Commentary
California
Families USA’s Death Train Chugs Into California
I wish that I had the PR skills of Families USA. When I released the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, comparing government interference in health care across the land, I only did it once. Families USA has figured out that if it releases the same analysis for each state on ...
Commentary
There is good in drug advertising
There was quite an uproar when the politicians who decide what information Americans may or may not see attacked Pfizer for using a certain physician in its ad campaign for Lipitor, the popular anti-cholesterol pill. Remarkably, the spokesperson, Dr. Robert Jarvik, was the inventor of the first artificial heart. Apparently, ...
Business & Economics
The Beginning of the Longevity Revolution
At last week’s Aging in America conference in Washington, attendees were greeted with multiple displays of technology aiming to help older people live better. A technological divide exists between the “oldest old” and the “recently old” baby boomers, but technologies developed for both groups may also be able to help ...
Commentary
McCain’s health proposal aims to tackle costs
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Given the amount of attention focused on the differences between the Democratic presidential candidates’ health-care proposals, you might think presumed Republican nominee Sen. John McCain didn’t have one of his own. But he does. As Democratic senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spar over whose proposal ...
Business & Economics
Market Drilldown
PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins is a guest panelist on “Kudlow & Company” discussing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernard Bernanke’s recent testimony on Capital Hill and the economy.
Commentary
Corruption & Waste in New Jersey’s State Health Plans
Back in September, President Bush held the line on Congressional Democrats’ (and many Republicans’) irresponsible plan to make more American kids dependent on government health care. Congress proposed to expand SCHIP (state government health insurance program) grants into the middle class, which drew a rare response of relative fiscal responsibility ...
Business & Economics
Bernanke on the Hot Seat
PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins is a guest panelist on “Kudlow & Company” discussing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernard Bernanke’s rate cuts as a response to the subprime mortgage crisis.
Commentary
Testimony submitted to the California Assembly Education Committee – AB-2361
Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D. and senior fellow in Education Studies, gave invited testimony on AB 2361, the Safe Schools Guarantee bill, at a meeting of the California Assembly Education Committee on April 2, 2008.
Blackouts
Coal Power Opposition Raises Blackout Possibilities
The lights may soon go out in the Washington, DC metro area and other parts of the country due to environmental activist opposition to coal-fired power plants, energy analysts are warning. “Electric power has already become painfully expensive in Washington and its suburbs. Now, local utilities, say, it could become ...
Commentary
Home-school ruling gets failing grade
KKLA Radio (Los Angeles), April 3, 2008 Orange County Register, April 1, 2008 CA Capital News.com, April 2, 2008 The Flash Report, April 1, 2008* The Eureka Reporter (CA), March 24, 2008 The March arrest of a Los Angeles public-school assistant principal on charges of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student ...
Families USA’s Death Train Chugs Into California
I wish that I had the PR skills of Families USA. When I released the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, comparing government interference in health care across the land, I only did it once. Families USA has figured out that if it releases the same analysis for each state on ...
There is good in drug advertising
There was quite an uproar when the politicians who decide what information Americans may or may not see attacked Pfizer for using a certain physician in its ad campaign for Lipitor, the popular anti-cholesterol pill. Remarkably, the spokesperson, Dr. Robert Jarvik, was the inventor of the first artificial heart. Apparently, ...
The Beginning of the Longevity Revolution
At last week’s Aging in America conference in Washington, attendees were greeted with multiple displays of technology aiming to help older people live better. A technological divide exists between the “oldest old” and the “recently old” baby boomers, but technologies developed for both groups may also be able to help ...
McCain’s health proposal aims to tackle costs
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Given the amount of attention focused on the differences between the Democratic presidential candidates’ health-care proposals, you might think presumed Republican nominee Sen. John McCain didn’t have one of his own. But he does. As Democratic senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spar over whose proposal ...
Market Drilldown
PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins is a guest panelist on “Kudlow & Company” discussing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernard Bernanke’s recent testimony on Capital Hill and the economy.
Corruption & Waste in New Jersey’s State Health Plans
Back in September, President Bush held the line on Congressional Democrats’ (and many Republicans’) irresponsible plan to make more American kids dependent on government health care. Congress proposed to expand SCHIP (state government health insurance program) grants into the middle class, which drew a rare response of relative fiscal responsibility ...
Bernanke on the Hot Seat
PRI Senior Fellow Lee Hoskins is a guest panelist on “Kudlow & Company” discussing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernard Bernanke’s rate cuts as a response to the subprime mortgage crisis.
Testimony submitted to the California Assembly Education Committee – AB-2361
Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D. and senior fellow in Education Studies, gave invited testimony on AB 2361, the Safe Schools Guarantee bill, at a meeting of the California Assembly Education Committee on April 2, 2008.
Coal Power Opposition Raises Blackout Possibilities
The lights may soon go out in the Washington, DC metro area and other parts of the country due to environmental activist opposition to coal-fired power plants, energy analysts are warning. “Electric power has already become painfully expensive in Washington and its suburbs. Now, local utilities, say, it could become ...
Home-school ruling gets failing grade
KKLA Radio (Los Angeles), April 3, 2008 Orange County Register, April 1, 2008 CA Capital News.com, April 2, 2008 The Flash Report, April 1, 2008* The Eureka Reporter (CA), March 24, 2008 The March arrest of a Los Angeles public-school assistant principal on charges of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student ...
