Opinion
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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 -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. -
The ‘Gore Effect’ Pays a Visit to The Heartland Institute
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #101One 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. -
Three NCLB Waivers in Danger, WI Voucher Regulations, and More: Friday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsFEDERAL: Three states are at risk of losing their No Child Left Behind waivers, so must negotiate with the Obama administration over how much they can control their own ed systems.
