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Foundations of Bali Climate Change Policy Condemned by 100+ Experts
Opinion -To view this letter, click one of the links below: English: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=164002List of Signatories: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=164004 German: http://www.nrsp.com/articles/07.12. -
January 2008 Environment & Climate News: Special Edition!
Opinion -January would ordinarily be a "skip month" for ECN, but a last-minute development made us change our mind. Three respected scientists, Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. -
Rate Freeze Will Not Resolve the Subprime Crisis
Opinion -Sir, Clive Crook (“The trouble with the Paulson plan,” December 10) highlights the glaring problems with US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson’s subprime bail-out plan. The bail-out is a blatant example of government intrusion into the mortgage industry. -
Consumer Power Report #107
Opinion -Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory -
Break Up Bureaucracy
Opinion -It should be no surprise that many city governments are giving up plans for government-run, universal Wi-Fi service. -
Focus on Buying Tobacco Misses Criminal Target
Opinion -Tom Humphrey captured the angst of Tennessee smokers now being targeted by Department of Revenue agents for buying cheaper cigarettes in neighboring states ("Cigarette surveillance program begins today," Sept. 27). -
Proposed Tax Hikes Fleece Taxpayers
Opinion -Triple the sales tax, double taxes on gasoline and parking, boost the property tax, hike taxes on telephones and utilities – even tax bottles of water. -
Global Warming Alarmism Fuels Water Scare
Opinion -The Sentinel’s Nov. 4 article, “Experts warn city water supplies are vulnerable to global warming,” is a perfect illustration of how real-world data mean nothing to global warming alarmists. -
Welfare Recipients Lose Civil Liberties
Opinion -“Justices uphold welfare home searches” (Nov. 27) compels readers to consider some questions about, and raises an awareness of, the relationship between economic independence and civil liberty. -
Advances in Health IT – No Government Needed
Opinion -Health and Human Services Department Secretary Mike Leavitt has taken a special interest in Health IT (health information technology). He advocates requiring Medicare providers to use e-prescribing and e-records. -
Government Involvement Causes Health Care Cost to Rise
Opinion -In response to “The High Cost of Health Care” (Nov. 25), rising costs in health care in large part have to do with the rising role of government in the health arena. -
Climate Alarmist Ignore Inconvenient Truths
Opinion -Regarding “Evidence of dramatic effects of global warming apparent now” (Nov. 6), the guest writer presented a misleading view of global warming in the Arctic and left out many important facts. -
The Shambles of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Legacy From Los Angeles To His Hometown
Opinion -The impending closure of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia (“Atlanta Hospital in Grave Condition,” November 23) shows how politically mismanaged public health entities flounder when millions of taxpayer dollars are squandered on -
Subprime Rate Freeze: A Force Fed Solution?
Opinion -The subprime mortgage crisis has affected the overall economy as well as the lives of individual people nationwide. Families from coast to coast have been forced out of their homes by escalating interest rates on mortgages they no longer can afford. -
An Unnecessary Burden
Opinion -“Predatory Politics” (November 27) illustrates a fundamental shortcoming in current and proposed anti-predatory lending laws: They hurt the people they were designed to protect. -
Charter School Success Shows the Benefit of Choice
Opinion -Thank you for running Leonard Pitts’ perceptive Nov. 29 column on what makes the KIPP charter schools in North Carolina work so well for children who haven’t experienced much success in conventional public schools. -
SCHIP Reauthorization Loses Focus
Opinion -"SCHIP Legislation: Not good enough" (Sept. 26) fails to address what reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program actually means. 2. -
Smokers’ Reprieve
Opinion -Regarding the Chronicle's Oct. 18 article "House fails to override child health care veto": George W. Bush's veto of the children's health bill was sustained, but the victory for smokers will probably only be temporary. -
Estate Tax Is Hard on the Living
Opinion -“I think we need to ... take a little more out of the hides of guys like me,” billionaire investor Warren Buffett told the Senate Finance Committee on Nov. 14 in arguing to keep the estate tax. Mr. -
U.S.-German Tax Treaty Deserves Senate Passage
Opinion -For more than a year, the tax treaty between the United States and Germany has lingered in legislative limbo. The treaty was first approved by the two nations in 1989 and is up for renegotiation. -
Penguins and Climate Change
Opinion -The press out of Bali on December 12 includes coverage of a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report about the fate of penguin species under climate change. -
Open Letter to the American Cancer Society Requesting Documentation for Health Claims
Opinion -The Smoke Free Illinois Act (SB500) has been based upon health claims from the American Cancer Society. -
The Pope Condemns the Climate Change Prophets of Doom
Opinion ---->World News Section The Daily Mail (London) Wednesday, December 11, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on -
Consumer Power Report #106
Opinion -Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory