Opinion
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Obamacare and hospital-acquired infections
Opinion -Kaiser Health News had a very interesting article yesterday basically making the case that hospitals aren't generally very good at dealing with routine infections, and so it probably shouldn't be too shocking that the Dallas hospital treating an Ebola -
Thinking the Unthinkable – Part II
Opinion -In Scott Cleland’s recent piece titled, “Silicon Valley’s Biggest Internet Mistake,” he makes an important, too little addressed point: Were the FCC to classify Internet service as a “telecommunications” service under Title II of the Communications Act, -
Aging Metropolitan Areas Ranked
Opinion -America is getting older, as medical science prolongs life expectancy and the fertility rate hovers at or even below the replacement rate. -
The Rationale for Wind Power Won’t Fly
Opinion -[NOTE: This piece was first published in the Wall Street Journal.]To understand the folly that drives too much of the nation's energy policies, consider these basic facts about wind energy. -
Stealing from Competitors is “How Google Works”
Opinion -Google executives’ saccharine best-selling book: “How Google Works,” predictably ignores and whitewashes how Google steals to make its free model work. -
Klein Makes a (Fact-Poor) Case for Environmental Socialism: Review of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate
Opinion -Klein Makes a (Fact-Poor) Case for Environmental Socialism Review of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, by Naomi Klein; Simon & Schuster, September 16, 2014, 576 pages; ISBN-10: 1451697384 ISBN-13: 978-1451697384, $22.89 on Amazon. -
New Jersey Minimum Wage Hikes Will Harm Small Businesses, Workers
Opinion -Despite already being one of 23 states with a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage, New Jersey will be hit with another increase of 1.59 percentage points come January. -
Texas Comptroller Report Destroys Wind Industry Claims
Opinion -A new report by the Texas Comptroller documents how wind power is raising electricity prices in Texas, throwing cold water on false assertions made by American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) lobbyists. -
John Kasich Tries to Have It Both Ways on Obamacare
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #441 When it comes to making the case for Obamacare’s persistence, few Republicans have been as insistent as Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is in a bit of hot water after talking it up recently to the Associated Press: Ohio Gov. -
Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Theory of Inflations and Recessions
Opinion -Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1934, there appeared in English one of the most important books on money and inflation penned in the twentieth century, The Theory of Money and Creditby the Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises. -
A Common-Sense Approach to Common Core Math, Part IV: Making Connections, One Concept at a Time
Opinion -During a course in math teaching methods I took in ed school, I watched a video of a teacher leading his students to do a variety of tasks, ostensibly to teach them about factoring trinomials, such as x2 + 5x + 6. -
A Young Person’s Guide to Energy Conservation
Opinion -Energy has long lost the attention of the media, so we no longer think about ways we use energy and its effect on national policy or our pocketbooks. -
Nation’s Governors Graded on Fiscal Policy
Opinion -Quantifiably ranking all the fiscal policies of the nation’s governors, the Cato Institute’s recently released “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors” highlights the variety of economic policies of the various states, grading the nation’s 29 -
Nothing Better to Do: Obama Defense Department to Fight Global Warming
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #143 While stories of Ebola and ISIS dominated the headlines once again last week, the Obama administration’s Department of Defense announced a potentially more far-reaching, costly, and possibly dangerous public policy decision: -
Weather Channel Founder Challenges UCLA to Offer Balanced Climate Change Debate on Thursday
Opinion -Hammer Museum Event Featuring Michael Mann and Brenda Ekwurzelon Global Warming Requires an Alternative to Alarmismwith No Basis in the Latest Science John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, is urging UCLA’s Hammer Museum to provide balance to a -
HBO Streaming Is Good News for All Entertainment Consumers
Opinion -Acting on plans reported here a month ago, entertainment channel HBO has decided to end its thirty-plus-year dependence on cable and satellite distributors, announcing it will offer an online streaming video service beginning next year. -
Another Obamacare Disaster Looms
Opinion -Events set in motion earlier this year regarding Obamacare are about to inflict significant damage on the American public. -
DC’s Economic Boom Comes at Public’s Expense
Opinion -In the Hunger Games franchise of movies and young-adult novels, political power is concentrated within the Capitol; citizens there revel in pageantry and pomp while their fellow Americans suffer from the dire, impoverishing consequences of the -
Electricity Prices Soaring In Top Wind Power States
Opinion -Electricity prices are soaring in states generating the most wind power, U.S. Energy Information Administration data show. Although U.S. -
Medicaid Expansion Increases ER Visits
Opinion -One of the many promised benefits of expanded Medicaid coverage, according to advocates of the Affordable Care Act, was a reduction in emergency room visits. -
Medicaid Reform Offers More Compassionate Options for the Poor
Opinion -Financing for Medicaid, the national entitlement program providing health care for the poor, is shared with the states under a specific formula, with the federal government paying about 60 percent of the total costs. -
Environmentalists Halt Obama Administration Plan to Cut Trees in Alaska
Opinion -A family-owned timber firm that operates the last significant sawmill in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest has won a momentous U.S. Forest Service contract: the Big Thorne Project, which will allow the harvest of nearly 150 million board feet of wood. -
Federal Regulators’ War on Toys Strangles Businesses
Opinion -The Consumer Product Safety Commission has proposed new rules governing toy magnet sets, in response to rare incidents involving accidental ingestion of the products. -
Federal Survey Data on Tobacco: It’s Not About The Children
Opinion -I have documented for several years a nonstop decline in smoking rates among American teens (here, here, here, and here )Rates of smoking and use of other tobacco products among teens are so low that they no longer provide a valid basis for the draconian
