Opinion
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Climate Change Reconsidered Presents Mountains of Peer-Reviewed Evidence
Opinion -The Heartland Institute Tuesday released Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science, which hits global warming alarmists with objective data and peer-reviewed studies the way Mike Tyson hit Michael Spinks with uppercut lefts and overhand rights. -
California Okays Full and Partial Relief from Retroactive Taxes
Opinion -The California Assembly Appropriations Committee may have recommended only partial relief from retroactive taxation of capital gains, but by nearly unanimous margins the state's representatives and senators have sent Gov. -
Convention Center Expansions Put Taxpayers on the Hook
Opinion -As convention planners seek to have large new hotels and related facilities built for their events, taxpayers are often stuck footing the bill for what could be a building that sits empty much of the year. -
Obama Administration Demands Teacher Redistribution for NCLB Waivers
Opinion -Two years after the Obama administration offered states a Monopoly-style “get out of jail free” card from some demands of the 2001 No Child Left Behind law, it will offer another round of waivers in exchange for further policy changes. -
Professor Crawford’s Desperate Search for a Problem to Regulate
Opinion -Professor Susan Crawford’s Bloomberg op-ed, “New FCC Head Must Reclaim Authority over Telecom,” exposes a profound lack of substance, in being unable to identify any real market problem warranting FCC regulation. -
There Are Sometimes Problems with Partial Deregulation
Opinion -Markets always work better the freer they are. Free from all but the barest necessity laws and regulations, and the least taxes possible - up to and including none at all. Government action distorts and then warps the private sector. -
Why Student Loans Have Grown Into a Policy Debacle
Opinion -Since 1965 Congress has provided more and more students with subsidized loans to finance their college educations, all with the best of political intentions. -
The EPA’s War on America
Opinion -Among the targets to disable an enemy’s ability to wage war is their energy infrastructure. -
Common Core Answers Consume 40,000 Pages
Opinion -North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction sent Lt. Gov Dan Forest 40,000 sheets of paper in response to 67 questions he asked about Common Core national education standards. That’s not all. -
Major New Report: Climate Science Says Global Warming Is Not a Crisis
Opinion -The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) on Tuesday, Sept. 17 will release a major new report on climate change science produced by an international team of 40 scientists at a press conference at the James R. -
Alarmists Finally Acknowledge El Nino/La Nina Impact
Opinion -Global warming alarmists are retreating from their longstanding denial of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation’s role in global temperatures. -
Major New Report on Climate Science Says Global Warming Is Not a Crisis
Opinion -The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) on Tuesday, Sept. 17 will release a major new report on climate change science produced by an international team of 40 scientists at a press conference at the James R. -
USDOE to Promote ObamaCare
Opinion -It took U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan three months to respond to several letters from Republican U.S. senators asking for details of his department’s involvement in promoting ObamaCare. The U.S. -
House Committee Grills DOE Loan Program Director Over Secret Emails
Opinion -A hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week investigated the Obama administration’s practice of concealing email communications, with former top officials getting grilled about their use of private Internet accounts to -
CONFERENCE CALL: Major New Climate Science Report
Opinion -The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) on Tuesday, Sept. 17 will release a major new report on climate change science produced by an international team of 40 scientists at a press conference at the James R. -
Court to Hear Federal Lawsuit Against Louisiana Vouchers
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Justice has not withdrawn its legal challenge to Louisiana vouchers on racial grounds, despite claiming it merely wants more information. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently said he did not know the U.S. -
Beware Of The Foolish Politics Of Climate Change
Opinion -Last week, while America dithered over whether or not to depose Syria’s president, an ocean away, a different leader was decisively dumped. The election of Australia’s new prime minister has international implications. -
AP Tests: Waste of Tax Money?
Opinion -Politico recently published a story on the increasing numbers of students who are failing Advanced Placement (AP) tests in U.S. high schools. -
The Ethanol Debacle
Opinion -The government mandated blend of ethanol in every gallon of gasoline is a full-fledged disaster and neither Congress, nor the Environmental Protection Agency shows any indication of either repealing or abandoning it. -
New House Bill Would Extend Internet Access Tax Moratorium
Opinion -Congress is considering two bills that would make the Internet Tax Freedom Act permanent. Since 1998, The Internet Tax Freedom Act has placed a moratorium on state and local taxation of Internet access and discriminatory taxes on emails and other data. -
Most States Use Useless Preschool Ratings, Study Finds
Opinion -Twenty-six states rate preschools with a system that doesn’t identify quality institutions, finds a recent study in Science journal. -
5 BIG Implications from Court Signals on Net Neutrality
Opinion -Economic rationality, competition, and broadband pricing freedom are the big winners, and common carrier-like net neutrality was the big loser, if the Appeals Court panel decides Verizon v. FCC as expected. -
Act 10 Wins Again, Reconsidering Common Core, and More: Friday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsWISCONSIN: A federal judge upholds contentious collective bargaining limits. PARENT TRIGGER: Why it's a bad long-term idea and good short-term idea. OBAMACARE: The U.S. -
Modeling the East Asian-Western North Pacific Monsoon & ENSO
Opinion -How well does the FGOALS-s2 model do? In comparing the new versus the old version, it is evident that although the new model has improved over its earlier version, it still suffers from a number of bothersome inadequacies...
