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Privacy Lessons from Europe
ePolicy
10.28.2002
At a recent European Union (EU) sponsored conference on privacy regulations, reports from businesses, media outlets, trade unions, and four EU nations demonstrated why the United States should not follow Europe’s pro-regulatory path in protecting privacy.
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Consult the Book of Armaments
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.23.2002
As I write this, a sniper is on the loose, gunning down innocents and baffling law enforcement. This writer, in fact, biked in the vicinity of the Home Depot the day before one of the victims was shot there, a sobering thought.
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Borderline Issues
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.16.2002
It is the only place where you can look north from Canada into the United States. And here, at one of the most crossed borders in the world, some realities become clear, such as the nature of the traffic headed southward. While American politicians make a great show of bus tours to Canada, Canadians board buses headed south, in search of medical care.
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Schools That Overcome
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
10.9.2002
Listen to the finger-pointing comments of many public school officials and one would think that it’s impossible for poor, minority students to perform well academically. Limited parental involvement, limited English ability, low parental education, and a litany of other excuses supposedly absolve public schools of responsibility for low student achievement. A new report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), however, explodes these myths by highlighting high-performing, high-poverty public schools in California.
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Choice Contradictions, Double Standards
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.8.2002
The contradictions of feminism have been amply displayed of late, but they have not drawn the response one would expect. Consider the strange case of Marianne Stanley, coach of the Washington Mystics basketball team of the Women’s National Basketball Association.
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Killer Party
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
10.2.2002
Conservatives are used to being called callous and uncaring, wanting to throw grandmother out in the snow, starve school kids, cut down every tree in sight, poison all the rivers and lakes, bomb the Third World, lock up minorities, and so on. But up until now the full evil of conservatism has been successfully concealed: conservative rule makes more people want to kill themselves.
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“Giveback” This Entire Price-Control Scheme
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Chris Middleton
10.1.2002
Congress is in the midst of trying to pass another Medicare “giveback” bill. Physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, and home health-care providers are spending tens of millions of dollars lobbying Congress to get more money from the system.
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