Opinion
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Obama Administration Targets LA Parents, Banning Entrepreneurial Teachers, and More: Friday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsLOUISIANA: The Obama administration tries to stop parents from defending the state's voucher program. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Many large cities ban teachers from making money from their education inventions. INTERNATIONAL: A study finds U.S. -
Illinois’ Do-Nothing Legislature Does Even Less
Opinion -Illinois lawmakers are scared. Voters go to the polls in March, and lawmakers’ anxiety over their respective fates has effectively frozen the Legislature. -
Study: Why Charter Schools Have Fewer Disabled Students
Opinion -A smaller percentage of special-needs students in New York City charter schools compared to traditional public schools stems from lower application rates and labeling, not discriminatory practices, concludes a Center on Reinventing Public Education study. -
Alcohol Crimes Decline After Liquor Sales Privatization
Opinion -In the lead up to Washington State voters approving privatization of liquor sales in the state, opponents claimed—as they always do—that the increased availability and lower prices would undoubtedly result in increased rates of crime, alcohol-related -
What’s Next For Health Care Policy?
Opinion -Over the past few days we’ve seen an ever-increasing number of voices on the Left, most of whom laughed at the prospects of Obamacare as a train wreck a few months ago, gradually opening up about their concerns on the future of the law. -
Larval & Post-Larval Responses of Pacific Oysters to Elevated CO2
Opinion -In spite of the potential for ocean acidification to pose serious threats and challenges to the pacific oyster, the authors of this study conclude that larval and post-larval forms of the oyster “are probably resistant to elevated CO2 and decreased -
U.S. Lends $35.6 Billion Through IMF Foreign Aid Slush Fund
Opinion -U.S. lending to foreign governments through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached $35.6 billion, representing more than 25 percent of the agency’s $141.8 billion of outstanding loans. Well above its 17.7 percent quota, the U.S. -
Teacher of the Year Earns Less than 25,000 Coworkers
Opinion -The 2013 National Teacher of the Year, a science teacher, earns less than 25,000 of his fellow teachers in Washington state simply because he’s been in the classroom fewer years. -
The Modern FCC Competition-Policy Linchpin
Opinion -When will the FCC acknowledge the obvious?Every day many tens of millions of Americans competitively substitute wireless for wired communications and wired for wireless. -
Anti-Bullying Programs: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
Opinion -Remember DARE, Drug Abuse Resistance Education — the prevention program that took decades to fade despite repeated evidence it actually increased drug and alcohol abuse among schoolkids? -
Wasting Away in an Obamaville
Opinion -With the collapse of the real estate bubble, many normally self-sufficient individuals and families found themselves not only out of work, but homeless. The capacity of emergency shelters was, in many places, exceeded by the flood of the new poor. -
The Resiliency of the U.S. Futures Industry: A Chicago Perspective
Opinion -Financial professionals are well aware that the ongoing implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act will likely cause changes to market structure, including in the futures markets. Should market participants be concerned? -
Debate Is Heated, but Planet Keeps its Cool
Opinion -The debate on climate change is over. Anthropogenic (human) activity is increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which in turn is causing the global temperature to rise. -
Book Review: ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death’
Opinion -Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience an active retirement before dying peacefully at home, as 75 percent of Americans wish to do, but only 25 percent actually do. -
Obama’s Shutdown/Default Scare Tactics
Opinion -Hundreds of thousands of government workers were laid off, national parks, monuments and other federal tourist attractions were closed, veterans were shortchanged, etc. -
The Great American Wind Power Fraud
Opinion -In July the Fairhaven, Massachusetts Board of Health voted to shut down the town’s two wind turbines at night between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. after dozens of residents had filed more than 400 complaints. -
The ObamaCare Website: The World Outruns the Government – By a Decade
Opinion -We recently found out that the incredibly effective ObamaCare exchange website is – well, not exactly state-of-the-art. -
Shutdown Hysterics And Debt Drama Queens: What Happens Next?
Opinion -After all the dire predictions of doom and gloom, all the hysterics and drama queens, the end result of the great government shutdown/debt limit battle was no real substantive change, except for one, big, fat, new, debt loophole for the power mad -
Obamacare (As Seen On TV)
Opinion -Well, that was embarrassing.On Tuesday morning, the President of the United States became a salesman, hawking Obamacare in an “As Seen On TV” performance that would have Billy Mays cringing. -
Mann Attacks Fellow Warmist for Questioning Hockey Stick
Opinion -Prominent global warming alarmist Michael Mann venomously attacked fellow warmist Rob Wilson after Wilson pointed out flaws in Mann’s “hockey stick” reconstruction of historic temperatures. -
USA Today Serves Fruits and Nuts on Global Warming
Opinion -On October 10, USA Today did its readers a grave disservice by running an op-ed full of smears and false statements by two of the fruitier nutcakes of the environmental movement, Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang.They disparage Dr. Fred Singer and Dr. -
Goodbye OPEC, Hello Independence
Opinion -October 17 was the fortieth anniversary of the oil embargo slapped on America by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). -
Universal Health Insurance Lie
Opinion -There are many things that might have been done to reform healthcare in the United States after Barack Obama was elected. -
Polar Sea Ice Remains Above Long-Term Average
Opinion -Polar sea ice extent remains above the long-term average, NASA/NOAA satellite instruments report. Fueled by record Antarctic sea ice extent, polar sea ice this month continues a year-long trend of primarily above-average extent.