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The Wrong Protest
Capital Ideas
By: Xiaochin Yan
3.29.2006
SACRAMENTO, CA - For the third straight day this week, tens of thousands of students walked out of their schools to protest against legislation that would make illegal immigration a felony. The Los Angeles County Office of Education reported that more than 36,000 students walked out from district schools on Tuesday. Among heavily Hispanic schools in downtown Los Angeles the news of the boycott spread through hallway posters and public address systems. Many schools went into lockdown, with some officials literally fighting with protestors to keep the doors of the school closed and the students in the classrooms.
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Preschool Campaign Gets an Ethics Issue
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
3.22.2006
SACRAMENTO, CA - Rob Reiner claims that opponents of Proposition 82, his ballot initiative for universal
government-run preschool in California, are making him the issue because they are incapable of arguing against the measure on its merits. In recent days, Reiner has become the issue, but for reasons related to his first political production.
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When the Government Picks Winners and Losers
By: Anthony P. Archie
3.16.2006
SACRAMENTO, CA -- The Sacramento city council voted last week to subsidize a struggling IMAX movie theater owned by powerful developers, while at the same time forcibly closing two profitable liquor stores owned by immigrants. Not only do these actions waste taxpayers' dollars and trample on individual property rights, they also demonstrate how the city is more than willing to play favorites to get what it wants.
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Less Expensive Alternatives to Reiner Preschool Plan
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
3.8.2006
SACRAMENTO, CA - How much preschool is needed to get children ready for kindergarten and subsequent grades? According to Rob Reiner's Proposition 82, which will appear on the June ballot, the answer is one year of government-run preschool for all four-year-olds at a whopping cost of $2.4 billion per year. Yet a successful but much less expensive five-week preschool program has already been operating for two years in California.
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A Woman's World?
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.7.2006
Last month’s election of Michelle Bachelet as president of Chile is being hailed as part of an inexorable march toward a better world run by women. Before popping the champagne, we might wait to see how the women perform in office, particularly in Chile, where the new leader will face challenges.
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Condoleezza Rice, Call Your Office
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.3.2006
Betty Friedan, who died at 85 on February 4, issued plenty of misinformation during her long life. The author of The Feminine Mystique, however, would be hard pressed to match the nonsense being written about her. Consider, for example, Marie Cocco of the Washington Post Writer's Group.
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Three Strikes for Health Freedom: A Review of Recent Books on Health Reform
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Diana M. Ernst
3.1.2006
The U.S. is the most medically innovative country in the world, and these innovations are responsible for saving and improving the lives of countless patients. Three instructive new books acknowledge both the U.S. health care system’s existing achievements, and its government-induced defects. A common free market theme among these books means foreseeable overlap, even from chapter to chapter. But differences among them considerably distinguish their approach on health care reform.
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Capital Expenditures and California Telecom Reform
PRI Study
By: Arthur B. Laffer, Ph.D., Andrew Coors, Gregory A. Stein, Vince Vasquez, Wayne H. Winegarden, Ph.D
3.1.2006
Telecommunications growth has created a wide array of job opportunities for the United States – nearly one million Americans are now employed by the industry.
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Deregulation Lessons for Telecommunications in California from the Airline and Natural Gas Industries
3.1.2006
The telecommunications industry is an integral part of the California economy, providing jobs, tax revenues, and a vital service for every business in the state. With the largest consumer market in the nation, an entrepreneurial spirit, and home to the famous Silicon Valley, California should be a unique place for continued growth and innovation in telecommunications. But the state’s decades-old regulatory system however, has failed to keep up with the corporate and consumer trends of the Information Age, and is no longer capable of appropriately managing this dynamic industry.
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