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Cops Bust Hamburglar!
Capital Ideas
By: John R. Graham
5.26.2010
As part of a crusade against childhood obesity, three politicians in a county of 180,000 people have decided that parents are not allowed to decide whether they can take their children to a restaurant where they might receive a toy alongside their meal.
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The Emperor’s New Clothes
Pioneer/PRI Study
5.20.2010
A new report demonstrates that fundamental flaws within the Common Core State Standards Initiative’s push for national academic standards, especially the weak definition of college and career readiness, will result in sub-standard national assessments.
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State IT Plan Should Help Silicon Valley and Respect Taxpayers
Capital Ideas
By: Vince Vasquez
5.19.2010
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has used the state’s IT Strategic Plan as a guiding document to streamline operations, improve efficiencies and accountability across dozens of state agencies. The motive is sound, but whether this effort will succeed remains in doubt.
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Inherit the Wind – the Reality Show
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
5.18.2010
Last month, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the Cape Wind project, a 130-turbine wind farm on Nantucket Sound that has been loudly opposed by wealthy residents on Cape Cod for mostly aesthetic reasons. The latest argument against Cape Wind reveals another angle.
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Beyond ObamaCare: The Ninth and Tenth Amendments and the “Right to Health Care”
Health Policy Prescription
By: John R. Graham
5.11.2010
As a libertarian-conservative policy analyst, I’m often invited to speak at conferences where the other speakers are more traditional advocates of government control of Americans’ access to medical care. No matter how technical and nuanced the discussion, it usually drifts to the “right to health care,” and how “every other country guarantees universal health care.”
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Why Beverly Hills Gave Students the Boot
Capital Ideas
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
5.5.2010
Students living outside the illustrious 90210 zip code have been allowed to attend Beverly Hills Unified schools through an “opportunity permits” program. That opportunity came to an abrupt end in January when the Beverly Hills school board voted to end the program—kicking out a full 10 percent of their students.
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Title IX Eyes the Science Guys
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.4.2010
Feminist organizations have launched yet another gender-gap crusade, this time in the nation’s science, technology, engineering, and math departments, or STEM, for short. As we have noted, female college enrollment now approaches 60 percent in this country, and women earn the majority of degrees at every academic level.
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