Opinion
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SNAP Rolls Continue to Increase As Program Ensnares Families in Dependency
Opinion -The US Department of Agriculture reported in January 46,674,364 Americans were receiving food stamp assistance at the beginning of Fiscal Year 2015. -
Pope Francis Says Freedom Of Speech Has ‘Limits,’ Gets It Wrong Again
Opinion -Just two weeks after reports surfaced that Pope Francis plans to put significant pressure on global leaders to fight what he believes to be manmade, imminent global warming, the leader of the world’s largest church is receiving strong and worthy -
Minimum Wage Mythology Will Hurt Workers
Opinion -More than 3.1 million workers across the nation received a late Christmas gift on Jan. 1, when minimum wages were increased in 21 states. -
The Founders Wanted a Laser-Focused Article V Convention (Part 4 of 8)
Opinion -This is part 4 of the 8 part series establishing that the laser-focus of the Compact for America approach to organizing an Article V convention with the specific job advancing and ratifying a pre-drafted, specific federal Balanced Budget Amendment is -
2014 Was NOT the Warmest Year on Record
Opinion -The science journal Nature trumpets “2014 was the hottest year on record” and cites the Japan Meteorological Agency, the World Meteorological Organization, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). -
Choice and Competition On California’s Exchange
Opinion -One of the things proponents of Obamacare have touted is that the law supposedly brings competition and choice to the health insuance market. Today I ran across two articles. -
Free-Market Reforms Key to States’ Recovery
Opinion -Half a decade after the U.S. economy fell into a recession, 41 states’ tax revenues in the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2014 were higher than in the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2013 . -
Government’s Welfare Policies Trap the Needy
Opinion -Welfare policies intended to get people back on their feet are actually keeping them on the dole by reducing economic incentives to seek better-paying jobs or work more hours. -
Interview: Monckton’s Journey From Warming Believer to Influential Skeptic
Opinion -[Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley dicusses his early climate efforts with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and how climate alarmists twisting of science and stiffling debate has made him into the leader among the climate realist movement that he is -
Study: Price Transparency Benefits Consumers
Opinion -Recent public and private initiatives have sought to lower health care costs by making health care prices more transparent. -
The Carbon Diet Fallacy
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #155 The worst metaphor to come out of the global warming debate is “the carbon diet. -
The EPA’s Methane Madness
Opinion -The Obama administration’s attack on America’s energy sector is insane. They might as well tell us what to eat. Oh, wait, Michelle Obama is doing that. Or that the Islamic State is not Islamic. Oh, wait, Barack Obama said that. -
Prioritizing Better Plans over Bigger Budgets for Georgia Roads
Opinion -With voters having rejected a 1 percent sales tax increase proposal in 2012, the 2014-15 session of the Georgia General Assembly created a joint study committee to study and make recommendations for funding construction, maintenance, and repair of the -
Formaldehype vs. Fact: Levels Are Far Lower in E-Cigarettes Than In Cigarettes
Opinion -Researcher Naoki Kunugita at Japan’s National Institute of Public Health recently fueled anti-e-cig hysteria with this unverifiable claim: “In one brand of e-cigarette the team found more than 10 times the level of carcinogens contained in one regular -
Obamacare Co-Op Goes Belly-Up in Iowa, Nebraska
Opinion -One of the things to come out of Obamacare were so-called 'Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans,' or Co-Ops as they are more often called. -
Unreliable Numbers Stop Illinois Exchange
Opinion -The Illinois House Human Services Committee approved legislation in December to establish a state-funded health insurance exchange. The legislation, advanced by state Rep. -
CLASSy Reminder of Early Obamacare Failure
Opinion -Chris Jacobs is policy director for America Next, a conservative think tank, and works a lot on health care issues. -
Proposed DOE Dishwasher Rules Will Cost Lots of Green
Opinion -New efficiency standards targeting residential dishwashers proposed by the U.S. -
The Founders Wanted a Laser-Targeted Article V Convention (Part 3 of 8)
Opinion -This is part 3 of the 8 part series establishing that the laser-focus of the Compact for America approach to organizing an Article V convention with the specific job advancing and ratifying a pre-drafted, specific federal Balanced Budget Amendment is -
Heartland Institute Experts React to President Obama’s New Methane Emissions Rules
Opinion -The Barack Obama administration announced Wednesday it would move forward with developing new regulations to cut methane emissions generated by the oil and gas industry. -
Resist EPA’s ‘Clean Power Plan,’ Coalition Urges States
Opinion -In the latest challenge to the Obama administration’s intensifying regulatory actions, a coalition of free-market and conservative organizations is calling on state governments to resist the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. -
The Need for CBO Reform
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #449 During the past week, the House voted to direct the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to use “dynamic scoring” of legislation. I’ll wait while you yawn, but this is actually an important development. -
Requiem for a Failed Socialist State
Opinion -No folks, it’s not Bernie Sanders’ Vermont nor Jerry Brown’s California Democratic Republic that’s about to get flushed down the economic toilet. We are talking about Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela that he inherited from his predecessor Hugo Chavez. -
Doctors’ PAC Targets Pro-Obamacare Incumbents
Opinion -Beleaguered members of Congress who supported Obamacare and squeaked by in the recent election now have a new nemesis, a PAC of doctors, surgeons, and nurses demanding the lawmakers change their ways. Arizona surgeon Dr.
