Commentary
Climate Change
Questions for McCain
Senator McCain, as an across-the-board conservative, I plan to vote for you in November—unless a more authentically conservative ticket emerges or you choose a liberal running mate, such as Mitt Romney. You would be superior to a President Barack Obama in protecting and defending America and promoting free market reforms ...
Gregg Jackson
May 29, 2008
Commentary
Will Romneycare Hurt Mitt’s VP Bid?
As I was glassing over the news that I have missed over the last week, I came across this item from May 21 edition of the Wall Street Journal: The New Big DigMay 21, 2008; Page A18 Mitt Romney’s presidential run is history, but it looks as if the taxpayers ...
Tommy Oliver
May 28, 2008
Business & Economics
Why rob consumers to reward retailers?
WASHINGTON (Map, News) – A recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found Americans rank the skyrocketing cost of gasoline as their most serious economic concern. The House Judiciary Committee will soon consider a proposal to put more money in the pockets of gas station owners and major retailers, while ...
Daniel R. Ballon
May 26, 2008
Commentary
Massachusetts proves the folly of universal health insurance
Universal health care recently celebrated its second — and perhaps final — birthday in Massachusetts. There’s not a lot of cause for celebration. Although a success in the media and a blueprint for other politicians seeking solutions to health care — including Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ...
Sally C. Pipes
May 25, 2008
Business & Economics
Cleaner Environment Not Necessarily in the Bag
Yesterday the Assembly Appropriations Committee was scheduled to consider AB 2058, “Reducing Plastic Bags,” by Lloyd E. Levine, a Sherman Oaks Democrat, which imposes on consumers a recycling “fee” of $.25 per bag. The committee, and all Californians, should also consider some facts about plastic bags and their alternatives. Assemblyman ...
K. Lloyd Billingsley
May 23, 2008
Agriculture
How Misguided Energy Policy Eats Up the Economic Stimulus
This month, checks are going out to federal taxpayers in the form of an “economic stimulus” package. Economists are divided over how those dollars will be spent—new spending, paying off bills, savings? Unfortunately, other federal and state policies, including energy policy, will eliminate any stimulation. The economic stimulus checks are ...
Thomas Tanton
May 22, 2008
Commentary
How Good is Your Public School?
Richard John Neuhaus writes that school choice is a moral issue, but that many middle-class families, with some justification, fear that vouchers would harm their own children’s schools. We certainly think those fears are misplaced, but the question got us thinking: How good are those schools, anyway? The Pacific Research ...
Pacific Research Institute
May 22, 2008
Commentary
School-choice successes grow
Georgia approves private-school scholarships funded with tax credits Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into law last week a universal school-choice program that uses corporate and individual tax credits to create $50 million in scholarships to private schools. The law is the latest advance in the school-choice movement, which has seen ...
Vicki E. Murray
May 22, 2008
Commentary
Happy Birthday Vladimir Lenin, And Oh Yeah – Happy Earth Day Too
As we approach the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union (oops, I meant Earth Day) it’s so easy to confuse the two because they occur, quite by coincidence I’m sure, on the same day. Anyway April 22 will bring forth an avalanche of the usual accusations that ...
Alan Caruba
May 22, 2008
Commentary
Florida Fumbles A Fine Opportunity for Health Reform
We’ve had some positive chatter about Governor Crist and the Republican-majority legislature’s health reform. Sure, they’ve got a couple of things right: lightening up on hospital Certificate of Need, permitting “mandate-lite” policies, and allowing portability between the individual and small-group markets. But what a mess the rest of it is! ...
John R. Graham
May 22, 2008
Questions for McCain
Senator McCain, as an across-the-board conservative, I plan to vote for you in November—unless a more authentically conservative ticket emerges or you choose a liberal running mate, such as Mitt Romney. You would be superior to a President Barack Obama in protecting and defending America and promoting free market reforms ...
Will Romneycare Hurt Mitt’s VP Bid?
As I was glassing over the news that I have missed over the last week, I came across this item from May 21 edition of the Wall Street Journal: The New Big DigMay 21, 2008; Page A18 Mitt Romney’s presidential run is history, but it looks as if the taxpayers ...
Why rob consumers to reward retailers?
WASHINGTON (Map, News) – A recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found Americans rank the skyrocketing cost of gasoline as their most serious economic concern. The House Judiciary Committee will soon consider a proposal to put more money in the pockets of gas station owners and major retailers, while ...
Massachusetts proves the folly of universal health insurance
Universal health care recently celebrated its second — and perhaps final — birthday in Massachusetts. There’s not a lot of cause for celebration. Although a success in the media and a blueprint for other politicians seeking solutions to health care — including Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ...
Cleaner Environment Not Necessarily in the Bag
Yesterday the Assembly Appropriations Committee was scheduled to consider AB 2058, “Reducing Plastic Bags,” by Lloyd E. Levine, a Sherman Oaks Democrat, which imposes on consumers a recycling “fee” of $.25 per bag. The committee, and all Californians, should also consider some facts about plastic bags and their alternatives. Assemblyman ...
How Misguided Energy Policy Eats Up the Economic Stimulus
This month, checks are going out to federal taxpayers in the form of an “economic stimulus” package. Economists are divided over how those dollars will be spent—new spending, paying off bills, savings? Unfortunately, other federal and state policies, including energy policy, will eliminate any stimulation. The economic stimulus checks are ...
How Good is Your Public School?
Richard John Neuhaus writes that school choice is a moral issue, but that many middle-class families, with some justification, fear that vouchers would harm their own children’s schools. We certainly think those fears are misplaced, but the question got us thinking: How good are those schools, anyway? The Pacific Research ...
School-choice successes grow
Georgia approves private-school scholarships funded with tax credits Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into law last week a universal school-choice program that uses corporate and individual tax credits to create $50 million in scholarships to private schools. The law is the latest advance in the school-choice movement, which has seen ...
Happy Birthday Vladimir Lenin, And Oh Yeah – Happy Earth Day Too
As we approach the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union (oops, I meant Earth Day) it’s so easy to confuse the two because they occur, quite by coincidence I’m sure, on the same day. Anyway April 22 will bring forth an avalanche of the usual accusations that ...
Florida Fumbles A Fine Opportunity for Health Reform
We’ve had some positive chatter about Governor Crist and the Republican-majority legislature’s health reform. Sure, they’ve got a couple of things right: lightening up on hospital Certificate of Need, permitting “mandate-lite” policies, and allowing portability between the individual and small-group markets. But what a mess the rest of it is! ...