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Do-Nothing Government, PC Prosecutors
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
1.31.2001
Those who argue for a smaller government do not neglect to press the state to perform legitimate functions such as the prosecution of criminals. In California’s capital, there is currently much room for improvement, as a national case shows.
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Cash Versus Coupons: The True Winner in the Case Against Microsoft
Action Alerts
By: Helen Chaney
1.25.2001
Microsoft officials were elated when a Fourth Circuit judge recently threw out portions of the private antitrust lawsuits filed by consumers, saying that they could not sue the company because they did not purchase Windows directly from Microsoft. This victory comes as bad news to trial lawyers—the prime beneficiaries of these cases.
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Smart Growth Update: The Vanishing Automobile
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
1.24.2001
I have in my hands the most thorough and useful analysis of the issue of urban sprawl and “smart growth”--Randal O’Toole’s new book, The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths: How Smart Growth Will Harm American Cities. At 545 pages, The Vanishing Automobile answers every claim and refutes each myth propounded by the smart growth movement, and does so with a wealth of data.
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The Crimes of Frosty the Snowman
The Contrarian
By: Joelle Cowan
1.19.2001
This year’s snowfall has been bountiful and across the nation people are grabbing their snowboards, skis, and sleds and heading for the slopes. Those not ready for these activities, like generations of girls and boys before them, can always roll the white stuff into balls, stack them up, and with a hat, a couple of stones, and maybe a carrot for a nose, create a snowman. But old Frosty is not very jolly these days because, according to Dr. Tricia Cusack of Birmingham University in England, Frosty is an enemy of the people, guilty of violating the laws of political correctness.
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The Crimes of Frosty the Snowman
By: Joelle Cowan
1.19.2001
This year’s snowfall has been bountiful and across the nation people are grabbing their snowboards, skis, and sleds and heading for the slopes. Those not ready for these activities, like generations of girls and boys before them, can always roll the white stuff into balls, stack them up, and with a hat, a couple of stones, and maybe a carrot for a nose, create a snowman. But old Frosty is not very jolly these days because, according to Dr. Tricia Cusack of Birmingham University in England, Frosty is an enemy of the people, guilty of violating the laws of political correctness.
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Burolatry
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
1.18.2001
Confessions are rare in public life, particularly from those fond of advancing grand designs. But utopian types can sometimes confess without knowing it, as in a recent piece from the editor of In These Times, America’s leading socialist publication.
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Gray Davis Meets Huey Long
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.12.2001
It was a bizarre metamorphasis. There was Governor Gray Davis, the self-proclaimed fiscally responsible Democrat, giving a State of the State speech that sounded like a 1930s populist manifesto. Addressing California’s electricity crisis, Davis ranted against big business and big profits: “We have surrendered the decisions about where electricity is sold--and for how much--to private companies with only one objective: maximizing unheard of profits.” Echoing the socialistic solutions of the populists, Davis proposed a slew of government interventions. The governor’s speech, high on propaganda and low on elemental economic commonsense, was vintage Huey Long, minus the mesmerizing delivery.
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Thirteen Days and Nine Lives
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
1.3.2001
Here we go again. The new movie treatment of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Thirteen Days, is just out, and beyond the ritual celebration of the great Kennedy administration the film will serve as yet another vindication of the “crisis management” approach to international relations. For the Cuban Missile Crisis is still regarded as a great triumph of American statecraft. Theodore Sorensen, keeper of the Camelot flame, says the filmmakers “demonstrated that the restraint and leadership exercised by President Kennedy prevented what we now know would have been a nuclear exchange. The movie demonstrated that negotiation and communication are essential during a military confrontation and can sometimes find a peaceful solution.”
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Foreign Entanglements: An Institutional Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy
PRI Study
1.2.2001
This collection of essays over the last half a decade focuses on foreign policy issues in what editor Steven Hayward calls “the long shadow of the New Deal.” The authors discuss issues ranging from the dangers of a politically correct military to multilateral development banks and globalizing environmental policy.
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California Legislators' Guide 2001
PRI Guide
1.1.2001
The lights are going out in California, not a pleasant prospect for residents and businesses of the Golden State. The situation offers a lesson we avoid at our peril—public policy has consequences.
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Child Welfare Privatization Reform Efforts in the States
PRI Study
By: Julia K. Sells
1.1.2001
Despite reform efforts, the child welfare system is failing to increase the number of children adopted in the United States. The number of children in foster care has almost doubled since the mid-1980s, with many languishing in the system for years. This, in addition to the abuse and neglect of many children, is further testimony to the failure of child welfare services.
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