Commentary
Commentary
A Cool $3.5 Trillion
And as the trajectory of the chart strongly suggests, it would get even worse from there. In the next five years (forget ten) after those depicted on the chart, the bill’s costs would be $1.7 trillion (double what Senator Reid is claiming for “ten years”). Thus, the true first-15-year costs ...
Commentary
LAUSD is selling out English Learners to fatten its finances
IT recently emerged that many Los Angeles students placed in classes for English-language learners in the early elementary grades were still taking such classes when they entered high school. That’s not a knock on the students, but a damning indictment of how government at all levels has sold them out ...
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Good News
While there is a long road ahead and this is no time to become at all overconfident or complacent, it nevertheless appears that Americans who believe in anything remotely resembling our Founding principles of limited government now have increasing evidence of favorable developments for which to be very grateful this ...
California
State must reveal, not conceal, school aptitude
San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2009 This year marks the 10th anniversary of California’s Public Schools Accountability Act, an early legislative triumph of then-Gov. Gray Davis. While some good things have come out of the law, the act has failed in its two key missions: to inform parents and the ...
Commentary
A picture can be worth 2,000 pages
Jeffrey Anderson of the Pacific Research Institute, who has been writing scintillating criticisms of the Democrats’ proposed health care bills, has prepared a chart showing the true 10-year cost of the bill currently before the Senate. As the chart makes clear, the costs of this legislation do not kick in ...
Commentary
The Republican War Still Rages
National Public Radio, November 23, 2009 Two weeks ago on November 7, the House voted 220 to 215 in favor of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 1,900-page, trillion-dollar health-care bill. On Saturday, the Senate voted 60 to 39 to commence the health-care debate on Senator Harry Reid’s 2,074-page bill that will end ...
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Condition Serious but Not Hopeless
An NRO Symposium Harry Reid scored a victory Saturday night. And part of the line of argument from those urging that senators vote against the motion to proceed Saturday night was: The bill is not likely to get better from here on in. So is it over? Abortion, high costs ...
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Screening for Cancer
Having barely digested the U.S. Preventive Services Task Forces’ suggestion that women between 40 and 50 years of age don’t need mammograms, American women now have to deal with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists’ recommendation that they don’t need Pap smears until they turn 21. But at least ...
Business & Economics
People vote for freedom with their feet and effort
“Why are they all running to Colorado? What have they got down there that we haven’t got?” So asks a villain in Ayn Rand’s, “Atlas Shrugged.” He complains about Colorado’s primitive, lazy government that “does nothing outside of keeping law courts and a police department.” A young worker answers, “Maybe ...
Commentary
More on the Grinding Pace of the Health-Care Take-Over
Well, what do you know: Most Republicans also supported the 1935 Social Security Act. 81 of 102 Republican Representatives and 16 of 25 Senators voted in favor. While this happened after the mid-term elections, the Congressional swing in favor of FDR’s party wasn’t massive: Dems picked up nine seats in ...
A Cool $3.5 Trillion
And as the trajectory of the chart strongly suggests, it would get even worse from there. In the next five years (forget ten) after those depicted on the chart, the bill’s costs would be $1.7 trillion (double what Senator Reid is claiming for “ten years”). Thus, the true first-15-year costs ...
LAUSD is selling out English Learners to fatten its finances
IT recently emerged that many Los Angeles students placed in classes for English-language learners in the early elementary grades were still taking such classes when they entered high school. That’s not a knock on the students, but a damning indictment of how government at all levels has sold them out ...
Good News
While there is a long road ahead and this is no time to become at all overconfident or complacent, it nevertheless appears that Americans who believe in anything remotely resembling our Founding principles of limited government now have increasing evidence of favorable developments for which to be very grateful this ...
State must reveal, not conceal, school aptitude
San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2009 This year marks the 10th anniversary of California’s Public Schools Accountability Act, an early legislative triumph of then-Gov. Gray Davis. While some good things have come out of the law, the act has failed in its two key missions: to inform parents and the ...
A picture can be worth 2,000 pages
Jeffrey Anderson of the Pacific Research Institute, who has been writing scintillating criticisms of the Democrats’ proposed health care bills, has prepared a chart showing the true 10-year cost of the bill currently before the Senate. As the chart makes clear, the costs of this legislation do not kick in ...
The Republican War Still Rages
National Public Radio, November 23, 2009 Two weeks ago on November 7, the House voted 220 to 215 in favor of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 1,900-page, trillion-dollar health-care bill. On Saturday, the Senate voted 60 to 39 to commence the health-care debate on Senator Harry Reid’s 2,074-page bill that will end ...
Condition Serious but Not Hopeless
An NRO Symposium Harry Reid scored a victory Saturday night. And part of the line of argument from those urging that senators vote against the motion to proceed Saturday night was: The bill is not likely to get better from here on in. So is it over? Abortion, high costs ...
Screening for Cancer
Having barely digested the U.S. Preventive Services Task Forces’ suggestion that women between 40 and 50 years of age don’t need mammograms, American women now have to deal with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists’ recommendation that they don’t need Pap smears until they turn 21. But at least ...
People vote for freedom with their feet and effort
“Why are they all running to Colorado? What have they got down there that we haven’t got?” So asks a villain in Ayn Rand’s, “Atlas Shrugged.” He complains about Colorado’s primitive, lazy government that “does nothing outside of keeping law courts and a police department.” A young worker answers, “Maybe ...
More on the Grinding Pace of the Health-Care Take-Over
Well, what do you know: Most Republicans also supported the 1935 Social Security Act. 81 of 102 Republican Representatives and 16 of 25 Senators voted in favor. While this happened after the mid-term elections, the Congressional swing in favor of FDR’s party wasn’t massive: Dems picked up nine seats in ...
