Opinion
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New Hampshire Choice Safe, Ohio House Removes Common Core Test Funds, and More: Friday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsThe New Hampshire Senate blocks a repeal of the state's new tax-credit scholarships. The Ohio House has voted to remove approval for Common Core tests from the state budget. -
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s Poor Record on Education
Opinion -The Indiana Chamber of Commerce promotes itself as a steward for the people and businesses of Indiana. No doubt it has done a lot of good for the state. -
Sen. Grassley: Stop Federal Funds, Coercion on Common Core
Opinion -U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley wants the federal government to stop funding Common Core, national K-12 education goals in math and English. -
Other People’s Children: Part Two
Opinion -In the race to the financial bottom the State of Illinois vies nicely with several other states, including (depending on the precise year involved) California, New York, and Ohio, with a projected 2012 deficit exceeding 43.8 Billion. -
DOJ Joins FCC in Picking Wireless Winners and Losers
Opinion -The DOJ has joined the FCC in trying to pick market winners (Sprint/T-Mobile) and losers (Verizon/AT&T) in the U.S. wireless market. -
Poll: In Chicago, 61 Percent Support Parent Trigger
Opinion -A recent representative poll of 1,010 Chicago residents has found that 61 percent support a Parent Trigger law. Parent Trigger laws allow a majority of parents whose children attend a failing school to require change through petition. -
Baucus Worries About Obamacare Becoming a “Huge Train Wreck”
Opinion -Senator Max Baucus was the primary author and framer of President Obama's health care law on the Senate side, shaping much of what became the final structure of PPACA. -
The White House Admits: Obamacare Won’t Work Like We Promised
Opinion -Across the country right now, hospitals are lobbying intensely to convince states to expand their Medicaid programs, increasing the tax burden on their citizens in future years to send billions to providers. -
Expect Higher Medical Costs, Less Research Because of Device Tax
Opinion -The federal medical device tax, which went into force on January 1 of this year, will have an adverse effect on the medical device industry, consumers, and the economy, according to a new analysis by the Tax Foundation. The 2. -
Yes, Let’s Have Those Climate Change Conversations
Opinion -Two scientist-activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published an article in Science last week calling for more “Climate Change Conversations,” as the article was titled. -
Proxy System’s Broken; Here’s How to Fix It
Opinion -The system for proxy voting by mutual funds and other institutions that own shares in publicly traded companies in America is badly broken. The source of the disrepair is regulation. -
The Capacity for Thermal Acclimation in Mosquitofish
Opinion -Noting that “many predictions of the impact of climate change on biodiversity assume a species-specific response to changing environments,” the authors of this study proceed to argue, on the basis of their results, that “this resolution can be too coarse -
Progressive Keynesian Myths Debunked: The Coming Redistribution of Political and Economic Power Among the States
Opinion -Ongoing effective economic experiments among the 50 states are sharpening, and definitive results will pour out in the real world, editorial and opinion fallacies to the contrary notwithstanding. -
Obama Again Picking Private Sector Losers at the Expense of Winners
Opinion -The Barack Obama Administration is fabulously successful at choosing terribly in the private sector.Solyndra. Fisker. The Chevy Volt. Ener1. A123 Systems. Beacon Power. Abound Solar. Evergreen Solar. And on, and on, and…. -
Twitter Rally Sparks Common Core Debate (video)
Opinion -Apropos of a Twitter rally around the hashtag #stopcommoncore today, Choice Media released a Common Core video debate between three experts on each side. View it in the video box at left. Common Core lists what K-12 kids must know in English and math. -
Delta Project: California’s Latest Environmental Boondoggle
Opinion -In Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” a priest recalls the words of a man who confessed, “The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular. -
Tennessee Governor: My Vouchers or No Vouchers (video)
Opinion -Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam decided to pull his school voucher proposal because some Republican lawmakers insisted on trying to expand it, says state Senate Majority Leader Marker Norris (R-Collierville) in this video. -
Other People’s Children
Opinion -If the states are laboratories of democracy, then what does that make our cities? Showcases of the experiments’ results? If so, then we are in for a terrible time. -
Relentless Liars: The Great Green Edifice is Crumbling
Opinion -The New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club emailed to invite me to attend a “conversation on climate change in a post-Sandy New Jersey” intended to focus on the “impacts of fossil fuel pollution” later this month. -
Margaret Thatcher: Global Warming Provides Excuse For ‘Worldwide, Supra-National Socialism’
Opinion -In honor of Margaret Thatcher’s memory, favorite quotes from the Iron Lady have popped up everywhere. This one came across my Facebook newsfeed: “Global warming ‘provides a marvelous excuse for worldwide, supra-national socialism. -
EPA’s Tier 3 Tyranny
Opinion -President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits, but will impose high economic and unemployment costs, often to advance the -
Internet Taxes
Opinion -The Tribune's April 8 editorial "Online vs. on the corner; Time to put dot-coms on par with your local store" is off base on Internet taxes. -
U.S. Suburbs Approaching Jobs-Housing Balance
Opinion -Suburban areas in the U.S. metropolitan areas with more than 1 million total regional population, once largely seen as bedroom communities, are nearing parity between jobs and resident employees. -
Requiring Standardized Testing Undermines School Choice
Opinion -As Georgia’s legislature considers a bill to expand the state’s scholarship tax credit program and increase transparency, some are calling for additional regulations. Writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Adam Emerson of the Thomas B.