Opinion
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Postal Service Considers Entering Banking Industry to Shore Up Budget
Opinion -The U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) watchdog is suggesting the quasi-governmental agency enter the banking industry in hopes that taking up the role of private banks would “benefit Americans and generate much needed new revenue. -
Legislators, Activists Try to Make It Easier to Opt Out of Testing
Opinion -In response to a growing opt-out movement across the country, legislators and groups are trying to make it easier for parents to have their children excused from some standardized tests. -
Supreme Court May Have Saved Obamacare, but It Doomed Young Americans’ Health Care Options
Opinion -Six Americans in black robes have, yet again, saved the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from a major crisis, but the most important part of this story for young people is their atrocious ruling will cause significant problems for the nation’s youngest and -
Small Businesses Face Obscure Obamacare Penalty
Opinion -Businesses that reimburse their employees for health care costs may face large Internal Revenue Service (IRS) penalties even though they may be unaware of the risks. -
Climate Truths Defended in Conference Keynote Addresses
Opinion -Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint kicked off the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change on June 11 by presenting the 2015 Political Leadership on Climate Change Award to U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK). DeMint, a former U.S. -
Michigan State Education Officials Push for Higher Teacher Pay
Opinion -Michigan’s outgoing State Superintendent of Public Instruction Michael Flanagan made headlines one year ago when he said he wanted all public school teachers to make $100,000 or more. -
Union Cash Didn’t Deter Top PA Senate Republican From Backing Privatization
Opinion -Money talks in politics, but sometimes not loudly enough. -
Test Your Knowledge of the Declaration of Independence
Opinion -You’re a red-blooded American who loves his country and honors its Founders. You cherish the freedoms we celebrate on on Independence Day. -
Feeding the Fed-Ed Leviathan
Opinion -If the principle of zero-based budgeting had been applied to the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) at regular intervals during its 50 years of operation, it is doubtful this relic of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society would still -
Study: Occupational Licensing Rules Hurt More Than They Help
Opinion -Across the nation, state legislatures are re-evaluating the necessity of regulating individuals’ occupational choices. -
Supreme Court Will Review Whether Non-Member Union Dues are Constitutional
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court will review the case of Rebecca Friedrichs, a California public school teacher objecting to the dues she is paying even though she resigned from the California Teachers Association (CTA). -
National Student Privacy Bill Stirs Praise, Renews Concerns
Opinion -Reps. Luke Messer (R-IN) and Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced the bipartisan Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act of 2015, which aims to protect student data and strengthen parental rights. -
States, Congress Defy President’s Clean Power Plan
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #177 States and Congress are challenging the Obama administration’s clean power plan. -
Dish Network Tricks FCC, Taxpayers in Spectrum Auction
Opinion -Dish Network may have used a set of subsidiary small businesses as front groups to buy electromagnetic spectrum transmission licenses from the Federal Communications Commission, at a discounted rate for which it would have otherwise been ineligible. -
Pursuit of Climate Truth Comes at High Cost
Opinion -David Legates, Ph.D., is a climatologist at the University of Delaware. He served as Delaware State Climatologist from 2005 to 2011. -
A Bad Bill + Crony Socialism = An Even Worse Bill
Opinion -The Barack Obama Administration is – even more than any of its predecessors – the Crony Socialism Administration.No prior presidency has used and abused government to do more for its friends – and more to its friends’ competitors – than has this one. -
Study Finds Students at Charters and Magnets Have Made ‘Meaningful Gains’
Opinion -A newly released study by the Connecticut State Department of Education finds “meaningful gains” in two groupings of inner-city students attending the state’s public charter and magnet schools. -
Three Outcomes From King v. Burwell
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #465 President Barack Obama’s view of the King v. Burwell outcome is clear: Obamacare is ‘here to stay.’ I wrote last week on why he’s wrong. -
Debater Claims Florida Tea Party Meeting Biased Venue for Solar Debate
Opinion -Debbie Dooley, leader of the self-proclaimed Green Tea Party, accused Florida Tea Party members of being biased after Tea Party members unanimously rejected her proposed solar power monopoly for the state. -
How The Power Elite Prejudiced The Pope’s Climate Change Encyclical
Opinion -Among all the hallelujahs and groans about Pope Francis and his highly politicized climate change encyclical Laudato Si’, there’s scant mention of who actually formulated its core content. It wasn’t the Holy Father. -
$2 Billion Hole Blown In Brand New 2015-17 Budget
Opinion -Around 11:30 p.m. last night (30 minutes before a government shutdown) Governor Inslee signed the state's 2015-17 budget. Though the new budget is only a few hours old, there is already a $2 billion cloud hanging over it. -
Michigan Lawmakers Pass Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Package
Opinion -Michigan lawmakers are considering a package of bills reforming the state’s rules on civil asset forfeiture, protecting citizens’ due process and property rights. -
Extreme Rainstorms Are Not Increasing in the United States
Opinion -Editor’s Note: David Legates, Ph.D., CCM, is the former Delaware state climatologist and director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware, where he teaches. -
Gov. Brown Mandates Vaccines For California Students
Opinion -California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed into law a new bill eliminating religious and personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccinations.
