Opinion
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Bernie Sanders and Robert Reich Are Confused by Economics. And Government. And Reality
Opinion -Socialism is a failed ideology. It was the avant-garde approach to how to do government – in the Twentieth Century. The Soviet Union was the flagship petri dish. -
Rolling Back the Tide of Big Government Overreach
Opinion -The reason most often cited for the success of the nonpolitical candidates is the frustration with Washington; the sense that the system is broken. Voters feel that we have no control and that government has gone wild. -
101 Economists Send Letter to Congress in Support of Cadillac Tax
Opinion -These days it seems everyone -- Republicans, Democrats, labor unions, big employers -- is against the Cadillac tax on health insurance. -
The Shale Shock: How the World has Changed
Opinion -The world has changed. Although few yet understand it, the revolution in the production of oil and natural gas from shale has altered the course of global energy, affecting most of the world’s people. This is not a short-term event. -
Idaho Department of Education Requests Public Review of State’s Standards
Opinion -The Idaho Department of Education (IDE) is requesting comments from the public regarding the state’s Common Core math and English standards. -
Republicans Vow to Assert Their Authority over Obama Climate Commitments
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #188 Politico reports a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Neil Chatterjee, has been making the rounds at foreign embassies making it clear Republicans intend to fight President Barack Obama’s climate agenda. -
Block Grants Would Prevent Medicaid ‘Pac Man’ from Gobbling up Budgets
Opinion -In his 1998 State of the State address, Ohio Governor George Voinovich (R) famously referred to Medicaid spending as the “Pac-Man” of entitlement spending, noting how it ends up “gobbling up ever larger portions” of government funds. -
New Report: Putting People First
Opinion -This is the abstract from a new report “Putting People First: An Alternative Perspective with an Evaluation of the NCE Cities ‘Trillion Dollar’ Report,” authored by Wendell Cox and published by the Center for Opportunity Urbanism. -
Vermont’s Small Farmers Face Tough Water Rules, Inspections
Opinion -Vermont’s approximately 7,000 small farmers will soon be receiving visitors from the state’s Agency for Agriculture on a regular basis as part of the agency’s effort to enforce the state’s law designed to reduce agricultural pollution of waterways. -
Without Boehner, Export-Import Bank is Over
Opinion -As the calendar pages turn from September to October, thoughts shift from summery Independence Day fireworks and Labor Day cookouts to the spooky parade of Halloween trick-or-treaters.This year, coinciding with All Hallows’ Eve, U.S. -
Will Government Spectrum Permissions Throttle 4G Evolution to 5G Wireless?
Opinion -To try to justify mandating Title II utility regulation of broadband and the blocking of the Comcast-Time Warner acquisition, the Administration and FCC had to gerrymander broadband definitions to reach their political goal that wireless broadband -
Congress Should Impeach EPA Head Gina McCarthy – And Then a Whole Bunch of Other Bureaucrats
Opinion -The national Republican Party is currently in the midst of a slow-motion train wreck. Their presidential primary has amply demonstrated their Base’s profound disaffection. -
Federal Judge Strikes Down Prairie Chicken Designation
Opinion -Judge Robert Junell of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas struck down a federal protection for the lesser prairie chicken (LPC), a species found in southern Great Plains states. -
As Urbanites Take Up Homeschooling, Diversity of Choice Option Increases
Opinion -According to the latest data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the number of U.S. K–12 children educated at home increased from 1.09 million in 2003 to 1.77 million in 2012, now constituting 3. -
Hospitals: The Big Box Health Care Store You Should Avoid
Opinion -So-called Big Box retail stores are the dominant retail model when it comes to selling vast quantities of products at competitive prices. Discount stores like Walmart have grown to such size that Super Centers are now common in major metropolitan cities. -
The US Coal Industry is Under Regulatory Assault
Opinion -The coal industry is beset by regulatory slings and arrows threatening to cripple this once vibrant industry. These assaults, however well-intentioned some may be, won't do anything to reduce air pollution or change the world's climate. -
Why Obamacare’s Cost Control Efforts Aren’t Working
Opinion -In every field of endeavor, change is brought about by entrepreneurs. These are the creators. The innovators. They rarely stop thinking. The only question is: What are they thinking about? -
Will State Supreme Court Open Floodgates For Income Taxes?
Opinion -How important are five votes out of seven million Washingtonians? -
Oral Arguments Heard in Texas School Funding Case
Opinion -Oral arguments in an education-funding lawsuit involving six groups representing school districts, parents, and other groups in Texas took place on September 1. -
NJ Gov. Christie Fights EPA’s Clean Power Rules
Opinion -Calling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) “unprecedented regulatory overreach,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) officially moved to block implementation of the rules in his state on September 2. -
Crony Capitalism the Cause of Society’s Problems
Opinion -Since the economic downturn of 2008, the critics of capitalism have redoubled their efforts to persuade the American people and many others around the world that the system of individual freedom and free enterprise has failed. -
How House Calls and Nurse-Practitioners Can Transform U.S. Health Care
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #475 For much of America’s history a house call from a local physician was the standard way to obtain needed health services, but as the U.S. -
Report: Solar Industry Heading Toward a Financial Bubble
Opinion -Myriad government schemes designed to promote or require the use of solar energy threaten to create a financial bubble similar to the one that befell the housing sector in 2007–08, concludes a new report by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA). -
College Board Rewrites Advanced Placement U.S. History Standards and History Itself
Opinion -When the College Board rewrote the Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) standards in 2012, many scholars and historians saw it as an attempt to rewrite history.
