Daily Archives: April 20, 2011

Speaking at a townhall event in VA today President Obama claimed that emissions from coal fired power plants cause asthma. There’s one problem–there’s no science to back the claim. While many studies, including those performed by the NIH, argue that some pollution caused by burning coal, like ozone, may trigger asthma attacks, none argue thatContinue Reading

In this American Thinker article, Edmund Contoski notes that the Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb is turning out to have serious safety problems and doesn’t save nearly as much energy as politicians expected when they voted to mandate the phase-out of the good, old incandescent bulb.  Crony capitalism has struck again. Will the We Must Make EverythingContinue Reading

Earlier entries in this series: I, II, III, and IV. From Time via Fox News: Climate modelers have long known that households are far bigger contributors to global warming than most laypeople realize. For all the blame tailpipe emissions take for escalating  temperatures, homes and office buildings are actually the single largest contributor to greenhouseContinue Reading

Glenn Greenwald writes here about the Obama administration’s crackdown (despite all manner of serious problems in the nation) on victimless crimes such as on-line poker. A cabal or right-wing authoritarians and left-wing authoritarians in Congress is happy about this. Maybe some old-fashioned liberals will feel revulsion that the “liberal” Obama has turned out to beContinue Reading

In the latest Carolina Journal Online report, Anthony Greco looks at House Bill 215, Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which would recognize unborn children as crime victims if their pregnant mothers are attacked. It passed both houses of the General Assembly by veto-proof margins and is on its way to Gov. Bev Perdue.

Wake County middle school teacher Bill Ferriter pans the waste of time known as professional development.  The idea of professional development is sound.  Teachers should continue to improve their subject knowledge and instructional skills throughout their career.  In practice, professional development seldom provides teachers the kind of practical, appropriate, and research-based content that can beContinue Reading

Peter Foster writes about that in today’s Financial Post. Longtime readers of The Locker Room will not be surprised. We have warned against the dangers of retrying the failed economic theory of Keynesianism, explained why it fails, and discussed how it’s based on buncombe and booga-booga. Even the president slips up on occasion and revealsContinue Reading

Former John Locke Foundation election panelist John Gizzi of Human Events reports this morning on the reaction from International Monetary Fund nations to the potential for a U.S. government shutdown: Officially, no one was discussing the internal budget maneuverings of the U.S., which is the largest shareholder in the IMF. French Finance Minister Christine LagardeContinue Reading