Opinion
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Tokyo Pounded with Historic Snowfall as Globally Fierce Winter Continues
Opinion -Tokyo received 10 inches of snow Saturday morning, the largest amount of snowfall the city has seen since the global cooling scare of the early 1970s. According to Japanese media reports, the snowstorm caused 12 deaths and more than 1,500 injuries. -
Secret Ballots Defeat UAW After Majority Backed ‘Card Check’ Effort
Opinion -Stripped of all the rhetoric rationalizing why the United Auto Workers lost a critical election at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. -
Washington Senate Reexamines Solar Power Incentives
Opinion -The Washington Senate Energy, Environment & Telecommunications Committee held a January 30 session to examine federal, state, and local incentives given to the solar power industry. -
Study: Involving Parents in Education Helps Poor Preschoolers
Opinion -Parental involvement is effective in improving lower-income preschoolers’ cognitive development, according to a study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. -
John Kerry’s Climate McCarthyism Reveals Scientific Ignorance
Opinion -If you put John Kerry, Barack Obama and Tom Steyer in a room together, you would still yet to have a single scientist there. -
CO2 Enrichment of a Highly-Prized Chinese Medicinal Herb
Opinion -As the air’s CO2 content rises, the abundance of health-promoting adenosine derived from the roots of the Chinese Woad plant should grow right along with it, to the benefit of many people with a number of different health problems... -
Illinois Lawmakers Eye $600 Million Tax on Sugary Drinks
Opinion -In Illinois it’s called everything from pop to soda to sodi, but the state’s Democrats are now calling soda pop a moneymaker. State Sen. -
South Carolina Considers Version of Parent Trigger
Opinion -A Parent Empowerment Act in South Carolina would give parents the ability to petition the state to overhaul their school, but calls for clarity may push it to the back burner. Bill sponsor State Rep. -
City’s Telecom Boondoggle Still Costing Taxpayers Millions
Opinion -After spending nearly $50 million on a telecommunications system less than 10 percent of the population uses, Burlington, Vermont is asking its taxpayers for $10.5 million more. -
Obama Wants to Waste a Billion on Climate Change
Opinion -Barack Obama will be remembered for many things during his two terms in office, but high on the list, right after lying to everyone about everything, will be his determination to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on every Green scheme from solar and -
Oregon’s Obamacare Disaster
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #407 The state of Oregon has for more than two decades been at the forefront of government-driven top-down health care reforms. How has it turned out? Not so great. -
Washington Gov. Inslee Denies Study’s Low-Carbon Fuel Costs
Opinion -Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) sent a letter to state legislators taking issue with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study concluding a low-carbon fuel requirement would increase fuel costs. -
The Other Union Ruining Schools
Opinion -David Horowitz has a new campaign in which he points out rotten schools thrive in Democrat-controlled inner cities and predominantly hurt poor, minority children. -
Texas Officials Release Water Shortage Plans
Opinion -Texas Comptroller Susan Combs released a report urging “game-changing” innovations to state water policies to deal with future water shortages. -
Kansas and Alaska to Write Their Own Common Core Tests
Opinion -Kansas and Alaska independently decided to pull out of national Common Core tests and hire Kansas University’s Assessment & Achievement Institute to create their English language arts and math assessments. -
Obama Hires Incendiary Podesta as Top Advisor
Opinion -President Barrack Obama has hired incendiary lobbyist and political activist John Podesta as a top advisor for the president’s remaining two years in office. -
Most States Reveal Jobs Subsidies . . . And Do It Poorly
Opinion -All but three states now post at least partial information online showing which companies are receiving economic development subsidies. But the quality and depth of that disclosure varies widely, both among and within states. -
Government Broadband Overbuilds Are Anti-competitive
Opinion -Governments do not “compete” with companies. Governments tax, limit, police and judge companies. -
Carbon Benefits Exceed Costs by up to 500:1
Opinion -[Ed: Dr. Roger Bezdek is the co-author of this post.] The Environmental Protection Agency, other government agencies and various scientists contend that fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous global warming and climate change. -
A Brutal Chicago Winter, Global Warming, and Just Weather
Opinion -I moved to Chicago in 2010 after five years of living in perfect Pasadena, California — where I looked at the sun setting on the beautiful San Gabriel Mountians every day during what for East Coasters and Midwesterners can be a miserable train commute -
EPA Rule for Indian Country Tossed Out
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its bounds when it attempted to override the State of Oklahoma’s air quality compliance plan for non-reservation Indian country lands, a federal appeals court ruled. The U.S. -
Andy Smarick: School Choice for Rural Families
Opinion -Millions of U.S. children live in rural areas, and many of them are poor and academically low-performing, yet education reform efforts have largely ignored them. -
Sad Track Record of Alarmist Climate Models Becoming Evident
Opinion -The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) uses 117 mathematical models to predict man’s future impact on our climate. -
NY Tax Credit Would Foster School Choice
Opinion -Legislators in New York hope to pass a bill allotting up to $300 million in tax credits for individuals and businesses that donate to education.