Opinion
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Wolf Makes His Mark in the Public Policy World With School Choice
Opinion -FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Patrick Wolf knew he had arrived in the world of education policy when in 2000 he stepped outside his Washington home, grabbed his newspaper, and found splashed on the front page the report that he worked on. -
Action Alert: Don’t Add to FDA’s Burden by Asking it to Regulate Tobacco
Opinion -Bills currently under discussion in Congress would require an already-overburdened Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin regulating tobacco products. -
A Three-Part Plan for State Health Care Reform
Opinion -The first in a series of excerpts from The Handbook on State Health Care Reform, by John C. Goodman, Michael Bond, Devon M. Herrick, and Pamela Villarreal. The U.S. health care system faces three fundamental problems: cost, quality, and access. -
Analysis: Real Health Care Reform
Opinion -Insurance with first-dollar coverage is not the same as health care, much less health itself, and it certainly does not encourage individuals to use less costly solutions to their health problem(s). -
Arctic Sea Ice Expanding at Record Pace
Opinion -Just months after global warming alarmists attempted to scare people by claiming warming was causing a record shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, NASA scientists report the ice is now expanding at a record pace. -
Blog Funder Guilty of Money-Laundering
Opinion -John Lefebvre, the top financial benefactor of the DeSmog Blog, is facing substantial prison time after pleading guilty to federal money-laundering charges. -
BP Expansion No Threat to Lake Michigan
Opinion -The BP oil company's plans to expand its Whiting, Indiana refinery will not hurt Lake Michigan, according to a study commissioned by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) and conducted by Indiana University environmental professor James Barnes. -
Charter Schools Undermined in Delaware
Opinion -Delaware state government and union officials have undermined one charter school's efforts to secure alternative financing for construction costs and nearly stopped another's. -
Chicago Temperature Station Riddled with Problems
Opinion -An analysis of the official temperature station at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport illustrates many of the problems that lead to false indications of global warming. -
Computer Models Fail to Predict Climate
Opinion -Computer models that form the basis for future global warming predictions have projected significantly more warming in recent years than has actually occurred, concludes a comprehensive new scientific study. -
Congress Considers Measure Giving School Choice to Foster Kids
Opinion -Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced in Congress the School Choice for Foster Kids Act, a measure that would amend an existing federal program to allow states to offer K-12 tuition scholarships to children in foster care. -
Critics Slam Illinois Gambling Plan
Opinion -While some powerful political and business leaders in Illinois are proposing a huge expansion of legal gambling to provide funding for mass transit in the Chicago region, coalitions of Chicago ministers, other political leaders, and economists are coming -
Diverse Groups Protest Federal ‘Water Grab’ Bill
Opinion -A diverse group of grassroots organizations and business and civic groups has come together to oppose the proposed Federal Clean Water Restoration Act, which many call the Federal Water Grab Bill. -
Doctors’ Group Helps Reduce Frivolous Lawsuits
Opinion -Providing a way to cope with a tort system that imposes huge unnecessary costs on doctors and other providers, Medical Justice, a membership-based organization run by physicians, has helped doctors successfully defend themselves against various meritless -
EPA Denies California’s Attempt to Impose Car Emissions Standard
Opinion -Greenhouse gas emissions from automotive vehicles are best addressed at the national level, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined. -
GOP Presidential Candidates Clash over Education Freedom
Opinion -The president of the United States is the ultimate policy leader, but in most of the 2007 caucus and primary campaigning, education (let alone choice) barely got a mention from the candidates. -
Government Unions Hide Behind Secrecy Protections
Opinion -There is little doubt that financial transparency is a major deterrent to labor union and political corruption. Yet, where the two meet--unions of government employees--there is virtually no financial transparency. -
Indiana Lawmakers Eye ‘Fees’ on Tax-Exempt Organizations
Opinion -Rapidly rising property taxes in Indiana have caused some lawmakers to look to the state's tax-exempt nonprofit organizations to help ease the burden on individual taxpayers. State Rep. -
Modern Transportation, Not Global Warming, Is Allowing the Spread of Mosquito-Related Disease
Opinion -A World Health Organization (WHO) official claims the current chikungunya virus outbreak in northern Italy is the result of climate change. -
Myths of Socialized Medicine Lead to Bad Health Care Policies
Opinion -Advocates of socialized medicine generally claim administrative costs are lower, quality of care is higher, and access to care is more equal in Canada than in America. -
Nevada Parents Want More Charter Schools, State Ed Board Denies Them
Opinion -Have you ever wondered why government seems so utterly, repeatedly failure-prone when it comes to meeting children's educational needs? If so, the Nevada Board of Education, in late November, provided you with the perfect object lesson. -
New Jersey Preschool Vouchers Show Value of Public-Private Choice
Opinion -To the Rev. Reginald Jackson, head of the Black Ministers' Council, the remarkable success of New Jersey's private preschools holds an obvious lesson. We need more school choice. We need to break the monopoly of the public school system. -
New York City Beefs Up Efforts to Get Poor Teachers Out of Class
Opinion -New York City is devoting more resources to efforts aimed at getting incompetent teachers out of the classroom, with New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein introducing the Teacher Performance Unit, a group dedicated to pushing through the long -
Patient Privacy May Be at Risk with E-Records
Opinion -Nine health care companies have joined forces to create a consortium urging better security safeguards in electronic health records.
