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

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.

Slow the Presses!

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

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.

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.

The Taxman Cometh (for Tea Partiers)

Ross Kaminsky
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May 13, 2013
On Friday, senior IRS official Lois Lerner offered an apology of sorts after nonprofit organizations that were applying for tax-exempt status were targeted for IRS audit if the groups’ names includ