Opinion
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Profits, Patents, and Seniors: A guide for policymakers
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives passed Medicare prescription drug benefit legislation, only to have it defeated in the Senate. -
Boys Lag Behind, but Extra Help Goes to Girls
Opinion -While major newspapers reported boys falling behind girls in graduation rates and other key academic indicators, the U.S. -
Calculating NEA and AFT “Market Share” by State
Opinion -The clout of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers is primarily due to the manpower and financial resources of their vast membership. It is obviously in the unions’ interest to magnify their numbers as much as possible. -
MEHPA Update: Most States Reject Law
Opinion -A year ago this month, anthrax attacks sent shock waves from coast-to-coast and border-to-border as state health care officials tried to cope with potential bioterrorism and other public health emergencies following the September 11 terrorist attacks. -
Reform the FDA, Not Patent Laws
Opinion -The Senate’s recent passage of the Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act (GAAP) proves Senators are seeking an easy way around a complex issue. -
Senate Rejects Yet Another Rx Plan
Opinion -A Medicare prescription drug benefit is all but dead for this year’s Congressional session. The Senate defeated a scaled-back plan to help the nation’s neediest seniors pay for their medicines. -
State Drug Price Controls Backfire
Opinion -Politicians in Washington, DC and state capitols across the country have claimed the remedy for high-priced prescription drugs is to be found in enacting price controls on medications sold to senior citizens. -
The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 27 decision—that the inclusion of religious schools in the Cleveland school voucher program is a legitimate exercise of state authority under the U.S. -
The Myths of Medical Monopoly and Monopsony
Opinion -Two erroneous notions have long infected the debate about appropriate public policies for prescription drugs. The first is that patents protecting intellectual property grant monopoly power and keep prices higher than they otherwise would be. -
Why Do Public Health Advocates Lie About the Risks of Smoking?
Opinion -At the Northwestern train station in downtown Chicago, commuters are met with a billboard that reads: “Odds of dying in a car crash: 6,200 - 1; dying from smoking: 3 - 1. -
Heartland’s 18th Anniversary Benefit
Opinion -The Heartland Institute's 18th Anniversary Benefit Dinner, on Wednesday, Octber 23, is shaping up to be another great evening of terrific speakers, fine food, and stimulating conversation. -
World Summit on Sustainable Development Underway
Opinion -Tech Central Station has a team on location in Johannesburg, South Africa to cover the World Summit on Sustainable Development, August 26-September 4. Jim Glassman and editor-in-chief Nick Schulz are heading the team. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-7
Opinion -Tick, Tick, Tick, Mr. Motley A few months ago we noted that famed plaintiffs’ attorney Ron Motley had vowed in October 1999 to bring the former lead paint industry “to its knees” within three years or he would give them his 120-foot yacht. -
EPA: Time to Reform New Source Review
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency released on June 13 its Report to the President on New Source Review, the part of the Clean Air Act that regulates emissions from new or substantially modified factories and power plants. -
EU ratifies biosafety protocol
Opinion -The European Union took yet another step away from the rational regulation of genetically modified crop plants and foods in late June, when it became the 22nd party to formally ratify the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. -
New technology fights old pests, feeds more people
Opinion -When I started farming 30 years ago, I never dreamed of how technological progress would revolutionize agriculture. We still can’t control the weather. -
Americans believe in global warming … and psychic powers, astrology, and UFOs
Opinion -A nationwide survey conducted by the National Science Foundation concludes few Americans understand the scientific process, and many believe in pseudoscience and may be quick to accept phony science reports. -
Kyoto through the backdoor
Opinion -In an effort to circumvent President George W. -
Sierra Club attacks Ford, SUVs
Opinion -The Sierra Club is an environmental lobbying organization best known for its anti-logging stance, which has contributed to the wildfires devastating hundreds of thousands of acres of forests and wilderness areas. -
Religion and green ideology don’t mix
Opinion -“Campaign ExxonMobil” persuaded a Catholic group to introduce a resolution, which garnered just 20 percent of shareholder votes, calling on the company to produce a plan to promote renewable energy sources. -
Bush retains Clinton-Gore legacy at USFS
Opinion -Another public land squabble is shaping up in “Bush Country” with the announcement that U.S. -
Feds threaten fishing, hunting at Bear Dunes
Opinion -A controversial proposal to create a federal wilderness in a portion of Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has local residents, region-wide anglers, hunters, hikers, and other outdoor folks concerned and angry. -
NSR’s Unintended Consequences
Opinion -EPA’s Report to the President on New Source Review contains many case studies illustrating the unintended consequences of NSR. Here are just four examples. -
A Good Yarn
Opinion -a review of Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst Riverhead Books - August 2002 by Diane Raines Ward Water Wars is a horribly titled, terribly promoted, miserably quoted, wonderful book.