Opinion
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Forest-thinning Measure Approved by Ag Committee
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The House Agriculture Committee approved a proposed bill in October loosening environmental regulations for forest-thinning projects on Forest Service lands. -
Unionized Schools Plagued by Chronic Teacher Absences, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Teachers in traditional public schools are nearly three times as likely as those at charter schools to be chronically absent, a new study reports. -
Antifa Radical Remains Employed by Berkeley, California School District
Opinion -school-reform-news -Yvette Felarca, a militant Berkeley United School District (BUSD) teacher whose mugshot has appeared regularly in the news over the course of the last year for her violent behavior at Antifa-led riots, has been breaking numerous rules at her workplace. -
Avalanches of Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -Editorial -Throughout the United Nations Climate Change Conference wrapping up in Bonn, Germany this week, the world has been inundated with the usual avalanche of manmade global warming alarmism. -
Trump Improves Transparency by Ending EPA Sue-and-Settle Agreements
Opinion -Editorial -Poverty remains, by far, the biggest killer of humans, and government-imposed regulations have been proven to create economic costs that make poverty more likely. -
Lawmakers Should Sideline Handouts for Sports Stadiums
Opinion -Editorial -Sports team owners, and the elected officials who enable their graft, say using taxpayer money to pay for stadium construction is an investment in local economic growth. -
Congress Considers Three Bills Aimed at National Student Data Collection
Opinion -school-reform-news -Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act scheduled to be voted on today. -
Student Publishes Comparison of ACT and Classic Learning Test
Opinion -school-reform-news -A homeschool student who took both the ACT and the Classic Learning Test (CLT) says ACT disfavors students with no Common Core experience. -
Fossil Fuels Drive Hurricane Monitoring And Relief
Opinion -Editorial -Fossil fuels are powering disaster relief. Anyone who denies these basic facts is ignorant, lying to themselves, or evil. -
The NFL Flap Exposes Media Ignorance and the Failure of Civic Education
Opinion -Editorial -The huge dust-up over the protests of the American flag during the presentation of the national anthem by National Football League players has served to dramatize a massive deficiency in civics education in this nation. -
Fracking Rarely Linked to Quakes
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Hydraulic fracturing is rarely linked to seismic shaking, according to an analysis of earthquakes near “frack jobs,” conducted by Oklahoma state officials. -
Voucher Program Overregulation Homogenizes Schools, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Overregulating voucher programs reduces diversity of school options, a new study has found. -
States Should Not Wait for Congress to Fix Health Care
Opinion -Editorial -Congress has failed to pass a replacement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Obamacare’s collapse is inevitable. To protect their citizens, state lawmakers should take the lead in passing free-market health care reforms. -
Are US Vehicle Mileage Standards Obsolete?
Opinion -Editorial -Regulations to reduce fuel consumption and to increase vehicle mileage were born during the oil shock of the 1970s. But within the last decade, the fracking revolution reestablished the United States as the world’s energy superpower. -
Federal Lease Sales Critical to Maintaining America’s Energy Dominance
Opinion -Editorial -The oil and gas industry has more than demonstrated its ability to operate safely in environmentally sensitive locations. -
Capitalism and the Free Society, Part 2
Opinion -Editorial -The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation in all of recorded history. -
Capitalism and the Free Society, Part 1
Opinion -Editorial -One of the leading ideological punching bags for well over one hundred years has been the ideas, institutions, and impact of “capitalism” on society. -
Endangerment Finding Should be Reviewed and Repealed, says Think Tank
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Representatives of the Texas Public Policy Foundation met with Environmental Protection Agency staff to show why as a matter of law the agency should reconsider its endangerment finding concerning carbon dioxide. -
Trump Commits $200 Million to Expand STEM Education
Opinion -school-reform-news -President Trump signed a memorandum to devote hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to expanding STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and computer science education in schools across the nation. -
The Market for Electricity is Rigged
Opinion -Editorial -The preferential dispatch system used by many RTO/ISO grid operators favors wind and solar to the exclusion of critical baseload power from fossil fuel and nuclear power plants. -
Government Allows California Water Project to Move Forward
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration has cleared the way for a controversial project intended to draw water from beneath California’s Mojave Desert and sell it to water providers in Southern California. -
Require Citizen Naturalization Test for Graduation, Organization Urges
Opinion -school-reform-news -An initiative to require students across the nation to pass a civics exam in order to graduate from high school is making headway in the states. -
Yet Another Reason Government Shouldn’t Be Involved In Energy
Opinion -Editorial -There are lots and LOTS of reasons government shouldn’t choose which energy sources We the People use. -
Honor Freedom and Sacrifice on Bill of Rights Day
Opinion -Declining understanding of and respect for the Bill of Rights threatens to bring on the loss of our liberties.