Opinion
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States Take Widely Varying Stands on Wind Power
Opinion -Internal conflict among environmental advocates regarding the future of wind power is causing a split among state elected officials as well. -
Crichton on Global Warming
Opinion -How much of the science in State of Fear is accurate, and how much is fiction? Here is a summary of the scientific claims about global warming that appear in the book. -
U.S. Stands Firm at Climate Change Talks
Opinion -At the tenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during December, U.S. -
Making the Case for Nuclear Power
Opinion -A Brighter Tomorrow: Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy by Senator Pete V. Domenici with Blythe J. Lyons and Julian J. Steyn; foreword by former Senator Sam Nunn $24.95, cloth, 288 pages; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. -
Smart Growth: Surrendering the American Dream
Opinion -We are facing in the United States today a very clear and present danger to our prosperity, and in particular to the prosperity of low-income groups in this society, who are disproportionately minority. -
White House Summit Lauds Consumer-Driven Health Care Approach
Opinion -President George W. -
Canada Plans to Stop U.S. Drug Importation
Opinion -Citing ethical, safety, and supply concerns, Canadian health officials have begun to draft a proposal that would ban the export of prescription drugs into the United States by retail sales through the Internet and the mail. -
Technocrats’ Takeover Threatens Patient-Oriented Medicine
Opinion -A new report, "How Technocrats Are Taking Over the Practice of Medicine: A Wake-up Call to the American People," written by Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council on Health Care (CCHC), challenges the "increasingly touted theory of -
Patients and Physicians Can Cut Drug Costs
Opinion -Consumers have never had more opportunities to obtain information on drugs than they do today. Yet chronically ill patients without drug insurance coverage often spend far more on prescription drugs than necessary. -
Lawsuit Abuse Defeats Real-Life Heroes
Opinion -Last month, my wife and I took two of our three sons to see the film The Incredibles. If you have no young children begging you to see it and you think it has no message applicable to adults, allow me to correct you. -
Campaign for Drug Importation Falters
Opinion -Importing safe and cheap prescription drugs would require a billion-dollar safety net that ultimately would consume most of the potential savings from importing drugs while draining drug research and development funds, according to a December 21 report -
Spending on Lotteries in U.S. Tops Spending on Books and Movies
Opinion -The average American spent more on lottery tickets in 2002 than on reading materials or movies, according to “Lotteries and State Fiscal Policy,” a study by Tax Foundation policy analyst Alicia Hansen released on December 15. -
Key Comparisons Between Pro-Medicaid and Pro-Private Pay States
Opinion -"The Long-Term Care Dilemma, What States Are Doing Right and Wrong" profiles five states that could be considered "pro-Medicaid" and five that could be considered "pro-private pay. -
Tax Threats Surface in California
Opinion -Despite emphatic anti-tax election results in 2004, tax-hike proposals are surfacing for the 2005-06 session of the California legislature. -
Proposed Law Would Put California’s Public Pensions on Private-Sector Footing
Opinion -A California assemblyman has proposed scrapping the state's public employee pension system for new employees, instead putting them under the same type of 401(k) pension system offered to most private-sector employees. -
Ten Years of GOP Tax Policy: Good News and Bad
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: This article is excerpted with permission from a chapter in The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later: Smaller Government or Business as Usual? to be published by the Cato Institute in March 2005. -
D.C. Councilwoman Stands against Taxpayer-Funded Stadium–For a While
Opinion -Major League Baseball (MLB) was thrown a curveball on December 15 as District of Columbia Councilwoman Linda Cropp (D) tried to help local taxpayers by changing the financing rules for a proposed new stadium. -
Chicago Stadiums Fail to Deliver Promised Benefits
Opinion -Chicago has two taxpayer-subsidized sports stadiums, neither of which appears to be living up to the promises made by supporters of taxpayer funding. -
Consumers Confident in Prescription Drugs, AP Study Says
Opinion -An end-of-year Associated Press poll showed that, despite recent product withdrawals and reported health risks of popular medicines, U.S. consumer confidence in the safety of prescription drugs remains high. -
Health Care Info Tech Trade Show Highlights Innovation
Opinion -When Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR), a leading health care technology trade show, takes place in Salt Lake City this May, the event will be celebrating its twenty-first year. -
PISA Results Cast Doubt on Heavy Use of Computers in the Classroom
Opinion -Researchers Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann of the CESifo Economic Research Organization in Munich, a joint project of the University of Munich’s Center for Economic Studies (CES) and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, analyzed test performance -
Legal Jujitsu
Opinion -According to Sol Stern, one of New York state’s most powerful arguments against the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was that New York City’s public education system was “so dysfunctional ... -
Organization Provides Model School Choice Bills for State Legislators
Opinion -The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), with which the author is affiliated, released on January 7 a collection of model legislation intended to help state legislators create workable school reform bills that have the best possible chance of -
The FCC Backslides on Unbundling
Opinion -When I was growing up, when someone would get religion and profess faith, but then fall away from religious practice and slip back into his former way of life, it was called “backsliding.
