Opinion
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Michigan to Track Children’s Weight
Opinion -Citing an obesity “epidemic,” Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) announced a plan to track children’s body-mass index through the state’s immunization registry. -
Burgeoning Drug Shortage Is Driven by Government
Opinion -The United States is facing a shortage in drugs to treat life-threatening cancers and bacterial infections. The total number of shortages has increased from 58 vital drugs in 2004 to 211 in 2010. -
Hansen Concedes Skeptics Winning Public Debate
Opinion -Prominent global warming alarmist and NASA official James Hansen is acknowledging in the UK Independent that skeptics are winning the public opinion battle on global warming. -
Suburban ‘End Times’ Reality Check
Opinion -The Atlantic's Alex Madrigal has announced "The Beginning of the End for Suburban America," a wish and hope long dressed up as reality by a well-placed few who believe the "be all and end all" is living anywhere but the suburbs. -
Debit Card Limits May Hike Credit Card Use—and Bank Profits
Opinion -Consumers are expressing outrage that some banks are beginning to charge monthly fees for the use of their debit cards. -
Smelly Alabama Sewer Deals Could End in Record Municipal Bankruptcy
Opinion -Alabama's Jefferson County is "teetering on the edge of bankruptcy," says Jefferson County Commissioner Jimmie Stephens. The county is $3.14 billion in debt as a result of sewer construction and financing deals tainted by corruption. -
Study: Grade Inflation Rampant in Teacher Education Programs
Opinion -Pervasive grade inflation in U.S. university education departments contributes to low standards for educators and the nation’s K-12 education decline, says a new study. -
Mini Ice Age Predicted for Britain
Opinion -Britain is likely to suffer a mini ice age that may last for decades, warns a paper set to be published in the journal Nature. -
Caution, Double Dip Ahead
Opinion -The weekend ending Sept. 23 was momentous in many respects. The S&P 500 index went down 6 percent. The price of gold on the Comex fell by 8.5 percent. Silver, copper, and crude oil also fell in price, although not as much as gold. -
Obama Oblivious to History of Keynesian Failures
Opinion -President Obama says he is for more jobs, a stronger economy, and the middle class, but his actions work against all of them. Ben Franklin said, “Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. -
Do Education Schools Fail Teachers? [VIDEO]
Opinion -A broad body of research has demonstrated that traditional teaching requirements like licensing, certification, education majors, and education graduate work does not notably increase teaching quality. -
Vote Suggests End of the Line for High-Speed Rail
Opinion -With its Sept. 21 vote, the Senate Appropriations Committee ended rail boosters’ hopes of getting a meaningful appropriation for high-speed rail in Fiscal Year 2012. -
Sprint Boss’s Statements Undercut DOJ Claims
Opinion -Like a football quarterback under siege, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is shouting out some strange audibles. He’s reversing past pronouncements about the risks of market concentration and is even reinterpreting the U.S. -
Death of an Entrepreneur
Opinion -Seldom is the passing of a corporate leader the stuff of front-page headlines and numerous commentaries. Steve Jobs, however, wasn't just any corporate leader. -
Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls
Opinion -A Nebraska school has rejected a Parent-Teacher Organization’s offer to donate and install a small waterfall as part of new landscaping at the school. -
Missouri Lawmakers Repeal, Replace Teacher ‘Facebook Ban’
Opinion -A Missouri law prohibiting teachers from private online conversations with students has now been repealed and a substitute signed by the governor after multiple lawsuits and a court’s decision to stay the law. -
Consumer Power Report Preventive Rationing?
Opinion -I’m sure you all recall the story that grabbed headlines from 2009 when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) came under fire for suggesting women in their 40s and 50s not get mammograms. -
Exxon-Mobil Funding Overstated
Opinion -A letter-to-the-editor of Science magazine requesting an apology for misrepresentation by an author -
Reject Longmont Public Wi-Fi Measure
Opinion -“When will they ever learn?” is a plaintive war protest-song refrain from back in the day, but perhaps it requires a contemporary update in light of Longmont’s ballot initiative to resurrect a municipal wi-fi service. -
HHS Moves Toward Price Controls, Ignoring Lessons from Massachusetts
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services now has the power under President Obama’s health care law to issue reviews of any proposed increases by insurers of 10 percent or more. -
Seven States Join DOJ Suit to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Opinion -California and New York have joined five other states in supporting a suit by the U.S. Department of Justice to block the $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T. -
To Serve (Food and Drinks) and Protect (from Attacks by Fake Ninjas)
Opinion -A Long Island catering hall has no duty to protect patrons from a surprise attack at a Halloween party by a man dressed as a ninja. -
Steve Jobs on Education: ‘Give Each Parent a Voucher’
Opinion -Editor’s note: Steve Jobs, whom Apple announced has died this week, recorded an interview with the Smithsonian Institution in 1995, in which he outlined his ideas on technology and education, among other things. You can find the full interview here. -
Charting the Climate Change Scare Machine
Opinion -Global warming alarmists have recently been circulating a flow-chart of how corporate money allegedly corrupts public opinion on global warming by buying off public policy organizations and other opinion shapers.
