Opinion
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Would Revived Civics End Up Being Progressive Ed Redux?
Opinion -Editorial -The good news is that civics education, which teaches children the basics of good citizenship, is quickly gaining fans after being dormant for decades. -
Virginia goes Don Quixote, Double Down on Renewables and CO2 Reductions, Hurting Poor Most
Opinion -Editorial -Leaving aside the unconstitutional character of states signing onto an international agreement that has been repudiated by President Trump, there are major practical problems with all of this. -
Kentucky’s Public Pension Crisis Illustrates the Need for Pension Reform
Opinion -Editorial -Kentucky state lawmakers continue to delay reforming the state’s public pension systems. -
Tell a Big Lie and Keep Repeating It
Opinion -Editorial -If you want to tell a big lie, a good vehicle is “science.” -
PTAB: DCs Latest Unaccountable, Power Grabbing Government Board
Opinion -Editorial -Government is always looking to expand its ability to lord over the private sector. -
According to NBC, Researchers Disagree with Trump About Gun Law
Opinion -Editorial -As with every mass shooting, the mainstream media has been promoting the idea that Devin Patrick Kelly’s firearm was responsible for killing almost 30 people during a Sunday church service in Texas. -
U.N. Admits Paris Climate Agreement Was a Sham
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change #268 -
New Book Presents Long History of Criticism of Government Schools
Opinion -school-reform-news -Review of Critics of State Education: A Reader, by Aaron Ross Powell (writer), George H. Smith (editor), and Marilyn Moore (editor), Libertarianism.org Press, October 10, 2017, 250 pp.; $12.92 on Amazon.com: ISBN-10: 1944424423, ISBN-13: 978-1944424428 -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to the House Passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Opinion -"Today, the House finally did what it promised to do, and the result will be a growing economy, higher wages, and a simpler tax code" - Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D. -
Budget Reconciliation Sets Stage for Tax Reform
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution affirming the U.S. Senate’s budget resolution setting federal government spending recommendations for Fiscal Year 2018, allowing Congress to use a legislative procedure known as reconciliation. -
Kentucky Needs Pension Reform
Opinion -Editorial -Kentucky currently has one of the largest pension funding gaps of any U.S. state. -
Uber-Left Amazon Set To Get Uber-Cronyism – From Republicans
Opinion -Editorial -We spent nigh the duration of the very awful Barack Obama Administration chronicling in-depth the in-depth cronyism they serially, unilaterally shoveled at the Silicon Valley. -
Because Congress Has Accomplished So Much: A Mixed Martial Arts Hearing
Opinion -Editorial -Presidential candidate Donald Trump ran for two years on several key legislative components. The big three were Obamacare repeal, tax-cuts-and-code-reform and a monstrous, massive infrastructure bill. -
The New York Times’ Social Media Crackdown Won’t Fix the Media
Opinion -Editorial -The New York Times announced a new social media policy intended to crack down on the perception of bias among their reporters. -
Forest-thinning Measure Approved by Ag Committee
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The House Agriculture Committee approved a proposed bill in October loosening environmental regulations for forest-thinning projects on Forest Service lands. -
Unionized Schools Plagued by Chronic Teacher Absences, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Teachers in traditional public schools are nearly three times as likely as those at charter schools to be chronically absent, a new study reports. -
Antifa Radical Remains Employed by Berkeley, California School District
Opinion -school-reform-news -Yvette Felarca, a militant Berkeley United School District (BUSD) teacher whose mugshot has appeared regularly in the news over the course of the last year for her violent behavior at Antifa-led riots, has been breaking numerous rules at her workplace. -
Avalanches of Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -Editorial -Throughout the United Nations Climate Change Conference wrapping up in Bonn, Germany this week, the world has been inundated with the usual avalanche of manmade global warming alarmism. -
Trump Improves Transparency by Ending EPA Sue-and-Settle Agreements
Opinion -Editorial -Poverty remains, by far, the biggest killer of humans, and government-imposed regulations have been proven to create economic costs that make poverty more likely. -
Lawmakers Should Sideline Handouts for Sports Stadiums
Opinion -Editorial -Sports team owners, and the elected officials who enable their graft, say using taxpayer money to pay for stadium construction is an investment in local economic growth. -
Congress Considers Three Bills Aimed at National Student Data Collection
Opinion -school-reform-news -Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act scheduled to be voted on today. -
Student Publishes Comparison of ACT and Classic Learning Test
Opinion -school-reform-news -A homeschool student who took both the ACT and the Classic Learning Test (CLT) says ACT disfavors students with no Common Core experience. -
Fossil Fuels Drive Hurricane Monitoring And Relief
Opinion -Editorial -Fossil fuels are powering disaster relief. Anyone who denies these basic facts is ignorant, lying to themselves, or evil. -
The NFL Flap Exposes Media Ignorance and the Failure of Civic Education
Opinion -Editorial -The huge dust-up over the protests of the American flag during the presentation of the national anthem by National Football League players has served to dramatize a massive deficiency in civics education in this nation.
