Opinion
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R.I. Unemployment Worse Than it Seems
Opinion -The old adage “numbers never lie” is true. Numbers can’t lie, but the people who use them can and very often do. Such is the case with the unemployment rate in Rhode Island. -
NOAA and NASA Lied on Temperature Records
Opinion -During the 2012 presidential election, Rasmussen Report’s poll conducted between November 1st and 3rd showed 49% of likely voters supported Barack Obama and an equal number supported Mitt Romney. -
Merchants of Smear: Obama, Gore Other Climate Alarmists Refuse to Debate
Opinion -Manmade climate disaster proponents know the Saul Alinksy community agitator playbook by heart. In a fight, almost anything goes. Never admit error; just change your terminology and attack again. -
Well-Heeled Activists Are Trying to Eradicate Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Opinion -“Planes, trains, and automobiles” is not just the name of Steve Martin’s 1987 everything-goes-wrong comedy film, it is also a growing casualty list of the foundation-led anti-fossil fuel campaign called the Divest/Invest movement. -
Obamacare Enrollment Stuck in Neutral in Rhode Island
Opinion -Rhode Island officials predicted in 2013 up to 100,000 Ocean State residents would use the state-based exchange established under the Affordable Care Act to buy health insurance. -
North Dakota Mandates Oil Be Filtered
Opinion -North Dakota regulators are imposing strict new oil standards requiring every barrel of crude produced in the state to be filtered to remove volatile types of natural gas in order to make crude-by-rail transport safer. -
SNAP Rolls Continue to Increase As Program Ensnares Families in Dependency
Opinion -The US Department of Agriculture reported in January 46,674,364 Americans were receiving food stamp assistance at the beginning of Fiscal Year 2015. -
Pope Francis Says Freedom Of Speech Has ‘Limits,’ Gets It Wrong Again
Opinion -Just two weeks after reports surfaced that Pope Francis plans to put significant pressure on global leaders to fight what he believes to be manmade, imminent global warming, the leader of the world’s largest church is receiving strong and worthy -
Minimum Wage Mythology Will Hurt Workers
Opinion -More than 3.1 million workers across the nation received a late Christmas gift on Jan. 1, when minimum wages were increased in 21 states. -
The Founders Wanted a Laser-Focused Article V Convention (Part 4 of 8)
Opinion -This is part 4 of the 8 part series establishing that the laser-focus of the Compact for America approach to organizing an Article V convention with the specific job advancing and ratifying a pre-drafted, specific federal Balanced Budget Amendment is -
2014 Was NOT the Warmest Year on Record
Opinion -The science journal Nature trumpets “2014 was the hottest year on record” and cites the Japan Meteorological Agency, the World Meteorological Organization, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). -
Choice and Competition On California’s Exchange
Opinion -One of the things proponents of Obamacare have touted is that the law supposedly brings competition and choice to the health insuance market. Today I ran across two articles. -
Free-Market Reforms Key to States’ Recovery
Opinion -Half a decade after the U.S. economy fell into a recession, 41 states’ tax revenues in the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2014 were higher than in the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2013 . -
Government’s Welfare Policies Trap the Needy
Opinion -Welfare policies intended to get people back on their feet are actually keeping them on the dole by reducing economic incentives to seek better-paying jobs or work more hours. -
Interview: Monckton’s Journey From Warming Believer to Influential Skeptic
Opinion -[Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley dicusses his early climate efforts with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and how climate alarmists twisting of science and stiffling debate has made him into the leader among the climate realist movement that he is -
Study: Price Transparency Benefits Consumers
Opinion -Recent public and private initiatives have sought to lower health care costs by making health care prices more transparent. -
The Carbon Diet Fallacy
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #155 The worst metaphor to come out of the global warming debate is “the carbon diet. -
The EPA’s Methane Madness
Opinion -The Obama administration’s attack on America’s energy sector is insane. They might as well tell us what to eat. Oh, wait, Michelle Obama is doing that. Or that the Islamic State is not Islamic. Oh, wait, Barack Obama said that. -
Prioritizing Better Plans over Bigger Budgets for Georgia Roads
Opinion -With voters having rejected a 1 percent sales tax increase proposal in 2012, the 2014-15 session of the Georgia General Assembly created a joint study committee to study and make recommendations for funding construction, maintenance, and repair of the -
Formaldehype vs. Fact: Levels Are Far Lower in E-Cigarettes Than In Cigarettes
Opinion -Researcher Naoki Kunugita at Japan’s National Institute of Public Health recently fueled anti-e-cig hysteria with this unverifiable claim: “In one brand of e-cigarette the team found more than 10 times the level of carcinogens contained in one regular -
Obamacare Co-Op Goes Belly-Up in Iowa, Nebraska
Opinion -One of the things to come out of Obamacare were so-called 'Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans,' or Co-Ops as they are more often called. -
Unreliable Numbers Stop Illinois Exchange
Opinion -The Illinois House Human Services Committee approved legislation in December to establish a state-funded health insurance exchange. The legislation, advanced by state Rep. -
CLASSy Reminder of Early Obamacare Failure
Opinion -Chris Jacobs is policy director for America Next, a conservative think tank, and works a lot on health care issues. -
Proposed DOE Dishwasher Rules Will Cost Lots of Green
Opinion -New efficiency standards targeting residential dishwashers proposed by the U.S.
