Opinion
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Obamacare Subsidies Survive Supreme Court Challenge
Opinion -A key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, allowing 6.4 million Americans to receive health insurance subsidies to purchase health insurance, was upheld by the Supreme Court. -
States Are Now Pulling Back from the Common Core Test Consortiums
Opinion -While news report focus on states, politicians, teachers, and parents who are angry with Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the debate over CCSS-aligned testing is heating up rapidly. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Obamacare Decision by Supreme Court
Opinion -By a vote of 6–3 the United States Supreme Court today ruled in favor of the Obama administration in King v. -
Soviet Union 2.0 – The Environmental Protection Agency
Opinion -Former President Richard Nixon is an ancestral RINO – Republican In Name Only. The wobbly GOP wing that insists on delivering us Diet Democrat policies. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Gov. Rauner’s Veto of State Budget
Opinion -Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner today vetoed the state budget, sending it back to a Democratic-controlled legislature just six days before the end of the current fiscal year. -
New York Lawmakers Consider Snuffing Out E-Cigarettes in Public, Private Buildings
Opinion -State lawmakers in New York are proposing banning indoor e-cigarette use in publicly and privately owned businesses using the state’s Clean Indoor Air Act. Dr. -
Legislative Pulse: Wisconsin
Opinion -Editor’s Note: Wisconsin state Rep. Mike Kuglitsch (R-New Berlin) is serving his third term in the Wisconsin State Legislature. Among his other committee assignments, Kuglitsch chairs the Energy and Utilities Committee. -
Alabama Tax Agency Proposes ‘Netflix Tax’
Opinion -Alabama’s Department of Revenue is proposing administrative changes to the state’s interpretation of existing tax law to extend existing taxes on videocassette rentals to include online streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. -
Government Should Stop Subsidizing Tesla, Billionaire Musk
Opinion -Multibillionaire Elon Musk made his first billion as the inventor of PayPal — and, as we all know, the first billion is the hardest. -
Kansas Ridesharing Regulatory Fight Freezes Uber Operations
Opinion -Ridesharing company Uber is back in operation in Kansas after an intense legislative battle between the state legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback (R). -
Poll Shows the Public Supports Fracking
Opinion -A new poll from Robert Morris University (RMU) shows the public overwhelmingly supports fracking for natural gas and oil production. -
Senate Considers Dodd-Frank Reforms, Rollbacks
Opinion -A bill to ease financial and investment regulations passed in 2010 in response to the 2008 banking crisis is under consideration in the U.S. Senate. -
Supreme Court Blasts Maryland Taxman’s Double-Dipping
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled a case of double taxation in Maryland’s income tax system is unconstitutional. -
Tenth International Conference on Climate Change a Smashing Success
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #176 The two-day international climate conference hosted by The Heartland Institute on June 11–12 in Washington, DC featured more than 40 scientists, economists, and public policy experts who shared the most up-to-date -
SNAP Rolls Shrink to Lowest Enrollment Since 2011
Opinion -The number of people receiving Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits fell to its lowest level since August 2011, according to monthly numbers released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. -
Florida Tea Party Unanimously Rejects Solar Power Amendment
Opinion -The solar power industry and the so-called Green Tea Party suffered a crushing defeat last week as The Villages Tea Party voted overwhelmingly to oppose a Florida constitutional amendment to give the solar power industry special rights to sell power -
Medicaid Set to Overwhelm New Mexico’s Budget
Opinion -New Mexico is one of 28 states that expanded Medicaid coverage for impoverished adults as part of the implementation of Obamacare, resulting in more than 216,000 people joining the state’s Medicaid roster and pushing the total to nearly 800,000 enrollees. -
F. A. Hayek and Why Government Can’t Manage Society, Part I
Opinion -This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. On May 8th, Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied Powers in Europe. On September 2nd, Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies on the deck of the U.S.S. -
Rep. Smith (R-TX) Rips Secret Science, Unconstitutional Regulations
Opinion -Stuart Varney, host of FOX Business’ Varney & Co., complained about President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders during the June 10 broadcast of the show, focusing specifically on the administration’s climate change regulations. -
Will Republicans Keep the Court from Blowing Obama’s Cover?
Opinion -The Big Lie of ObamaCare is in the title: the Affordable Care Act. Administration officials invoke “affordable” over and over again.The U.S. Supreme Court could well blow the Democrats’ cover in King v. -
The State of Climate Science
Opinion -Few issues have raised more controversy than the science used to justify the theory manmade climate change and the policies developed in response. Three prominent climate scientists—Dr. Willie Soon, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Dr. -
America’s Largest Commuter Sheds (CBSAs)
Opinion -Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) is the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) way of defining metropolitan regions. -
Will 2015 be the Year of Renewable Fuel Standard Reform?
Opinion -The fact the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee is attacking the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) management—er, mismanagement—of the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS) is indicative of the growing frustration over both -
America’s Largest Commuter Sheds (CBSAS)
Opinion -Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) is the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) way of defining metropolitan regions.
