something done — whatever that might be.
Read more
|
|
|
Obama Will Ration Your Health Care
The Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.7.2009
People are policy. And now that President-elect Barack Obama has fielded his team of Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services and Melody Barnes as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, we can predict both the strategy and substance of the new administration's health-care reform.
Read more
|
|
|
Serious facts, please
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Letter to the Editor
1.6.2009
The editorial "The 30 percent solution" (Dec. 30) claimed that "Americans spent more than $2.5 trillion on health care last year" while "46 million of us [went] without any health insurance. Unfortunately, these statements are misleading.
Read more
|
|
|
Why can't I redistribute my own wealth?
The Desert Dispatch (CA) Op-Ed
By: Tibor Machan
1.5.2009
So Barack Obama got elected president of the United States, allegedly the freest country in the world and in human history, partly on the promise that he will redistribute a goodly portion of our wealth, yours and mine and everyone else’s.
Read more
|
|
|
State’s economy at year’s beginning
Eastside Business Journal (WA) News Clipping
By: Troy Nichols
1.5.2009
State lawmakers convening on Monday in Olympia will not have to rely on staff reports to tell them how bad the economy is, the evidence is all around them. A few reports they would be wise to read, however, are four released last year that examine the underbelly of the Washington economy.
Read more
|
|
|
The SEC Makes Wall Street More Fraudulent
Ludwig von Mises Institute Op-Ed
1.5.2009
The mainstream reaction to the Bernard Madoff scandal was inevitable. Whenever a government regulatory agency proves itself to be incredibly incompetent or corrupt, the respectable media swoop in to declare that the "free market" has failed and the agency in question obviously needs more money and power.
Read more
|
|
|
Foundations take active role on health policy
Los Angeles Times News Clipping
By: Jordan Rau
1.5.2009
Nonprofits have dropped their usual detachment to crusade for healthcare reform in California, opening Sacramento offices staffed by former aides to lawmakers. They have to be careful about IRS rules.
Read more
|
|
|
Prevention no cure-all to cut health-care costs
Des Moines Register (IA) Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
1.3.2009
As health-care costs spiral upward, pundits and patients alike have scrambled for someone - or something - to blame. Chronic diseases, greedy drug companies and profiteering hospitals and insurance companies seem to top the list of suspects.
Read more
|
|
|
How to Stamp Out Christmas
The American Reporter News Clipping
By: Jill Stewart
1.3.2009
On cue, California jumped into the yearly fray over why Christmas symbols and carols get banned from schools and other public places, when that well-known religious radical, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, ignited a controversy by pointedly calling the state's official "holiday" tree its "Christmas" tree instead.
Read more
|
|
|
Western Standard’s “Liberty 100” Top 75 for 2008
The Western Standard (Canada) News Clipping
1.3.2009
To recognize the work of Canadians who have advanced economic and personal liberty in 2008, the Western Standard has produced “Liberty 100,” a list of the top 100 friends of liberty in Canada.
Read more
|
|
|
Assessing Obama's Economic Team
Wilson County News (TX) Clipping
By: Jason Clemens
1.3.2009
Conservatives are understandably depressed these days, but they now have something to smile about in President-elect Obama's picks for key economic posts, such as Tim Geithner for Secretary of the Treasury.
Read more
|
|
|
Don't change formula for needed drugs
NewsItem.com (PA) Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.3.2009
A report from the nation's leading cancer organizations revealed that America's cancer death rate is dropping. And for the first time in the 10-year history of the report, the rate of cancer incidence is dropping as well.
Read more
|
|
|
Hawaii Seeking More Money for Health Plan
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Aricka Flowers
1.1.2009
A 9 percent jump in enrollment is forcing Hawaii’s state government to consider ways to increase funding for its taxpayer-funded health coverage program.
Read more
|
|
|
California Courts Rule for Charter Schools Again
School Reform News (Heartland Institute) Op-Ed
By: Evelyn Stacey
1.1.2009
A Los Angeles charter middle school is moving into new digs thanks to a court ruling on equal treatment that has national implications. One of the largest obstacles charters nationwide face is finding adequate facilities.
Read more
|
|
|
