Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| SECURITY CAMERAS' SLIPPERY SLOPE Over the last couple of decades, Great Britain has run a large-scale experiment with closed-circuit TV surveillance, and the results suggest that the security benefits aren't worth the cost in tax dollars and lost privacy, says Gene Healy, vice president at the Cato Institute... |
| ARIZONA LAW IS HATED BECAUSE IT COULD BE EFFECTIVE There are 6,000 federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tasked with restoring the rule of law in a country that already contains between 12 and 20 million immigration law-breakers, says Heather Mac Donald, a contributing editor at City Journal and a co-author of "The Immigration Solution"... |
| FANNIE AND FREDDIE FAILURE FOREVER Nothing in Sen. Chris Dodd's (D-Conn.) financial regulatory bill does anything to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, say observers... |
| CONGRESS MAKES TOO MANY VAGUE LAWS Nearly two dozen federal laws enacted in 2005 and 2006 to combat nonviolent crime lack an adequate provision that someone accused of violating the laws must have had a "guilty mind," or criminal intent, according to report... |
| WHY ARIZONA DREW A LINE The arguments we've heard against Arizona's new immigration law either misrepresent its text or are otherwise inaccurate, says Kris W. Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City... |
| HOW ARIZONA BECAME CENTER OF IMMIGRATION DEBATE Arizona is home to an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants -- a population larger than that of entire cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis and New Orleans, say observers... |
| ANGELS OUT OF AMERICA Sen. Chris Dodd's (D-Conn.) financial reform bill will make it harder for business start-ups to raise seed capital, say observers... |
| BUSTING THE INTERNET "IDEOLOGICAL BUBBLE" MYTH Contrary to concerns of critics, the Internet has not produced a cocooned public square, but rather, a freewheeling multilayered one, according to study... |
| 400 MILLION PEOPLE CAN'T BE WRONG America's new baby boom bodes well for our future, says Joel Kotkin, a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University... |
| AN ECONOMY OF LIARS When government and business collude, it's called crony capitalism. Expect more of this from the financial reforms contemplated in Washington, says Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., a senior fellow at the Cato Institute... |
