Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| HAYEK'S TIMELY COMEBACK By increasing the size of government, President Obama has left fewer resources for the rest of us to direct through our own decisions, says economist Russ Roberts... |
| FIGHTING CRIME WHERE THE CRIMINALS ARE Attacks on the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy are based on the false premise that police activity should mirror census data, not crime, says Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute... |
| NUMBER OF CHILDLESS AMERICAN WOMEN IN THEIR 40S RISING The number of women in their 40s without biological children is much larger than it once was, with 1.9 million childless women in 2008, compared with 580,000 in 1976, according to a Pew Research Center study... |
| A BROKEN IMMIGRATION COURT SYSTEM From 1996 to 2008, the United States allowed 1.8 million aliens (many of them here illegally) to remain free upon their promise to appear in court when their cases were scheduled to be heard, and 736,000 of them never showed up for their hearings... |
| THE MYTH OF FINANCIAL REREGULATION Ironically, there is no deregulation that will be reversed by the new regulatory reform bill currently before Congress, says Arnold Kling, an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute... |
| OBAMA'S MORATORIUM, DRILLED Federal judge Martin Feldman made clear that even presidents aren't allowed to impose an edict that isn't justified by science or safety... |
| VISA DOUBLE JEOPARDY: EMPLOYMENT CRACKDOWN We are competing for talent in a global market and one of our most important weapons, the H-1 visa, has become nearly dysfunctional, says immigration attorney David Grunblatt... |
| GERIATRIC WORLD More than half the babies born since 2000 in France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Canada, Japan and the United States will live past 100, says Joshua E. Keating... |
| CHINESE WEB CENSORSHIP A new policy by China aimed at policing the Internet for smut will also squelch online dissent, says Xiao Qiang, director of the University of California, Berkeley's China Internet Project... |
| DON'T DELAY; CANCEL! Loopholes in flight delay rules will encourage more cancellations, says Katherine Mangu-Ward is a senior editor of Reason magazine and Reason.com... |
