Opinion
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Pennsylvania Turnpike Prices Jump Again
Opinion -The New Year started by taking its toll on Pennsylvania motorists—literally. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has raised tolls for the sixth consecutive year, with the price increases taking effect January 5. -
‘Dark Money’ Funds To Promote Global Warming Alarmism Dwarf Warming ‘Denier’ Research
Opinion -Global warming activists claim vast amounts of untraceable special interest money fund global warming skeptics and give skeptics an unfair advantage in the global warming debate. -
The Great Italian Auto Bailout — Courtesy of U.S. Taxpayers
Opinion -At the beginning of 2014, Detroit may be bankrupt, but they’re cheering the five-year-old U.S. auto bailout in Italy. That’s because after being the beneficiary of billions in U.S. -
In Defense of E-cigarettes
Opinion -He saved his worst ban for last. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg's nanny-state policies have left a trail of damage. -
The Guardian Slams Funding of Anti-Global Warming Groups
Opinion -The Guardian, a London-based daily newspaper, has been a leading advocate of the global warming theory—now called climate change—and its December 20 edition published an article by Susanne Goldenberg, “Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight -
There Is No Denying Mother Nature
Opinion -A retrospective analysis of the year 2013 reveals one humiliating defeat after another for contemporary ecotheologians as various climatic and political events served to further undermine their case for man-made climate change. -
Temporary Scholarships Could Lift South Carolina Special-Needs School
Opinion -Gillian Barclay-Smith, headmaster at a South Carolina school for special-needs students, wanted to be done with administrative work. “My intention was when I left there, I’d write,” she said. -
Report: No Warming Danger to Oceans and Hydrosphere
Opinion -Some global warming activists argue global warming may disrupt the hydrosphere, comprising all of the water on Earth and in its atmosphere. -
Omnipotence at Home, Impotence Abroad
Opinion -Quarterly Performance Report Forth Quarter, 2013 -
Michigan Land Bank Reform Bills On Hold Until After New Year
Opinion -Legislation that provides a way to contest deals in which land banks acquire property before public auctions take place will remain in the House Local Government Committee over the holidays. House Bill 4626 is sponsored by Rep. -
Unions, Anti-Choice Activists Sue Over North Carolina Vouchers
Opinion -On December 11, 25 plaintiffs sued North Carolina over its new law granting low-income students vouchers to attend private schools if their families choose. -
Don’t Fear ‘Deflation,’ Unless Caused by Government
Opinion -Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, and his designated successor, Janet Yellen, have defended the central bank’s $4 trillion monetary expansion over the last five years as a necessity to fight recession and prevent deflation. -
The Solar Swindle
Opinion -Solar electricity is growing, promoted, and most importantly, heavily subsidized. The promoters of solar electricity claim that it is close to being competitive with conventional sources of electricity. That is a fantasy. -
Coalition Letter Calls for Repeal of Renewable Fuel Mandates
Opinion -A coalition of 21 public policy organizations sent a letter to Congress outlining economic and environmental damage caused by federal renewable fuel mandates. The coalition members said the only way to fix this damage is to repeal the mandate. -
How the Milwaukee Voucher Program Was ‘Designed to Fail’
Opinion -Milwaukee has a 23-year-old “priceless” tuition voucher program restricted to low-income students, district-run chartered public schools, and some privately funded vouchers (PAVE). -
Swirling the Bowl: An Administration Goes Down the Drain
Opinion -If you accidentally dropped your most treasured piece of jewelry into the toilet just as you were flushing, you’d scream, you’d cry, and you might tell a sympathetic friend . . . unless you were just too embarrassed. -
The Secret Danger Liberals Don’t Want You to Know: Fracking is Safe
Opinion -Hydraulic fracturing started out as an “exploding torpedo” back in 1865. Today, nearly 150 years later, the actual process has made giant technological strides, but now, it's the topic that’s explosive. -
Will Insurers Ever Say Enough’s Enough To Obamacare?
Opinion -I’ve been working professionally in health policy since 1979 when I was hired to write the consumer contracts and other communications in plain English for the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan in Maine. -
New Year’s Resolution: End Common Core
Opinion -As the New Year approaches, now is the time to make resolutions about what we should change in 2014. -
Obama’s Slow Growth Policies Have Stacked The Deck Against American Workers
Opinion -President Obama told us in his December 4 economic coming out speech on inequality, which the Huffington Post called the most important speech of his presidency:But we know that people’s frustrations run deeper than these most recent political battles. -
‘Disrupting’ Higher Ed Will Destroy It
Opinion -“Disrupting” may have had its day as a pervasive buzzword, claims Judith Shulevitz in The New Republic. It is or is soon to be toast as “jargon cluttering the pages of Forbes and Harvard Business Review” and as part of the title of many a TED talk. -
School-to-Work and the Surveillance State
Opinion -Politicians are once again presenting us with a crisis they say only government action can solve: “Too many students are graduating unprepared for the workforce.” They point to the one-quarter of U.S. -
A Common Sense Case Against Common Core
Opinion -Review of The Story Killers: A Common Sense Case Against the Common Core, by Terrence Moore -
Will Insurers Ever Say Enough’s Enough To Obamacare?
Opinion -I’ve been working professionally in health policy since 1979 when I was hired to write the consumer contracts and other communications in plain English for the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan in Maine.
