Opinion
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Opting Out of Obamacare
Opinion -One of my favorite organizations out there is the Citizens Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), an invaluable ally in the fight to keep health care out of the hands of government and insurance bureaucrats to the maximum extent possible. -
Textbooks Proposed for Texas Schools Open Can of Worms
Opinion -Controversy continues over the adoption of new schoolbooks in Texas, as environmental lobbyists fight to have sound science concerning global warming removed from the curriculum. -
The Gruber Truther Problem
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #445[Subscribe] What a week this has been for Jonathan Gruber as a deluge of videos has illustrated his many public comments on the deceptions of Obamacare. -
Medicaid’s ‘Low and Slow’ Payments Squeeze Care Access for the Poor
Opinion -Medicaid, the state/federal program that pays health care costs for low-income people, has historically paid less than the cost of treatment in many states. Further complicating matters for health care providers is that some states also delay payment. -
Property Tax Reform Gains Support in Pennsylvania Statehouse
Opinion -Although a bill aimed at relieving homeowners’ tax burdens was halted without receiving a full hearing in the latest legislative session, support for property tax reform in Pennsylvania has grown since the November elections. -
Using Coal, Oil and Gas, the Moral Choice
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #147 Review: Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, Penguin Publishing, November 2014; 248 pages; ISBN-10: 1591847443, ISBN-13: 978-1591847441, $20.89 on Amazon. -
SHOP Exchanges Fail to Draw Customers
Opinion -A key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has failed to attract many customers. -
The Berlin Wall and The Spirit of Freedom
Opinion -This November marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the shaky East German communist government resigned, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. Large crowds formed on both sides of the Wall. -
Budget Rules May ‘Encourage’ Agencies’ Year-End Shopping Sprees
Opinion -Scholars from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University searched through numerous public spending databases for evidence of wasteful “use it or lose” spending by government agencies. -
A Suicidal Collapse of Western Civilization?
Opinion -My background is basically European -- and more specifically, Western European. -
Stop That Fracking Pipeline!
Opinion -My small farm is nearly in the path of a new pipeline that will carry huge tonnages of shale gas from West Virginia to the Mid-Atlantic states. My neighbors mostly hate the idea. Many farms have hostile signs saying “No Pipeline!” or “Save the County! -
White House #AskDrH Climate Social Media Campaign an #EpicFail
Opinion -On Thursday afternoon (Nov. 13), the White House's vaunted social media squad invited Americans to go on Twitter, Facebook, Vine, or Instagram and pose questions about climate change to the president's science advisor using the hashtag #AskDrH. -
GAO: Crop Insurance Subsidies Cost Taxpayers Billions
Opinion -A new study by the Government Accountability Office has found crop insurance subsidies cost taxpayers approximately $9 billion per year, and are continuing to rise. -
Texas Schoolbooks Should Be Free of Warming Absolutism
Opinion -Controversy continues over the adoption of new schoolbooks in Texas, as environmental lobbyists fight to have sound science concerning global warming removed from the curriculum. -
State Retirement Funds Play Tricks on Retirees, Taxpayers
Opinion -Awareness of the problem of underfunded public pensions is increasing among the public, as states seek to balance their budgets without reneging on prior agreements with workers, but a less publicized liability problem is also becoming a concern. -
GAO Confirms SHOP Exchanges Flopped
Opinion -It's difficult to pinpoint what the biggest failure of Obamacare has been to date when comparing expectations to actual results. -
Dependence Level Higher with Cigarettes Than with Smokeless Tobacco
Opinion -As noted previously (here), Drs. Karl Fagerström and Tom Eissenberg have described a continuum of dependence among tobacco and nicotine products. -
How The Free Market Can Save American Education
Opinion -Only one week after Election Day, Washington, DC’s focus has shifted from furious campaigning to National Education Week and the Thought Leader Summit (held from Nov. -
Proposed Water Rule Could Put ‘Property Rights of Every American Entirely at the Mercy’ of EPA
Opinion -It seems incredible, but a single missing word could turn a water law into a government land grab so horrendous even a U.S. -
Obamacare Primarily Expands Medicaid
Opinion -Four years ago, the White House argued the Affordable Care Act would make “affordable, high-quality care” accessible to an estimated 50.7 million uninsured Americans. -
Supreme Court Takes Obamacare Case
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the IRS decision to authorize payment of tax credits through federally established insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. The case, King v. -
The Agony of Jonathan Gruber, Redux
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #444[Subscribe] As you’ve probably heard by now, Jonathan Gruber, the architect of Obamacare, has stepped in it again – and loudly. -
Philadelphia Seizes Residents’ Property in Ridesharing Crackdown
Opinion -Uber, the smartphone-driven “ride-share” company, launched its UberX service in Philadelphia in late October, prompting a regulatory crackdown by the city’s transportation enforcement agency. -
What They Really Think of Us
Opinion -In college my friends and I had an expression we would use regarding people that we thought might not be quite up to snuff in the brainpower department: "Dumber than a sack of hammers" (presumably they might outwit a single hammer, but a whole sack of