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Tuning Out Environmental Gore
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
1.28.2004
Washington is besieged with snow and ice again this week, which means it is time for another meditation on—wait for it—global warming! Of course, I have a tough act to follow, given the perfect comic timing of former Vice President Al Gore, who recently chose the coldest day in the northeast in the last 15 years to make a speech about global warming. Big Al was funnier still: he made the speech to MoveOn.org. If ever there was one subject about which the left won’t ever “move on,” it is global warming.
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Bush Disappoints, Arnold Impresses GOP, Part II
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.14.2004
With no primary challengers to worry about, President Bush seemingly has already shifted gears into general-election mode and, in the process, has angered a good portion of the Republican base. On the heels of dismaying fiscal conservatives with his $400-billion prescription-drug entitlement program, the president now proposes a thinly veiled amnesty plan for illegal immigrants that has outraged the anti-illegal-immigration grassroots. In contrast, most California Republicans have been enthused by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's principled State of the State address and 2004-05 budget plan.
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No Belle Prize
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.8.2004
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2003 to Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer. The choice has left many women puzzled, especially those in countries where women’s rights are not exactly flourishing, such as Ebadi's own country of Iran.
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2004: The Year of the Ferret
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
1.7.2004
SACRAMENTO, CA - In the film Kindergarten Cop, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a pet ferret, an animal that may be legally owned in 48 states, but not Hawaii, New York City, or California. Now governor Schwarzenegger can extend the same privilege to Californians, and there are good reasons he should.
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No Place to Learn: California’s School Facilities Crisis
PRI Study
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
1.1.2004
The growing student population in California demands facilities to be built in a timely manner. However, the Field Act places a bureaucratic maze on approving school construction, creating a lengthy building process of six years or more, raising costs from one third to one half higher than those of the private sector. No Place to Learn explains these problems and offers reforms to reduce bureaucracy and costs.
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