Opinion
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National Student Privacy Bill Stirs Praise, Renews Concerns
Opinion -Reps. Luke Messer (R-IN) and Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced the bipartisan Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act of 2015, which aims to protect student data and strengthen parental rights. -
States, Congress Defy President’s Clean Power Plan
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #177 States and Congress are challenging the Obama administration’s clean power plan. -
Dish Network Tricks FCC, Taxpayers in Spectrum Auction
Opinion -Dish Network may have used a set of subsidiary small businesses as front groups to buy electromagnetic spectrum transmission licenses from the Federal Communications Commission, at a discounted rate for which it would have otherwise been ineligible. -
Pursuit of Climate Truth Comes at High Cost
Opinion -David Legates, Ph.D., is a climatologist at the University of Delaware. He served as Delaware State Climatologist from 2005 to 2011. -
A Bad Bill + Crony Socialism = An Even Worse Bill
Opinion -The Barack Obama Administration is – even more than any of its predecessors – the Crony Socialism Administration.No prior presidency has used and abused government to do more for its friends – and more to its friends’ competitors – than has this one. -
Study Finds Students at Charters and Magnets Have Made ‘Meaningful Gains’
Opinion -A newly released study by the Connecticut State Department of Education finds “meaningful gains” in two groupings of inner-city students attending the state’s public charter and magnet schools. -
Three Outcomes From King v. Burwell
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #465 President Barack Obama’s view of the King v. Burwell outcome is clear: Obamacare is ‘here to stay.’ I wrote last week on why he’s wrong. -
Debater Claims Florida Tea Party Meeting Biased Venue for Solar Debate
Opinion -Debbie Dooley, leader of the self-proclaimed Green Tea Party, accused Florida Tea Party members of being biased after Tea Party members unanimously rejected her proposed solar power monopoly for the state. -
How The Power Elite Prejudiced The Pope’s Climate Change Encyclical
Opinion -Among all the hallelujahs and groans about Pope Francis and his highly politicized climate change encyclical Laudato Si’, there’s scant mention of who actually formulated its core content. It wasn’t the Holy Father. -
$2 Billion Hole Blown In Brand New 2015-17 Budget
Opinion -Around 11:30 p.m. last night (30 minutes before a government shutdown) Governor Inslee signed the state's 2015-17 budget. Though the new budget is only a few hours old, there is already a $2 billion cloud hanging over it. -
Michigan Lawmakers Pass Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Package
Opinion -Michigan lawmakers are considering a package of bills reforming the state’s rules on civil asset forfeiture, protecting citizens’ due process and property rights. -
Extreme Rainstorms Are Not Increasing in the United States
Opinion -Editor’s Note: David Legates, Ph.D., CCM, is the former Delaware state climatologist and director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware, where he teaches. -
Gov. Brown Mandates Vaccines For California Students
Opinion -California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed into law a new bill eliminating religious and personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccinations. -
Will Governor Kasich and Ohio Dump PARCC?
Opinion -The Ohio Legislature sent a proposed state budget to Gov. John Kasich (R). The budget does not include funding for the Common Core-aligned tests from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). -
F. A. Hayek and Why Government Can’t Manage Society, Part II
Opinion -It is seventy years, now, since near the end of the Second World War Austrian economist, and much later Nobel Prize winner, Friedrich A. -
FCC Changed “Can-Do” Internet Into “Can’t-Do” Internet
Opinion -A “can-do attitude” was the essence of the Internet for the last twenty years, making it a unique decentralized place of endless possibilities and opportunities. -
Colorado Supreme Courts Rules Douglas County School Choice Program Unconstitutional
Opinion -On Monday, June 29th the Colorado Supreme Court struck down the Douglas County Choice Scholarship Program as unconstitutional, preventing 500 students from having the chance to get out of failing and under-performing schools. -
Teachers Unions’ Political Power Stunts Education Reform in Montana
Opinion -Some Montanans now have access to education tax credits, after Senate Bill 410 passed into law in May, but school choice remains extremely limited in the state. -
Aren’t We Yet Tired of the Feds Being Totally Wrong – Or Lying to Us?
Opinion -Gassy assertions by government officials are, of course, a given. Very few groups of people are more wrong, more consistently – yet with more confidence – than the people who lord over us.There are only two possible explanations. -
Michigan House Wise to Shift Corporate Welfare Spending to Roads
Opinion -The state House of Representatives recently cut funding for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation with the goal of freeing up money for roads. This reprioritization of spending is prudent, but it faces opposition in the state Senate. -
Colorado Supreme Courts Rules Douglas County School Choice Program Unconstitutional
Opinion -On Monday, June 29th the Colorado Supreme Court struck down the Douglas County Choice Scholarship Program as unconstitutional, preventing 500 students from having the chance to get out of failing and under-performing schools. -
Experts Declare CO2 Benefits Outweigh Dangers
Opinion -At this year's International Climate Change Conference (ICCC-10) hosted by Heartland Institute, speakers and scientists praised the social and economic benefits of carbon dioxide - a position in direct contrast to those popularly held among climate -
Scholars Reject College Board’s AP History Standards
Opinion -A group of 55 academic historians is speaking out against the College Board’s recent overhaul of its Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) standards. -
Supreme Court Denies ‘John Doe’ Victim’s Privacy Appeal
Opinion -The Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear an appeal of a case stemming from a partisan “John Doe” investigation aimed at Governor Scott Walker (R), led by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm.
