Opinion
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Georgia Charters Create Alternative Teacher Pipeline
Opinion -Georgia charter schools have started their own first-in-the nation teacher certification program that is already inspiring charters in other states. -
Uninsured May Have Better Access to Care than Medicaid Patients, Survey Shows
Opinion -The public relations campaign to support Medicaid expansion frequently uses testimony by patients with serious medical conditions who have lost their private insurance. -
Dear New FCC Chairman Wheeler, Please Stop the Attacks on the Internet
Opinion -The Barack Obama Administration has nominated Tom Wheeler to replace Julius Genachowski as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman. (Wheeler awaits Senate approval. -
Is Roy Spencer the World’s Most Important Scientist?
Opinion -Roy Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who may be the world's most important scientist. He has discovered scientific insights and theories that cast great doubt on global warming doctrine. -
Washington’s Preschool Push Ignores the Real Problem
Opinion -In 1965, almost no parents put their three-year-olds in nursery school. Now, two in five three-year-olds attend, and two-thirds of four-year-olds do. -
Heat Advisory
Opinion -A viewer is suing Dr. Oz for causing the viewer to burn his feet. Popular TV host Dr. Mehmet Oz recommended “Heated Rice Footsies” to viewers having trouble falling asleep. -
Extreme Weather Events Becoming less Frequent
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #90Almost every type of extreme weather event has become less frequent and less severe in recent years as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age. -
Human Face of Obamacare’s Broken Promises Becoming Visible
Opinion -Virtually all the costs of the so-called Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—have been invisible thus far. But that is beginning to change. -
Online ‘Marketplace Fairness Act’ Could Tax Your 401(k)
Opinion -The U.S. Senate recently passed the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would force online retailers to collect sales taxes for states in which purchasers reside. Most have heard how this will hit us when we purchase goods over the Internet. -
‘Fair’: Government Taxing Businesses to Fund Competitors to Their Businesses
Opinion -President Barack Obama and the Left have declared the government is now even more extensively in the economic “fairness” business. -
Some States Reaffirm Cursive Instruction
Opinion -Several states have passed legislation requiring public schools to teach cursive handwriting, to fill in after adopting Common Core national standards, which do not require cursive. North Carolina’s House passed its “Back to Basics” bill March 4. -
Overconfidence: The Achilles Heel of Global Warming Alarmists
Opinion -Canada 2020 climate change panel an exercise in propaganda Imagine that a panel discussion entitled “How to attack Kazakhstan to destroy their nuclear weapons” was held at a prestigious hotel in Canada’s capital. -
Effects of Temperature on Mortality in Nairobi, Kenya
Opinion -Even in places that are appreciated for their relative warmth, a change in the weather or shifting of the seasons to cooler conditions, rather than an equivalent increase in warmth, is typically the more deadly of the two types of temperature evolution... -
Turning on Obama — Could it Be That the Liberal Press has Finally Figured Him Out?
Opinion -If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. -
The FCC Transition?
Opinion -Timing is everything.That’s why, Tom Wheeler, the President’s nominee for Chairman of the FCC, could become one of the most consequential FCC leaders in American history. -
Sorry Left, U.S. Actually Does the Internet Better Than Europe
Opinion -We’ve heard it from the Left for years. -
Ohio House Passes Budget Without Kasich’s Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -The Ohio House of Representatives rejected Gov. John Kasich’s calls to expand Medicaid under President Obama’s health care law as legislators refused to legislate the necessary waiver requests and called for further debate about the issue. -
Pension Guarantee Would Be a Hammock Not a Safety Net
Opinion -A few years ago, I was talking to a new college graduate who was moving to an expensive, distant city where she didn’t have a job. I asked, “How will you support yourself? -
Jindal to Revive Struck Voucher Program
Opinion -Nearly 8,000 kids are suddenly uncertain about where they will attend school this fall now that the Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled 6-1 the state's voucher program is unconstitutional. -
Extreme Weather Events Are Becoming Less Extreme
Opinion -Just about every type of extreme weather event is becoming less frequent and less severe in recent years as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age. -
You Can Lead a Horse to Water…
Opinion -I want to make just one observation based on Avik Roy’s outstanding write-up of the Oregon Medicaid project. -
Environmentalists Killing US Economy
Opinion -Last month, Earth Day came and went. Perhaps you missed hearing about it. For 2013, the theme was “The Face of Climate Change. -
Greens Oppose Drilling, Fracking, Keystone … and Exports
Opinion -The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. -
Overreaching Internet Sales Tax Is Obama’s Calculated Deception Of Gullible Voters
Opinion -During the 2008 campaign, when candidate Obama was seeking our votes, he pledged in Dover, New Hampshire on Sept. 12, 2008:“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.