Opinion
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Just the Facts: Test Scores by Gender and Other Characteristics
Opinion -Since 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has periodically conducted assessments to provide a report card on what the nation's students know and can do in various subject areas, and how these achievement levels are changing -
November Elections A Victory for Common-Sense Environmentalism
Opinion -At both the federal and state levels, the November 2002 elections revealed voters are no longer swayed by the scare tactics and anti-business rhetoric of the country’s leading environmental advocacy groups. -
Soot May Be Major Greenhouse Factor, New Study Says
Opinion -A new study on the role atmospheric soot particles may play in global warming suggests a new near-term control strategy, introduces a new element of uncertainty in climate models, and shifts more responsibility for curbing pollution to developing -
Magic Beans
Opinion -The coffee bean may offer the best protection against one of America’s surging epidemics--Type 2 diabetes. -
Drug Assistance
Opinion -Anti-business activists are using corporate scandals as an excuse to blame big business for social problems. -
Bill Frist’s ‘Big Vision’ for Medicare
Opinion -Heart surgeon and U.S. Senator Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) is stepping into a political swamp wrought with alligators: overhauling Medicare. -
01/2003 The Pulse
Opinion -The most important, least reported outcome of last year’s elections are what happened in the state legislatures. -
Pediatric Testing Requirement Would Be Wrong Medicine
Opinion -If you’ve filled a prescription recently, you may have had a nasty surprise. Antibiotics or a tube of steroid cream used to cost a few bucks, but now the prices are soaring. -
Medical Liability Reform: A Physician’s Perspective
Opinion -With the resurgence of the medical liability crisis, a review of tort reform efforts over the past several years is in order. -
How to Tame Your Health Care Costs
Opinion -Want to know the best way to dramatically reduce your health care costs over your lifetime? Choose healthy parents. -
01/2003 State Legislative Update
Opinion -ARKANSAS Governor Mike Huckabee (R) recently proposed increasing the state sales tax by five-eighths of 1 percent to pay for Medicaid. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #2-1
Opinion -FIRST, SOME HOLIDAY CHEER! Victory #1: Car Not Guilty of Fireworks Explosion The search for deep pockets in litigation is never-ending. -
Generic Drugs
Opinion -The cost of that prescription drug you take may be going down soon. -
Buyer Beware
Opinion -People take a lot of risk buying prescriptions over the Internet. While Canada seems to be where the action is, Americans are also buying re-imported drugs from Mexico, Israel, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and China, to name a few. -
Long-Term Care
Opinion -Unless there’s a shift in the U.S. to a long-term care system based predominantly on private insurance, government-run health plans like Medicare and Medicaid will require increased public taxation and the rationing of medical services to seniors. -
Bush Administration Will Pursue Soot Control
Opinion -John Marburger, chief science advisor to President George W. -
EPA Cuts Deal on Tougher Ozone Standard
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency has reached an out-of-court settlement with nine plaintiffs, including the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, and Alliance for Clean Energy, to strictly enforce tough ozone regulations drafted by the Clinton -
The Politicization of Science
Opinion -Science and politics make strange bedfellows. In science, facts are reality. A noted TV commentator observed, "The measure of good science ... is the immersion of hypotheses into the acid of truth. -
01/2003 The Friedman Report: An Advocate in Action
Opinion -Dan McGroarty always has a catchy title for his incisive works that tear apart voucher opponents' arguments and expose misinformation campaigns directed against parental freedom of choice: "Gameplan: The Teachers' Unions' Strategy for Defeating the -
Homeschooling Update
Opinion -Homeschoolers Harassed in California and Illinois Despite state laws creating exceptions to compulsory school attendance requirements when parents educate their children at home, public education officials in California and Illinois have begun to -
Questions Concerning School Vouchers
Opinion -Question: Would education vouchers solve all of America’s education problems? Answer: No, but we can’t “fix” education until we “fix” who makes the decisions about education. The people who make the decisions are those who control the money. -
Still No Consensus on Global Warming Science
Opinion -Several new studies show human-induced global warming is probably not occurring. -
Don’t Get Burned by Solar Power
Opinion -The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Sierra Club has launched a new campaign to "promote energy generation and efficiency that minimizes harmful impacts on public health and the environment, while improving the state's economy. -
Africans Starve Rather than Accept Bounty of GM Corn
Opinion -I grow poison on my farm, feed it to my family, and sell it to unsuspecting consumers in the U.S. and around the world. That's what the president of Zambia seems to think.
