Archive for Steven Greenhut
Steven Greenhut is a columnist for the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif.
Land-Use Controllers Never Quit
I have more than a small suspicion that those who promote urbanization will do so no matter what it does for the climate. The answer for them is always the same: more urbanization. Don’t worry about the exact question.
21May2009 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedGas Prices: The Latest Excuse to Reengineer Society
As someone who commutes 16 miles each way to work in a gas-guzzling sports car along the LA-area freeways, I’ve been less-than-amused by the nearly $5 a gallon I must pay for the premium fuel that keeps my mid-life-crisis-mobile running. Yet despite the misery of high prices, I’ve taken a certain joy in watching the [...]
1Nov2008 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment Workers Are America’s New Elite
As a child, I would ask my mother on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day: “Why isn’t there a Children’s Day?” After she stopped laughing, Mom explained: “Every day is Children’s Day.” I didn’t understand the joke then, but now that I’m the father of three children, her answer makes perfect sense.
I recalled that exchange recently [...]
Court Holds California’s Homeschoolers in Suspense
Steven Greenhut is a columnist for the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif.
Anyone interested in the nearly criminal mismanagement of the nation’s government-run schools need only do research on the acronym LAUSD. In March 2006 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraiogosa gave a speech blasting the LAUSD—Los Angeles Unified School District—for [...]
The Militarization of American Police
In the summer of 2006 a frail, troubled 18-year-old girl named Ashley MacDonald ran through a nearly empty Huntington Beach, California, city park in the early morning holding a small knife. An onlooker called the police and soon two large male officers showed up. They shot the girl to death with 18 bullets, claiming she [...]
1Mar2008 | Steven Greenhut | 20 comments | ContinuedWildfires and State-Worship
Whenever wars or other tragedies rage, so too rage those who worship at the altar of government.
In his World War I-era essay, “War Is the Health of the State,” writer Randolph Bourne argued that during peaceful times people concern themselves mostly with their own business, but that during war everything changes. “To most Americans of [...]
Central Planning Comes to Main Street
Steven Greenhut (sgreenhut@ocregister.com) is senior editorial writer and columnist at the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif. He is author of Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain.
A casual reader could be forgiven for skimming through a front-page Los Angeles Times article from February 12 and thinking that the story was just [...]
New Urbanism: Same Old Social Engineering
What should libertarians think of an increasingly influential land-use and planning movement known as the New Urbanism,
which seeks a broad change in the way cities and suburbs
develop?
Protecting Property in a Post-Kelo World
Two years ago, when I began writing a book,
peoples eyes would glaze over when I told them
the subject was eminent domain, the power of
the government to take property by force on just
compensation to the owner. Rarely could I mention the
subject without having to explain it in detail, and
incredulity was a typical response to the realization that
government now takes property for private uses rather
than for the public uses allowed by the
Constitution.
How Government Destroys Medical Care
Steven Greenhut is senior editorial writer and a columnist for the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif., and author of Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain (Seven Locks Press, 2004).
News in August that Northridge Hospital Medical Center’s Sherman Way Campus, the San Fernando Valley’s oldest hospital, would be shutting its doors, [...]
How Unions Are Bankrupting California
If you asked any southern Californian about the biggest union-related news story in recent years, the likely answer would be this year’s four-month-long labor dispute between cashiers (and other workers) and three of the region’s largest supermarket chains.
The strike/lockout was widely covered for some obvious reasons. It disrupted most people’s lives. Store hours at almost [...]
Strangling the GoldenStates Golden Goose
Steven Greenhut is a senior editorial writer and columnist for the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California.
The older industrial park just south of downtown Los Angeles wasn’t the typical spot for a California Chamber of Commerce press conference. There were no ribbons to cut, only a handful of moving boxes decorated with various bill [...]
Project Labor Agreements: Economic Illiteracy 101
Steven Greenhut is a senior editorial writer and columnist for the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California.
Perhaps it’s the result of a dumbing-down of the American citizenry, but these days economic debates are waged with the most illogical premises.
For instance, in recent weeks news stories have discussed plans by some California cities to use [...]
How California’s Consumer Laws Legalize Extortion
Steven Greenhut is a senior editorial writer and columnist for the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California.
Barry Zanck, owner of a small mortgage company in Newport Beach, California, says he had never had a complaint lodged against his business. So he was shocked when he was named, along with a dozen other mortgage-related companies, [...]
California’s War on Homeschoolers
Steven Greenhut is a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California.
I’m routinely astounded by the degree to which Americans will be outraged by government abuses that take place in far-off lands, while remaining uninterested in similar abuses right here in their very midst.
My newspaper, the Orange County Register, [...]
The Blight of Eminent Domain
My sister-in-law came back from a recent trip to Poland outraged at how that former communist country treats its citizens. An acquaintance of hers owns a beautiful home in the Polish countryside and is now involved in an ugly court battle because a government official was so impressed with the property that he began the [...]
1Sep2002 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | Continued-
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
