Opinion
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Report: Right-to-Work States Have More Income Growth and Employment
Opinion -Over the past six decades, states with right-to-work laws experienced greater improvements in average annual employment, real personal income, and population growth than those states would have experienced without right-to-work, a new study by the -
Fed Stays Course on QE Despite Five Years of Failure
Opinion -We told you so. As Americans for Limited Government economic analysis had previously predicted — here, here, and here — there would be no tapering from the Federal Reserve’s $85 billion of quantitative easing anytime soon. -
Sea level rise: Climate change and an ocean of natural variability
Opinion -Sea level rise is the greatest disaster predicted by Climatism, the belief in catastrophic climate change. Today, leading scientific organizations support the idea that the ocean level is rising due to man-made emissions. -
Forecast the Facts Calls People “Evil” for Disputing Alarmism
Opinion -Forecast the Facts campaign manager Brad Johnson is ramping up a hate campaign against people who are skeptical of climate alarmism, calling them “evil” in a media statement. -
No ‘Incredibly Small’ Wars Against Energy by Obama
Opinion -Look closely at the energy-related news stories of the past dozen or so days, and, between the lines, you’ll see a theme: government makes predictions and assertions that cannot be backed up by data to protect or project preferred messaging. -
The Real Don Berwick
Opinion -Consider this –…[F]or many patients the most basic elements of care were neglected. Calls for help to use the bathroom were ignored and patients were left lying in soiled sheeting and sitting on commodes for hours, often feeling ashamed and afraid. -
Some Thoughts on Constitution Day
Opinion -Few people likely know or care that yesterday was Constitution Day, and those who do have probably already been audited by the IRS or had their 504(c)(4) applications denied. -
Memphis Voters Asked to Raise Sales Tax for Questionable Pre-Kindergarten
Opinion -Memphis voters will decide in November if they want to pay higher taxes to make up for a loss in federal pre-kindergarten funding — despite a state comptroller’s report that the programs have no lasting benefits. -
Conservatives Rescuing Obama
Opinion -Obamacare has not even gone into effect yet, and there it lies substantively smashed on the floor in ruins. -
DOE Claims More ‘Success’ With Another Clean Energy Bankruptcy
Opinion -Ecotality declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.Compared to other Recovery Act beneficiaries that have failed – like battery maker A123 Systems and electric auto company Fisker Automotive – the deathwatch was short. -
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
