Opinion
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Google’s Robots and Creeping Militarization
Opinion -Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor. Google recently purchased Boston Dynamics, a robotics pioneer that produces amazing humanoid robots for the U.S. Defense Department. -
Report: State Debts Top $5 Trillion; Yes, Trillion
Opinion -State Budget Solutions' (SBS) fourth annual State Debt Study reveals that state governments face a combined $5.1 trillion in debt. This total equals approximately $16,178 per capita, or 33 percent of annual gross state product. -
Why Kids Need Tough Teachers
Opinion -A recent Wall Street Journal article suggests that teachers who get the best results are all about really tough love. The best way to motivate students is to challenge them with realistic (and therefore tough) assessments of their shortcomings. -
Parents Better at Holding Schools Accountable than Tests, Study Says
Opinion -Low-income and minority parents are good consumers of private schools, capable of holding those schools accountable without mandated testing, said Ben Scafidi, who co-authored a study showing why parents choose private schools. -
Risking Lives to Promote Climate Change Hype
Opinion -Will global warming alarmists ever set aside their hypotheses, hyperbole, models and ideologies long enough to acknowledge what is actually happening in the real world outside their windows? -
Minimum Wage: A Job-Killing Affront to Freedom (01-09-14)
Opinion -Want to see more people with jobs? End the minimum wage. The problem isn’t merely that minimum wages reduce demand for workers, especially those who have little or no workplace experience or poor educations. The minimum wage is immoral. -
Time to End Long-Term Unemployment Benefits
Opinion -The U.S. Senate this week voted to proceed to legislation that would extend long-term unemployment benefits for another three months, at a cost of $6.4 billion to taxpayers. -
Obama’s Climate Change Lies
Opinion -The extreme cold that gripped the nation at the beginning of the year just added to the growing public dismissal of the claims that “greenhouse gas emissions” would lead to a dangerous stage of “global warming. -
If You Like Your Light Bulb, You Can’t Keep Your Light Bulb
Opinion -Americans will be feeling a new and unexpected pain of government overregulation before they vote in November. -
The History of Shanghai is a Tale of Successful Capitalism
Opinion -China’s impressive modernization since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 and the end to the destructive madness of the Cultural Revolution has been epitomized by the dramatic growth of the industrial and port city of Shanghai, with its majestic skyline of -
Get Drunk, Get Hurt, Get Paid: NM Lawmakers Tackle Workers’ Comp Reform
Opinion -It sounds crazy, but because of a poorly worded law, employees who hurt themselves or others while drunk or stoned on the job in New Mexico often are eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits. Some lawmakers are trying to change that. -
Obama Administration Indefinitely Postpones National Civics, History Tests
Opinion -The National Assessment of Educational Progress exams in civics, U.S. history, and geography have been indefinitely postponed for fourth and twelfth graders. The Obama administration says this is due to a $6.8 million sequestration budget cut. -
Climate and Africa’s City of Gold (01-08-14)
Opinion -As policymakers from your local city council all the way to the U.N. struggle over what to do about climate change, it’s important to remember the climate always changes over time, and change brings benefits as well as problems. -
Climate Alarmists Sink to Comedic Low Explaining Historic Cold
Opinion -Confronted with the embarrassment of historic cold gripping the nation just as the Obama administration launches a new offensive on the mythical global warming crisis, global warming activists and their media allies just invented their most knee-slapping -
Oklahoma to Consider Another Common Core Repeal Bill
Opinion -A bill filed a few weeks after statewide hearings on national academic standards would require the Oklahoma State Board of Education “to remove alignment with the K-12 Common Core State Standards Initiative. -
Climate Alarmists Trash IPCC Cold Spell Predictions
Opinion -Global warming alarmists are defying the “settled science” of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with alarmists now claiming global warming causes more frequent and severe cold spells. -
Nattering Net Neutrality Nonsense Over AT&T’s Sponsored Data Offering
Opinion -Net neutrality activists’ criticism of AT&T’s new freebie for consumers called Sponsored Data is nonsensical. -
Bitter Cold Blasts Chicago, a City Fighting Climate Change
Opinion -Chicago was blasted this week by the coldest weather in 18 years. Below zero temperatures and wind gusts of up to 35 miles per hour produced wind chills of minus 40 F. -
Chicago River Freezes As Historic Cold Batters the Nation
Opinion -The Chicago River is largely frozen over this morning, as a historically cold air mass plunges most of the nation into a deep freeze. -
Looking Into My 2014 Crystal Ball
Opinion -Pundits are expected to make predictions for the year ahead and far be it for me to avoid what, generally speaking, depends on who is making them. -
What’s Wrong With The Smartest Kids in the World?
Opinion -In the author’s note to Smartest Kids in the World, and How They Got that Way, Amanda Ripley writes: “I didn’t care deeply about charter schools, vouchers, tenure, or other policy hang-ups…. -
How CO2 Impacts Reproduction Among Cinnamon Anemonefish
Opinion -In contrast to alarmist predictions, results of this study showed that reproductive output in fish living in high CO2 (1032 µatm) was 82% higher than that in a control group (430 µatm) and 50% higher than that in a moderately high group (584 µatm). -
Them vs. Us
Opinion -With all the talk of America’s forgotten middle class, it’s worth taking time as we begin a new year to consider that the country’s seeming obsession with wealth and inequality may instead be turning the U. S. -
Crooked Labs, Agencies and Prosecutors
Opinion -Former Durham, NC district attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred for withholding evidence from the defense and lying to the court in the trumped-up Duke lacrosse team rape case.
