Opinion
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No, ObamaCare Is Not a Conservative Idea
Opinion -Even as ObamaCare is trying to self destruct, its advocates suggest a détente in which “Republicans recognize the conservative nature of the law,” in the words of Austin Frakt in Bloomberg News. -
Kansas Town Turns Aggressive Toward Landlords, Threatens 4th Amendment
Opinion -After ruling in 2013 that city residents aren’t capable of safely managing furniture on their own front porch, one Kansas community is considering taking its control of residents’ lives to the next level: mandated governmental inspections. -
FCC’s Special Access Delay of its IP Transition
Opinion -FCC staff just muffed an easy opportunity to advance the IP transition on the FCC’s timetable in the National Broadband Plan.Apparently FCC staff missed the big picture here.1. On November 25th, AT&T proposed a baby step forward in the IP Transition. -
Antarctic Ice Extent Resembling Hockey Stick
Opinion -Antarctic polar ice extent charts are increasingly looking like global warming alarmist Michael Mann’s discredited hockey stick temperature graph. -
Tallahassee Taxpayers Get Little Back from Red-Light Cameras
Opinion -Red-light cameras are supposed to make dangerous intersections safer. But at what cost? Recent data from the City of Tallahassee, Fla. -
Are Google Glass’ Recordings Illegal Wiretapping Too? — Part 19 Google Spying Series
Opinion -Google Glass’ easy eavesdropping on people may be illegal wiretapping. -
Climate Bullies, the Surrealists of Science
Opinion -Popular perceptions about climate appear surrealistic to me. I'm a seasoned science geek who has been involved in big-time climate modeling, serious mathematics, theory, and more. -
FCC’s Special Access Delay of its IP Transition
Opinion -FCC staff just muffed an easy opportunity to advance the IP transition on the FCC’s timetable in the National Broadband Plan.Apparently FCC staff missed the big picture here.1. On November 25th, AT&T proposed a baby step forward in the IP Transition. -
Harry Reid’s Green Energy Goldmine
Opinion -We are weeks away from being fully immersed in the 2014 election cycle. Predictions abound, likening the 2014 cycle to 2010—when the House flipped from Democratic to Republican. Only this time, it is the Senate that has the potential to change. -
GAO Report: DC Voucher Program Poorly Run
Opinion -A federal report says Washington, DC’s voucher program is poorly managed. -
GAO Blasts TSA Behavior Program, Calls for End of Funding
Opinion -In one of the hardest-hitting Government Accountability Office reports I've ever read, Congress's auditing organization has, in effect, said the Transportation Security Administration's Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program -
Time to End America’s Century of Central Bank Mismanagement
Opinion -One hundred years ago this month, on December 23, 1913, the Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, establishing a national central-banking system in the United States. -
Why Basel III Will Fail and Isn’t Necessary Anyway
Opinion -I recently "attended" an online webinar about Basel III's proposed new liquidity requirements for banks. -
Will High Retransmission Consent Fees Hamper a Successful Incentive Auction?
Opinion -In recent years, over-the-air broadcasters, under the current retransmission consent regime, have been able to exact increasingly higher fees for permitting Multichannel Video Program Distributors ("MVPDs"), such as cable and satellite operators, to -
Good News: Detroit Heads into Bankruptcy
Opinion -In a very important, U.S. -
How Common Core Textbooks Treat World War II
Opinion -Saturday the 7th of December marks the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
The Nanny State Can Get You Killed
Opinion -On the same day that the Los Angeles City Council moved to regulate e-cigarettes, the National Center for Public Policy Research's Jeff Stier testified at a New York City Council Health Committee hearing on a similar measure being rushed through the New -
Electricity for Your EV: A New Entitlement?
Opinion -An incident blew up in the media this week, in which a Georgia owner of an electric car was arrested, after he plugged in his Nissan Leaf at a DeKalb County middle school without permission. -
Critics Blast Pennsylvania City’s ‘One-Strike’ Property Law
Opinion -Adam Peters has lost out on $625 each of the past three months. -
Here’s The One Crazy Thing Barack Obama Can Do To Save Obamacare
Opinion -We’ve passed the administration’s deadline, and Obamacare still isn’t fixed.Yes, it’s better than it was two months ago. -
‘Hidden’ Stock Trades to be Revealed Starting Monday
Opinion -Millions of previously hidden U.S. stock trades are being revealed thanks to research from a team of academics. -
NIPCC’s Craig Idso on Power Hour Podcast: Benefits of CO2
Opinion -Craig Idso, the former president and current chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and lead author of the reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) talked with Alex -
Nontraditional Schools Chart the Waters of Common Core
Opinion -Since the inception of national Common Core curriculum and testing standards, how they would affect charter schools has been unclear. -
Polar Ice Caps Are Global Warming Deniers
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Cliimate Change Weekly #112Southern Hemisphere polar ice extent set new records this week, combining with fairly average Northern Hemisphere polar ice extent to set the final stages of a year marked by above-average global polar ice extent.
