Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| NEW REPORT SLAMS "SOCIAL MOBILITY MYTHS" Many politicians are badly informed about the facts of social mobility in modern Britain. And because they don't know the facts, they support policies which are at best unnecessary, and at worst deeply damaging, says Peter Saunders, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Sussex... |
| "WE ARE TOTALLY UNPREPARED" Nine years after 9/11, there is a chilling complacency about attacks using weapons of mass destruction, says columnist Peggy Noonan... |
| SWAT STATS: POLICE TRANSPARENCY Maryland is the first state in the country to pass a law that requires every police department in the state to report how often and for what purpose they deploy their special weapons and tactics teams... |
| CHARITABLE DONATIONS SLIP AMID ANXIETY For the second year in a row, philanthropy has seen the deepest decline ever recorded by the Giving USA Foundation, which has tracked annual giving since 1956... |
| SEN. COBURN TACKLES RUNAWAY DEFENSE SPENDING We can find significant savings in military spending by increasing accountability and making wiser spending choices, says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)... |
| WHERE ARE THE GITMO GOATHERDS? Nearly all of those held at Guantanamo are confirmed terrorists, says Marc A. Thiessen, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute... |
| THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO SAVE NEWSPAPERS AND MEDIA MOGULS The Federal Trade Commission defines journalism as what newspapers do and aligns itself with protecting the old power structure of media, say observers... |
| MARYLAND WIRETAPPING LAW NEEDS AN UPDATE Prosecuting those who capture police misconduct on tape thwarts the rule of law and makes civil servants into bullies, says David Rittgers, an attorney and legal policy analyst... |
| CALLING A STATE SPONSOR A STATE SPONSOR A growing body of evidence points to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez's singular role in supporting terrorism and related criminality, says Roger F. Noriega, former ambassador to the Organization of American States... |
| "DO OVER" SOCIAL SECURITY REPAYMENT PROVISION ENTICES MANY RETIREES A recalculation provision in the Social Security code can help many people in this tough economy, says Pam Villarreal, a senior policy analyst at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
