Opinion
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Federal Judge Block’s Obama’s New Fracking Rules
Opinion -In a legal setback for the Obama administration's environmental agenda, a federal judge in Wyoming sided with the Attorneys Generals of Colorado, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming, temporarily blocking implementation of the administration’s regulations -
HHS is Coercing States to Expand Medicaid, Ten States Tell House Committee Chair
Opinion -A primary provision of Obamacare is Medicaid expansion, but according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 21 states have yet to expand their coverage as of July 2. Holdouts include most Southern states and half of the Midwestern states. -
NCLB Rewrite Passes in the Senate, Disappoints Some Education Advocates
Opinion -The Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) passed in the U.S. -
Obama Proposes Privatizing TVA
Opinion -As part of his federal budget proposal, President Barack Obama is proposing to study privatizing or devolving the operation of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). -
Repealing Obamacare Would Grow Economy, Reduce Uninsured by 10 Million
Opinion -I have asked, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has answered.I have been urging CBO to do a comprehensive estimate of all the effects of the Affordable Care Act, effectively for the first time since 2012. It did so in June. -
The Best Renewable Energy Investment
Opinion -When you read a headline such as one from CNBC touting “Solar power’s stunning growth,” realize that it’s thanks to you—even if you’ve never even thought of putting solar panels on your roof or live in an apartment where you couldn’t install them if you -
Why Entitle-ify Special Access If There’s No FCC Utility Rate Regulation?
Opinion -We will learn quickly and unequivocally at the FCC’s August 6th meeting, if the FCC is true to its word -- that there will be no “utility-style rate regulation” of broadband. -
Congress Considers Raising Airport User Fee Cap
Opinion -Congressional lawmakers are considering increasing a cap on user fees added to air travelers’ ticket prices to help fund airport maintenance and improvement projects. -
FCC’s Title II Trifecta Gamble
Opinion -The FCC could not have gambled more riskily in how it implemented net neutrality. It simultaneously snubbed all three branches of the U.S. Government with its Title II utility regulation approach. -
Is Free School Lunch the Next Great American Entitlement Program?
Opinion -by Julie Kelly and Jeff StierAs Congress considers changes to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA), one little-known section of the law is expected to sharply increase the number of students receiving free lunch (and breakfast) over the next several -
Maryland Bans Fracking Despite Governor’s Opposition
Opinion -Maryland has placed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, also called “fracking,” for energy extraction in the state until October 2016. The bill became law without Gov. -
A Congresswoman Demands Peace, Love and Big Brother Internet, Man
Opinion -Democrat Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) just penned an editorial for the San Francisco Chronicle. That has the patchouli whiff of her writing while sitting at the corner of Haight and Ashbury – in August 1968. -
An “Austrian” Economist’s Advice for Greece and the EU
Opinion -For months, now, the mass media and the financial markets have anxiously watched and waited to see the outcome of a war of words, accusations, and threats that have been fought between Greece and its Eurozone and European Union partners. -
Global Warming Policies Reflect False Assumptions, Panelists Say
Opinion -The Tenth International Conference on Climate Change’s ninth panel, “Human Welfare, Energy, and Policies,” featured panelists S. Fred Singer, Craig D Idso, Lord Christopher Monckton, and Robert M. Carter. -
Is Small Particle Air Pollution Really Killing Americans?
Opinion -Unnoticed by most citizens, last week the United States Senate introduced the “Secret Science Reform Act of 2015. -
Oregon Experiments with Mileage-Based Road User Fee Program
Opinion -The State of Oregon is testing mileage-based user fees to pay for state road infrastructure construction and repairs, replacing the state’s gas tax with a “user pays” system. -
Shale Revolution Boost U.S. Chemical Industry
Opinion -Just a decade ago, the domestic chemical industry was in decline as natural gas prices were high and estimated reserves low. -
U.S. Supreme Court to Determine Legality of Mandatory Union Dues
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of mandatory union dues. Several California public school teachers brought about this challenge, according to a report by the Orange County Register. -
Award Winner Happer Spreads Climate Wisdom Through Humor
Opinion -William Happer, a professor at Princeton University, received the 2015 Frederick Seitz Memorial Award from presenter S. Fred Singer of the Science and Environmental Policy Project at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change keynote dinner. -
Ethanol and Biodiesel: Guilty as Charged
Opinion -Bogus biofuel trading costs us millions – while the absurd biofuel program costs us billionsTwo notorious crooks are helping us wrap up another sordid episode in the saga of the United States biofuel mandates, while further highlighting how bungled and -
Obama and EPA Imperil Minority Welfare
Opinion -“Clean Power Plan” would bring imaginary benefits – and real health and welfare damagePaul Driessen and Roger BezdekThe Obama Environmental Protection Agency and environmental activists frequently claim that climate change will disproportionately affect -
The Other Nuclear Country
Opinion -The fuel is now loaded into the reactor, following inspections, the switch will be flipped and, around August 10, the reactor will be fired up. -
Vacation Bible School? Common Core Knows No Bounds
Opinion -The pervasiveness of Common Core from preschool to academe and the workforce is well-documented, but news of its invasion of a vacation bible school (VBS) in one major metropolitan area had to startle even close followers of the systemic-change gang. -
Did Obama Cover Up Real Reason for Obamacare Website Crash?
Opinion -The launch of HealthCare.gov, the federal government’s online health insurance marketplace, in October 2013 was a complete disaster, a reality even the most ardent supporters of Obamacare admit.
