Opinion
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Feds Consider West Virginia Wind Farm Permit to Kill Endangered Bats
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering an industrial wind farm’s application to kill more than 60 endangered bats during the next 25 years. -
States Are Working to Avert Feds’ Transportation Funding Crisis
Opinion -A recent hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee on "The Need to Invest in America's Infrastructure and Preserve Federal Transportation Funding" made it painfully clear that neither the assembled witnesses nor any of the -
Nobel Prize in Economics for asset-pricers
Opinion -This year's prize goes to three economists who made contributions to the pricing of speculative assets such as stocks. -
How Much Longer Will the Dollar Be the World’s Reserve Currency?
Opinion -Editor’s note: China’s official press agency in October called for ending the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. -
Some Federal Contractors Balking at New Employment Rules
Opinion -When it comes to hiring the right person for the job, Tom Roeser prefers to do it his way over that of the government telling him how to do it. -
Gina McCarthy Gets Firsthand Look at Pebble Mine
Opinion -If EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy kept her eyes open during her late-August tour of the Pebble Group’s proposed mining site in southwestern Alaska, she saw a group committed to the most impressive environmental stewardship possible. -
Vermont Public School Goes Independent, Angers Bureaucrats [short]
Opinion -When North Bennington Graded School closed its doors and the Village School opened in the same building, it looked like a win-win. -
Environmental Activist Naomi Klein Slams Joe Romm for Ignorance, Hatchet Tactics
Opinion -Environmental activist Naomi Klein published an open letter eviscerating Center for American Progress front man Joe Romm for making ignorant statements and irresponsibly making hatchet-job attacks on people with other points of view. -
Philadelphia Created Its Own Fiscal Crisis
Opinion -Philadelphia School District finances are a nightmare, and there’s no shortage of horror stories about the layoffs. What isn’t included in those stories is how the hiring practices of recent years exacerbated today’s cuts. -
We Need Zero Tolerance for ‘Zero Tolerance’
Opinion -When I was a youngster a prize possession of every boy was a set of toy cowboy six-shooters and, if you were especially blessed, a belt and holsters as well. -
Scientists Release ‘Climate Change Reconsidered’
Opinion -The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) released a major new report on climate change science produced by an international team of 40 scientists at a press conference on Sept. 17, 2013, at the James R. -
The Science Fiction of IPCC Climate Models
Opinion -The human race has prospered by relying on forecasts that the seasons will follow their usual course, while knowing they will sometimes be better or worse. Are things different now? -
AFL-CIO Turns Against Obamacare
Opinion -The nation’s largest union federation has turned against President Obama’s health care law, calling for it to be reformed or repealed. -
Top Public Schools Demand More than Common Core
Opinion -The best U.S. public schools—including those with high numbers of poor and minority kids—require more of students than state standards and Common Core, and school leaders attribute their success partly to these high expectations. -
‘Lukewarmist’ Judith Curry Calls for End of IPCC
Opinion -Climate scientist Judith Curry, who has gained a reputation as a “lukewarmer” for agreeing with many climate assertions by global warming activists but calling for more scientific scrutiny of alarmist claims, has called for an end to the United Nations -
Wyoming Stays Best, New York Stays Worst in Tax Climate Ranking
Opinion -The best: Wyoming. The worst: New York So says the Tax Foundation in its annual State Business Tax Climate Index, which enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare. -
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall As Global Emissions Rise
Opinion -U.S. carbon dioxide emissions fell 8 percent between 2007 and 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports. The decline in U.S. emissions stands in stark contrast to a 9 percent increase in global emissions during the same time period.The U. -
The New Vicious Cycle of Student Loan Debt
Opinion -Generally, the idea of going to college is not to just get a job but to begin a career. -
The Fallacy of Replacing ObamaCare with Medicare-for-All
Opinion -Now that the problems with implementing ObamaCare are becoming increasingly apparent, Progressives are touting “single payer” health insurance as a replacement for ObamaCare. -
Seized German Homeschool Kids Returned Home, With Conditions
Opinion -Three weeks after 20 German police and social workers raided a family’s home and removed their four children for the crime of homeschooling, the children have been returned home—on the condition that they attend government schools. -
Circuit Court Ends Cook County Tax on Cross-Border Purchases
Opinion -A Cook County, Ill. judge has ruled against the county’s use tax on certain items purchased outside the county by in-county businesses. -
Obamacare Reality Sinks In
Opinion -Now that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has gone into effect, the debate will shift from promises and theories to what consumers actually experience. As we are seeing, the first reaction appears to be bipartisan sticker shock. -
Obamacare’s Grim Future
Opinion -Three years ago, Democrats hailed enactment of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) as a landmark in government protection of everyone’s health. Since then, Obamacare has faced tough sledding. -
The New Red Menace: Government Debt
Opinion -With the Obama White House and Congress having agreed in October to allow the Treasury Department to borrow money beyond the previous $16.
