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Getting to the Root of the Health-Care Problem
Action Alert
By: Laura Dykes
10.31.2001
Due to the September 11 terrorist attacks, more than 100,000 airline and related industry employees are expected to be laid off. From this tragedy has arisen an opportunity to get to the root of the problem of lost health coverage.
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Bad Laws Are a Two-Edged Sword
The Contrarian
By: Joelle Cowan
10.24.2001
In early October, Sunera Thobani, assistant professor of Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia, was accused of a hate crime under Canada’s draconian “hate speech” laws for making anti-American statements at a public conference. Though her statements were harsh and ill-timed, they should not be considered criminal acts. The Thobani case demonstrates the dangers of hate-speech laws.
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With The President
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
10.23.2001
The president came to my hometown October 18 and I had the honor to be on stage with him as he delivered a stirring speech that made one proud to be an American. America is at war, but the cliché that war makes leaders is not true--look at Neville Chamberlain. In reality, true leaders must rise to the challenge of calamity, and that is exactly what George W. Bush has done. Listening to him in person, as I did on that October morning in Sacramento, and you know in your bones that although terrorists may have America under siege, we have a commander-in-chief who will ensure that we prevail in this deadly struggle.
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Initial Support of Accused Child Killer Shows NOW Increasingly Irrelevant
The Contrarian
By: Joelle Cowan
10.17.2001
In late August, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and other groups, including the Houston chapter of the ACLU, announced that they would raise money for the Andrea Pia Yates Support Coalition. Yates, the Houston mother charged with killing her five children in June, claims to be afflicted by postpartum depression, and all indications are that she will offer this as her defense. No more than a week later, NOW published a letter from its president Kim Gandy, retracting its support and claiming that they had been terribly misunderstood.
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Missing in Action
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.16.2001
One month after terrorists murdered 5,000 Americans, alarmist stories are already beginning to appear about the costs of increasing national security. “State, Local Security Costs Skyrocketing,” headlined the Sacramento Bee. The California Highway Patrol has spent an additional $6.5 million since September 11, $2 million in new spending is required to secure dams and power plants, $2.3 million more for police in Los Angeles, and $2.5 million to boost security at Sacramento International Airport alone.
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Greatest Generation Redux
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
10.11.2001
For a while now we have pondered the late-in-coming celebration of “the greatest generation.” “Late-in-coming” because the baby boomers of the 1960s’ “youth movement” proudly asserted that they were the greatest generation ever to grace the land of America. Further, the Establishment, and many of their parents, rushed to affirm this proclamation. Time magazine in 1967 went as far as to say that the youth movement “will infuse the future with a new sense of morality, a transcendent and contemporary ethic that could enrich the ‘empty society’.”
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Our Biggest Failure
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
10.4.2001
In the blame game following the September 11 terrorist attacks, fingers are being pointed at lax airport security, inadequate intelligence gathering, and a ho-hum, it-can’t-happen-here mentality. While these factors were important, the terrorists wouldn’t have been in our country and wouldn’t have been able to perpetrate their evil deeds except for the colossal failure of our immigration system.
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Differentiated Compensation in Teacher Salaries
Action Alert
By: Lance T. Izumi
10.2.2001
Teacher shortages in certain subject fields and in so-called hard-to-staff schools plague efforts to improve public education. Yet, the inability of educators and policymakers to think outside of the box of uniform wage rates for all teachers, regardless of supply and demand in various teaching fields, hampers any effective effort to address the shortage.
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The Perils of High-Tech Domestic Surveillance
ePolicy
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.1.2001
A number of technology-related ideas such as national I.D. cards and the extended use of the FBI’s email wiretapping device, Carnivore, have been proposed as a means to help stop terrorism. But in the haste to stop the terrorists in their tracks, technologists and politicians alike risk damaging America’s great tradition of liberty.
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