Opinion
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The Endless, Fruitless Search for Climate Refugees
Opinion -The current cold covering a large portion of the country has, once again, brought out the climate change alarmists with claims of “serious threat. -
First Common Core Lawsuit Tossed Out
Opinion -A Kentucky judge has thrown out the nation’s first lawsuit against Common Core, saying the plaintiff had no standing to bring the suit and did not demonstrate a “unique, personal injury. -
Italian Climate Nut to Live on Iceberg to ‘Prove’ Global Warming
Opinion -It looks like we're going to get two stunts back to back that turn into disasters for the science-denying extremists who insist man is causing run-away, catastrophic global warming. -
Bringing Joy Back Into the Classroom
Opinion -Joy is a great accelerator of instruction. But the opposite--drudgery—is currently all over the portrayal of education. No wonder superior education is hindered, since it has to overcome such widespread negative detractors. -
The Unceasing Political Thuggery of Obama’s Gangster Government
Opinion -In the run-up to the 2010 midterm elections, President Obama urged Latinos to “punish our enemies” — meaning anyone who stands in opposition to his agenda. -
School Choice Proponents Fill Georgia’s Superintendent Ballot
Opinion -Three candidates for Georgia state superintendent are running on school choice platforms against current superintendent John Barge. All say an updated funding formula and new accountability measures are necessary to expand choice. -
California’s Bullet Train Slowed by Fresh Uncertainties
Opinion -Barely recovered from the damaging effects of the Sacramento Court ruling late last year denying the California High Speed Rail Authority access to Prop 1A bond funding, the bullet train project has run into fresh challenges. -
Kansas Renewable Mandates Causing Skyrocketing Electricity Prices
Opinion -Renewable power mandates are causing a dramatic spike in electricity prices in Kansas, U.S. Energy Information Administration data show. -
Union Membership Down in Government, Up in Private Sector
Opinion -The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its annual Union Members Summary report on labor union membership in the United States for 2013. The report indicates the total level of union penetration in the workforce remained the same, at 11. -
Feds Pay Millions to Promote ‘State-Led’ Common Core (01-23-14)
Opinion -A key argument for national curriculum and testing mandates is the promise that, in the words of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Common Core is “voluntary” and “state-led.” Odd, then, that the feds are spending at least $9. -
‘It’s Your Money’: Wisconsin Governor Pushes $800 Million Tax Cut
Opinion -He’s the architect of the Badger State’s budget recovery, and in January Gov. Scott Walker (R) laid out his “Blueprint for Prosperity. -
Missouri Lawmakers May Take Choice from Desperate Students
Opinion -Several Missouri lawmakers have proposed bills to change how students transfer among unaccredited and accredited schools in the academically dismal St. Louis school system. -
Money for Nothing if State Gives Detroit $350 Million
Opinion -At a press conference Wednesday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) explained why he wants to give $350 million in state money — which he insists is not a bailout — to Detroit. -
Peer-Reviewed Study Finds No Flooding-Warming Link
Opinion -There is no evidence that global warming is causing an increase in flooding events, a newly published peer-reviewed study concludes. -
Net Neutrality and the Internet
Opinion -The Left’s mantra has always been “Progress.” And by that they mean delivering the societal and cultural wrecking ball – smashing all that stands in its way as it swings towards Utopia.Their idee de guerre? Progressivism. -
The Inventor of the Global Warming Hockey Stick Doubles Down
Opinion -Professor Michael Mann, the inventor of the Hockeystick temperature graph, had a contentious editorial essay in the January 17 issue of the New York Times. -
Pay and Perks Top $220,000 for Redondo Beach, Calif. Firefighters
Opinion -“If you say you can’t afford it, prove it. If you can’t prove it, pay up. We’re not being greedy here. It’s embarrassing how low we are paid compared to others. -
Early Results Indicate $4.6 Billion in School Turnarounds a Waste
Opinion -A $4.6 billion federal school improvement program aimed at the bottom 5 percent of U.S. -
Capital Gains, Inflation, and the Infinite Effective Tax Rate
Opinion -The United States’ federal top capital gains tax rate is now 23.8 percent due to two tax increases at the start of 2013. -
The Next Wave of Obamacare Cancellations
Opinion -Employers are already starting to get the same cancellation letters that went to millions of people in the individual market late last year. -
Montanans Support Energy Production Despite Gore/Al Jazeera Claims
Opinion -The annual Montana State University-Billings political poll reports the Montana public continues to favor energy development, with pluralities of Montanans believing there is too little oil and coal development—40 percent and 41 percent, respectively—in -
Two Decades of Global Dryland Vegetation Change
Opinion -In spite of the postulated growing negative impacts of man and climate alike, the greening of the earth continues - and in places where it’s toughest of all to be green (arid lands) - with the proposed impetus for the phenomenon being the likely-enabling -
Cayman Islands Coral Reefs Experiencing Dramatic Comeback
Opinion -In a stunning example of the natural world’s remarkable ability to bounce back from ecological decline, the coral reefs surrounding Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean Sea—all but written off as dead by some marine scientists a decade ago—are rapidly -
Oregon’s Obamacare Disaster
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #403 Oregon’s dedication to Obamacare has been complete and total since the law passed, with Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber seeking to put the state front and center in developing an Obamacare exchange.
