
American Enterprise Institute In Leaders and Laggards, a new report on educational innovation, Frederick M. Hess and coauthors look at what states are doing to encourage an entrepreneurial culture in schools: "We believe innovative educational practices are vital to laying the groundwork for continuous and transformational change."
Source: www.aei.org
Regardless of current academic accomplishment, innovative educational practices are vital to laying the groundwork for continuous and transformational change.

American Enterprise Institute
"We told the world the truth we have learned from the noble tradition of Western culture, and that is that the only answer to poverty, to war, to oppression is one simple word: freedom. Now, freedom is not only a moral imperative for our foreign policy, it is also--if I may use a word for which few in this room have m...uch use--supremely pragmatic. For if there is anything the world has learned in the 1980s, it is that, as Alan Keyes has said, freedom works."
-- RONALD REAGAN
AEI Annual Dinner, December 7, 1988Read More
-- RONALD REAGAN
AEI Annual Dinner, December 7, 1988Read More
Source: www.aei.org
Ronald Reagan's speech in December 1988 on the struggle of people everywhere for freedom anticipated the momentous events that would occur in 1989.

American Enterprise Institute
"The insistence that developing nations make credible commitments to
emissions reductions has been a core conservative principle on climate;
seeing Obama pick up that torch is encouraging—it is vital to crafting
any true, effective global agreement—but it remains to be seen whether
any combination of pressure and persuasion will be sufficient to strike
a deal on those terms."
Source: www.american.com
Reading the climate news in recent weeks, one might start to wonder who won the last election.

In a column this morning, Michael Barone notes that local issues and candidate strengths and weaknesses were important in both of the governors’ races that Republicans won yesterday. ...

American Enterprise Institute
"Whatever his shortcomings, Karzai is the man we have to work with. The
question is now how to rebuild a trustworthy partnership, not just
between him and us but between him and his people."
-- THOMAS DONNELLY
Washington Examiner, November 3, 2009
Source: www.aei.org
We must go to war with the partners we have, not necessarily the ones we would like to have.

American Enterprise Institute
"The fiscal sustainability of President
Obama's health plan depends on sweeping reforms and cuts to Medicare
physician payments that are both flawed and politically impossible.
Providing caps on catastrophic out-of-pocket expenses, coupled with a
competitive market for supplemental insurance, would be a more prudent
and pra...ctical way to reform Medicare. Allowing patients to exercise
greater control over their medical care would help achieve greater cost
savings than micromanaging spending from the top down."
-- SCOTT GOTTLIEB, M.D.
Forbes.com, November 3, 2009Read More
Obama's health plan depends on sweeping reforms and cuts to Medicare
physician payments that are both flawed and politically impossible.
Providing caps on catastrophic out-of-pocket expenses, coupled with a
competitive market for supplemental insurance, would be a more prudent
and pra...ctical way to reform Medicare. Allowing patients to exercise
greater control over their medical care would help achieve greater cost
savings than micromanaging spending from the top down."
-- SCOTT GOTTLIEB, M.D.
Forbes.com, November 3, 2009Read More
Source: www.aei.org
The Obama health reform plan, embodied most clearly in a bill now before the Senate, rests on a fiscal deception when it comes to the way Medicare pays America's doctors.

On November 5, the House Committee on Science and Technology is scheduled to hold the first congressional hearing devoted to geoengineering, a strategy to change features of the Earth’s environment to offset the warming effects of greenhouse gases. ...

American Enterprise Institute
"Officers in Afghanistan ruefully observe that you can't have an
ink-spot strategy without enough ink. A half-surge would increase the
amount of ink, but Afghanistan is a large and dry piece of paper;
McChrystal Lite would make it hard to connect the dots. It would also
be hard to synchronize the effort with the nascent co...unterinsurgency
campaign in Pakistan. It's good news that the Pakistani Army is pushing
into South Waziristan, but unless there is pressure across the border
in Khost and greater Paktia, the likelihood of Pakistan advancing
against the Haqqanis is negligible."
-- THOMAS DONNELLY and TIM SULLIVAN
The Weekly StandardRead More
ink-spot strategy without enough ink. A half-surge would increase the
amount of ink, but Afghanistan is a large and dry piece of paper;
McChrystal Lite would make it hard to connect the dots. It would also
be hard to synchronize the effort with the nascent co...unterinsurgency
campaign in Pakistan. It's good news that the Pakistani Army is pushing
into South Waziristan, but unless there is pressure across the border
in Khost and greater Paktia, the likelihood of Pakistan advancing
against the Haqqanis is negligible."
-- THOMAS DONNELLY and TIM SULLIVAN
The Weekly StandardRead More
Source: www.aei.org
A clever commander like McChrystal and the capable troops he leads will no doubt figure out how to make the most of what they have got. But a half-surge would seem to cut their prospects of winning by more than half.

American Enterprise Institute
"Despite misguided foreign pressure, Hondurans insisted that any
settlement of the crisis must respect their constitution and
sovereignty. Zelaya and the turmoil that he brought upon his country
will be consigned to history by democratic elections, and the United
States and the international community have no choice but to... let the
Honduran people decide their own future."
-- ROGER NORIEGA
The American, October 30, 2009Read More
settlement of the crisis must respect their constitution and
sovereignty. Zelaya and the turmoil that he brought upon his country
will be consigned to history by democratic elections, and the United
States and the international community have no choice but to... let the
Honduran people decide their own future."
-- ROGER NORIEGA
The American, October 30, 2009Read More
Source: american.com
A new proposal by the interim government represents a triumph for the Honduran people and their constitution.

American Enterprise Institute
"The United States must adapt to changing circumstances, such as China's
rise, while preserving sufficient day-to-day strength to win the wars
it is fighting now, provide the backbone for old and new coalitions,
and otherwise manage risks to its security. Washington faces an
ever-changing threat environment; it does not ha...ve, nor will it ever
have, the luxury of moving wholly from one clearly defined regimen of
warfare to another."
-- THOMAS DONNELLY
Foreign Affairs, November 1, 2009Read More
rise, while preserving sufficient day-to-day strength to win the wars
it is fighting now, provide the backbone for old and new coalitions,
and otherwise manage risks to its security. Washington faces an
ever-changing threat environment; it does not ha...ve, nor will it ever
have, the luxury of moving wholly from one clearly defined regimen of
warfare to another."
-- THOMAS DONNELLY
Foreign Affairs, November 1, 2009Read More
Source: www.aei.org
Given what futurism has done to military affairs--most notably yielding the school of

It's increasingly clear that the initial impact of President Obama's health-care reform will be to raise the cost of health insurance and the number of uninsured Americans, perhaps sharply...

American Enterprise Institute
"With a promise to restart the economy by providing needed demand in a faltering economy, Congress delivered the stimulus bill to the president’s desk less than a month after his inauguration, a legislatively impressive feat. Unfortunately, as the hard evidence about the bill starts to accumulate, it is clear that the ...legislation has done little thus far to help get workers back to work. Looking forward with a goal of creating jobs, lawmakers need to reexamine the stimulus bill and ask if there is any reason to hope that it will perform better in the year ahead."
-- ALEX BRILL
The American, October 27, 2009Read More
-- ALEX BRILL
The American, October 27, 2009Read More
Source: www.american.com
Many 'shovel-ready' projects are still tied up in administrative red tape. It is clear that the stimulus bill has done little thus far to help get workers back to work.

The Legatum Institute, where I am a senior fellow, just released the 2009 Prosperity Index, the world’s only global assessment of wealth and well-being. ...

American Enterprise Institute
"The health-care debate is part of a moral struggle currently being played out over the free enterprise system. It will be replayed in every major policy debate in the coming months, from financial regulatory reform to a cap-and-trade system for limiting carbon emissions. The choices will ultimately always come down to... competing visions of America's future. Will we strengthen freedom, individual opportunity and enterprise? Or will we expand the role of the state and its power?"
-- ARTHUR BROOKS
Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2009Read More
-- ARTHUR BROOKS
Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2009Read More
Source: www.aei.org
The health-care debate is part of a larger moral struggle over the free-enterprise system.


















































