Opinion
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The Latest Italian Job
Opinion -Nowhere is the art of bureaucratic precaution and obfuscation practiced with greater enthusiasm and single-minded efficiency than in Europe. And nowhere is this more in evidence than in Europe’s battle against technological progress in farming. -
The Outlook for Modeling Clouds (Adequately) … is Still Cloudy
Opinion -A new study highlights some of the details, revealing that there is “only very modest improvement in the simulated cloud climatology in CMIP5 compared with CMIP3,” and that even this slightest of improvements “is mainly a result of careful model tuning -
Texas Joins Growing Number of States to Welcome Captive Insurers
Opinion -For many years most states banned captive insurance companies, but now they are becoming increasingly popular and even used as tools of economic development. -
Arrival of Obamacare Navigators in Florida Sparks Concerns Over Privacy, Fraud
Opinion -How secure are Floridians’ health and financial information in the wake of Obamacare? -
Hospital Systems Drive Rural Health Care Crisis, Worsening Access Problems
Opinion -Rural health care is in a crisis caused by physician shortages and the growth of large hospital systems, according to a report from the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General. -
David Suzuki Attacks Climate Science
Opinion -David Suzuki, better known in Canada than in the U.S. and other parts of the world, is a former scientist and modern-day financier of the radical fringes of the environmental movement. -
Bill Would Require Milwaukee to Sell Vacant Schools
Opinion -MADISON — Vacant Milwaukee public school buildings would sit idle no more under a bill proposed by two Milwaukee-area lawmakers. State Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) and Rep. -
Families Sue to Stop Science Standards, $1 Billion on iPads, and More: Friday’s Ed News
Opinion -Friday's ed newsKANSAS: Several families file suit against the state's adoption of national science standards, arguing these amount to government establishing atheism as a religion. -
There They Go Again
Opinion -So in the end President Obama did not let the Navy Yard tragedy go to “waste. -
Pachauri Denies Global Warming Pause as IPCC Spirals into Disarray
Opinion -Struggling to keep a discredited global warming crisis afloat, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chair Raj Pachauri yesterday denied the well-documented pause in global warming during the past 15-plus years. -
Kentucky Governor Overrides Legislature on National Science Standards
Opinion -Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has overruled the state legislature’s rejection of national science standards. -
Under Obamacare, Collecting Insurance Premiums Could Pose Challenges
Opinion -One of the biggest difficulties facing the implementation of President Obama’s health care law will be the practical business of collecting insurance premiums in the individual market under the system of insurance exchanges the law creates. -
Republicans Now Leading the Push to Tax the Internet
Opinion -The national Republican Party has a serious brand problem. Too many Establishment Elephants are too often Diet Democrats - taking positions just slightly less Large Government than the Donkey Party. -
Turning Smokers Into Criminals
Opinion -America is filled with groups of people clamoring for their “rights” or claiming they are being discriminated against. One group, however, has been successfully silenced and, broadly speaking, turned into criminals. -
Illinois Court Upholds Woman’s Right to Earn a Living, Ending Two-Year Struggle
Opinion -More than two years after she applied to the city government in Bloomington, Illinois for a license to operate a late-night van service, Julie Crowe finally will be allowed to start her business, thanks to a court decision upholding her right to earn a -
Expanding What We Know About Climate Change
Opinion -Expanding What We Know About Climate ChangeA critique of Kerry Emanuel’s “What We Know About Climate Change”By James M. -
Fukushima and the Misunderstood Effects of Radiation
Opinion -More than two years have passed since a major earthquake and devastating tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and still not a single case of radiation illness or death occurred as a result. -
Obamacare’s Moment of Truth
Opinion -For much of the past four years, Americans who believe in freedom have fought tooth and nail against first the passage, and then the implementation, of President Barack Obama’s health care law. -
Parents Want Different Styles of Schools, Survey Finds
Opinion -Most K-12 parents want a solid core curriculum in reading, math, and science, but they have different preferences for school culture and emphasis, a new survey finds. -
Obamacare’s Moment of Truth
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #389For much of the past four years, Americans who believe in freedom have fought tooth and nail against first the passage, and then the implementation of President Barack Obama’s health care law. -
Your Move, Global Warming Alarmists. Science Has Exposed Your Unwarranted Hysteria
Opinion -Who will decide American public policy on the issue of potentially catastrophic man caused global warming? The answer is you and me, through the democratic process that governs our country. -
Secure Kids’ Right to Instruction
Opinion -A 150-year-old profession with millions of practitioners should show considerable progress by now. Unfortunately the K-12 government teaching profession is lagging substantially. -
Global Warming: The BIGGEST LIE Exposed
Opinion -I will never understand the kind of thinking behind a lie so big that it became an international fraud and swindle. -
CMIP5 Modeling of Extreme Precipitation in Europe
Opinion -Van Haren et al.
