Opinion
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Study’s Claims Linking Leukemia to Oil and Gas Aren’t Credible
Opinion -Editorial -Serious flaws in a recent study study discovered by top medical professionals in Colorado have led them to condemn the research, calling its conclusions “misleading.” -
The Wisconsin Two-Step
Opinion -Ryancare is supposed to entice working-class people voluntarily into the system. But, passing Step One is no guarantee that Step Two will pass. The Wisconsin Two-Step, like the dance from Texas, may involve a lot of motion that starts all over again. -
California Teachers Sue Over Mandatory Union Fees
Opinion -school-reform-news -A group of public school teachers in California is suing the districts that employ them and one of the state’s teachers unions for forcing nonmembers to pay union fees. -
Texas Preacher Declares ESAs ‘Sinful’
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #172 -
Interior Department Greenlights Eagle-Killing Wyoming Wind Project
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Just three days before being replaced by the Trump administration, the Obama administration gave final approval for the construction of a Wyoming wind power project that, if completed, will be the largest wind power facility in North America. -
Michigan Considers Bills to Repeal, Replace Common Core
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Michigan House and Senate are considering companion bills that would repeal the state’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and replace them with the highly-regarded standards Massachusetts used during the 2008-09 school year. -
The National Debt Limit Equals a Balanced Budget
Opinion -Once again the United States government is rapidly approaching a fiscal debt ceiling: After March 16, 2017, Uncle Sam will not be legally allowed to borrow any more money to cover its budget deficits, unless Congress votes to raise the debt limit. -
Clexit Says “Trump must Dump Paris (and defund the UN climate industry)”.
Opinion -The International Clexit Coalition today joined the growing chorus urging President Trump to keep his election promises and dump every climate treaty “agreed” in Kyoto, Paris and the UN/IPCC. -
Teach the Children Well (Gelbspan in schools)
Opinion -It is a propagandist’s dream to live in relative obscurity while seeing his work repeated and embraced across the land. Let me show you how it is not Ross Gelbspan I dwell on, but his words and the outgrowth from them. -
Conservative University Students Face Unprecedented Bias
Opinion -Many parents are in the process of visiting schools with their college-bound children trying to decide which one is a good fit. It is an exciting time, but also can be quite discouraging. -
The Constitution Protects Us…From Government. And Only From Government
Opinion -Candidate Donald Trump ran on massive regulatory rollbacks. And won thereon. Since being sworn in, he’s – in very un-Washington-D.C.-fashion – adhered to and started implementing his campaign promises. -
North Dakota House Rejects Bill to Require Homegrown Standards
Opinion -school-reform-news -The North Dakota House of Representatives has voted against a bill that would have prohibited the state from joining multistate school curriculum standards systems. -
Trump Executive Order Stops Last-Minute Obama Pool-Pump Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Incoming President Donald Trump thwarted a last-minute attempt by the Obama administration to place a new restriction on an obscure consumer product: swimming pool pumps. -
Health Care Spending Increases, Federal Share Rises
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The federal government spends more on health care than any other entity or group, in part due to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. -
Oklahoma Charter School Achieves 100 Percent College Acceptance Rate
Opinion -Every student graduating this year at an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma public charter school has been accepted to at least one college. -
Legislative Pulse: Net-Metering Reform and Other Indiana Energy Issues
Opinion -Indiana state Sen. Brandt Hershman (R-Rensselaer) says its time for renewable energy sources to stand on their own without subsidies. -
Florida Bill Would Make Computer Coding Count as a Foreign Language
Opinion -school-reform-news -A bill to allow public school students to use computer coding classes to satisfy their public college foreign language requirement is making its way through the Florida Senate. -
Competitive Reality of 5G Threatens Previous-FCC’s Title II Net Neutralit
Opinion -FCC Chairman Ajit Pai gets it that 5G wireless is a gamechanger for the rationale underlying the Wheeler-FCC’s Title II Open Internet order and net neutrality policy. -
Apple Sues To Get Paid For Their Intellectual Property – And To Not Pay For Everyone Else’s
Opinion -Editorial -Hypocrisy, thy name is Apple. -
Finally, FINALLY, a Democrat Breaks Lockstep Unity Ranks with the Party
Opinion -Give Democrats their due - they don’t deviate from the Party line. No matter how absurd the things they’re defending are, no matter how insane they look doing it, no matter how much damage they incur in doing it - they do all of it together. -
Growing Percentage of Non-Catholic Students at Catholic Schools a National Trend
Opinion -school-reform-news -A growing percentage of non-Catholic students are attending Catholic schools across the nation. -
Fossil-Fuel Divestment Is Fiscally Irresponsible, Study Finds
Opinion -environment-climate-news -University endowments and public employee pension funds that heed environmentalists’ calls to divest their holdings from companies in the fossil-fuel industry impose substantial costs on the donors, employees, and taxpayers funding them, a new study shows -
State Lawmakers Working to Protect Property Rights
Opinion -Editorial -Most people assume government police are tasked with stopping robbers, but a little-known legal fiction effectively allows the cops to become the robbers. -
Pruitt Appointment Signals Big Changes at EPA
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump’s appointment of Scott Pruitt as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicates big changes are in store for the agency and the businesses, states, and people affected by its rules.