Opinion
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Maryland House and Senate Reject Global Warming Measure
Opinion -The Maryland General Assembly has rejected the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008, which would have required a statewide 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. Although the bill had the support of Gov. -
Utah’s Authority Over Its Land Is Threatened
Opinion -The Sierra Club and congressmen from New York and Illinois are leading a campaign to pressure the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to restrict the authority of Utah officials to determine how land in the state will be utilized. Rep. -
California Bill Chooses Redwoods over Solar Panel
Opinion -California State Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) has introduced a bill declaring the state's iconic redwoods the victor over solar panels in a battle between environmental interest groups. -
Biotechnology Is Tracking Answers to Growing Peanut Allergy Problem
Opinion -Peanut allergies, which affect 3 million U.S. residents and kill approximately 150 U.S. residents every year, may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to biotechnology. -
EPA, CBO Document the High Costs of Proposed Global Warming Legislation
Opinion -The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have each released new reports showing global warming legislation would inflict serious economic punishment on American consumers. -
Alabama Biologist Fails Global Warming Teaching Test
Opinion -Biology professor James McClintock at the University of Alabama/Birmingham says he received a free copy of the book I co-authored, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years. -
Fears about Polar Bear Populations Are Refuted by Scientific Forecasting
Opinion -Who doesn't like polar bears? They're cute and cuddly and lend themselves to heart-melting images. -
Cap-and-Trade Plans Will Require Draconian Lifestyle Restrictions
Opinion -Imagine every American being given a plastic debit card entitling them to release carbon dioxide (CO2). Filling the gas tank would debit the card for the CO2 caused by the amount of gasoline purchased. -
California Senate Seeks to Restrict Food Packaging and Cooking Chemicals
Opinion -The California state Senate has passed and sent to the Assembly a bill to ban the use of food packaging containing perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). -
City of Big Shoulders Meets Big Brother?
Opinion -In an excellent exposé in last Sunday's Perspective section, Radley Balko, senior editor of the libertarian magazine Reason, zeroed in on the increasing lack of individual liberties available to citizens of Chicago. -
New IRS Chief May Focus Less on Enforcement
Opinion -The U.S. Senate has approved Douglas Shulman as President George W. Bush's appointee to take the reins at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Shulman replaces Mark Everson, who stepped down last year. -
Backlash Brewing Against Prevailing Wage Expansion
Opinion -As the share of the construction workforce that is unionized continues to decline, state laws requiring payment of prevailing wages on public works and other government-funded construction projects are becoming more controversial. -
Brazen Contempt from Union Firefighters? Or Attitude We Should Emulate?
Opinion -What do you see when you look at the Boston Firefighters Union? Do you see brazen greed and naked contempt for the taxpayer? That's what I used to see, too. But maybe we've been too hard on the firefighters. -
FCC Considers Multi-Million Ad Campaign
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may spend $2 million in taxpayer funds on advertising related to the congressionally mandated switch from analog to digital television broadcasting. -
States Are Lobbied to Intervene in Cable Programming Decisions
Opinion -Several state legislatures are being asked to consider adopting legislation proposed by the NFL Network that would compel vertically integrated cable operators to submit carriage disputes with independent programmers to commercial arbitration if the -
30,000 Scientists Sign Petition on Global Warming
Opinion -The claim that the debate about the severity and cause of global warming is "settled science" has taken a beating with the release of the names of 31,072 American scientists who reject the assertion that global warming has reached a crisis stage and is -
A Must-Read Book on Global Warming
Opinion -The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud by Lawrence Solomon Richard Vigilante Books, 2008 240 pages, $27. -
New Study Sparks Debate on Medical Travel
Opinion -While some estimates of medical tourism have been quite high, suggesting in some cases that millions of people travel for medical purposes, a study released by consulting firm McKinsey & Company finds the number to be much lower, just 60,000 to 85,000 -
Governor Tries to Replace Taxes Thrown out by Va. Supreme Court
Opinion -Barely three months after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and fees intended to fund transportation, Gov. Tim Kaine (D) launched a campaign to raise taxes and fees to replace the ones ruled unconstitutional. -
North Carolina Seeks to Hike the State’s Beer, Tobacco Taxes
Opinion -North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley (D) managed to offend both the mentally ill and beer drinkers when he unveiled his budget for Fiscal Year 2009. -
Wisconsin Congressman Proposes New ‘Roadmap’ on Entitlements
Opinion -In response to a Congressional Budget Office report projecting ruinous increases in spending and taxes to maintain promises in the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs, Rep. -
Better for Politicians than Consumers
Opinion -Tax holidays rarely confer the full value of the tax cut to consumers, says Jonathan Williams, an economist and director of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a nonpartisan organization whose membership -
Report Card Exposes Big Labor’s Hold on State Governments across the Country
Opinion -As the presidential campaign builds, one thing has become apparent--the political Left in this country is aligned with Big Labor in a big way. -
Connecticut Residents Tune in to Debate about School Funding and Taxes
Opinion -More than 1 million households across Connecticut state tuned in to a lively debate over why public school costs keep rising and what can be done to stop the increases, making it clear they're very concerned about property tax increases.