Commentary
California
Is ‘Blue Fatigue’ Building in Liberal California? Polls Suggest Yes.
The results of a poll released, appropriately, on Tax Day, indicate that Californians, no matter their partisan alignment, have grown weary of having to hand over so much of their money to the state and local governments. A separate poll arriving four days later shows that an increasing portion of ...
Charter Schools
Biden Administration Copying California Law to Stifle Charter Schools
By Lance Izumi & McKenzie Richards Imagine a world where budding businesses would be required to both obtain permission to enter the marketplace from competitors and then prove to the government that their business would serve community needs. Makes no sense, right? Well, welcome to education policy, where the Biden ...
Commentary
Time to Rollback Healthcare Scope of Practice Laws
Last week, both New York and Kansas granted nurse practitioners the freedom to practice independently, without the supervision of a physician. The Empire State and the Sunflower State are now the 25th and 26th states to roll back “scope-of-practice” restrictions on NPs. This trend is worth celebrating. The shortage of primary care doctors in the United ...
Commentary
Medicaid Expansion Would Only Expand Waste And Poor Care
Expanding Medicaid is popular, according to new survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Two-thirds of Americans living in the 12 states that have not expanded the program as prescribed by Obamacare want their leaders to change course and boost enrollment. Perhaps they’ll change their minds after reviewing the latest data on ...
Commentary
Our public health agencies aren’t alright
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just recommended that seniors get a second COVID-19 booster shot. But there are plenty of people over the age of 65 — one-third, according to the latest data — who have not yet gotten their first booster. Perhaps that’s because it took until ...
Agriculture
Biden & Co. could ‘march in’ and kneecap America’s economy
The Biden administration may soon cripple America’s economy — inadvertently, of course. Officials are reportedly giving serious consideration to a “march-in” petition, nominally filed by a handful of cancer patients but promoted by Knowledge Ecology International, the activist group founded by Ralph Nader. The petition urges the administration to relicense ...
Commentary
Bernie Sanders’s Healthcare Goals Are Deadly For Patients
Next month, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will be back grandstanding at yet another hearing on “Medicare For All.” He’s promised to introduce a bill establishing a single-payer healthcare system “soon.” It would be the third time he’s done so since 2017. Sanders’s vision of a government takeover of the country’s ...
Climate Change
To Help The Earth Let’s Acknowledge The Limits Of Alternative Energy
Earth Day is this week. A day set aside to celebrate “the planet’s clean natural resources”, which is now synonymous with alleviating the costs associated with global climate change. Since alternative technologies are viewed as clean resources that will solve the problem of global climate change, the website earthday.org claims that, consumer demand for ...
Commentary
Coerced pricing is price controls by another means
Sustainably addressing the problems of rising prices and declining quality requires reforms that empower patients and doctors, improve price transparency, and eliminate the perverse incentives of our current health insurance system that drive up costs and limit care. Instead of addressing the health care system’s core deficiencies, policymakers push for ...
Agriculture
Earth Day Has Become Polluted By Political Correctness And Ignorance
The first Earth Day celebration, a nationwide environmental teach-in, held in 1970, was the brainchild of Democratic Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who was interested in environmental issues. He recruited Rep. Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded liberal Republican congressman, to serve as his co-chair, and they enlisted Denis Hayes, a young ...
Is ‘Blue Fatigue’ Building in Liberal California? Polls Suggest Yes.
The results of a poll released, appropriately, on Tax Day, indicate that Californians, no matter their partisan alignment, have grown weary of having to hand over so much of their money to the state and local governments. A separate poll arriving four days later shows that an increasing portion of ...
Biden Administration Copying California Law to Stifle Charter Schools
By Lance Izumi & McKenzie Richards Imagine a world where budding businesses would be required to both obtain permission to enter the marketplace from competitors and then prove to the government that their business would serve community needs. Makes no sense, right? Well, welcome to education policy, where the Biden ...
Time to Rollback Healthcare Scope of Practice Laws
Last week, both New York and Kansas granted nurse practitioners the freedom to practice independently, without the supervision of a physician. The Empire State and the Sunflower State are now the 25th and 26th states to roll back “scope-of-practice” restrictions on NPs. This trend is worth celebrating. The shortage of primary care doctors in the United ...
Medicaid Expansion Would Only Expand Waste And Poor Care
Expanding Medicaid is popular, according to new survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Two-thirds of Americans living in the 12 states that have not expanded the program as prescribed by Obamacare want their leaders to change course and boost enrollment. Perhaps they’ll change their minds after reviewing the latest data on ...
Our public health agencies aren’t alright
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just recommended that seniors get a second COVID-19 booster shot. But there are plenty of people over the age of 65 — one-third, according to the latest data — who have not yet gotten their first booster. Perhaps that’s because it took until ...
Biden & Co. could ‘march in’ and kneecap America’s economy
The Biden administration may soon cripple America’s economy — inadvertently, of course. Officials are reportedly giving serious consideration to a “march-in” petition, nominally filed by a handful of cancer patients but promoted by Knowledge Ecology International, the activist group founded by Ralph Nader. The petition urges the administration to relicense ...
Bernie Sanders’s Healthcare Goals Are Deadly For Patients
Next month, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will be back grandstanding at yet another hearing on “Medicare For All.” He’s promised to introduce a bill establishing a single-payer healthcare system “soon.” It would be the third time he’s done so since 2017. Sanders’s vision of a government takeover of the country’s ...
To Help The Earth Let’s Acknowledge The Limits Of Alternative Energy
Earth Day is this week. A day set aside to celebrate “the planet’s clean natural resources”, which is now synonymous with alleviating the costs associated with global climate change. Since alternative technologies are viewed as clean resources that will solve the problem of global climate change, the website earthday.org claims that, consumer demand for ...
Coerced pricing is price controls by another means
Sustainably addressing the problems of rising prices and declining quality requires reforms that empower patients and doctors, improve price transparency, and eliminate the perverse incentives of our current health insurance system that drive up costs and limit care. Instead of addressing the health care system’s core deficiencies, policymakers push for ...
Earth Day Has Become Polluted By Political Correctness And Ignorance
The first Earth Day celebration, a nationwide environmental teach-in, held in 1970, was the brainchild of Democratic Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who was interested in environmental issues. He recruited Rep. Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded liberal Republican congressman, to serve as his co-chair, and they enlisted Denis Hayes, a young ...
