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Friday's ed news: More than two dozen Missouri lawmakers want to give teachers the freedom to bear guns . Indiana already allows designated teachers to bring guns to school. Parents are rushing to buy bullet-proof backpacks for their children. The U.S. Department of Education took four years to release data indicating federal preschool ...

This article accounts for the failed BTU tax offered by the Clinton administration, and assesses the chances of a revived carbon tax in President Obama's 2nd term. ...

A new tax levied by President Obama’s health care law will likely hike veterinary bills for the nation’s pet owners as businesses pass their increased costs along to consumers. The news comes as even Senate Democrats who voted for the law are demanding the tax in question be postponed. The Internal Revenue Service will administer ...

A Buffalo Bills fan is suing the football team, alleging it sent him too many text messages. The man signed up on the team’s Web site to receive text message updates on scores and other team news. He alleges the site stated he would receive three to five messages per week, but says he received six messages one week and ...

Jim Lakely talks with Taylor Smith, policy analyst at The Heartland Institute, about a Policy Brief he wrote with James M. Taylor titled "PricewaterhouseCoopers' 'Too Late' Report: Poor Science, No Practical Solutions." The brief is a rebuttal to a PWC report from November that predicts at least 2 degrees Celsius warming ...

Michel Nasibu, an advisor in the International Development Advisory Section of KPMG East Africa, attempted this week to salvage his claims that global warming is devastating the African continent after I debunked his initial claims in an October Forbes.com article . As was the case with Nasibu’s October column, I empathize with ...