Opinion
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USDOE to Help Sell ObamaCare, Dismisses Senate Inquiries
Opinion -U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has yet to respond to several letters from Republican senators asking for details on his department’s involvement in promoting ObamaCare, according to Sen. John Thune’s spokeswoman. -
Nebraska Mall Has $112 Million Price Tag . . . and $58 Million of Subsidies
Opinion -When a new outlet mall opens in November between Nebraska’s two largest cities — Omaha and Lincoln — shoppers can look around and thank the government for putting up more than half the money to build it. -
It’s Only Natural – to Sue People
Opinion -Long-time followers of abusive lawsuits may recall the Nutella case, a California class action brought in 2012 against an Italian company called Ferrero that had introduced its brand of hazelnut chocolate spread way back in 1964. -
Plan Bay Area: Telling People What to Do
Opinion -The San Francisco area’s recently adopted Plan Bay Area may set a new standard for urban planning excess. -
The Left Opposes Common Core, Too (podcast)
Opinion -The media routinely reports that opposition to national Common Core education standards and tests resides within fringe elements of the Right, such as Tea Parties. That's not the case, says author and middle school science teacher Kris Nielsen. -
IPCC Lead Author Reports Flaws in Asserted 97-Percent Consensus
Opinion -A recently published paper claiming 97 percent of peer-reviewed studies on climate change agree “humans are causing global warming” is riddled with errors and ends-driven measuring sticks, according to United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate -
2,500 California Entrepreneurs Sweat State’s Retroactive Taxation Attempt
Opinion -Friday could be the day more than 2,000 small business owners and investors in California learn if they’ll have to pay $120 million in taxes the state once told them they would never owe. -
Missouri Superintendents Want Tenure Reform, Survey Says
Opinion -A new survey of Missouri superintendents shows 92 percent support tenure reform and nearly three-fourths find it difficult to remove poor-performing tenured teachers. The Show-Me Institute report estimates 0. -
Alarmists Are in Denial Proposing Hurricane Name Changes
Opinion -The 350 Action group garnered substantial media attention yesterday by releasing a video proposing naming hurricanes after legislators who are skeptical of the asserted link between hurricanes and global warming. -
Reasons Behind the Apparent Divergence of Productivity and Compensation
Opinion -In some but not all industries, we can measure output; e.g., tons of this, cubic yards of that. By relating output to hours of labor, we have a measure of labor productivity. As measured by the U.S. -
Obama, the Great Defunder
Opinion -Obama has announced that he will defund the entire government rather than sign a bill that does not contain funding for ObamaCare. Senator Harry Reid has said he will not let the U.S. -
Federal Private School Regulations Increase
Opinion -Federal government regulations on private schools are increasing, especially due to ObamaCare. -
Data Show Foreigners Dumping Treasuries
Opinion -From the end of March through June, foreigners dumped $124 billion of U.S. treasuries after increasing assets for 15 months straight, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Treasury. -
Gold Prices Have People Wondering: What’s in the Vault?
Opinion -With private investors’ demand for physical gold remaining strong throughout 2013 so far, the significant price declines in recent months have taken many investors by surprise. -
Global Warming: Wildfires at All-Time Low
Opinion -The number of wildfires in the United States is at an all-time low this year, the National Interagency Fire Center reports. The number of total acres burned is at its second lowest on record. -
Study: How to Create ‘Next-Gen Vouchers’
Opinion -Parents will have ultimate control over their child’s education dollars when states move existing school choice programs into education savings accounts, says a new report. -
Nobody Under Drinking Age Has Ever Seen a Category 5 Hurricane
Opinion -This weekend marked the 21st anniversary of Hurricane Andrew, the last Category 5 hurricane to strike the United States. -
Elevated Concern
Opinion -When James and Tricia Keene hired Brint Construction in 2011 to build a vacation home for them in the Galveston County, Texas, neighborhood of Crystal Beach, they decided $20,000 was too much to pay for an elevator, so they hired Easy Lift Cargo Lifts of -
Printing Errors Could Force Destruction of Millions of $100 Bills
Opinion -The Federal Reserve announced a new design for the one hundred dollar bill two years ago, but it was unable to put the money into the market because of some errors at the printing factory. -
Just One in Four Young Americans Know About Obamacare
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #387This Commonwealth Fund study should be very worrisome to supporters of President Barack Obama’s law: Just one in four 19- to 29-year-olds is even aware of Obamacare’s exchanges. -
The Federal Government’s Reaction To Bitcoin Is An Acknowledgement Of The Dollar’s Vulnerability
Opinion -With an insight that eluded many 20th Century macroeconomists, the cybergeek innovators recognized the natural market connection between the value and the quantity of the currency. So Bitcoin is organized to inherently limit its quantity. -
Labor Productivity vs. Compensation
Opinion -In some but not all industries, we can measure output; e.g., tons of this, cubic yards of that. By relating output to hours of labor, we have a measure of labor productivity.As measured by the U.S. -
Yes, We Can Drill Our Way Out of This Problem
Opinion -Perhaps you read the USA Today editorial on August 19 that concludes with: “the most important gains could come from radical shifts that are as unanticipated as was North America's emergence as an oil and gas powerhouse. -
Medicare Prescription Drug Program Under Pressure From Activist Groups
Opinion -A coalition of activist groups is pressuring Congress to end a market-based component of Medicare in an attack on the popular prescription drug program.
