Commentary
Commentary
Crisis in the ER? The Solution is At Hand! (It’s Not More Taxpayer Dollars)
Three stories about the uninsured and emergency rooms came across the transom today. As I’ve written about in my analysis of the Schwarzenegger-Nuñez California Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1, the notion that the legions of uninsured crowding America’s ERs is the cause of the health care “crisis” is myth. Nevertheless, ...
California
Gov. Schwarzenegger’s War on Choice in Health Insurance Heats Up
Ever since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1 stumbled just short of the finish line last January, he and his Democratic allies in the legislature have been looking to move bits and pieces of the failed health reform plan forward. According to the Los Angeles Times’ Jordan ...
Business & Economics
China’s New Antitrust Law Crushes Competition and Harms America’s Tech Companies According to a New Report by the Pacific Research Institute
San Francisco – America’s leading tech companies are increasingly under fire from antitrust laws that are being used to crush competition, according to a new report by the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in California. Tech Titans or Political Piñatas: How Global Antitrust Laws Spring Up, Beat ...
Business & Economics
The Case for Womanism
Dee Dee Myers was the first woman to serve as White House Press Secretary and the youngest ever at 31. She served under President Bill Clinton. Now she has taken on a more demanding task in Why Women Should Rule the World, a manifesto for what we might call Womanism. ...
Business & Economics
Tort reform: Ohio sets good example
State Sen. Larry Mumper was right to praise the Ohio General Assembly for its efforts to bolster economic growth through initiatives such as tort reform (“Legislature seeks to cut the cost of doing business in Ohio,” July 29). In fact, Ohio is setting an example that other states would be ...
Commentary
KGO NewsTalk Radio interview with Lance Izumi: English Immersion vs Bilingual Education in California
Ron Owens Show, KGO NewsTalk Radio 810 AM, August 4, 2008 Lance Izumi, Senior Fellow in California Studies and Education for Pacific Research Institute discusses immersion versus bilingual teaching for non-English speaking students. This interview occurred at 10:00 AM on the Ron Owens show.
California
New Los Angeles Ordnance Turns Hospitals Into Homeless Shelters
Enterprises that “collaborate” with government generally find that the costs come to outweigh the benefits. Those who seek a “seat at the table” often end up being the main course. (Thanks to Bridgett Wagner of the Heritage Foundation for the metaphor.) And in the end, you cannot buy politicians off; ...
Commentary
Exit exam can help special-ed students succeed
San Francisco school officials and advocates for the disabled have recently made news fighting the state requirement that special education students take the high school exit exam. Upon closer inspection, this seeming issue of simple compassion becomes much more complicated. Students must pass the state high school exit exam, first ...
Business & Economics
Attention eBay Users: Online Sellers Facing New IRS Rules
Countless Americans selling as individual entrepreneurs on sites like eBay must now be aware that the Internal Revenue Service has modified their rules to make sure taxes are reported on private Internet transactions. As part of the housing rescue package just signed by President George W. Bush, the Internet transaction ...
Business & Economics
Google, DoubleClick Merger Raises Concerns
Analysts say the real worry is that government will become involved in deciding how companies store and use people’s data. Barton raised his concerns in a May 21 letter to Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt. Barton wrote, “It is critical that Google’s and DoubleClick’s policies and procedures for handling this ...
Crisis in the ER? The Solution is At Hand! (It’s Not More Taxpayer Dollars)
Three stories about the uninsured and emergency rooms came across the transom today. As I’ve written about in my analysis of the Schwarzenegger-Nuñez California Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1, the notion that the legions of uninsured crowding America’s ERs is the cause of the health care “crisis” is myth. Nevertheless, ...
Gov. Schwarzenegger’s War on Choice in Health Insurance Heats Up
Ever since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California Health Care Deforminator ABX1 1 stumbled just short of the finish line last January, he and his Democratic allies in the legislature have been looking to move bits and pieces of the failed health reform plan forward. According to the Los Angeles Times’ Jordan ...
China’s New Antitrust Law Crushes Competition and Harms America’s Tech Companies According to a New Report by the Pacific Research Institute
San Francisco – America’s leading tech companies are increasingly under fire from antitrust laws that are being used to crush competition, according to a new report by the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in California. Tech Titans or Political Piñatas: How Global Antitrust Laws Spring Up, Beat ...
The Case for Womanism
Dee Dee Myers was the first woman to serve as White House Press Secretary and the youngest ever at 31. She served under President Bill Clinton. Now she has taken on a more demanding task in Why Women Should Rule the World, a manifesto for what we might call Womanism. ...
Tort reform: Ohio sets good example
State Sen. Larry Mumper was right to praise the Ohio General Assembly for its efforts to bolster economic growth through initiatives such as tort reform (“Legislature seeks to cut the cost of doing business in Ohio,” July 29). In fact, Ohio is setting an example that other states would be ...
KGO NewsTalk Radio interview with Lance Izumi: English Immersion vs Bilingual Education in California
Ron Owens Show, KGO NewsTalk Radio 810 AM, August 4, 2008 Lance Izumi, Senior Fellow in California Studies and Education for Pacific Research Institute discusses immersion versus bilingual teaching for non-English speaking students. This interview occurred at 10:00 AM on the Ron Owens show.
New Los Angeles Ordnance Turns Hospitals Into Homeless Shelters
Enterprises that “collaborate” with government generally find that the costs come to outweigh the benefits. Those who seek a “seat at the table” often end up being the main course. (Thanks to Bridgett Wagner of the Heritage Foundation for the metaphor.) And in the end, you cannot buy politicians off; ...
Exit exam can help special-ed students succeed
San Francisco school officials and advocates for the disabled have recently made news fighting the state requirement that special education students take the high school exit exam. Upon closer inspection, this seeming issue of simple compassion becomes much more complicated. Students must pass the state high school exit exam, first ...
Attention eBay Users: Online Sellers Facing New IRS Rules
Countless Americans selling as individual entrepreneurs on sites like eBay must now be aware that the Internal Revenue Service has modified their rules to make sure taxes are reported on private Internet transactions. As part of the housing rescue package just signed by President George W. Bush, the Internet transaction ...
Google, DoubleClick Merger Raises Concerns
Analysts say the real worry is that government will become involved in deciding how companies store and use people’s data. Barton raised his concerns in a May 21 letter to Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt. Barton wrote, “It is critical that Google’s and DoubleClick’s policies and procedures for handling this ...