Opinion
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Suspect Data Skews Global Warming Coverage
Opinion -Regarding “Gore: human species in a race for its life” (July 18), it is disappointing that the Daily News reported Gore’s assertions as if they were facts. -
Gasoline Price Gouging Is Good
Opinion -Gasoline prices have risen sharply in recent weeks. The price increases have come with the predictable complaints of “price gouging” from the politicians, especially Democrats. -
Objective Measurement Not So Easy
Opinion -In response to Ann Abramowitz’s call for objectively measuring vouchers before considering them a success [“Voucher program calls for objective evaluation,” July 17], one of the difficulties with objectively measuring educational outcomes, especially for -
Going Green Doesn’t Necessarily Mean More Green in State Coffers
Opinion -Regarding the Tribune’s July 18 editorial on Charlie Crist’s global warming proposals, it is quite striking that the Tribune did not specify the means by which Crist is “envisioning economic payoffs and job creation. -
Consumer Power Report #87
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 -
Charter School Accountability
Opinion -In response to your article of June 14, “Oversight boards were blind to charter school's troubles,” it should be noted that no one in the charter school movement has ever claimed charter schools would be 100 percent free of impropriety. -
SCHIP Renewal Will Burden Poor Smokers
Opinion -“Covering More Children” (July 17) has the wrong diagnosis and the wrong prescription. -
Heritage Luncheon Offers Alternatives to SCHIP Expansion
Opinion -The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) may stray from its original purpose of aiding poor children and move one step closer to creating a socialistic health care system if a proposed funding increase takes place, speakers said at a July 13 -
Merit Pay Thorny Issue for Obama
Opinion -Regarding Ruth Marcus’ July 11 column, “From Barack Obama, Two Dangerous Words”: In fairness, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton uttered two words that National Education Association activists deem almost as dangerous as Obama’s version of merit pay: -
Erroneous Information Clouds Global Warming Debate
Opinion -The July 13 article “Things we can all do to stop global warming” by climate alarmist Naomi Oreskes is riddled with misleading information and factual errors. -
Burying the Future with the N-word
Opinion -The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People‘s (NAACP) recent “funeral” for the derogatory racial epithet “nigger” is symbolism without substance. The First Amendment of the U.S. -
Vouchers Could Desegregate Schools Better Than Buses
Opinion -On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down two public-school integration programs--one in Louisville, the other in Seattle--on the basis that they discriminate according to race. -
Crist Misrepresents Science on Global Warming
Opinion -Regarding “Emissions must be cut, Gov. Crist tells climate change summit” (July 12), Charlie Crist is doing Floridians a grave disservice by misrepresenting the science regarding global warming. -
The School Choice Solution
Opinion -In June 2007, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that most states have set testing standards well below those of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the "Nation's Report Card. -
Greener Future Unlikely
Opinion -The title of the Times’ July 11 article, “Crist unveils greener future,” is quite ironic. Carbon dioxide is essential to plant life, and reducing it certainly will not make for a “greener” planet. -
School Reform Thorny Issues for Candidates
Opinion -Regarding Ruth Marcus’ July 11 column, “From Barack Obama, Two Dangerous Words”: In fairness, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton uttered two words that National Education Association activists deem almost as dangerous as Obama’s version of merit pay: -
SCHIP Forgot About the Children
Opinion -Mary Schmuck’s “No excuse for children without health care” (July 8) misrepresents the success of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). -
Origins of Environmental Religions
Opinion -Conventional religions have been under attack for some years from liberals who have drifted into secular humanism and away from any devout belief in God. -
Consumer Power Report #86
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 -
Charter Schools Can’t Fail
Opinion -The debate over charter schools should not be about whether a particular charter school may fail to live up to Indiana’s testing standards [“Charter school progress unclear,” July 11]. -
Banished: Reason and Logic and Racial Comity
Opinion -The recent article about the heralded death and interment of the infamous N-word (“Banished, Thousands say Good Riddance To N-word,” July 10) highlights how the Democratic Party is the only hope for much-maligned and verbally impugned American blacks -
The Hijacking of Children’s Health
Opinion -Like pirates lurking on the high seas looking for victims, politicians probably wear their best buccaneer smirks whenever a new program to help children becomes accepted into law. -
Mock Funeral Needed For the Fake Black Roses of Detroit
Opinion -The Chicago Sun-Times dutifully reported on the symbolic burial of the N-word at the NAACP’s recent annual convention in Detroit. -
Bald Eagle Balderdash Continues in 2007
Opinion -Kent Jackson’s recent article about how Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, visited Hawk Mountain to collect data to support her allegation that the bald eagles’ reproductive prowess was being decimated by use of DDT (“Hawk Mountain data helped save