Opinion
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Turning Smokers Into Criminals
Opinion -America is filled with groups of people clamoring for their “rights” or claiming they are being discriminated against. One group, however, has been successfully silenced and, broadly speaking, turned into criminals. -
Illinois Court Upholds Woman’s Right to Earn a Living, Ending Two-Year Struggle
Opinion -More than two years after she applied to the city government in Bloomington, Illinois for a license to operate a late-night van service, Julie Crowe finally will be allowed to start her business, thanks to a court decision upholding her right to earn a -
Expanding What We Know About Climate Change
Opinion -Expanding What We Know About Climate ChangeA critique of Kerry Emanuel’s “What We Know About Climate Change”By James M. -
Fukushima and the Misunderstood Effects of Radiation
Opinion -More than two years have passed since a major earthquake and devastating tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and still not a single case of radiation illness or death occurred as a result. -
Obamacare’s Moment of Truth
Opinion -For much of the past four years, Americans who believe in freedom have fought tooth and nail against first the passage, and then the implementation, of President Barack Obama’s health care law. -
Parents Want Different Styles of Schools, Survey Finds
Opinion -Most K-12 parents want a solid core curriculum in reading, math, and science, but they have different preferences for school culture and emphasis, a new survey finds. -
Obamacare’s Moment of Truth
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #389For much of the past four years, Americans who believe in freedom have fought tooth and nail against first the passage, and then the implementation of President Barack Obama’s health care law. -
Your Move, Global Warming Alarmists. Science Has Exposed Your Unwarranted Hysteria
Opinion -Who will decide American public policy on the issue of potentially catastrophic man caused global warming? The answer is you and me, through the democratic process that governs our country. -
Secure Kids’ Right to Instruction
Opinion -A 150-year-old profession with millions of practitioners should show considerable progress by now. Unfortunately the K-12 government teaching profession is lagging substantially. -
Global Warming: The BIGGEST LIE Exposed
Opinion -I will never understand the kind of thinking behind a lie so big that it became an international fraud and swindle. -
CMIP5 Modeling of Extreme Precipitation in Europe
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Parents Unbundle Education in Arizona
Opinion -One-third of parents allowed to “unbundle” their children’s education using a novel form of vouchers split the money into a variety of education opportunities, while the other two-thirds use their education savings accounts more like a voucher, a study -
Liquor, Lodging Lobbies Oppose Proposed PA Drink Tax
Opinion -A proposal to add an extra tax on alcoholic beverages in financially distressed municipalities has drawn the ire of the liquor industry. -
NIPCC Releases Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #104The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change released on September 17 Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science. -
New Mexico’s Physician Shortage Could be Exacerbated by Obamacare
Opinion -For years, New Mexico has suffered from a chronic shortage of doctors, especially in the rural communities of the state. Now, with the rollout of President Obama’s health care law, plus the decisions by Republican Gov. -
What Economic Recovery?
Opinion -Due to bad government policies, we are not fully out of the recession yet. Four years ago, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that the U.S. recession of 2007-2009 ended. -
Nationwide Education Spending Increases, Figures Show
Opinion -State public school funding has declined in 34 states, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concludes in its recent analysis of public school funding since the start of the Great Recession. -
Report: Right-to-Work States Have More Income Growth and Employment
Opinion -Over the past six decades, states with right-to-work laws experienced greater improvements in average annual employment, real personal income, and population growth than those states would have experienced without right-to-work, a new study by the -
Fed Stays Course on QE Despite Five Years of Failure
Opinion -We told you so. As Americans for Limited Government economic analysis had previously predicted — here, here, and here — there would be no tapering from the Federal Reserve’s $85 billion of quantitative easing anytime soon. -
Sea level rise: Climate change and an ocean of natural variability
Opinion -Sea level rise is the greatest disaster predicted by Climatism, the belief in catastrophic climate change. Today, leading scientific organizations support the idea that the ocean level is rising due to man-made emissions. -
Forecast the Facts Calls People “Evil” for Disputing Alarmism
Opinion -Forecast the Facts campaign manager Brad Johnson is ramping up a hate campaign against people who are skeptical of climate alarmism, calling them “evil” in a media statement. -
No ‘Incredibly Small’ Wars Against Energy by Obama
Opinion -Look closely at the energy-related news stories of the past dozen or so days, and, between the lines, you’ll see a theme: government makes predictions and assertions that cannot be backed up by data to protect or project preferred messaging. -
The Real Don Berwick
Opinion -Consider this –…[F]or many patients the most basic elements of care were neglected. Calls for help to use the bathroom were ignored and patients were left lying in soiled sheeting and sitting on commodes for hours, often feeling ashamed and afraid. -
Some Thoughts on Constitution Day
Opinion -Few people likely know or care that yesterday was Constitution Day, and those who do have probably already been audited by the IRS or had their 504(c)(4) applications denied.
