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Miracle Man Wants More Money

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the $3 billion state stem cell agency, is in the news again, but not because of any miraculous cure or therapy it produced. The news is that CIRM wants more money from Californians and that calls for a look back. CIRM was created ...
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Obamacare Unintended Consequence of the Day: Higher Drug Prices for Kids’ Hospitals

One anonymous politician who voted to impose Obamacare on the nation told the reporter that this results from “an honest mistake in drafting.” Sick kids will lose access to medicines because of politicians’ incompetence, but they don’t even bother to defend their not reading or understanding the legislation anymore. Indeed, ...
Agriculture

Ag impacts on environment need closer look, says researcher

SAN FRANCISCO — Is your food making the planet sick? Are your pork chops, your corn chips, your steaks, your breakfast cereal polluting the air, water and land that everyone on Earth depends on to sustain life? The answer, says a Pacific Research Institute researcher who has studied the impact ...
Business & Economics

More pension abuses, not enough reform ideas

Nearly every day, the public learns of new tales of pension-abusing public employees. Yet reform efforts are still miles away despite new state and federal proposals that attempt to rein in the problem. For instance, the Los Angeles Times reported recently that “More than 100 lawyers and auditors working for ...
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Pipes to speak on economic impact of health care bill

COTATI – The Economic Prosperity Institute will host an event titled, “The Truth about ObamaCare” at Sonoma State University on Dec. 9 at 11:45 a.m. Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, will discuss the research and insights in her book of the same title. Ms. Pipes ...
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WikiLeaks no threat to free society

SACRAMENTO – The response by pundits to the latest WikiLeaks classified-document dump has reminded me of a preacher who decries pornography, but who also insists on reading the dirty magazines page by page so that he can better understand the depth of the world’s depravity. If WikiLeaks’ actions were so ...
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Are Your State Politicians Serious About Defeating Obamacare? A “Litmus Test”

Last month’s elections demonstrated convincingly that the American people are already fed up with Obamacare, the March legislation that gives the federal government control over our access to medical services. Anti-Obamacare Republicans took the majority in the House of Representatives and increased their numbers in the U.S. Senate. Most people ...
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California fails at giving kids a quality high-tech education

California’s new superintendent of public instruction is Tom Torlakson, whose election locks in a status quo that short-circuits California students on high-tech delivery of educational services. Countries such as Indonesia, Mexico, Singapore, Turkey, India and China, along with the European Union, are taking full advantage of online education. California, home ...
Business & Economics

OPINION: Alaska’s legal climate far from harsh

Obamacare has been passed with great fanfare, but many Americans, unsure how the massive government program will work for them, are taking to the streets voicing their protests. Personal injury lawyers, on the other hand, are drinking champagne and voicing their approval, because they know Obamacare will work well for ...
Business & Economics

In Uncle Sam, You’ve Got a Friend… Who Wants Everybody’s DNA

In the latest WikiLeaks data dump, around a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables were published online. “Cablegate,” as it is being called, has revealed some rather startling information. Among the tech-relevant secrets, the State Department tasked agents to collect DNA and other biometric information on foreigners of interest. Specifically, U.S. ...
Commentary

Miracle Man Wants More Money

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the $3 billion state stem cell agency, is in the news again, but not because of any miraculous cure or therapy it produced. The news is that CIRM wants more money from Californians and that calls for a look back. CIRM was created ...
Commentary

Obamacare Unintended Consequence of the Day: Higher Drug Prices for Kids’ Hospitals

One anonymous politician who voted to impose Obamacare on the nation told the reporter that this results from “an honest mistake in drafting.” Sick kids will lose access to medicines because of politicians’ incompetence, but they don’t even bother to defend their not reading or understanding the legislation anymore. Indeed, ...
Agriculture

Ag impacts on environment need closer look, says researcher

SAN FRANCISCO — Is your food making the planet sick? Are your pork chops, your corn chips, your steaks, your breakfast cereal polluting the air, water and land that everyone on Earth depends on to sustain life? The answer, says a Pacific Research Institute researcher who has studied the impact ...
Business & Economics

More pension abuses, not enough reform ideas

Nearly every day, the public learns of new tales of pension-abusing public employees. Yet reform efforts are still miles away despite new state and federal proposals that attempt to rein in the problem. For instance, the Los Angeles Times reported recently that “More than 100 lawyers and auditors working for ...
Commentary

Pipes to speak on economic impact of health care bill

COTATI – The Economic Prosperity Institute will host an event titled, “The Truth about ObamaCare” at Sonoma State University on Dec. 9 at 11:45 a.m. Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, will discuss the research and insights in her book of the same title. Ms. Pipes ...
Commentary

WikiLeaks no threat to free society

SACRAMENTO – The response by pundits to the latest WikiLeaks classified-document dump has reminded me of a preacher who decries pornography, but who also insists on reading the dirty magazines page by page so that he can better understand the depth of the world’s depravity. If WikiLeaks’ actions were so ...
Commentary

Are Your State Politicians Serious About Defeating Obamacare? A “Litmus Test”

Last month’s elections demonstrated convincingly that the American people are already fed up with Obamacare, the March legislation that gives the federal government control over our access to medical services. Anti-Obamacare Republicans took the majority in the House of Representatives and increased their numbers in the U.S. Senate. Most people ...
Commentary

California fails at giving kids a quality high-tech education

California’s new superintendent of public instruction is Tom Torlakson, whose election locks in a status quo that short-circuits California students on high-tech delivery of educational services. Countries such as Indonesia, Mexico, Singapore, Turkey, India and China, along with the European Union, are taking full advantage of online education. California, home ...
Business & Economics

OPINION: Alaska’s legal climate far from harsh

Obamacare has been passed with great fanfare, but many Americans, unsure how the massive government program will work for them, are taking to the streets voicing their protests. Personal injury lawyers, on the other hand, are drinking champagne and voicing their approval, because they know Obamacare will work well for ...
Business & Economics

In Uncle Sam, You’ve Got a Friend… Who Wants Everybody’s DNA

In the latest WikiLeaks data dump, around a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables were published online. “Cablegate,” as it is being called, has revealed some rather startling information. Among the tech-relevant secrets, the State Department tasked agents to collect DNA and other biometric information on foreigners of interest. Specifically, U.S. ...
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