Opinion
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Review: Plunder Film Fun, Interesting, but Ignores Some Big Questions
Opinion -Filmmaker and author Danny Schechter has put out a call to action in his new documentary PLUNDER, the Crime of Our Time. Schechter calls for a “jail out, not a bail out,” as he puts it, several times in the film. -
Texas Commission Recommends More Insurance Rate-Setting Freedom
Opinion -Insurance industry officials and free-market advocates are cheering the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission for recommending the Texas Department of Insurance clarify and liberalize its property and casualty insurance ratemaking oversight. -
Washington State Jumps on Tax Increase Bandwagon
Opinion -The Washington State Legislature has voted to follow lawmakers in other states trying to tax their way out of the economic recession, and a proposed initiative would raise a billion dollars in additional taxes. -
Consumer Power Report #222
Opinion -Spring has finally come to Washington, DC -- and I hope Greg is enjoying it, because he’s off this week.I was troubled to read this article in The Wall Street Journal regarding the in-home care casualties of the Medicaid cutbacks. -
California: The Frog in the Downgrade Frying Pan
Opinion -Just as a frog will jump out of a hot frying pan, but will sit in water that slowly goes from cold to hot until he cooks to death, California’s politicians have sat quietly as the accumulation of chronic budget deficits bubbling up from an -
NAS Report: ‘Partisan and Closed Minded’
Opinion -The National Academy of Sciences Thursday reasserted its opinion that the Earth’s climate has warmed to crisis levels and that human activity – the burning of fossil fuels – is the primary cause. -
Supporter of Global Warming Theory Welcomed at ‘Skeptics’ Conference
Opinion -(CHICAGO) Climate scientist A. -
High-Earner Income Tax Initiative Introduced in Washington State
Opinion -Washington is one of only seven states without a personal income tax, but a new initiative introduced by a coalition of liberal activists including Bill Gates Sr. would change that by introducing an income tax on the state’s “high earners. -
Opening Climate Conference Gala Proves ‘Skeptics’ No Monolith
Opinion -CHICAGO -- Steve McIntyre, whose persistent inquiry into the data supporting an iconic graphic of global-warming disaster called the “hockey stick” led to the scandal known as Climategate, outlined the tell-tale footprints he followed for a -
Monday Climate Conference Speakers Warn of ‘Meaningless’ Warming, Even Global Cooling
Opinion -CHICAGO (May 17, 2010) - Attendees at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change here who hoped to stock up on ammunition to battle global warming alarmists got locked and loaded Monday. -
Cities Line Up for Google Fiber
Opinion -Google’s ambitious business plans have extended far beyond the realm of Internet searches—to social networking, instant messaging and even the mobile phone industry. The company is now putting on yet another hat: Free broadband provider. -
An Anti-Obamacare Case to Watch
Opinion -Among the cases attacking the constitutionality of Obamacare, one filed last month by a Tennessee lawyer—previously unknown at the national level—could be the most revolutionary. -
‘Warmists’ Missing at Skeptics’ Conference
Opinion -The speakers’ list at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, which opens Sunday in Chicago with more than 700 registered attendees, is loaded with the world’s elite climatologists, economists, and policy makers. -
Study: Better IP Protection Needed
Opinion -A new report concludes strict protection of intellectual property, especially in the technology sector of the economy, would encourage higher wages, greater productivity, and faster job creation. -
PJTV to Cover Climate Conference Live
Opinion -Live coverage of the eight keynote speeches at the fourth International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago will be streamed online by Pajamas Media's PJTV. -
Colorado’s Teacher Tenure Reforms Are a Good First Step
Opinion -The Colorado House of Representatives passed its heavily amended version of Senate Bill 191 on Wednesday. The Senate approved the bill on reconciliation late Wednesday afternoon. -
Analysis: FCC Regulation Plan for Internet Is Misguided
Opinion -Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has announced he wants to place the fast-moving broadband and Internet industry under a regulatory regime designed for monopoly-era telephone service. -
Colorado’s Teacher Tenure Reforms Are a Good, Small Step
Opinion -The Colorado House of Representatives passed its heavily amended version of Senate Bill 191 on Wednesday. The Senate approved the bill on reconciliation late Wednesday afternoon. -
Consumer Power Report #221
Opinion -I was in Louisiana this week giving talks to Baton Rouge and New Orleans health underwriters. -
Tech Industry Takes Steps to Protect Online Privacy
Opinion -As the Federal Trade Commission contemplates requests by Congress to impose strict privacy rules on the Internet, examples of market forces causing the industry to protect the personal information of their online customers abound. -
America’s Old K-12 Model Keeps Us ‘A Nation At Risk’
Opinion -Twenty-seven years have passed since A Nation at Risk, a seminal report on the state of education in America, famously concluded, “The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens -
House Bill Would Put Extra Burden on Bloggers
Opinion -A Michigan congressman is pushing a bill that would empower the Federal Trade Commission to impose fines on Web site operators if they fail to take down personal information posted on their sites.Rep. -
‘Cap and Trade’ Meets Skeptics in Chicago
Opinion -CHICAGO – As the U.S. -
California Again Mulling an ‘Amazon Tax’
Opinion -Scrambling to come up with ways to close an historic $20 billion budget deficit, California legislators are contemplating—yet again—imposing an “Amazon Tax.
