Opinion
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With Just About All Things Government, Less is More – and Better
Opinion -Government is just another organism. Just like any other other organism, its first priority is self-preservation. Its second – is to grow. The most it possibly can. It wants to be bigger, do more – control more. -
Participants in Heartland Institute Mission to Vatican Comment on Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment
Opinion -CHICAGO – In April, The Heartland Institute sent a contingent of experts on climate science, environmental policy, and theology to Rome to offer balance to the one-sided, alarmist views Pope Francis was getting from the United Nations and the Pontifical -
Why Insurers Are Hiking Rates
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #464 Why are insurance rate increases so much higher than expected? At Forbes, Bob Laszewski explains: Instead of moderate rate increases for one more year, the big rate increases have begun. -
Sanders Bill Would Make Generic Drug Manufacturers Pay Rebate
Opinion -A bill aimed at lowering the cost of generic drug prices by forcing generic drug manufacturers to pay a rebate to Medicaid when their drug prices rise faster than inflation has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. -
FCC’s “Gotcha” Game of ISP Regulation & Enforcement
Opinion -The FCC’s just operative Open Internet Order, with its classification of broadband as Title II common carriage and vague Internet conduct standard, sets ISPs up for FCC “gotcha” or contrived regulation and enforcement. -
Show Me The Money
Opinion -One of the challenges the seemingly never-ending list of Republican presidential candidates must face in what is sure to be an all-out political brawl in 2016 is finding a unique way to explain that America does not have a tax revenue problem; it has a -
California Obamacare Exchange Is Running Out of Money
Opinion -After spending more than $1 billion on startup costs, California’s state-run Obamacare health insurance exchange has failed to produce the expected returns and is rapidly running out of money. -
Study Shows State Energy Costs to Soar Under Clean Power Plant Rule
Opinion -A state by state analysis by Eugene Trisko, an attorney who often represents the United Mine Workers, conducted for American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricty (ACCCE), estimates electric power prices will rise substantially should the Environmental -
Life-Long Vermonters Fleeing Green Mountain State for Better Opportunities Elsewhere
Opinion -Vacationers to Vermont dream of staying forever. But for many Vermonters trapped in the state’s struggling economy, opportunities in other states are convincing them to flee the Green Mountains for greener pastures. -
Kynect Insurers Request Double-Digit Premium Hikes
Opinion -The Kentucky Health Cooperative, the largest insurer on Kynect, Kentucky’s Obamacare health insurance exchange, proposed a 25.1 percent health insurance premium rate increase for 2016. Despite the daunting numbers, Kentucky Gov. -
Analysts Demonstrate Why Fossil Fuels Dominate Energy Use
Opinion -The panel “Energy Realities” brought environmental analysts together to discuss the superiority of fossil fuels to other forms of energy on the basis of abundance, costs, safety, and reliability. -
Net Neutrality Hits – The Media Misses, Badly
Opinion -As we’ve often discussed, the Tech Media is just as hopelessly Leftist and lost as the broader Jurassic Press. They are both echo chambers – talking points and terrible ideas bounce with great rapidity around their tiny little worlds. -
American Progressives are Bismarck’s Grandchildren
Opinion -American “progressives” portray themselves as “forward-looking,” advocates of a higher and better freedom than the traditional American conception of liberty as freedom from government coercion and control. -
Alan Caruba: R.I.P.
Opinion -I report tonight with shock and sadness that long-time Heartland Institute policy advisor Alan Caruba has passed away. Alan was a patriot, an online entrepreneur, and a brave and tireless writer. -
Legislative Pulse: Montana
Opinion -Editor’s Note: The following is an interview with Rep. Tom Burnett, a Republican member of the Montana House of Representatives from District 67. He previously represented District 63 in the Montana House from 2011 to 2013. -
New FDA Rules Axe Trans Fats In Food
Opinion -The Food and Drug Administration is banning the sale and use of artificial trans-unsaturated fatty acids in food made in the United States, in the name of increasing public health. -
ICCC-10 Panel 2: Climate Science and Accurate Data
Opinion -The “Climate Science and Accurate Data” panel, which I moderated, was particularly timely because the week before the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change began, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a paper -
House Republicans Release Plan to Repeal and Replace Obamacare
Opinion -A group of House Republicans released a proposed health care plan that would replace Obamacare with patient-centered reforms and free-market solutions.The 192-page American Health Care Reform Act (AHCRA) was written by Reps. -
The Right Climate Stuff Panel Reframes Climate Change Debate
Opinion -The debate over whether man-caused climate change exists and whether it poses a threat to Earth and its species has intensified in recent decades, extending from the laboratory to the political arena. -
California Court Strikes Down ‘Pay to Delay’
Opinion -The California Supreme Court has ruled pay-to-delay agreements among pharmaceutical companies violate state antitrust laws. The decision in the case In Re Cipro Cases I & II follows a 2013 U.S. -
Pennsylvania Family Pays $500 To Appeal Zoning Bans on Girl’s Tree House
Opinion -Elise Truchan has learned some lessons in her first run-in with bureaucracy. “I’ve learned that people lie,” is unfortunately one of them, her father recounted to Watchdog.org. -
Obamacare Spurs Double-Digit Rate Increases for 2016
Opinion -Health insurers are seeking double-digit rate increases in 2016 to continue covering enrollees in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges. -
Nevada Legislators Want to Put Parents in Control of Education
Opinion -When the Nevada Education Savings Account (ESA) law passed last week, there were two main reactions: celebration from school choice advocates who marveled at the scope and positive potential of the law, and the anti-choice crowd’s outrage at an allegedly -
Steep Obamacare Insurance Premium Hikes Indicate ‘Death Spiral’ Has Begun
Opinion -The Wall Street Journal reports major insurers in some states are proposing hefty rate boosts for plans sold under Obamacare, setting the stage for an intense debate this summer over the law’s impact.
