|
|||
Home
Students
Issue PapersSeven Surprising Secrets of Best-Selling Female AuthorsMarji Ross | 2011.12.07 | Perspective Having worked with so many of the brightest and most outspoken commentators and pundits on the Right, I have learned some interesting things about navigating politics and business - about what is effective and what is ephemeral - and about the many faces of success. Rethinking the "Women's Issues"Kellyanne Conway | 2011.11.03 | Perspective 2010 was a watershed moment for women — a real crossing the Rubicon for America’s women as voters. When asked, “what was the most important issue that helped you decide today?,” 42% of women said economics and the budget. It took the conservative movement to respect women for the financial sophisticates they are. They’ve moved beyond the ‘girl stuff’. Fixing Our Economy: A Guide for Today's DebatesJackie Gingrich Cushman | 2011.10.12 | Policy Express No 11-2
Author Jackie Gingrich Cushman offers a short guide to help navigate today's economic debates. Environmentalism: Bad FaithAnn McElhinney | 2011.07.19 | Policy Express No 11-1
"This all changed when, as a journalist, I was sent to cover the story of a Canadian mining company who wanted to open Europe’s largest gold mine in Transylvania, Romania." Author Ann McElhinney explains why environmentalists' claims can never be taken on good faith. Take Feminism BackChristina Hoff Sommers | 2010.03.10 | Policy Express No 10-1
The Freedom and Economics of ChoiceKarol Boudreaux | 2008.11.14 | Policy Express No. 8-3
Who Should Pay for Health Care?Sally C. Pipes | 2008.06.27 | Policy Express No 8-2
Women: A World ApartNonie Darwish | 2008.03.12 | Policy Express No 8-1
No Guarantees: Rating the Cost Efficiency of Virginia School DistrictsLil Tuttle | 2008.01.07 | CBLPI Report Does cost-efficiency of state programs matter? Virginia Governor Tim Kaine says it does. Confronted with a state budget shortfall in excess of $641 million, Governor Kaine recently advised state legislative finance committees that the state would "need to look for new ways of doing business that are more efficient." Immigration: Turning the TideDr. Barry R. Chiswick | 2007.11.14 | Policy Express No 7-7
The Abandonment of Classic Western LiteratureElizabeth Kantor, Ph.D. | 2007.10.12 | Policy Express No 7-6
Owning Our Future: The Change within Social SecurityRyan Lynch | 2007.07.01 | Policy Express No 7-5
Global Warming: What You Haven't Been ToldRoy W. Spencer, PhD | 2007.05.22 | Policy Express No 7-4
Toward Free-Market Health CareGrace-Marie Turner | 2007.05.06 | Policy Express No. 7-3
The Dangers of Social Ideology in Campus Health CareMiriam Grossman, MD | 2007.04.15 | Policy Express No 7-2
Education Funding in Virginia: Aligning State Dollars to Achievement Priorities [Report] (pdf)Lil Tuttle | 2005.12.10 | CBLPI report State costs for Virginia public schools increased by $1.28 billion in 2004 and $1.5 billion in 2006. Yet legislators have no idea how much state funding actually reaches a given student or school, or what state dollars buy in terms of educational achievement and performance. This report examines the process, limitations, and flaws of Virginia's Standards of Quality funding system, a school district-based funding method implemented decades before achievement became state and national priorities. It also explores a student-based funding model that would be more transparent and supportive of the state's achievement priorities. Society's Watchdogs: A Study of Newspaper Coverage of Education News & Reforms in One State [Study]Lil Tuttle | 2005.06.15 | CBLPI study Daily newspapers are losing their time-honored place as the principal forum for the American conversation. According to recent media studies, Americans now rate daily newspapers less "believable" than television news, and most Americans think newspaper reporters are out of touch with mainstream society. This study's findings, based on telephone surveys of education print reporters and analysis of 403 education-related articles published over eight months by four daily news publishers in Virginia, suggest the public's criticism may be warranted when it comes to coverage of elementary and secondary education. Too Much of a Good Thing: Staffing and Students in Virginia's School Districts [Report] (pdf)Lil Tuttle | 2005.05.15 | CBLPI report More than half of Virginia's public school districts posted a net decrease in student enrollment between 1997 and 2004 and a net increase in instructional staff positions. No wonder local property taxes are soaring. The Slovenly Science: A Look at Women's StudiesLydia Percival Meuret | 2004.10.10 "One afternoon recently, I went to the office of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) to gather some material on women's programs in America." Gender Equity: Political Feminism Goes to SchoolLydia Percival Meuret | 2004.10.10 "Is there any reasonable person who finds the word "manhole" discriminatory? Is there any responsible educator in America who believes students in high school should be taught that Emily Post's etiquette is sexist? Unfortunately, the answer is 'yes.'" Paying Private Prep School Prices for Public Schools (pdf)Lil Tuttle | 2002.04.15 | CBLPI report The per-pupil cost of educating a student in Virginia's public schools is almost twice the average tuition in the state's private schools. In several Virginia school districts, per-pupil spending in public schools now exceed the tuition charted by many elite private prep schools. School Choice Promotes Higher Achievement and Better CitizenshipDr. Jay Greene | 1999.10.10 "In September 1999, the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute co-sponsored with The Heritage Foundation and the Virginia Family Foundation a presentation by researcher Jay Greene. Dr. Greene co-authored a study of the Milwaukee school choice program conducted by the Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance. Dr. Greene is a Senior Fellow with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research." |
  | ||||||||||||||||
|
Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute | 112 Elden Street | Suite P | Herndon | Virginia | 20170 P: 888.891.4288, 703.318.0730 | F: 703.318.8867 | info@cblpi.org CBLPI is a tax exempt 501 (c)(3) organization. Contributions are eligible for a tax deduction. |
a proud member of
 | ||||||||||||||||
Few of us are trained in economics, so we arrive at adulthood feeling uncomfortable with the subject and doing our best to avoid it. Avoidance, however, is a luxury we can no longer afford. The economy is in shambles, and our lifestyles, careers, wages, and property are on the line. If only for self-preservation, we must engage in today's economic policy debates and make our voices heard.
"Ten years ago," writes the author, "I believed that environmentalists were genuinely good and kind and caring. They were concerned about nature, the animals, and keeping the world clean and unpolluted. They were doing this work for all of the rest of us, and I was grateful because I was too lazy to do anything to save the whales myself.
When asked, "Are you a feminist?," most American women say no. Feminist activists blame the media for feminism's poor image, but I believe the activists themselves have turned the women's movement into a caricature. Within living memory, the American feminist movement was a vibrant, broad-based vehicle for social equality that had achieved momentous victories and enjoyed richly deserved prestige for its valor and success.
How does the capitalist free-market economic system work? What do everyday choices of shampoo, shoes, magazines, and electronics have to do with it? Why is consumer choice a fundamental indicator of individual liberty and the condition of democratic societies?
We've all heard the statistic "47 million Americans do not have health insurance" as an underlying argument for massive health care reform. But did you know that 57 percent of the 47 million uninsured have annual incomes above $50,000? Or that two-thirds of the 47 million are between the ages of 18 and 34?
Are younger Americans being sold another Social Security scheme?
Author Sally C. Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute, describes the two traditional, competing visions for health care reform: one focused on government, mandates, and taxes; the other focused on markets, consumer free will, and innovation. She warns that "young Americans have the most to gain or lose by the outcome of the health care reform debate." 
Most Americans think of Islam as just a religion. Islam is much more; it is a one party state with a very elaborate legal system, called Sharia law, that can put you to death if you leave it. The lives of women living under Sharia law and those living under democratic law are a world - and centuries - apart.
Author Nonie Darwish explains: I lived in the Middle East under Family Sharia for 30 years and witnessed its cruel and inhumane treatment of women. When I was a teenager, our maid (who was my age) was pregnant as a result of forced rapes by her boss at the home where she previously worked. My mother, who did not want to send her back to her family because of the possibility she would be killed, sent her to a government facility. A year later, we learned the young maid was killed by her father and brother to protect the family honor.
Ms. Darwish also issues a warning: America is facing a great danger from Sharia advocates who are trying to convince America that Sharia Islamic law is a religious right compatible with democracy. American women can stand together against the spread of radical Islam and its discrimination against women in the Western world. America must protect its freedom and culture, which will erode if we continue to put political correctness above the values that made this country great.
Current immigration laws and policies are not serving the best economic interests of the United States. What changes in border and interior enforcement policies would help stem the flow of illegal immigrants? What reforms in U.S. immigration law would encourage more highly-skilled legal immigrants and increase the economic benefits of immigration for the American public?
Author Barry R. Chiswick, Ph.D., addresses these questions and suggests how the tide in immigration can be turned.
Classic Western literature has traditionally played a large role in sustaining "Western culture." If Western culture has, on balance, been a benefactor of the human race, then the abandonment of its great literature by college literature professors is a very great loss, both to students and to the long-term health of Western civilization.
Author Elizabeth Kantor, Ph.D., argues that universities should be teaching the classic literature of our culture to today's students. 
Social Security is the largest investment most of us will make in our entire lives, and it will likely be one of our worst.
At what cost will we continue paying into a system that has repeatedly raised taxes and cut benefits since its inception? At what point will we demand that Social Security stop undermining the retirement security of future generations?
Global warming is in the news nearly every day now. Calls for action to reduce mankind's greenhouse gas emissions are being made by scientists, environmentalists, politicians, movie stars, and op-ed columnists. Some view the threat to be greater than that from terrorism. But just how real is the threat? And even if global warming becomes dangerous, what can be done about it?
You might have heard that "all reputable scientists" agree on global warming -- that there is a "consensus," and that the science is "settled." But there is only one aspect of the problem that scientists agree on: that global warming has occurred in the last century. What is not agreed upon is the degree to which mankind is responsible for that warming.
American health care stands at a critical crossroad. National policymakers are debating two very different courses: one toward expanded government-directed health care; the other toward free-market, consumer-directed health care. The outcome of these policy debates will shape the cost, care, coverage, and control of Americans' health services for decades to come. ...
A college freshman - I call her Heather - came to me for help with her mood: every so often she had episodes of feeling down, crying easily, and hating herself. Normally, she was social and outgoing; these days she was spending hours alone in her room. Heather didn't know where this was coming from. Everything seemed to be going so well: she liked school, had plenty of friends, and got along well with her family.
She paused at one question: did you recently begin or end any relationship? Well, yes ... I can think of one thing. I recently got a "friend with benefits," and actually ... I'm confused, because it seems to me like he's getting the benefits, but I'm not getting the friendship. ...
