Opinion
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Wisc. Governor Calls for More Nuclear Power
Opinion -Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D), whose past statements and actions indicated a lack of support for nuclear power plant construction, is now speaking out more favorably on the subject. -
Declaration Signatories Include Impressive List of Scientists
Opinion -The list of scientists who have endorsed the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change is impressive, noted S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. -
Book Review: Global Warming Distracts from the World’s Truly Pressing Problems
Opinion -How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place Bjorn Lomborg, editor Cambridge University Press, 2006 208 pages, $12. -
New Zealand Scientists Protest Royal Society’s Alarmist Statement
Opinion -The Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) in June 2008 issued a special statement designed to clear up the “controversy over climate change” and “possible confusion among the public. -
Anchorage Shivers as Global Warming Gives Way to Cooling
Opinion -Anchorage, Alaska is experiencing one of its coldest years on record, defying assertions that humans are creating a global warming crisis, especially in the Arctic. Temperatures were particularly cool during the summer. -
Schools Cut Back to Four-Day Week
Opinion -With high energy costs increasingly eating up education budgets, schools around the country are considering four-day weeks to save money. -
Time to Erase the Emissions Trading Nightmare
Opinion -The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the Premier of Queensland and all elected members to bring pressure to bear on the Federal Government to immediately abandon plans for Emissions Trading. The chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr. -
Alabama Officials Fight Feds over Emission Standards
Opinion -Power plant and manufacturing emissions are taking center stage in Alabama as state environmental officials clash with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over permissible emission levels. -
Bisphenol-A Is Safe for Humans, Government Study Concludes
Opinion -A comprehensive study by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reports products containing the chemical bisphenol-A are completely safe for human use. -
New Jersey’s Pension System Needs Overhaul
Opinion -New Jersey is right to take aim at its state pension system, but nibbling around the edges will not solve its pension predicament (September 30, “Pension reforms are signed into law”). -
Vouchers Liberate Communities
Opinion -Dear Editor: In your Sept. 30 anti-school-choice editorial, you ask why anyone would want to “take money away” from public schools that are “held accountable by the No Child Left Behind Act” and give it to private schools. -
Alarmist Hansen ‘Not Interested’ in Debate
Opinion -James Hansen, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) staffer who has called for global warming skeptics to be tried for “crimes against humanity and nature,” has tersely declined an invitation to defend his extremist global -
Congressional Leadership Blocks Energy Production
Opinion -Facing heightened demands from Republicans and a growing number of Democrats to boost domestic production of oil and natural gas, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) nevertheless adjourned Congress for the -
N.J. Lawmaker Aims to Repeal Warming Laws
Opinion -New Jersey Assemblyman Michael Doherty (R-Warren) says new scientific data justify repealing the state’s wide-ranging list of regulations aimed at reducing global warming. Doherty on August 14 urged Gov. -
Fiscal Discipline at All Levels of Society Is Answer to Mortgage Crisis
Opinion -As I write this, I have already lost more than $7,000 in my retirement accounts and $5,000 in my children’s education accounts due to the financial meltdown. -
Incomes Climb for All Income Groups
Opinion -Personal incomes and average tax rates on Americans’ incomes have both been climbing, especially at the highest earnings levels, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). -
Seattle Regional Agency Sends $22.8 Billion Transit Proposal to Voters
Opinion -Officials of a mass transit agency serving the Seattle region have agreed to ask area citizens to vote on a $22.8 billion transit measure in November. -
Government’s “10,000 Commandments” Cost Americans More than $1 Trillion
Opinion -Federal regulations cost Americans almost as much as the income tax and more than 40 percent of all federal spending, according to “Ten Thousand Commandments,” the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual report on the burdens of -
‘Creative Destruction’ Follows Wal-Mart, for the Better
Opinion -John Garen, chief economist at the University of Kentucky, says the growth of new businesses to replace ones that close after Wal-Mart moves into a town emphasizes the importance of “creative destruction,” the principle that economic growth -
Americans Worked Until July 16 to Pay for the Cost of Government
Opinion -Each and every man, woman, and child in the U.S. -
FCC Says Comcast Violated Net Neutrality Policy
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ruled Comcast Corporation violated agency policies regarding net neutrality by blocking some downloads by its Internet service subscribers. -
Relief in Sight for Families Hit by Taxes on ISO Income
Opinion -Two pending U.S. Senate bills include relief from the unintended consequences of the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) on incentive stock options (ISOs), giving hope to workers who have been hit with huge tax bills for income they never received. -
Democratic Convention Committee Got Tax-Free Gasoline in Denver
Opinion -Leading Democratic Party officials may want higher energy taxes, but Democrats apparently believe they should not have to pay them—at least when they’re working on the Democratic National Convention. -
Union Members Reject State Contract in Rhode Island
Opinion -The Rhode Island state government is mired in conflict after the largest state employees union rejected a labor contract brokered by its own leaders and went to court to block the governor from enacting the agreement’s key provisions.
