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Capital Crimes, Cont’d
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
11.27.2002
Last year, when the FBI found Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) soldier Kathleen Soliah living as Sarah Jane Olson, a doctor’s wife in Minnesota, this column suggested the authorities look into her role in a robbery and murder here in 1975. They did.
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Parents are Better than Technology at Protecting Children from Online Pornography
ePolicy
By: Sophia Cope
11.26.2002
Last week, the United States Supreme Court announced that it will consider the constitutionality of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), a law that attempts to protect children from Internet pornography. The Court’s announcement re-ignites the controversy over Internet filtering software in public libraries and indicates the high constitutional importance of the law.
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The Shrinking Green Vote
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
11.20.2002
The inimitable Dick Morris, who predicted a Democratic sweep the weekend before the election, now argues that Democrats should push environmental issues as a means of regaining the political initiative. In fact, Morris says Al Gore would have won the 2000 presidential election had he pushed environmental issues harder. As the architect of Bill Clinton’s political revival following the 1994 election, Dick Morris’s political perceptions are not to be lightly dismissed. But one must wonder whether Morris has taken up his old toe-sucking habits, or whether he isn’t in fact baiting the Democrats to further desuetude.
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Reflections on the California Election
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
11.15.2002
Although the national Republican wave seemed to hit a breakwater at the Sierra Nevadas, the Golden State’s election results should not be seen as a simple case of triumphant California liberalism in an otherwise Republican sea. The real story is more complicated. First, look at the governor’s race.
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Women Exploiting Women
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.11.2002
“The women of El Dorado and Sacramento counties will not fall to our knees in submission to a man or men . . . who would like to keep us in the position of women in the pre-suffrage era.”
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If It’s Good Enough for Strom Thurmond…
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Chris Middleton
11.1.2002
President Bush and the new Congress should waste no time giving all Medicare beneficiaries access to prescription drug coverage. No, I’m not talking about creating Medicare “Part D” – a government-run drug benefit that would eat up trillions of taxpayer dollars while destroying research and development on life-saving drugs.
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Forward to the Future: Nanotechnology and Regulatory Policy
PRI Briefing
By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds
11.1.2002
Nanotechnology, which involves the manipulation of matter at the level of individual atoms and molecules, promises to revolutionize many aspects of human society. At the very least, it can be expected to drastically reduce energy consumption, to dramatically advance medicine's ability to cure and prevent disease, and to significantly increase the precision and effectiveness of military devices and weapons.
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Grand Theft Education
PRI Briefing
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D., K. Lloyd Billingsley, Diallo Dphrepaulezz
11.1.2002
A program of school choice would eliminate wasteful spending and provide higher quality education, according to Grand Theft Education: Wasteful Education Spending in California, a new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI).
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Lessons from the North
PRI Study
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.1.2002
A week before Independence Day, 37-year-old Debbie Thomas found herself on a bus headed over the border to seek medications. This was not, however, one of the highly publicized stories of Americans going to Canada to buy cut-rate prescriptions.
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