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Claim: $2,840,896.80 to Fly President Obama to Paris COP21

According to Judicial Watch, analysis of government documents obtained via a FOIA lawsuit against Homeland Security show that flying President Obama’s party to attend Paris COP21 ran up $2,840,896.80 in air transport bills – bring President Obama’s total travel costs to date to $83 million. Obama Travel Cost Taxpayers over $83 million to Date (Washington DC)—Judicial Watch

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Destructive forest fires are due to – WHAT?

Climate change is all-purpose excuse for Big Green and federal misfeasance and malfeasance. In short, whatever “hotter, drier, longer” forest fires we are witnessing today have nothing to do with fossil fuels, plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide, or “dangerous manmade climate change.” They have a lot to do with incompetent forest mismanagement policies and practices. bureaucratsFar too

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Inhofe: Kids are “brainwashed” into Worrying About Climate Change

Senator Inhofe, a steadfast climate skeptic, has raised concerns about “brainwashing” of kids to convince them to worry about climate change. Via the Washington Post:  In his grandchild’s question — ‘Why is it you don’t understand global warming?’— Sen. Jim Inhofe sees ‘brainwashing’ The senator, speaking last week on the syndicated Eric Metaxas radio show, said

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Clinton Campaign Says Carbon Tax Not Out Of The Question

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not completely opposed to a carbon tax, her campaign chair said Tuesday. “Right now we’ve not proposed a carbon tax,” John Podesta told an audience Tuesday at a climate change event in Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention. “We believe we can get the job done. But if Congress wants to come forward with

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The Science of Homeschooling

These research results on homeschooling. Sources are Kunzman and Gaither’s “Homeschooling: A Comprehensive Survey of the Research” (2013, Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives) and others listed below.  First, homeschooling has opposite effects on verbal versus math scores: Given this persistent corroboration across two decades we might conclude, tentatively, that there may be at least a modest

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Who’d a-thunk it? Raising the minimum wage has real consequences for small businesses?

Some recent examples of fallout from increases in the minimum wage in California (eventually to $15 an hour): 1. Sacramento’s “Almost Perfect Bookstore” is closing its brick-and-mortar store due to rising labor costs from the “Way-Far-From Perfect $15 Minimum Wage Increase” in California, see details here. 2. Iconic LA Diner Pann’s (est. 1958) To Stop Serving Dinner, Cites Rising

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Forced Labor in Venezuela

This is the kind of world that Bernie’s “Democratic Socialism” leads to.  Venezuela’s government has taken the next step: forced labor. Here’s Richard Washington, “Venezuela calls for mandatory labor in farm sector” on CNBC: A Venezuelan ministry last week announced Resolution No. 9855, which calls for the establishment of a “transitory labor regime” in order to relaunch

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U.S. Teachers Are Mediocre

Compared to teachers in other countries, U.S. teachers are “perfectly mediocre” in cognitive skills, writes Dick Startz, a University of California at Santa Barbara economics professor, on Brookings’ Chalkboard. “American teachers seem to be a touch above average in literacy skills and noticeably below average in numeracy,” he writes, citing a paper based on data from the Programme for

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Convention Draws Libertarian Students, Who Shun Main Party Candidates

The Young Americans for Liberty National Convention is drawing college students from across the country to the Catholic University of America for four days of presentations and speeches, including a keynote speech by Ron Paul. Young Americans for Liberty is the largest libertarian student organization, with more than 700 chapters and 204,000 youth activists nationwide. The group grew

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‘Free’ college? First, fix high school

Forget “free college” — now embraced by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, writes Will Swaim in a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece. First, “deliver universal high school education.” The idea of free college education is seductive. There’s the fact that many Americans aren’t in the financial place they’d like to be, vis-à-vis their progeny’s impending high school graduation and the

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Let My People Know

Nine out of 10 college students think “slavery is a uniquely American invention,” according to Duke Pesta, a professor at University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh who says he quizzes his students every year. “Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it.” Let alone the history of slavery around the globe. What do they teach students these days?

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Union Bosses Talk Wage Inequality, Rake in Six-Figure Salaries

Earlier this year, we chronicled the 10 best-paid union bosses in terms of salary and total compensation. Some earned more than $600,000 in total disbursements in 2015. According to the union’s filings with the Department of Labor, Air Line Pilots Association President Timothy Canoll took home $693,534 (Weingarten’s $500,000 payday wasn’t far behind.) By contrast, the average “chief

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Encouraging New Study Indicates Majority Of U.S. Students Can Now Recognize Math

In what experts are describing as the most marked improvement in American academic performance in decades, a study released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education has found that the majority of the nation’s students have attained the skills necessary to recognize math. “We were encouraged to find that when presented with a series of

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