The historic initiative of President Obama’s first month in office is the Trillion Dollar Stimulus Package passed with little time, oversight, analysis or comprehensive bipartisan perspective. Its probability of success as a stimulus vehicle is also widely in question. It was pretty much accepted that this bill was crafted by Nancy Pelosi with a totally partisan approach to establishing the stimulus plan that is supposed to save our economy. The reason this plan has no Republ

Delaware has enacted significant reforms in recent years to improve its criminal justice system, balancing the need for public safety with the goal of rehabilitating offenders who are amenable to change. Despite this progress, Delaware faces significant criminal justice challenges. Fortunately, there are opportunities to further improve Delaware’s correctional system, including solutions that will help address the state’s substantial budget shortfall and prison capacity press

The Texas Public Policy Foundation has released, "Keys to an Effective Drug Policy." The highlights of the release are below: Drug Courts. Drug courts are a proven alternative to incarceration for low level drug offenders. Drug courts offer intensive judicial oversight of offenders combined with mandatory drug testing and escalating sanctions for failure to comply. The average recidivism rate for those who complete drug court is between 4% and 29%, in contrast to 48% for thos

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By Lawrence W. Reed   The following contains excerpts from a speech given by Larry Reed, an adjunct scholar with the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and president emeritus of the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, to the Economic Club of Detroit in 2001.   The speech outlines key principles that should provide valuable guidance to all current and future policymakers.   “I know that this Club has heard many policy addresses by many leaders in governmen

Follow the link below to a short (15 minutes) tutorial on the meaning of liberty and the connection between liberty and the concept of "Ownership." To speak of an Owner is to accept that something is to be owned. That something starts with yourself. Do you "own" yourself? Do you own your future? Do you own your present? What about your past? To investigate these questions, click on link. Read More click here for more info

By Michael C. Maibach                                                                                            February 2016   Americans elect a President through the state-by-state mechanism of the Electoral College, rather than direct nationwide popular vote.  Today, all but two states award all of their electoral votes to the statewide winner.  Ever since Andrew Jackson was denied the Presidency by the US House in 1824, some have called for its abolition.  It is timely t

By Michael C. Maibach                                                                                                         January 2016   As we consider this and recent Presidential campaigns, many of our fellow citizens have expressed unhappiness with their choices. “Can’t we get better people to run?” they ask. Why is it that in America, those considered as our "best and brightest" rarely run for public office?  CEOs of global enterprises, Presidents of leading universit

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This opinion was published at delawareonline.com on January 19, 2015. The views expressed below belong to Dr. Richard Lamb and not of the Caesar Rodney Institute. Reposted with permission.   I am unacquainted with Bill Holt, but when he writes comparing John Staplefords column about Health Care and free markets, and stating--"Mr. Stapleford mistakenly tries to apply free market principles to areas of l

This article was originally published in The News Journal January 17, 2015. Click here for the original   I appreciated the Dialogue Delaware piece by Stacie Beck and Eleanor Craig entitled, “Unfriendly to Business,” which appeared in your pages on Jan. 11. It seems that there are a lot of things that folks suggest our various levels of government do to solve our impacted social problems and dearth of decent-paying jobs. The first impulse seems to be to start up “programs” to