Opinion
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Assessor’s Botched Valuations Cause Tax Hikes for Elmore County Farmers
Opinion -Mountain Home farmers face massive tax hikes after the Elmore County Assessor's office botched agricultural land valuations for decades. -
Welfare Reform Opponents Will Say Almost Anything to Halt Progress
Opinion -Several years ago, a stay-at-home mother who lived nearby unexpectedly lost her husband in a tragedy that shook her family to its core. -
Electric Car Sales Miss President’s Mark
Opinion -Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller reports President Obama failed to keep his promise to have 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. -
Washington Announces Endangered Species Reforms
Opinion -Just days after the country celebrated Endangered Species Day on May 15, the Obama administration announced the first of what it promises will be number of regulatory changes to improve the efficiency, transparency and effectiveness of the four decade -
Growth Concentrated in Most Suburbanized Core Cities
Opinion -There is considerable interest in urban core population trends, both because of recent increases in the interest of urban planning orthodoxy to restore living patterns more akin to the pre-World War II era. -
Crime Doesn’t Pay, and Neither Does IL Non-violent Sentencing
Opinion -I hurried on to the train Thursday, glanced down at my boarding pass and then saw I was seated next to a newly released inmate. The cheap sneakers, ill-fitting clothes and cellblock tats gave it away. -
Why We Went to Rome
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Scholars Blast U.S. History Rewrite
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #91 Fifty-five top historians have signed an open letter criticizing the College Board’s revamp of its Advanced Placement U.S. history curriculum, in which half a million of the nation’s brightest students enroll each year. -
Senators Question Federal Agencies’ Backdoor Rulemaking
Opinion -U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and James Lankford (R-OK) are challenging federal agencies to explain their use of industry guidelines to force businesses into compliance with the agencies’ wishes without legal authorization. -
Crony Socialism: Governments All Over the World Are Messing Up a Free Trade Market
Opinion -To quote the late, inordinately great Ronald Reagan, “Government is not the solution to our problem – government is the problem. -
“Skeptics” Gather in D.C.
Opinion -On Thursday and Friday, June 11-12, there will be a gathering of some of the nation’s and the world’s leading climate change “skeptics” in Washington, D.C. and joining them will be members of Congress and their staffs. -
Global Left’s Machiavellian Misrepresentation of the Pope Is Failing
Opinion -There has not been this kind of palace intrigue at the Vatican since the 1500s. Foreign potentates are making a power grab, trying to seize the moral authority of the papacy for their own, secular ends. -
Predicting Earthquakes. Not.
Opinion -The president of the Space and Science Research Corporation, John Casey, is also the author of “Cold Sun: A Dangerous ‘Hibernation’ of the Sun Has Begun! -
IRS Watchdog Proposes FATCA Reporting Reform
Opinion -The Internal Revenue Service’s Taxpayer Advocate Service, an independent advocacy office within the agency, says some reporting requirements for expatriate Americans are duplicative and unnecessary. -
Louisiana Governor to Sign Common Core Compromise
Opinion -Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal intends to sign three bills to establish a compromise regarding the Common Core debate, according to a report by The Times-Picayune. -
Rationally Ignorant or Rationally Informed?
Opinion -A little more than a year ago, it was Jonathan Gruber of MIT disparaging the American voter. Now, it's Paul Krugman formerly of Princeton. -
Shell Clears First Regulatory Hurdle to Drill in the Arctic
Opinion -The Obama administration gave conditional approval for Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc. to resume efforts to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean. -
Prominent Skeptics to Receive Climate Change Awards
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Florida Fights Obama Administration Coercion for Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) announced his administration will file a lawsuit against the federal government for threatening to withhold more than $1 billion in Low Income Pool (LIP) funding for hospitals if the state fails to expand Medicaid. -
Maine Lawmaker Proposes Workplace Freedom Bill
Opinion -A Maine lawmaker is sponsoring a bill to prohibit requiring union membership as a condition of employment in both private-sector and public-sector workplaces. State Rep. -
Kansas Judge Dismisses Teachers Union Lawsuit
Opinion -A district court judge dismissed a legal challenge regarding teacher tenure from the Kansas National Education Association (KNEA), the state’s primary teachers union. The judge made the ruling on June 4. -
‘Trust Us – We’re the Government’ Isn’t the Best Justification for These Huge New Power Grabs
Opinion -We are deep into Year Seven of the Barack Obama Administration. It has not been a great time in the history of government transparency and accountability.He at the outset sounded good.“We have to use technology to open up our democracy. -
Right to Try Passes California Senate
Opinion -The California Senate unanimously passed The Right to Try Act, which effectively nullifies certain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules preventing terminally ill patients from accessing experimental treatments. State Sens. -
Nebraska Lawmakers Approve Steep Gas Tax Hike Over Governor’s Veto
Opinion -Nebraska lawmakers overrode Gov. Pete Ricketts’ (R) veto of a proposed gasoline tax hike, increasing the state’s gas tax from $0.256 per gallon to $0.316, a 23.4 percent increase. Once the tax hike is fully phased in, Nebraskans will pay more than $0.
