Recent Opeds & Letters to the Editor

Doctors Ask: Is a Charting Error a Federal Crime?

As cardiovascular surgeon John Natale, M.D., sits in federal prison, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard his appeal on April 18.

Climate Change Conversation Aborted

An  editorial essay by American Chemical Society (ACS) officers Bassam Shakhashiri and Jerry Bell  (Science 5 Apri

Spectrum Allocation: Time to Get on With It

My new policy brief urges the Federal Communications Commission to get on with the business of allocating the necessary spectrum to mee

Yes, Let's Please Have More Conversations About Global Warming

Two scientist-activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Entitlement Reform, Obama-Style, Can’t Even be Called Bogus

The biggest fallacy regarding Social Security is that it would be easier politically to cut Social Security benefits rather than to fundamentally reform the way the program works, so as to empower

Terror or Tragedy?

In a nation that officially – officially, mind you, at the highest levels of government – can no longer distinguish between an act of terro

Other People’s Children: Part Two

In the race to the financial bottom the State of Illinois vies nicely with several other states, including (depending on the precise year involved)

President Obama's Plan for A Socialist One Party State

The  last check and balance on President Obama is the Republican majority in the  House of Representatives.  He has made clear that he intends to remove that  check on his power

Is it Time to End Ethanol Vehicle Fuel Mandates?

Last week, Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and other lawmakers int

Progressive Keynesian Myths Debunked: The Coming Redistribution of Political and Economic Power Among the States

Ongoing effective economic experiments among the 50 states are sharpening, and definitive results will pour out in the real world, editorial and opinion fallacies to the contrary notwithstanding.