Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| ILLEGAL ALIEN LEGAL CHALLENGE Asking courts to rewrite laws doesn't show much respect for the rule of law, says economist and author John R. Lott, Jr... |
| THE NEW CULTURE WAR The case for free enterprise is not materialism, but human flourishing, says Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute... |
| IT'S TIME TO END POLICING FOR PROFIT IN ARIZONA Arizona has some of the nation's worst civil forfeiture laws, according to a new national report... |
| THE REALITIES BEHIND THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE Only four policies can significantly reduce illegal immigration, says researcher Jeffrey Miron... |
| GOVERNMENT: THE NEXT BUBBLE TO BURST The unsustainable combination of a bloated public bureaucracy, high deficit spending and unfunded pension obligations has put the United Sates on the brink of becoming a failed state, say Newt Gingrich, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Dan Varroney, the chief operating officer at American Solutions... |
| NEWSPAPER DEATH ACT No matter what the rationale for proposing Senate Bill 1285, the results would be the death of published newspapers in Michigan, say observers... |
| PAY ATTENTION TO GREECE (BUT NOT TOO MUCH ATTENTION) If we're going learn anything from what Greece has taught us, it must be to limit the scope and power of our federal government, says Scott Hennen, a radio broadcaster at WDAY in Fargo, North Dakota... |
| THE SALT WARS AND COUNTRY HAM Not only would limiting salt content potentially make some pork products dangerous, but there's no evidence that restricting salt, in isolation, has any health benefits, say observers... |
| DON'T SELL SHORT SELLING SHORT A ban on short selling is like a ban on capital formation, says author Robert Sloan... |
| AMERICA'S APPROACHING DEBT DISASTER Lawmakers would rather give their constituents government-financed freebies than a balanced federal budget, says Brian Williams, legislative director for the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
