Recent Opeds & Letters to the Editor

Does Solar Energy Actually Make Massachusetts Safer?

Steve Goreham
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May 18, 2013
Earlier this month, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick announced that

Slow the Presses!

Wendell Cox
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May 15, 2013
It has been a difficult time for newspapers.

Sorry Global Warmists, But Extreme Weather Events Are Becoming Less Extreme

James M. Taylor, J.D.
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May 15, 2013
Just about every type of extreme weather event is becoming less frequent and less severe in recent years as

Obamacare Implodes - Health savings accounts are the solution, along with a dose of impeachment.

Peter Ferrara
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May 15, 2013
Health policy economists are puzzled by a persistent slowdown in the growth of health care spending that seems to have started in mid-2005, and accelerated since then.

Americans Fighting Their Own Government For Economic Survival

Marita Noon
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May 15, 2013
No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day.

Reaching 400 ppm of CO2 Is No Milestone

Edmund Contoski
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May 14, 2013
[The following is a letter to the editor I submitted the other day to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. They will certainly not publish it, so I publish it here.

How Ridiculous is Net Neutrality? Let the Left’s ‘Consumer’ Groups Demonstrate

Seton Motley
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May 13, 2013
There are Leftist groups that claim the mantle of protecting the “consumer interest.”  Asserting they exist to protect consumers from the abusive, evil acts of corporate America.  In most

IRS Tea Party Scandal Shows Government Should Be Kept Away From Our Data

Seton Motley
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May 13, 2013
Late last week we learned that the Barack Obama Administration’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was subjecting conservative non-profit organizations to ridiculous levels of

How to Tell if College Presidents Are Overpaid

Richard Vedder
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May 13, 2013
The Chronicle of Higher Education tells us the median salary of public university presidents rose 4.