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It’s a Lock: Governor’s veto traps California in obsolete medical research
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.29.2008
SACRAMENTO – Last month Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed September 25 “Stem Cell Awareness Day.” That news got by many Californians, who remain unaware of how California is locked into paying for obsolete research, certain to consume billions of dollars but unlikely to come up with any of the cures Californians were led to believe would be the result of their vote for Proposition 71 in 2004.
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Californians Beware: “Healthy” San Francisco’s Tax Hikes May Be Coming Your Way
Capital Ideas
By: John R. Graham
10.22.2008
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger invested a lost year in health reform, allying himself with former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez in support of a bill to increase taxes and spending on government-mandated health care by more than $12 billion annually. Fortunately for Californians, the bill stalled in the Senate, and the state’s budget crisis pushed health “reform” off the agenda, for now.
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James Hansen Goes Extreme
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
10.21.2008
NASA’s James Hansen, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is no stranger to controversy. But in September, Dr. Hansen took his activism to another level by endorsing “ecovandalism” in a British court.
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The Stealth Mental Health Parity Act: An Attack on Innovation and Choice in Health Care
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: John R. Graham
10.14.2008
If anyone wonders why the government should not decide which benefits health plans must provide, let him observe the troubled birth of the “Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.” Wellstone-Domenici had languished in Congress for a full 16 years and got passed as part of the Wall Street bailout bill chaotically rushed into law earlier this month.
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Sacramento Sell-Out: Even the Laws Have a Price
Capital Ideas
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
10.8.2008
Only two weeks after lawmakers in Sacramento passed a budget, the state is already in the red. As Governor Schwarzenegger and the legislature debate more spending cuts and accounting tricks, another solution may be right in front of them: more laws. In California, government owns the laws and forces people to pay for a copy. Therefore, the more legislation and regulations the state creates, the more revenue it generates.
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The Longest Match
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.7.2008
Not all readers of the Contrarian are aware that I have been known to play a game of tennis. I have defeated many of my peers and even, like Billy Jean King, defeated men, some of whom did not take the loss well. Unlike Billy Jean and her celebrity feminist fans, however, I did not make a big deal out of it for the next 35 years. In her recent book, Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I’ve Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes, she is still swinging away.
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