Opinion
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Welfare Reform Gets People Back To Work, So Why Did Jay Nixon Veto It?
Opinion -Federal, state, and local governments spend well over $1 trillion per year on nearly 130 means-tested programs for lower-income Americans. -
Obama’s Economic Disaster
Opinion -Commenting on the rioting in Baltimore, the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henniger was almost to the end of his April 30 text when he said “On Wednesday morning, the year’s first-quarter GDP growth rate came in—0.02%. Next to nothing. -
One year after voters defeated King County Metro Transit’s Proposition 1 – the sky didn’t fall
Opinion -When King County voters handily rejected Metro Transit’s Proposition 1, county leaders’ proposal to increase regressive sales taxes and to raise car tab fees by $60, King County Executive Dow Constantine said he would follow through with his threat to -
Iowa Should Embrace Frac Sand Mining
Opinion -Lansing, Ia., is located near sizeable deposits of the highly specialized sand used for hydraulic fracturing. -
Fuzzy math clouds picture of tax relief for North Dakotans
Opinion -BISMARCK, N.D. — In the closing days of North Dakota’s 2015 legislative session, Gov. -
Silencing Skeptics, Conservatives and Free Speech
Opinion -Our scientific method and traditions of free speech and open debate are under assault as never before, by intolerant inquisitors in our media, universities, government agencies, and even Congress and the Vatican. -
U.S. Gas Exports Set to Shake Up World Markets
Opinion -The United States is poised to shake up world energy markets with expanded liquefied natural gas (LNG) deliveries later this year as four new LNG export terminals come on line. -
Kasich Claims on Obamacare Money Challenged
Opinion -Ohio Gov. -
Nebraska Grants Nurse Practitioners Full Practice Authority
Opinion -Nebraska has become the 20th state to lift restrictions on nurse practitioners (NP), granting them the authority to evaluate patients; diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests; and initiate and manage treatments, including prescribing medications. -
Student Privacy Laws Need Strengthening
Opinion -If there ever was an issue to unite all parents, teachers, and any educational stakeholder—which ultimately includes all of us—it should be student privacy. -
Bribing the People with Their Own Money
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #460 On Tuesday Florida Gov. -
Economic Freedom Trumps Identity Politics
Opinion -Imagine a little girl and her young mother sitting on a porch on 19th Street in Harrisburg. The child smiles happily, but the mother looks tired—she’s working second shift and raising a daughter by herself. -
The Concrete Road Less Traveled
Opinion -What if you were told that 95 percent of Georgians are using a product that may not always be the best value for money?What if you were told that 95 percent of Georgia’s roads are asphalt, even though that may not always be the best value for money? -
Pope’s Confused Climate Communique
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #170 On April 28, Pope Francis hosted a one-day conference, “Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity: The Moral Dimensions of Climate Change and Sustainable Development. -
Report: National Doctor Shortage Looms
Opinion -The United States is facing what could be a deadly shortage of doctors. A report from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) a shortfall of 90,000 U.S. -
Heartland Replies (Again) to Media Matters
Opinion -On April 29, 2015, Media Matters, a front group and spin machine for the Democratic Party, released another error-filled essay about The Heartland Institute, this one by Andrew Siefter complaining about mainstream media coverage of our presence at a -
Response to Pope Francis’s Intervention into Global Warming
Opinion -The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has released its climate document “Climate Change and The Common Good” which may be the Encyclical on climate issued by Pope Francis this June. -
EPA May Force Hotels to Monitor Shower Use
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing hotels monitor the length of time their guests use the shower. -
Student Privacy Laws Need Strengthening
Opinion -If there ever was an issue to unite all parents, teachers, and any educational stakeholder—which ultimately includes all of us—it should be student privacy. -
Climate Change and School Science Standards
Opinion -by H. Sterling Burnett and Taylor SmithClassrooms have emerged as a new front in the increasingly contentious debate over the causes and implications of climate change. -
Report on School Choice Avoids Facts, Protects Status Quo
Opinion -Teachers unions and other defenders of the education status quo are terrified of school choice. As a result, they frequently present misleading reports as truthful. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to South Carolina House Vote to End Certificate of Need Health Care Regulations
Opinion -The South Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 103‒1 to repeal the state’s certificate of need (CON) law in 2018. CON laws are a complex set of regulations that adversely affect the health care choices of South Carolinians. -
Government Spinning Up New Rules for Clothes Driers
Opinion -The Department of Energy is considering updating efficiency rules for residential clothes dryers again, after regulations enacted in 2011 took effect in January 2015.
