Opinion
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Cigarette Smuggling Still Rampant Despite Slight Decline
Opinion -As state and local units of government continue to hike cigarette excise taxes to raise revenues, smugglers apparently continue to profit from their illicit trafficking. -
Climate Alarmists Sink to Comedic Low Explaining Historic Cold
Opinion -Confronted with the embarrassment of historic cold gripping the nation just as the Obama administration launches a new offensive on the mythical global warming crisis, global warming activists and their media allies just invented their most knee-slapping -
Want A Government Official To Change His Mind? Hire Him!
Opinion -As President Obama’s Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar was charged with being one of the biggest defenders of the Obama agenda on energy and environmental issues – among them, running interference on the potential construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. -
Before Modern Collectivism: The Rise and Fall of Classical Liberalism
Opinion -[NOTE: I delievered this speech at the Hungry Minds Discussion Club in Denver, Colorado, February 8, 2014.]This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. -
Global Warming Is Reducing Mental Health Stress
Opinion -Freelance writer Marlene Cimons, an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Maryland, wrote an editorial published by LiveScience and Yahoo News claiming increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events damage people’s -
Bellini and Easterbrook: Faces of the Global Warming Debate
Opinion -An Italian adventurer and an American climate professor presented two contrasting faces of the global warming debate in January, with one vowing to live on an iceberg for a year and the other vowing to monitor Pacific Ocean circulation patterns. -
Build the Keystone Pipeline, Already!
Opinion -President Obama frequently says he wants to turn the economy around, put America back to work, produce more energy, improve public safety, and open new markets to goods stamped “Made in the USA. -
How to Prompt New Schools With Choice Programs
Opinion -At the International School Choice Research and Reform Academic Conference in January, researchers, practitioners, and advocates convened to compare and contrast the state of school choice in the United States and across many European and South American -
There is No Global Warming and Will Be None for Decades
Opinion -I recently received an unsigned email about my Sierra Club commentary in which I pointed out that it opposes traditional forms of energy and made a passing reference to Obama’s lie that “climate change,” the new name for global warming, was now “settled -
Bill Would Prohibit Federal Common Core Coercion
Opinion -On Jan. 30, U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts introduced a bill that would prevent the federal government from “coercing states to adopt education standards. -
Energy Alliance Challenges BLM on Last-Minute Lease-Sale Cancellation
Opinion -Western Energy Alliance, an organization of energy producers in the western United States, is challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s last-minute decision to remove 57 parcels of land from an oil and natural gas lease sale. -
FACT-Based Budgeting: Medicine for What Ails Government Finances
Opinion -Some surprises, such as Valentine’s Day candy, are nice. Others, like government spending crises and bankruptcies, are hard to swallow. -
Income Tax Cut Advances in Oklahoma
Opinion -A cut in the Oklahoma state income tax took a step toward reality when a state House subcommittee passed House Bill 3291, which would lower the personal income tax rate to 4 percent by 2018. -
U.S. Congressmen Condemn Federal Common Core Influence
Opinion -Illinois Rep. Randy Hultgren is one of the 43 cosponsors of a House resolution condemning the Obama administration's entanglement in national Common Core K-12 mandates. -
What The Washington Post’s Factchecker Gets Wrong About Obamacare
Opinion -If you set yourself up as the arbiter of all that is factual in the nation, you’d better keep your own facts straight. -
A Broadband System Upgrade
Opinion -As has been widely reported today, Comcast has proposed a $45.2 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc., a merger of the number one and number four video service providers (DirecTV and Dish are numbers two and three). -
Undercover Environmentalists Invade Science Conference
Opinion -The annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) started today in Chicago and runs through February 17. -
Yearly Climate Spending 10x More Than UN Estimate for Ending World Hunger
Opinion -The United Nations estimates it would cost $30 billion a year to end world hunger. -
McConnell Files Resolution to Block EPA Carbon Dioxide Regulations
Opinion -U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) filed a resolution of disapproval in an effort to block U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to severely restrict carbon dioxide emissions from newly constructed power plants. -
Future Global Water Stress
Opinion -A better freshwater future is likely in store for humanity in a CO2-enriched world of the future, and that’s a good thing!... -
Maryland Treasurer Opposes Governor’s $100M Cut in Pension Funding
Opinion -Maryland State Treasurer Nancy Kopp has told lawmakers she opposes Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposed $100 million cut in the state’s pension contribution for government workers, saying it would undermine trust by the state’s bond rating agencies. -
Teachers Unions Push Back Against Teacher Evaluations
Opinion -Colorado’s largest teachers union is challenging a 2010 law that includes a new procedure for teacher firings. -
Is the Common Core Evaluation a Dog and Pony Show?
Opinion -Indiana leaders are using words that conflict with their actions regarding the national K–12 curriculum and testing mandates known as Common Core. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Comcast Purchase of Time Warner Cable
Opinion -Comcast announced Thursday it has reached a deal to acquire Time Warner Cable via a $45.2 billion stock buy.