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California’s Attack On Home Schooling
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
7.31.2002
Home schooling is one of the fastest growing movements in the country. Yet its popularity and high student achievement have not stopped California’s reactionary education establishment from launching an attack against home schoolers.
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NIMBYism and the Garbage Barge from Hell
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
7.25.2002
Think back to 1986. Ronald Reagan was in the White House, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 1,750, and Duran-Duran was at the top of the pop charts. This was also the year that the Khian Sea, an ocean-going barge containing seven tons of ash from incinerated household garbage, set sail from Philadelphia to dispose of its load in an overseas landfill. Sixteen years later, the Khian Sea has at last returned to Philadelphia--with its original load of ash.
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A Multicultural Meditation
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
7.17.2002
Earlier this year, in the village of Meerwala in rural Pakistan, an 11-year-old boy of the Gujjar tribe, a group considered low class, was spotted walking, unchaperoned, with a 30-year-old woman from the upscale Mastoi tribe. Locals were not about to tolerate some lower-class punk getting uppity with a lady of the gentry.
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Capital Gasbags
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
7.9.2002
California has a knack for showcasing how zealotry and dubious science fuels legislative laziness and unintended consequences. Consider the recently passed Assembly Bill 1493, at this writing awaiting a signature from Gov. Gray Davis.
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Ideology Still Trumps Science for Feminists
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.8.2002
Most observers would think it strange if a special-interest group demanded that a prisoner be kept in prison even after DNA tests proved conclusively that he was innocent. A parallel to such a situation may be found in the latest battle over child support.
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A July 4 Mandate
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
7.3.2002
The day before the Supreme Court ruled on the Cleveland school-choice plan, some addled jurist declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional, thereby robbing the Cleveland decision of the attention it deserved. This was an emancipation proclamation.
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Tech Needs TPA
ePolicy
7.1.2002
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are abuzz because there’s finally hope that a bill to grant the President greater authority to negotiate international free-trade agreements might actually pass. Freer trade will stimulate the economy and help poorer countries, so it’s shocking that “Trade Promotion Authority” has been so tough to deliver.
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In: Consumer Empowerment, Out: Social Insurance
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Chris Middleton
7.1.2002
Consumer Reports provides a valuable service with its tough product reviews and ratings. But the popular magazine also promotes a health-care system that is bad for consumers and the medical profession alike. The latest example appears in the July 2002 issue. The article, ominously titled “The unraveling of health insurance,” takes a look at the new consumer-driven health-care plans that are being adopted by large employers as an antidote to the nearly perpetual health-care crisis
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