Opinion
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Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Obama’s Climate Speech at United Nations
Opinion -President Obama today addressed the Climate Summit at the United Nations, promising to take more executive actions at home, and work more closely with other countries abroad, to fight climate change. -
Al Jazeera Sues ‘Desperate’ Gore for False Representations
Opinion -A desperate Al Gore made several false representations as part of a smokescreen to “prevent people from seeing the truth,” the Al Jazeera media network asserted in conjunction with court documents filed Thursday, Business Insider reports. -
Minnesota’s Largest Exchange Insurer Drops Out
Opinion -Minnesota’s exchange officials and political leadership were stunned in late September by news PreferredOne, which had captured more customers on the exchange than all others combined, had decided to drop out and would no longer offer policies on MNsure. -
Reforms, Reports Improve Snapshot of States’ Public Pension Outlooks
Opinion -Ohio, New Hampshire, and Tennessee significantly improved their public pension funding in Fiscal Year 2013, as measured by Truth in Accounting metrics. However, it’s important to determine how and why these improvements occurred. -
Alarmists Respond to Summer Freeze with Climate March
Opinion -Just two days after a summer freeze cut growing seasons prematurely short in New York and New England, global warming activists marched in New York City against global warming. -
Health Care’s Free Market Supporters
Opinion -The letters section of the Wall Street Journal is one of my favorite things to read. -
People’s Climate March: The Face of True Belief
Opinion -People's Climate March: The Face of True BeliefI liked everybody I met at the People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21, two days before the UN climate change summit. I mean it. I liked them so much I hate what I have to write about them. -
Global Warming Is Benefiting Trees, Forests
Opinion -Trees are growing at an accelerated rate due to global warming, scientists conclude in a new peer-reviewed study. -
The Forgotten Consumer In The Fast Lane Net Neutrality Debate
Opinion -Is the Internet consumer in charge or the product sold to others? Is net neutrality about protecting consumers or Silicon Valley? -
Obamacare Auto-Renewal Plan Could Cause Costs to Soar
Opinion -A significant problem looms for the Affordable Care Act when the next open enrollment period begins in November, according to many health care experts and media accounts. -
Australian Meteorologists Caught Fudging Numbers
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #139 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM) was recently forced to admit it alters the temperatures recorded at almost all the official weather stations in Australia. -
Food Fight: Can Food Companies Help Battle Obesity?
Opinion -This week may be a turning point in the food fight that has been taking place in this country for over a decade.An analysis published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this week (Sept. -
Al Gore Mentions Heartland, Tells 11 Falsehoods in Just 35 Seconds
Opinion -Al Gore hosted his annual “24 Hours of Reality” program this week. You might have missed it since Gore no longer has a cable network to show his Jerry Lewis-style telethon for the climate-alarmist set, but instead had to broadcast the whole thing online. -
With Global Conflict at the Door, World Leaders Pursue Futile Climate Efforts
Opinion -On September 23, representatives from 190 nations will gather at the Climate Summit 2014 at United Nations headquarters in New York City, including 125 heads of state. -
Apple’s New Security Policy Is Great News for iPhone, iPad Users
Opinion -Apple Corp. last night announced that it is implementing a new security protocol that will make it impossible for the firm to turn over users’ personal information to government agencies, or anyone else. -
Interview: Alan Carlin Explains How Politics Infiltrated EPA
Opinion -Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James M. Taylor interviewed Alan Carlin after Carlin’s talk at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change. Carlin provided more insight into some of the main points in his ICCC talk. -
Global Warming Boosts Tree Growth, New Study Reports
Opinion -Trees are growing at an accelerated rate due to global warming, scientists conclude in a new peer-reviewed study. -
Surprise, Electronic Health Records Aren’t Saving Money or Time
Opinion -One of the things favored by supporters of government-directed medical care is electronic health records. -
Auditor General Report Presents Novel Ideas for Pa. Pension Reform
Opinion -If one mines down into Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale’s recent pension report, one can find some gems hidden among the recommendations that I believe risk the creation of a too-big-to-fail “financial super-fund site. -
End the Costly Integration Ban – Part II
Opinion -For almost eight years, I have been urging, along with other Free State Foundation scholars, an end to the costly so-called "integration ban. -
The Miracle and Morality of the Market
Opinion -One of the great fallacies arrogantly believed in by those in political power is the notion that they can know enough to manage and command the lives of everyone in society with better results than if people are left to live their own lives as they -
Ryan Leads On Welfare Reform And Fighting Poverty
Opinion -No one in Washington is taking the lead in addressing poverty and welfare reform like House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Almost alone, he has noted that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty. -
Democrats at Risk of Global Warming Election Backlash
Opinion -Recent polling numbers may induce Republicans on the November ballot to turn certain Democrats’ obsession with global warming into a Republican weapon, slamming Democrats for ignoring much more important issues. -
Heartland Institute Joins Free-Market Coalition against Internet Sales Tax
Opinion -A broad coalition of conservative leaders and free-market proponents has signed “An Open Letter to the United States Congress: Oppose the Marketplace and Internet Tax Fairness Act,” voicing opposition to S.