Opinion
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The First Cracks
Opinion -President Obama and his henchmen in Congress have had political success (not to be confused with policy success) by enforcing, as leftist dictatorships always do, an iron-fisted party discipline and loyalty. -
Transactions Tax Likely to Cause More Damage to Financial Markets
Opinion -This is the second part of a two-part article on damaging new taxes that some federal legislators are considering imposing on investors and entrepreneurs. Last month's article discussed “carried interest” taxation. -
Green Tea Not Welcome at Tea Party
Opinion -Jobs. Enlarging the tax base. Market access. Energy choice. Fair compensation. Options. Make money. -
Pennsylvania Ends ‘Triple-Dipping’ but Keeps ‘Double-Dipping’
Opinion -State employees in Pennsylvania longer will no be able to take advantage of a lucrative loophole in the state’s unemployment law. -
New UN Climate Report Ignores Reality
Opinion -There’s an old saying that when presenting a legal case, if the facts are on your side, “pound the facts,” but if the facts are against you, “pound the table. -
Obama’s Legacy is Failure
Opinion -No need to wait around three years and beyond to know what Barack Obama’s “legacy” will be. It will be failure. Few, if any, presidents have demonstrated his level of incompetence and ineptitude. -
Thank Global Warming for Fewer Hurricane Sandy Events
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #107Next week marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, which will launch a plethora of alarmist media stories about global warming. We will be told global warming is responsible for creating Sandy. -
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.
