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The Piscataway Payoff
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
11.26.1997
Taking a page from their union brethren in the Democratic Party, civil rights leaders anted up with hush money last week to avoid a very public swan song for affirmative action as we know it.
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Wanted: A New Paradigm for New Paradigms
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
11.25.1997
I was long ago persuaded that my crusade against the use of the term "values" in moral debate was hopeless. It does no good to point out that you can just as easily speak of "Manson family values" (learned, no doubt, from watching Mr. Nietzsche's Neighborhood on PBS) as "traditional family values."
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Cutting Through the Smoke: Facts on the Cigarette Tax
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
11.18.1997
Whenever government tries to dictate people's economic behavior the result is usually dismal failure. Why? According to Milton Friedman, it's for the same reason that even the most autocratic head of a family cannot control every act of each family member. Unless commands are supplemented with people's willing cooperation, the commands are often undermined or ignored.
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NOW Puts Muscle on the Corporate Sector
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
11.13.1997
My groups have the power to convince others to engage in self-defeating behavior. With the tool of victimization, though, the National Organization for Women (NOW) manages to do just that.
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Stark Prospect
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
11.11.1997
I remember testifying before the Revenue and Taxation Committee of the California State Assembly about 10 years ago on behalf of a bill to establish tax credits for Medical Savings Accounts. Liberals, of course, grasp at any straw to oppose the idea of MSAs, but I was thunderstruck when the chairman of the committee said that he worried that "doctors would see these accounts as pots of money and run up their fees accordingly."
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The Unz Initiative and Parental Empowerment
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
11.4.1997
The scare tactics have started. Shocked by polls showing overwhelming support, especially among Latinos, for businessman Ron Unz's ballot initiative to emphasize English instruction for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students, bilingual education advocates have started their propaganda war early. for example, in a recent Sacramento Bee op-ed, Thomas Saenz of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) warns that the initiative would eliminate bilingual education in favor of "an unproven technique that largely forbids teachers from speaking anything other than English to kids."
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