Opinion
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World Leaders Gather in Bonn to Celebrate Missing Climate Targets
Opinion -Editorial -Leaders from around the world have assembled in Bonn, Germany to celebrate their abysmal failure to meet the carbon-dioxide emissions reduction goals established under the Paris climate agreement in 2015. -
Florida ESA Program Runs Out of Funding Because of Huge Demand
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #203 -
Government Officials Want More Data Collection. Time To Say ‘Thanks But No Thanks’
Opinion -Editorial -Thanks, but no thanks, federal government. You can keep your programs, and we’ll keep our data to ourselves. -
Let’s Put an End to the Left’s Myths about the Liberal Arts
Opinion -Editorial -The study of the liberal arts is increasingly becoming passé. It's time to change this. -
Pruitt Ends EPA’s Use of Controversial ‘Sue and Settle’ Agreements
Opinion -environment-climate-news -U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt issued an agency-wide directive to end “sue and settle” practices within the EPA. -
Rhode Island Judge Orders Temporary Ban on Teachers Union ‘Sickouts’
Opinion -school-reform-news -A Rhode Island judge ordered the local teachers union to stop taking mass sick leave days in what are known as “sickouts.” -
Restore the American Dream to Destroy Creeping Socialism
Opinion -Editorial -In 1917, as American soldiers were fighting to “make the world safe for democracy,” Russia was embarking down the dark road of communism. -
Interior Department Plans Largest Offshore Lease Sale in History
Opinion -environment-climate-news -U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced the Department of Interior will offer the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history on March 21, 2018. -
How Millennials Can Help Reduce The Federal Deficit
Opinion -Editorial -Since February 2017, the federal deficit has grown by more than $500 billion, to over $20 trillion. The average debt owed per person is now estimated to be greater than $62,000. -
Medicaid Due for an Overhaul
Opinion -Editorial -For years, doctors, patients and lawmakers have rightly complained federal rules and regulations make it all but impossible for states to reform and innovate Medicaid. -
An Audience with the Tyrant of Yemen
Opinion -Editorial -The former president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was reported killed in the capital of Sana’a, on December 4, 2017, when he seemingly was changing sides in the on-going and brutal civil war in that country. -
Net Neutrality: The Left Is Always Wrong – So Stop Listening To Them
Opinion -Editorial -The Left has a very long history of being very wrong. -
Consumers Win With Upcoming FCC ‘Net Neutrality’ Vote
Opinion -Editorial -The Federal Communications Commission will soon vote to undo net neutrality, an Obama-era power grab. -
Trump Administration Considers Funding Massive Wind Farm
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The administration of President Donald Trump is considering helping fund the construction of what would be North America’s largest wind power project. -
New Commercial Rejects Elitism, Embraces Populism
Opinion -Editorial -Every once in a while a commercial hits the airwaves that truly captures the current American spirit. -
Methane Emissions Fall 50 Percent in New Mexico
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Improved efficiency has reduced methane emissions from natural gas production in New Mexico by more than half from 2016 to 2017. -
Yes, The Government Has To Get A Warrant For Digital ‘Papers’
Opinion -Editorial -In this the Digital Age, we yet again find our government lagging way behind We the People and our private sector. -
Heartland Weekly: Why Democrats Lose on Global Warming
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Democrats might be zealous about the climate debate, but they have no weight behind their punch. -
Charter Schools Are Keeping Families in Kansas City
Opinion -school-reform-news -Homes in Kansas City, Missouri are selling like hotcakes, and a local real estate agent says school choice is driving the trend of middle-class families staying in the city. -
Keystone Is Anti-hydrocarbon Zealotry in Microcosm
Opinion -Editorial -Radical environmentalists prefer dangerous, inhumane, ecologically destructive alternatives. -
On Peer Review, Polar Bears, and Ad Hominem
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #270 -
The Twilight of American Exceptionalism: Why a Resurgence of Self-Reliance Is Essential
Opinion -Editorial -Self-reliance is the quintessential element of American Exceptionalism. -
New Book Compares Chinese, U.S. K-12 Education
Opinion -school-reform-news -Review of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, by Lenora Chu (Harper, 2017), 368 pp.; $17.26 on Amazon.com: ISBN-10: 0062367854, ISBN-13: 978-0062367853 -
Chicago Public Schools Enrollment Drops by Another 10,000 Students
Opinion -school-reform-news -Enrollment in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has dropped by at least 10,000 students for the second year in a row.