Opinion
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Stimulus Didn’t Even Come Close to Working
Opinion -If government spending can stimulate economies, how did the U.S. economy ever tank in the first place?Based on spending, our economy should be stronger than ever.When George W. Bush became president, total federal spending was $1.8 trillion. -
Study: Merit Pay in a Monopoly System Yields Limited Results
Opinion -A study from Vanderbilt University has found teacher merit pay programs have little impact on student achievement—but critics note point out the study ignores potential system-wide effects. -
House Abandons Net Neutrality Bill
Opinion -A U.S. House of Representatives draft proposal for network neutrality legislation released September 27 was abandoned for lack of Republican support later the same week.The proposed legislation called for the FCC to enforce rules established by Congress. -
Consumer Power Report #242
Opinion -I was thinking this week about a conversation from a book. It is a book you have almost certainly read, and a scene you may recognize. -
Options Exist to Homeschooling Strains
Opinion -Kudos to freelance contributor Kristyn Procter for creatively exploring a potential drawback of homeschooling not often discussed: a negative impact on family relationships along the lines of “familiarity breeds contempt. -
Former Washingtion Supreme Court Justice Deems Income Tax Proposal Unconstitutional
Opinion -A new legal analysis written for the Washington Policy Center by respected former state Supreme Court Justice Phil Talmadge finds Washington’s Initiative 1098 would likely be ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court if passed by voters this -
Study: Texas Jobs Fund Falls Well Short of Promises
Opinion -Two-thirds of companies that have received $368 million in Texas state funds failed to deliver on their job-creation promises by the end of 2009, a study by the nonpartisan Texans for Public Justice in Austin found. -
FCC Broadband, Cybersecurity Overhaul Plans Include New ‘Fees,’ Auction
Opinion -Responding to the congressional directive calling for development of a National Broadband Plan, the Federal Communications Commission is proposing a massive overhaul of the nation’s cybersecurity and wireless broadband public safety infrastructure, paid -
Green Jobs Promises Dwindle As Policies Backfire
Opinion -Once touted by the Obama administration as the wave of the future, green stimulus programs are rapidly falling out of favor with the administration as jobs fail to materialize. -
Democrats Make Global Warming a Campaign Issue
Opinion -With Obamacare, bailouts, and stimulus spending all working against Democratic candidates in the upcoming November elections, a faction within the Democratic Party is switching gears and seeking to make the upcoming elections a referendum on global -
Study: Global Warming Will Benefit Marine Life
Opinion -Seventeen Australian and Canadian scientists have published a study in the peer-reviewed journal Global Change Biology concluding global warming will benefit marine life. -
Alaska Sues to Remove Federal Drilling Moratorium
Opinion -The State of Alaska has filed suit in a federal district court requesting injunctive relief and petitioning for review of the federal moratorium on Arctic Outer Continental Shelf oil and natural gas exploration. -
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change Calls for Contributing Authors
Opinion -The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change has announced is seeking nominations for Contributing Authors for the second edition of Climate Change Reconsidered, expected to be released in 2013. -
Climate of Corruption Exposed
Opinion -Advance review of Climate of Corruption, by Larry Bell (to be published by Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2011).Climate of Corruption is amazing. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #9-20
Opinion -A California law firm is being sued by one of its former partners, who alleges he was fired for refusing to attend a firm retreat where male partners “would strip naked and pass around a wooden phallus in a circle while describing their sexual -
American Indian Tribes Protest Proposed Solar Power Complex
Opinion -BrightSource Energy, an Oakland, California corporation that designs, builds, finances, and operates utility-scale solar power plants, wants to develop its first solar power complex in California’s Mojave Desert, but several American Indian tribes -
GE Closes Last Incandescent Light Bulb Plant, Jobs Sent to China
Opinion -General Electric has closed its last major factory making incandescent light bulbs in the United States, a victim of a 2007 law banning sale of the light bulbs by 2014. -
Environmental Mandates Flame Out in California Legislature
Opinion -Environmental activist groups suffered two stinging defeats in California as the state legislature ended its 2010 session without passing two major environmental bills supported by the activists. -
Chu Touts Clean Coal to West Virginians
Opinion -Coal will remain an important part of the U.S. energy mix, and clean coal technologies will “save coal” under global warming carbon dioxide restrictions, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told a community forum in Charleston, West Virginia. -
Citizens Rally in Montana Against National Monument Designations
Opinion -More than 2,000 citizens packed a Malta, Montana school gymnasium in September to protest the Bureau of Land Management’s push to declare a new national monument that would expand federal control of lands in the state. -
Marcellus Shale Drilling Moratorium Sparks Public Criticism
Opinion -The decision by an obscure but powerful regulatory commission to impose a de facto moratorium on natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin has unleashed a wave of protest in the affected communities. -
Nuclear Research Recaptures Spirit of Scientific Cooperation
Opinion -The nuclear age was conceived by 19th century physicists and underwent accelerated development thanks to unprecedented scientific cooperation during World War II. -
Rendell Speaks Out Against Proposed Drilling Moratorium, Proposes New Taxes
Opinion -Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (D) is going on the offensive against a statewide natural gas drilling moratorium proposed by some environmental activist groups.
