Opinion
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It’s (Financially) In the Hole!
Opinion -Minnesota’s golf season typically runs shorter than in most places, but for one city-owned course, it was over before it started this year—and taxpayers are still being hit with substantial upkeep costs. -
Democrats and Lawlessness
Opinion -In the third of the six films of the Star Wars saga, the Sith Lord who has infiltrated to become the ruling Chancellor of the democratic republic confederation of peaceful worlds announces to the elected Assembly of representatives of those worlds that -
Climate Reductio ad Absurdum
Opinion -Recently, three researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, had a study published that claimed that a “substantial” correlation between violence and climate change could be made. -
Shale Gas Better Climate Solution Than Carbon Tax
Opinion -In a recent commentary ("The importance of Maryland's leadership on climate change," Aug. 18), former presidential adviser Carol M. Browner praised Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposals to reduce carbon pollution. -
A Tale of Two Climate HockeySticks
Opinion -The false "hockeystick" graph with which (in 2001) the UN climate panel claimed that current surface temperatures are "unprecedented" in a millennium is at odds with hundreds of scientific papers and with their own previous position. -
America’s Second Civil War
Opinion -“War,” said Carl von Clausewitz, “is but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”But as every school child used to know, if A=B, then B=A. -
ObamaCare Pushes Big Medical Practice Changes
Opinion -The Affordable Care Act will have a profound influence on how doctors practice medicine; and the way hospitals care for patients. -
Conservative Legislators Soundly Reject ‘Revenue Neutral’ Carbon Tax
Opinion -Conservative state legislators gathering earlier this month at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting overwhelmingly defeated a resolution supporting a “revenue neutral” carbon tax. -
The Dangers of California’s ‘Investment Authority’ Bill
Opinion -The big budget bills in California have been resolved for this legislative session but the public has good reason to remain on alert. -
NC Superintendent: Schools More Important than Kids
Opinion -RALEIGH—North Carolina State Superintendent June Atkinson supports charter schools because the independent public schools will “not be a big competitor for our public schools,” she said in October. She doesn’t feel the same about private schools. -
The ‘Gore Effect’ Visits The Heartland Institute
Opinion -One of the most embarrassing aspects of being Al Gore is the propensity of the weather to turn frigid virtually every time Gore schedules a public event to cry wolf about global warming. -
E-cigarette Regulation: Take Sensible Approach to Help Smokers Quit
Opinion -For all the heated rhetoric, there's little dispute in the scientific community: those who quit smoking cigarettes and switch to e-cigarettes reap immediate as well as long-term health benefits. And those improvements are dramatic. -
Walking on the Water
Opinion -Then there’s the inconvenient, and one would think obvious, fact that water is, well, wet. -
Who Will Protect the Fleeced?
Opinion -Katya Wachtel and Sam Forgione of Reuters wrote this in a recent investment recap piece: “Billionaire investor George Soros dumped 7.85 million shares of U.S. Airways Group Inc in the second quarter, a regulatory filing on Wednesday showed. -
Environmentalists Want You Powerless
Opinion -The power plant closures are coming; the power plant closures are coming; the power plant closures are coming; and while no one is riding through town to announce the news, the results to America could be nearly as dire as the coming of the Redcoats. -
Dump the Minimum Wage and Adopt the Free Wage
Opinion -Let us thank the union- and taxpayer-backed Restaurant Opportunities Center, which this month has been launching protests around the nation to demand a minimum wage of $15 an hour for restaurant workers. -
Obama is Denying Energy Independence to America
Opinion -Watching the events unfold in the Middle East, it occurred to me that, if we had a president who had even the slightest grasp of energy facts, we could be living in a nation that is not dependent in part on Middle East oil. -
New Taxes+Unusable Speed=Good for School? New Math For Politicians?
Opinion -What could possibly be wrong with the idea? It helps the kids. But when a politician uses children to justify a plan it is time to quickly grab your wallet and your liberties as at least one of the two is about to be taken away. -
The Compassionate Conservative Medicaid Push
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #386It’s worth reading Neil King’s profile of Gov. John Kasich, who’s rapidly become Obamacare’s biggest Republican cheerleader after Gov. -
Monopoly Is the Problem with the Nation’s Schools
Opinion -It took just eight years and 56 days for the United States to deliver on President John F. Kennedy’s pledge to put a man on the moon. But we’re still waiting on another Kennedy proposal: school reform. -
Obamacare Needs Young Enrollees, but Costs Increases Create Challenge
Opinion -Signing up younger, healthier Americans to government-subsidized coverage is key to the success of President Obama’s health care law. -
New York Legislature to Reconsider Testing, Common Core
Opinion -Lawmakers will review New York’s recent education reform agenda, including Common Core national education standards, in public hearings this fall. -
Local Investors Say No, Feds Say Yes to Restoring Town’s Theater
Opinion -If you can’t convince private investors to restore an old Tennessee theater, and if even state legislators refuse to put up half a million-taxpayer dollars, then the federal government is always good for that cash. -
Washington Ag Department Rejects Asserted Pesticide Link to Bee Decline
Opinion -The Washington State Department of Agriculture rejected a request to ban a garden pesticide that environmental activist groups have unsuccessfully attempted to link to declines in the honeybee population.
