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A Climate of Unintelligence?
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
5.29.2007
The US House of Representatives recently passed an intelligence authorization bill demanding that the nation’s intelligence agency draft a National Intelligence Estimate to evaluate anticipated geopolitical effects of global climate change as a risk to national security. Though it is certainly within the scope of duties of the CIA to investigate issues of national security, the Agency should not be spending valuable time speculating on this kind of situation.
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Green: It’s Not That Black and White
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
5.22.2007
With increasing awareness of environmental issues, many people are searching for ways to “green” their lifestyle. Numerous celebrities and publications offer helpful and simple tips for becoming more environmentally friendly. But the truth is that the meaning of “green” is not well defined.
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Should Medicare be Means-Tested Symposium
Publication
By: John R. Graham
5.22.2007
Medicare’s hospital trust fund is expected to go bust in only 11 years. The prescription drug benefit—a program that did not even exist two years ago—carries an unfunded liability of $8 trillion. Clearly, the nation is not on the right course.
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Loser Pays
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
5.9.2007
Late last month a jury here awarded $7.6 million to James Lindberg, a former California Department of Education employee the CDE punished for doing his job. The award is an increase of more than $3 million from the $4.5 million Lindberg got in 2002, and more reason why legislators should familiarize themselves with this case of waste, fraud and corruption.
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Digital Dialogue: Technology, Capitalism, and the Pursuit of Freedom
PRI Study
5.9.2007
The digital revolution has positively transformed our lives, but it has also created a number of new policy issues that individuals and their governments must address. For instance, faster and more efficient communication saves an enormous amount of time and money and increases our productivity and incomes, but it also creates new privacy and security issues.
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Legislative Assault on Tests Will Harm Students
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
5.2.2007
Talk to principals at elementary schools with high-achieving, low-income students and one of their clear messages is the importance of testing to diagnose students' academic weaknesses and to guide interventions. Yet the legislature has decided to undermine the state’s assessment program by eliminating the crucial testing of second-grade students.
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The Women's Equality Amendment: Bad Policy but Good Confessional
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.2.2007
Stories are appearing about something called the Women's Equality Amendment, billed as a welcome new addition to the Constitution of the United States. Aside from the name, there is nothing new about it and the WEA deserves burial for the same reasons Americans rejected the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) the first time.
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Health, Charity, and Leviathan
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Diana M. Ernst, John R. Graham
5.1.2007
Americans consider health-care costs to be a high priority for government action, but in this area the government is already the 800-pound gorilla. We have long promoted more individual choice and less government control in health care, but we don’t just advocate “dog-eat-dog” capitalism. Another helpful solution is philanthropy. Rooted in American principles of savings, growth, and volunteerism, philanthropy may play an increasingly important role with future generations as government programs become fiscally fragile. Indeed, if we had relied more on philanthropy over the last four decades, those programs would be in a lot better financial shape.
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