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Davis’ Bacon
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
6.29.1999
Market competition and free enterprise may be the basis for the great economic prosperity that California and the nation are experiencing, but that’s not the message one gets from the actions coming out of Sacra-mento. Governor Gray Davis and the Democratic legislature are busily turning back the clock as they rush to meet the anti-competitive demands of their Big Labor allies.
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Our Tenuous Privacy
Action Alerts
By: Mark Schiller, M.D.
6.28.1999
These are not good times for Americans who value their privacy. Things will get much worse if, as planned, the government institutes a national patient identification system and a massive federal medical database.
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The Parent Trap
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.24.1999
"Clinton to Seek Ban on Job Bias Against Parents." Job bias against parents? Contrary to my first response of disbelief, this April 17 front-page headline in the Washington Post turned out not to be a hoax or spoof but the latest and most absurd effort by the Clinton Administration to intervene in the private sector.
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Goodbye to All That . . .
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
6.24.1999
The news that I am leaving Washington and moving back to California has been greeted with varying degrees of incredulity bordering on shock from my friends and colleagues inside the Beltway. The reaction has been akin to someone leaving Hollywood: "What? And leave show business?"
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Mental Case
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
6.16.1999
President Clinton has announced that he wants to expand treatment for the mentally ill. Looking back at a career of tabloid fodder interspersed with modest accomplishments, perhaps he has abandoned hope that those of sound mind will give him a glowing review in the history books. Maybe he thinks that someone slightly unhinged but grateful for free tranquilizers will now be up to the task. Certainly the move has more to do with politics than health, and it unfolded in classic beltway style.
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Mr. Mom Visits The Contrarian
The Contrarian
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
6.9.1999
Hey wait a minute! What am I doing writing this column? I thought The Contrarian was supposed to be something like Secret antiperspirant: "Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman." I’m supposed to do the other one, the one with "Ideas" in the title. Isn’t this taking equal opportunity just a little bit too far? Aren’t the gender police likely to get after both me and PRI?
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Prop. 209 Holds Court
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
6.8.1999
Local government officials attempting to sabotage Proposition 209 with deceptive race-neutral language to disguise race and gender-based preference programs were just dealt a devastating blow by the California Sixth District Court of Appeals. In a unanimous decision, the court struck down a San Jose public contracting outreach program that used such semantic ruses.
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Big Brother Babysitting
Action Alerts
By: Joanne Elachi
6.8.1999
A recently released Public Agenda survey, Kids These Days ‘99: What Americans Really Think About the Next Generation, reveals that Americans are no longer looking to government to help kids. Instead they want a return to parental responsibility and accountability.
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Serfs Up
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
6.1.1999
Politicians decry Washington as a sewer but when they get there, they treat it as a hot tub, says George Roche, the astute president of Hillsdale College. Indeed, the reality, apparent to all but the willfully blind, is that senators and congressmen of both parties are supposed to represent their districts in Washington but usually wind up representing Washington and its special interests to their districts.
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How the Private Sector is Bridging the “Digital Divide”
ePolicy
By: Justin Matlick
6.1.1999
The Information Age's rapid progress has spawned fears that minorities and the poor will soon be trapped on the wrong side of a "digital divide." Surveys consistently indicate that minorities, particularly African-Americans, are far less likely than whites to own computers or use the Internet. How, then, can the U.S. ensure that new technologies will not widen society's divisions?
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