Opinion
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Why You Won’t Even Be Able to Keep Your Obamacare Plan if You Like It
Opinion -Most of us are familiar with the fiasco centered around President Obama's false pledge that "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. -
About Those 7.3 Million Obamacare Enrollees
Opinion -There are a handful of blogs that anybody seriously interested in following health care policy should read regularly. At the top of that list is Health Policy and Markets, the blog of insurance expert Robert Laszewski. -
Renewable Energy Death Toll Impugns Green Claims
Opinion -Renewable energy sources are killers, not so much green as red. Until recently, renewable energy sources—wind, solar, hydro, etc.—have gotten a pass on the environmental harms they cause. -
Will Health Benefits Eliminate Raises?
Opinion -Health policy expert John Graham, writing at The Beacon, comments on a recent report from the consulting firm Mercer. Apparently health benefits are eating up pay raises.The real effect of Obamacare is shown in Figure 1: It is eliminating pay raises. -
Smelly Lockers: A True Story of Pirates
Opinion -The Digital Citizens Alliance recently released a report that is troubling if somewhat unsurprising. -
Tax Foundation Publishes State-by-State Sales Tax Survey
Opinion -Sales tax rates are an important part of the overall tax structure of most states, as well as for many local governments. -
Australian Meteorologists Caught Fudging Temperature Measurements
Opinion -Australian Meteorologists Caught Fudging Temperature MeasurementsBy Darren NelsonA storm of sorts has been brewing in Australia, a tempest caused by anthropogenic global warming activism. -
Democracy is Not the Same as Freedom
Opinion -A fundamental fallacy of our time is that democracy is the open-sesame to peace, freedom, and prosperity. -
Embarrassing Facts Haunt Global Warming 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. -
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.
