Opinion
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Blair Shifts Stance on Climate Change
Opinion -British Prime Minister Tony Blair has long been one of the staunchest supporters of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, but in a recent public statement Blair said his approach to global warming has changed. -
Activists Blocked New Orleans Levee Plan
Opinion -A massive levee system, approved by President Lyndon Johnson and supported by the Army Corps of Engineers during the Carter administration, would have held back the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina and saved the city of New Orleans, scientists and -
U.N. Revises Chernobyl Assessment
Opinion -As of mid-2005, fewer than 50 deaths have been directly attributed to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, with almost all the deaths being among highly exposed rescue workers, according to a new United Nations report. -
Bush Tightens Fuel Economy Mandates for Light Trucks
Opinion -The Bush administration on August 23 announced the first significant tightening of corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards in 30 years. -
Pombo, Gibbons Document Declining Mercury Exposure
Opinion -House Resources Committee Chairman Richard W. -
Katrina Exposes Media’s Global Warming Bias
Opinion -No sooner had Hurricane Katrina moved inland to spawn tornadoes, flooding, misery, and tragedy than global warming alarmists and some in the media began spawning junk science. -
Real-World Data Contradict Hurricane Alarmism
Opinion -Given the recent claims that hurricanes are getting dramatically worse because of global warming, it's too bad we've already exhausted the letter "G" for this hurricane season. "Gasbag" would have been a pretty good moniker for the next storm. -
Addressing Data Conundrums
Opinion -Fixing faulty data is challenging. -
Water for Sale: How Business and The Market Can Resolve the World’s Water Crisis
Opinion -Water for Sale: How Business and The Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis by Fredrik Segerfeldt Cato Institute, June 2005 $12. -
Michigan Moves Forward on Telecom Policy
Opinion -Michigan has had little to celebrate lately, given the state’s stubborn economic slump. -
Thomas Jefferson on Education
Opinion -One advantage of interpreting the words of those no longer with us is that it is frequently possible to imply they said what we would like them to say. -
Maine Moves to Scrap State Student Competency Tests
Opinion -Maine's public education establishment was shocked in early October to learn state Education Commissioner Susan Gendron planned to use the national Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and Preliminary SAT (PSAT) to measure high school juniors' academic -
Katrina Response Shows Need for Medicaid Reform
Opinion -Hurricane Katrina has brought to the fore the strengths and weaknesses of America's health care delivery system. Millions of individual Americans, acting on their own initiative, quickly responded to meet the dire need Katrina created. -
Congressional Health Legislation ‘Scrambled,’ Policy Director Says
Opinion -Dean Rosen, director of health policy for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), said in September the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina had "scrambled" the legislative agenda in Congress. -
GAO Report Focuses on ‘Concierge Medicine’
Opinion -"Concierge medicine" is now before Congress. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (the new name for the General Accounting Office) issued a report in August looking at how concierge medicine is evolving in the United States. -
Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report
Opinion -The planet Mars is undergoing significant global warming, new data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) show, lending support to many climatologists' claims that the Earth's modest warming during the past century is due primarily -
Studies Show GM Crops Safe
Opinion -Genetically improved crops are rigorously tested and proven safe, a panel of University of Nebraska agricultural researchers and professors told an audience of eastern Nebraska residents on August 20. -
Uganda Fighting for Right to Eradicate Malaria
Opinion -Environmental activists are callously denying the citizens of Uganda, where 70,000 people die every year due to malaria, the right to use DDT to eradicate the disease, the U.S. Senate was told on September 28. -
Internet Killed the Video Star
Opinion -Excuse me while I toot my own horn for a moment. On occasions in the past I’ve warned that efforts by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block the proposed acquisition of video rental firm Hollywood Video by Blockbuster Inc. -
Michigan Governor, Union Split on Charter Schools
Opinion -In early October, the Michigan Education Association (MEA) was preparing for a court battle over charter schools with a Native American community college and several state officials including Gov. -
Tax-Funded Schools Are Political Machines, Author Says
Opinion -Cheating Our Kids: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education by Joe Williams New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 272 pages, $16. -
Commonwealth Care
Opinion -This year, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) introduced legislation (HD 4673) to reform health care in his state and to provide health insurance for every resident. -
Study: Estate Law Reform Critically Needed in Kansas
Opinion -As aging Americans increasingly require long-term care, estate law has become more critical than ever before ... and no less complicated. -
Excerpts from GAO Concierge Care Report
Opinion -Given the concerns about how concierge care might affect Medicare beneficiaries, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 required us to study and report on the practice.