Opinion
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Activists’ Excesses Called to Account
Opinion -Green Gone Wild: Elevating Nature Above Human Rights by David Stirling Merrill Press, 2008 264 pages, $20. -
Activists to Sue EPA over Ocean Acidification
Opinion -The Center for Biological Diversity has notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of its intent to file a lawsuit to force EPA to act on speculative claims of ocean acidification. -
Bay-Area Students Awarded Scholarships by Think Tank
Opinion -The Independent Institute, a nonpartisan public policy think tank with offices in Oakland, California and Washington, DC, has announced its Independent Scholarship Fund will award $315,000 in need- and merit-based scholarships for 212 East Bay Students -
California Courts Rule for Charter Schools Again
Opinion -A Los Angeles charter middle school is moving into new digs thanks to a court ruling on equal treatment that has national implications. One of the largest obstacles charters nationwide face is finding adequate facilities. -
Common-Sense Environmentalist
Opinion -Bestselling author Michael Crichton died on November 4 after a courageous and private battle against cancer. -
Competition Improves Performance
Opinion -A new study released by the C. D. Howe Institute in Toronto shows when schools have to fight for funding, students—and taxpayers—get more for their money in the form of improved scores on standardized tests. -
Congress Contemplates Future of DC Vouchers
Opinion -The arrival of a new Congress and administration is casting doubt over the future of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, the federally funded school choice program serving disadvantaged students in the nation’s capital. -
Consumer-Driven Health Care Reaches 20 Percent ‘Tipping Point’
Opinion -Consumer-driven health care has reached the “tipping point” of 20 percent of the under-65 population. Virtually the entire individual market is in high-deductible plans these days. -
Cut Spending, End Income Tax in Connecticut: Study
Opinion -Eliminating Connecticut’s individual income tax would boost long-term economic growth while reducing the economic burden of the state’s debt, according to a report by the Connecticut-based Yankee Institute for Public Policy. -
Drug Bill Endangers Highly Rated Program
Opinion -Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D) has introduced legislation to allow senior citizens to buy prescription medicines overseas “from approved foreign countries where drugs are significantly cheaper,” while doing away with Medicare Part -
Exposed: Activists’ Attacks on Meat Production Intensify
Opinion -Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a four-part series identifying falsehoods regarding the consumption and production of beef. -
Faster Drug Adoption Saves Lives
Opinion -Innovation in prescription drugs is helping improve Americans’ overall health, according to a Manhattan Institute report by Columbia University health economist Frank Lichtenberg. -
Federal Deficit Could Top $1 Trillion
Opinion -Since the end of May 2008 the federal government has added $1.2 trillion to its public debt to buy up, bail out, or take over major banks, the world’s largest insurance company, automakers, and other entities. -
Feds Won’t Say Where $2 Trillion Is Going
Opinion -Federal officials have declined to say where $2 trillion of emergency loans are going or what collateral is being used to secure the loans. -
Foreign Counterfeit Drugs Pose Increasing Threat
Opinion -A bust confiscating more than two million counterfeit medicines in a Brussels airport has sparked new concern over the safety of the prescription drug market, in particular from online import sources. -
GISS Analyst Pooh-Poohs Colossal Error
Opinion -GISS climate modeler Gavin Schmidt, in a blog entry titled “Mountains and Molehills,” attempted to minimize the importance of GISS’s October 2008 temperature error and questioned the motives of those who caught the error. -
GM Grapes Raise Hopes for Midwest Wine Industry
Opinion -One of the most effective, widely used herbicides in the United States—known as 2, 4-D—has a serious drawback: It devastates grapes. -
Hawaii Pulls Plug on Universal Child Health Care
Opinion -In an email to state health officials, Hawaii Gov. -
Hawaii Seeking More Money for Health Plan
Opinion -A 9 percent jump in enrollment is forcing Hawaii’s state government to consider ways to increase funding for its taxpayer-funded health coverage program. -
Judge’s Decision in California Prisons Case Could Increase State’s Budget Woes
Opinion -California’s budget woes may soon get worse because of a federal judge’s ruling in a lawsuit regarding the state’s prisons. The decision came while Gov. -
Melting Permafrost Scare Deflated by New Study
Opinion -Fears a thawing of permafrost could accelerate global warming by putting substantial amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have been contradicted in a study in the journal Science. -
National Grassroots Campaign Begins
Opinion -The Alliance for School Choice has launched its School Choice Works campaign, aimed at recruiting 10,000 school choice supporters in key battleground states across the nation. -
Nebraska Clarifies its ‘Safe Haven’ Law
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New Program Gives General Motors Retirees More Control
Opinion -General Motors has announced it will stop funding health insurance for its Medicare-eligible retired employees, opting instead to pay 100,000 retirees and their dependents $300 more each month in pension funds beginning January 1, 2009.