If one believes the claims of the education establishment, the single biggest threat to America's schools is not low test scores, overcrowded classrooms, the marked ejection of evolution as a valid educational curriculum or the lack of school vouchers. The ...

I have lost a good friend and Colorado has lost a leader. Vikki Buckley, Colorado's Secretary of State, died on July 14, 1999 at the very young age of 50 due to heart failure. Vikki was a role model, mentor ...

Innocent until proven guilty, right? That's what it says in civics textbooks. But in the real world, sometimes government officials want you to be guilty. If that happens, even if you are innocent, you can be in big trouble. Take ...

There's no need to sweat summertime smog. Despite the hype, air quality is better now than it has been in decades. By now, most Americans are acquainted with code red days, ozone action days, ozone awareness days, and other smog ...

Which government activity deserves funding from your tax dollars? * Funding lawsuits to stop public housing authorities from evicting criminals; * Funding a government lawsuit against gun manufacturers on the theory that criminal violence in public housing is largely the ...

The federal lawsuit against tobacco companies announced today by Attorney General Janet Reno is bad economics, bad law and bad governing, says a National Policy Analysis #255 paper published by The National Center for Public Policy Research. The paper points ...

The future of breast implant litigation is beginning to look like a bust to the nation's trial lawyers. Study after study has shown no link between breast implants and disease.1 Trial lawyers hoping to profit from future implant case awards ...

"Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it," Mark Twain once quipped. But now someone at least is doing something about some of its worst effects. A seven-year-old Virginia company called High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) ...

As another school year begins and thoughts of skipping class and missing lessons dance in your minds, think of the consequences. You are no longer little kids being sent off to the cruel confines of school by your parents. You ...

Vice President Al Gore now says he thinks churches and faith-based organizations should partner with government to do charity work, but only if they leave out their spiritual component when they do so. Speaking from personal experience as a former ...