Opinion
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Texas Comptroller Report Destroys Wind Industry Claims
Opinion -A new report by the Texas Comptroller documents how wind power is raising electricity prices in Texas, throwing cold water on false assertions made by American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) lobbyists. -
John Kasich Tries to Have It Both Ways on Obamacare
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #441 When it comes to making the case for Obamacare’s persistence, few Republicans have been as insistent as Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is in a bit of hot water after talking it up recently to the Associated Press: Ohio Gov. -
Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Theory of Inflations and Recessions
Opinion -Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1934, there appeared in English one of the most important books on money and inflation penned in the twentieth century, The Theory of Money and Creditby the Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises. -
A Common-Sense Approach to Common Core Math, Part IV: Making Connections, One Concept at a Time
Opinion -During a course in math teaching methods I took in ed school, I watched a video of a teacher leading his students to do a variety of tasks, ostensibly to teach them about factoring trinomials, such as x2 + 5x + 6. -
A Young Person’s Guide to Energy Conservation
Opinion -Energy has long lost the attention of the media, so we no longer think about ways we use energy and its effect on national policy or our pocketbooks. -
Nation’s Governors Graded on Fiscal Policy
Opinion -Quantifiably ranking all the fiscal policies of the nation’s governors, the Cato Institute’s recently released “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors” highlights the variety of economic policies of the various states, grading the nation’s 29 -
Nothing Better to Do: Obama Defense Department to Fight Global Warming
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #143 While stories of Ebola and ISIS dominated the headlines once again last week, the Obama administration’s Department of Defense announced a potentially more far-reaching, costly, and possibly dangerous public policy decision: -
Weather Channel Founder Challenges UCLA to Offer Balanced Climate Change Debate on Thursday
Opinion -Hammer Museum Event Featuring Michael Mann and Brenda Ekwurzelon Global Warming Requires an Alternative to Alarmismwith No Basis in the Latest Science John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, is urging UCLA’s Hammer Museum to provide balance to a -
HBO Streaming Is Good News for All Entertainment Consumers
Opinion -Acting on plans reported here a month ago, entertainment channel HBO has decided to end its thirty-plus-year dependence on cable and satellite distributors, announcing it will offer an online streaming video service beginning next year. -
Another Obamacare Disaster Looms
Opinion -Events set in motion earlier this year regarding Obamacare are about to inflict significant damage on the American public. -
DC’s Economic Boom Comes at Public’s Expense
Opinion -In the Hunger Games franchise of movies and young-adult novels, political power is concentrated within the Capitol; citizens there revel in pageantry and pomp while their fellow Americans suffer from the dire, impoverishing consequences of the -
Electricity Prices Soaring In Top Wind Power States
Opinion -Electricity prices are soaring in states generating the most wind power, U.S. Energy Information Administration data show. Although U.S. -
Medicaid Expansion Increases ER Visits
Opinion -One of the many promised benefits of expanded Medicaid coverage, according to advocates of the Affordable Care Act, was a reduction in emergency room visits. -
Medicaid Reform Offers More Compassionate Options for the Poor
Opinion -Financing for Medicaid, the national entitlement program providing health care for the poor, is shared with the states under a specific formula, with the federal government paying about 60 percent of the total costs. -
Environmentalists Halt Obama Administration Plan to Cut Trees in Alaska
Opinion -A family-owned timber firm that operates the last significant sawmill in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest has won a momentous U.S. Forest Service contract: the Big Thorne Project, which will allow the harvest of nearly 150 million board feet of wood. -
Federal Regulators’ War on Toys Strangles Businesses
Opinion -The Consumer Product Safety Commission has proposed new rules governing toy magnet sets, in response to rare incidents involving accidental ingestion of the products. -
Federal Survey Data on Tobacco: It’s Not About The Children
Opinion -I have documented for several years a nonstop decline in smoking rates among American teens (here, here, here, and here )Rates of smoking and use of other tobacco products among teens are so low that they no longer provide a valid basis for the draconian -
Heartland Policy Brief: Exposing the ‘Merchants of Smear’
Opinion -Press Release -Media’s Smear of Global Warming Skeptics Traces Back to ‘Paper-Thin’ Evidence Peddled by Al Gore, Ross Gelbspan -
Insurance Premiums Are Rising Though President Claims the Opposite
Opinion -Insurance affordability was the great promise of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) when he signed the law in 2010. -
Obamacare’s Broken Promises
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #440 With the upcoming second round of enrollment for Obamacare, let’s check on a few of the promises that sold the health care law to the American people. -
How the American Diet Was Ruined
Opinion -Review of The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, by Nina Teicholz, Simon & Schuster, 2014, 496 pages, $17. -
President Litella Strikes Again
Opinion -It's hard to keep track of all the "never mind" moments the Obama administration seems to be having regarding Obamacare - "you can keep your plan," "you can keep your doctor," "health premiums willl go down," and so forth. -
Study: World’s Economic Freedom Ascends, as U.S. Freedom Falls
Opinion -An annual study conducted by an international group of non-partisan think-tanks found, shockingly, that the United States, once rated as the third most economically free nation in the world, is now little more free than the United Kingdom and other -
Another Obamacare Talking Point Goes Up In Flames
Opinion -For a long time we were told that Obamacare would lower health insurance premiums.
