Commentary
Commentary
United States Army Names PRI Director of Education Studies Lance Izumi to Key Committee
United States Army Names PRI Director of Education Studies Lance Izumi to Key Committee San Francisco – The U.S. Army has named PRI Senior Director of Education Studies Lance Izumi to its select Southern California Advisory Board Executive Committee. The Army appointed Mr. Izumi in his capacity as president of ...
California
The Folly of California’s Taxpayer Funded Stem Cell Research
The Sacramento Bee has editorialized on a topic near to our hearts at PRI: stem cell research. Actually, stem cell research itself is “above our paygrade” as the President-elect might say. Nevertheless, we have an intense interest in the whereabouts of $3 billion that Californian voters approved to fund embryonic ...
Business & Economics
Washington Ranks 37th on New U.S. Economic Freedom Index
The Pacific Research Institute recently released its 2008 Economic Freedom Index. Here’s how they describe it: … a ranking of economic freedom in the 50 states. Published in association with Forbes, the Index scores states based on 143 variables, including regulatory and fiscal obstacles imposed on businesses and residents. This ...
Commentary
Arizona’s Prop 101: It’s Always Darkest Before It Goes Totally Black
Before the election, I concluded that Sen. McCain had a health care plan which would have allowed states and families more freedom to choose health care that they prefer, instead of that which the federal government prefers. Sen. Obama’s choice of Dr. Tom Daschle as the next U.S. Secretary of ...
Agriculture
California’s Newest Chronic Disease: “Preventionitis”
A major driver of health costs over the last couple of decades is chronic illness such as diabetes and heart disease. It’s time to add another chronic ailment to the list: “preventionitis.” Because much chronic disease is associated with bad lifestyle choices, many succumb to the utopian delusion that investment ...
Business & Economics
Did the Fed, or Asian Saving, Cause the Housing Bubble?
Ludwig von Mises Institute, November 19, 2008 Just about the only good thing to come out of the housing bubble is that many financial analysts are coming to see the virtue of the Austrian theory of the business cycle. Specifically, though Greenspan did his best to blame deregulation and foreigners ...
Commentary
Rx: Assess need; research; plan
Rafael home-schools his young children while his wife earns their single income as a speech therapist. Their children are all beautiful with straight black hair and huge dark eyes that flash with intelligence. At church, the littlest, Clare, sings the hymns with such devotion she is a distraction to adults ...
Commentary
Time for a new kind of GI Bill
Time for a new kind of GI Bill Re “Once again, help for wartime vets” (Editorial, Nov. 11): On Veterans Day we were reminded of the significance of the “GI Bill for the 21st Century” signed this past summer. The very first GI Bill came in 1944 to honor World ...
Business & Economics
Letter, Opinion Piece Address Supreme Court Case Regarding Drug Safety, Federal Pre-Emption
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard opening arguments in Wyeth v. Levine, a case that could determine whether patients have the ability to file product liability lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies in state courts (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 11/4). Summaries of a letter to the editor and an opinion ...
Business & Economics
Where Are the Japanese Googles?
Last week, a select group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs traveled to Tokyo to learn about Japan’s tech sector and new opportunities. What they found was a country in transition, a few surprises, and a group of Japanese entrepreneurs itching to plunge headfirst into the international marketplace. The goal was to ...
United States Army Names PRI Director of Education Studies Lance Izumi to Key Committee
United States Army Names PRI Director of Education Studies Lance Izumi to Key Committee San Francisco – The U.S. Army has named PRI Senior Director of Education Studies Lance Izumi to its select Southern California Advisory Board Executive Committee. The Army appointed Mr. Izumi in his capacity as president of ...
The Folly of California’s Taxpayer Funded Stem Cell Research
The Sacramento Bee has editorialized on a topic near to our hearts at PRI: stem cell research. Actually, stem cell research itself is “above our paygrade” as the President-elect might say. Nevertheless, we have an intense interest in the whereabouts of $3 billion that Californian voters approved to fund embryonic ...
Washington Ranks 37th on New U.S. Economic Freedom Index
The Pacific Research Institute recently released its 2008 Economic Freedom Index. Here’s how they describe it: … a ranking of economic freedom in the 50 states. Published in association with Forbes, the Index scores states based on 143 variables, including regulatory and fiscal obstacles imposed on businesses and residents. This ...
Arizona’s Prop 101: It’s Always Darkest Before It Goes Totally Black
Before the election, I concluded that Sen. McCain had a health care plan which would have allowed states and families more freedom to choose health care that they prefer, instead of that which the federal government prefers. Sen. Obama’s choice of Dr. Tom Daschle as the next U.S. Secretary of ...
California’s Newest Chronic Disease: “Preventionitis”
A major driver of health costs over the last couple of decades is chronic illness such as diabetes and heart disease. It’s time to add another chronic ailment to the list: “preventionitis.” Because much chronic disease is associated with bad lifestyle choices, many succumb to the utopian delusion that investment ...
Did the Fed, or Asian Saving, Cause the Housing Bubble?
Ludwig von Mises Institute, November 19, 2008 Just about the only good thing to come out of the housing bubble is that many financial analysts are coming to see the virtue of the Austrian theory of the business cycle. Specifically, though Greenspan did his best to blame deregulation and foreigners ...
Rx: Assess need; research; plan
Rafael home-schools his young children while his wife earns their single income as a speech therapist. Their children are all beautiful with straight black hair and huge dark eyes that flash with intelligence. At church, the littlest, Clare, sings the hymns with such devotion she is a distraction to adults ...
Time for a new kind of GI Bill
Time for a new kind of GI Bill Re “Once again, help for wartime vets” (Editorial, Nov. 11): On Veterans Day we were reminded of the significance of the “GI Bill for the 21st Century” signed this past summer. The very first GI Bill came in 1944 to honor World ...
Letter, Opinion Piece Address Supreme Court Case Regarding Drug Safety, Federal Pre-Emption
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard opening arguments in Wyeth v. Levine, a case that could determine whether patients have the ability to file product liability lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies in state courts (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 11/4). Summaries of a letter to the editor and an opinion ...
Where Are the Japanese Googles?
Last week, a select group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs traveled to Tokyo to learn about Japan’s tech sector and new opportunities. What they found was a country in transition, a few surprises, and a group of Japanese entrepreneurs itching to plunge headfirst into the international marketplace. The goal was to ...
