Archive for K. L. Billingsley
The Socialist Dream Lives
K. L. Billingsley is a journalism fellow at the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Los Angeles. The United Nations development agency recently rated nations on how they combat poverty, thereby providing valuable lessons in economics, politics, and even diplomacy. At the head of the list stands Trinidad and Tobago, a tiny Caribbean [...]
1Nov1997 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedSuperstar Athletes Provide Economics Lessons
Mr. Billingsley is a journalism fellow at the Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture. What do former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana, L.A. Raiders running back Bo Jackson, and San Diego Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts have in common? All three are former National Football League stars and all three are multimillionaires—not [...]
1Jan1997 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom, Militias, and the Violence Inherent in the System
Mr. Billingsley is a media fellow of the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. Political violence is a serious subject, and since the Oklahoma bombing many pundits have portrayed the nation as near a takeover by crazed, cabbage-patch commandos. But the key to the militia phenomenon may be found in a form of analysis once [...]
1Feb1996 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Government Nannies: The Cradle to Grave Agenda of Goals 2000 and Outcome Based Education by Cathy Duffy
Noble Publishing Associates • 1995 • 263 pages • $13.00 paperback Few forces in American life have postured as more messianic than public education, whose prophets predicted a golden age of creativity, equality, and prosperity if only the government could run the schools and children be forced to attend. They got their wish, and billions [...]
1Dec1995 | K. L. Billingsley | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Government Nannies: The Cradle to Grave Agenda of Goals 2000 and Outcome Based Education by Cathy Duffy
Noble Publishing Associates • 1995 • 263 pages • $13.00 paperback Few forces in American life have postured as more messianic than public education, whose prophets predicted a golden age of creativity, equality, and prosperity if only the government could run the schools and children be forced to attend. They got their wish, and billions [...]
1Oct1995 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedPerspective: Economics 101-From Prison
Education, as the late Malcolm Muggeridge observed, has become the great mumbo-jumbo and fraud of our time. But prison, as it has through the ages, continues to teach invaluable lessons. It was only when lying on rotting prison straw that Alexander Solzhenitsyn finally understood that the line between good and evil does not run between [...]
1Apr1995 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedIf You Build It, They Will Come
K. L. Billingsley is a media fellow of the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. Critics of the government are not always right that taxpayers don t get what they pay for. Sometimes they get more. For example, the government of California has recently provided a lesson in the link between human behavior and economics [...]
1Aug1994 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedOwls, Ferrets, And Free Markets
K. L. Billingsley is a media fellow of the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. Ranchers in the western states like black-footed ferrets because they wreak havoc on the prairie-dog towns that cause ranchers much grief. But when ranchers see a black-footed ferret, they are likely to shoot, shovel, and shut up about it. What [...]
1May1994 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedPerspective: Economic Warnings from Canada
Promoters of “free” national health care constantly urge Americans to look north of the border for answers. That is indeed a healthy exercise, as long as you extend the investigation beyond health care. Consider, for example, the province of Ontario, the hub of Canadian manufacturing and finance. In 1990, when Eastern Europeans were casting off [...]
1Jan1994 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedWill Constitution Trump Revolution in Eastern Europe?
K. L. Billingsley is a media fellow of the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. The movement that saw itself as the wave of the future, and whose leaders threatened to bury the West, is now consigned to the ash dump of history. Communism, the nationalization of human beings, officially died in 1989, some 70 [...]
1May1993 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Government Baby-brokering Business
Author and screenwriter K. L. Billingsley writes about California for the Spectator. Slavery officially ended over 100 years ago, but traffic in human beings still exists. Thanks to federal funds, the business is thriving. The trade is part of what one author calls the “child-abuse industry.” No one denies that child abuse is a serious [...]
1Jan1993 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Food Police Are Watching You
Author and screenwriter K. L. Billingsley writes about California for the Spectator. The current worldwide recession has hurt business and labor but does not appear to have caused any hardship in America’s federal bureaucracy. Alert regulators were recently patrolling the town of Reedley in California’s San Joaquin Valley, a rich source of fruits and vegetables [...]
1Dec1992 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedWelfare: Fraud on Steroids
K. L. Billingsley writes for the London Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. From John Kenneth Galbraith and Michael Harrington to Charles Murray and Jack Kemp, gallons of ink have been spilled over the welfare issue. Some consider welfare the benchmark of a society’s compassion. Others see it as a social toxin. Every [...]
1Apr1992 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Economics and Ethics of Trash
Author and screenwriter K. L. Billingsley covers California for the London Spectator. As they watch barges plying the high seas searching for places to dump their foul loads, Americans are increasingly concerned with the problem of garbage transport. Is this practice ethical? And are there examples where it works? To answer these important questions, several [...]
1Jan1992 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | Continued-
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