Opinion
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The Taxman Cometh (for Tea Partiers)
Opinion -On Friday, senior IRS official Lois Lerner offered an apology of sorts after nonprofit organizations that were applying for tax-exempt status were targeted for IRS audit if the groups’ names included “Tea Party” or “patriots. -
How to Tell if College Presidents Are Overpaid
Opinion -The Chronicle of Higher Education tells us the median salary of public university presidents rose 4.7 percent in 2011-12 to more than $440,000 a year. -
A Climate Cycle Delivered Our Cold Spring
Opinion -Lots of us are commenting on the U.S. having the second coldest spring in the official thermometer record (starting ca. 1860) and the coldest since 1975. Remember, too, that in 1975 major news magazines were predicting a sudden return to the next Ice Age! -
Put Parents in Charge of Education
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. -
Wireless Competition: What’s the Data Say?
Opinion -The CTIA just released its semi-annual statistics on the wireless industry’s performance, and its bad news for all those supposed data-driven, pro-regulation proponents who are in search of evidence or data to justify regulating wireless or wireless -
No Warming in Antarctica, Satellite Data Show
Opinion -Antarctic temperatures are not rising at all and have slightly declined during the past 33 years, satellite data show. -
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?