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Illinois Supreme Court Strikes Down Internet Tax
Opinion -Efforts to tax Internet sales wherever they occur suffered a blow with a 6 to 1 ruling against Illinois’ “Amazon tax” by the state’s supreme court. -
Obamacare Charges New Fee for Self-Insured Employers
Opinion -A new annual fee of $1 per person covered is now being charged to health insurance plans and employers for companies that self-insure. -
2013 Shattering Records for Fewest Tornadoes
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #106Fewer tornadoes have occurred in 2013 than in any other year in recorded history, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports. -
Reindeer Reproduction in a Warming World
Opinion -According to the authors of this study, who examined satellite derived measures of vegetation green-up, population densities, calf body masses and female reproductive success, the “effects of global warming on plant productivity and onset of spring are -
Louisiana Rejects Opportunity for Federal Preschool Funds
Opinion -As education budgets tighten, Louisiana has declined to apply for federal preschool dollars, citing the added regulations as too high a cost. -
Yes, Warming Is Benefiting Human Welfare
Opinion -Global warming has benefited human welfare ever since the end of the Little Ice Age and will continue to do so for many more decades at the very least, according to a newly published article in the UK journal The Spectator. -
Insure Oklahoma Program Receives One-Year Reprieve
Opinion -Oklahoma has received a one-year extension of Insure Oklahoma, the insurance premium assistance program which had been threatened by regulations under President Obama’s health care law. -
2013 Shattering Records for Fewest Tornadoes
Opinion -Fewer tornadoes have occurred in 2013 than in any other year in recorded history, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports. -
First, the Cornhusker Kickback; Now, the Kentucky Kickback . . . and Lautenberg Loot
Opinion -The infamous Cornhusker Kickback that helped get Obamacare enacted into law and effectively ended Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson's political career has now been joined by the Kentucky Kickback in the checkered legislative history of the health care law. -
School choice in Texas a matter of civil liberties
Opinion -In Texas, more than 2,000 students per week are dropping out of public schools — 3 million students during the last two decades. -
The Republican Establishment and The Tea Party Need to Stop Fooling Themselves
Opinion -Begun, the wound-licking period has. I think this piece from Ace is about as good of a summing up of why we got to the point of shutdown, and why it achieved nothing, as I’ve read yet. -
Dubious Climate Change Certainties
Opinion -So the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it is now 95% sure the climate has changed and some of the change is due to mankind. They should be 100% certain. -
Vermont Public School Goes Independent, Angers Bureaucrats
Opinion -When North Bennington Graded School closed its doors and the Village School opened in the same building, it looked like a win-win. -
Colorado Initiative Uses Schools to End Flat Tax, Seek $1 Billion Tax Hike
Opinion -An initiative on the November ballot in Colorado would raise the state income tax $1 billion annually, making it the largest tax increase in state history, according to state estimates. -
Obamacare Becomes a Favor Factory for the Politically Connected
Opinion -With House and Senate leaders merely disagreeing around the edges of a continuing resolution funding the government for fiscal year 2014 and increasing the $16. -
Panel of Scientists Says UN Study Retreats, Misleads, and Misinforms
Opinion -A panel of 50 scientists from 15 countries says the newest report from the United Nations on climate change is filled with concessions that its past predictions were too extreme and contains “at least 13 misleading or untrue statements and 11 further -
Feds Spending Millions to Promote Obamacare in States with Federal Exchanges
Opinion -Millions of tax dollars will be used to advertise Obamacare in “red” states with Republican governors who opposed the creation of health insurance exchanges under President Obama’s law. -
‘Subsidy Summit’ Seeks Political Juice for Electric Carmakers
Opinion -Amid gridlock over government spending and debt ceilings, green-energy advocates and rent-seeking businesses are convening in Washington, D.C. to renew their push for billions more dollars in taxpayer giveaways. -
Panel of Scientists Says UN Study Retreats, Misleads, and Misinforms
Opinion -CHICAGO – A panel of 50 scientists from 15 countries says the newest report on climate change from the United Nations is filled with concessions that its past predictions were too extreme and contains “at least 13 misleading or untrue statements and 11 -
Calif. Governor Vetoes Bill Twisted to Protect Abusive Teachers
Opinion -Mark Berndt, a first-grade teacher at Miramonte Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District, allegedly committed “lewd acts” against perhaps dozens of children over the course of a 31-year career. -
Study: Adopting Medicaid Expansion for Temporary Waivers ‘Ill-Advised’ for States
Opinion -A new study challenges the claim of some lawmakers that by adopting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion states can gain greater flexibility in reforming the controversial program. -
NOAA Closes Some Heat-Biased Temperature Stations
Opinion -The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration closed approximately 600 temperature stations during the past two years, reflecting heat bias concerns raised by a prominent meteorologist. -
The Third World Exchanges
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #392Why aren’t the Obamacare exchanges working? “We’ve known since at least February that the exchanges were looking shaky. There were Chao’s comments at the insurer conference. -
Many Small Businesses Won’t Benefit from Obamacare Tax Credit
Opinion -Think small business owners really are going to get tax credits through Obamacare health exchanges? Think again.
