Pacific Research Institute
Business & Economics
The Pacific Research Institute Releases Primer on Internet Privacy
San Francisco, July 7, 2009 — The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the release of a new report on Internet privacy and security. Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government ...
Health Care
Health-Care Facts and Myths Part II
Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care. This is the second segment of her interview with Brian Sullivan of Fox Business News.
Health Care
Brian Sullivan Takes on Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders Over Health Care Bill
Guest host, Brian Sullivan, interviews Vermont’s Independent Senator, Bernie Sanders, regarding whether the Senate Democrats will make the most of their supermajority and push through universal health care. Mr. Sullivan shows a video clipping with Sally C. Pipes discussing her experience with Canada’s universal health care system.
Health Care
Health-Care Facts and Myths
Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care.
Business & Economics
California Could Add Nearly 180,000 New Jobs at No Cost to Taxpayers
San Francisco, July 6, 2009 – California could add some 180,000 new jobs at no cost to taxpayers if the federal estate tax were repealed, according to research by the former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The research was conducted for the nonprofit American Family Business ...
Commentary
Message to Washington: Biologic Meds Offer Hope to Cancer Patients
Philippine Daily Mirror, July 2, 1009 Hoy en Delaware (Georgetown, DE) , July 21, 2009 Franklin Press (Franklin, NC), July 21, 2009 The Resident (Pawcatuck, CT), July 29, 2009 This year, nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. For patients and families alike, a diagnosis is a terrifying ...
Business & Economics
California: The National Petri Dish
Supposedly, trends start in California and then spread to the rest of the country, a notion that seems to be confirmed by the latest economic news. In May, California’s unemployment rate hit 11.5 percent—the highest it has been since 1941. This morning we learn that unemployment for the entire country ...
Business & Economics
Cap and Trade: The government’s new pet market
Encore Online (Wilmington, NC), June 29, 2009 While most Americans are distracted by the situation in Iran and the vital current healthcare debates, Barack Obama and his friends in Congress are attempting to rush through one of the most draconian realignments of energy policy in the nation’s history. This legislation ...
California
The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease
How three liberal states got into deep trouble with ‘progressive’ ideas. President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It’s hard to miss the irony that he’s pitching this change in Washington even as the same ...
Commentary
Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
The Pacific Research Institute Releases Primer on Internet Privacy
San Francisco, July 7, 2009 — The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the release of a new report on Internet privacy and security. Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government ...
Health-Care Facts and Myths Part II
Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care. This is the second segment of her interview with Brian Sullivan of Fox Business News.
Brian Sullivan Takes on Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders Over Health Care Bill
Guest host, Brian Sullivan, interviews Vermont’s Independent Senator, Bernie Sanders, regarding whether the Senate Democrats will make the most of their supermajority and push through universal health care. Mr. Sullivan shows a video clipping with Sally C. Pipes discussing her experience with Canada’s universal health care system.
Health-Care Facts and Myths
Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care.
California Could Add Nearly 180,000 New Jobs at No Cost to Taxpayers
San Francisco, July 6, 2009 – California could add some 180,000 new jobs at no cost to taxpayers if the federal estate tax were repealed, according to research by the former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The research was conducted for the nonprofit American Family Business ...
Message to Washington: Biologic Meds Offer Hope to Cancer Patients
Philippine Daily Mirror, July 2, 1009 Hoy en Delaware (Georgetown, DE) , July 21, 2009 Franklin Press (Franklin, NC), July 21, 2009 The Resident (Pawcatuck, CT), July 29, 2009 This year, nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. For patients and families alike, a diagnosis is a terrifying ...
California: The National Petri Dish
Supposedly, trends start in California and then spread to the rest of the country, a notion that seems to be confirmed by the latest economic news. In May, California’s unemployment rate hit 11.5 percent—the highest it has been since 1941. This morning we learn that unemployment for the entire country ...
Cap and Trade: The government’s new pet market
Encore Online (Wilmington, NC), June 29, 2009 While most Americans are distracted by the situation in Iran and the vital current healthcare debates, Barack Obama and his friends in Congress are attempting to rush through one of the most draconian realignments of energy policy in the nation’s history. This legislation ...
The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease
How three liberal states got into deep trouble with ‘progressive’ ideas. President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It’s hard to miss the irony that he’s pitching this change in Washington even as the same ...
Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
