Opinion
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The Next Wave of Obamacare Cancellations
Opinion -Employers are already starting to get the same cancellation letters that went to millions of people in the individual market late last year. -
Montanans Support Energy Production Despite Gore/Al Jazeera Claims
Opinion -The annual Montana State University-Billings political poll reports the Montana public continues to favor energy development, with pluralities of Montanans believing there is too little oil and coal development—40 percent and 41 percent, respectively—in -
Two Decades of Global Dryland Vegetation Change
Opinion -In spite of the postulated growing negative impacts of man and climate alike, the greening of the earth continues - and in places where it’s toughest of all to be green (arid lands) - with the proposed impetus for the phenomenon being the likely-enabling -
Cayman Islands Coral Reefs Experiencing Dramatic Comeback
Opinion -In a stunning example of the natural world’s remarkable ability to bounce back from ecological decline, the coral reefs surrounding Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean Sea—all but written off as dead by some marine scientists a decade ago—are rapidly -
Oregon’s Obamacare Disaster
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #403 Oregon’s dedication to Obamacare has been complete and total since the law passed, with Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber seeking to put the state front and center in developing an Obamacare exchange. -
Institutions Replacing Debit Cards In Wake of Target Data Thefts
Opinion -The fallout from the Target data breach continues. Citibank will replace every debit card consumers may have used at Target during the time of the cyberattacks, according to The New York Times. Citi will not replace any credit cards. -
Facing Subsidized Competition, Private Schools Struggle
Opinion -Corey Quinn has decided the best option for his Catholic middle school is to become a public charter school—but it is not a decision he likes. -
EPA Data: Natural Gas Fracking Not Causing Methane Spike
Opinion -Natural gas fracking is not causing a spike in U.S. methane emissions, the latest U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data show. The data debunk assertions by global warming alarmists that recent declines in U.S. -
Where the U.S. Economy Is Going, and Why
Opinion -The U.S. employment news on January 10 sharply contradicted the oft-repeated refrain that economic growth was beginning to accelerate. -
Is This Any Way to Treat the Job Creators?
Opinion -It’s no wonder that, as the New York Times (NYT) headline declared: “Growth in jobs slows sharply to 3-year low. -
Climate Alarmists’ ‘Dark Money’ Dwarfs Skeptics’ Funding
Opinion -Global warming activists claim vast amounts of untraceable special-interest money fund global warming skeptics and give skeptics an unfair advantage in the global warming debate. -
Heartland Daily Podcast: Verizon vs. FCC and the Future of Net Neutrality
Opinion -The D.C. Circuit Court this week struck down the Federal Communication Commission’s 2010 “net neutrality” rule requiring Internet service providers to treat all traffic across their networks the same – discriminating against none and favoring none. -
State of the State Addresses: The Governors on Education
Opinion -It’s state of the state week across the country. Check back here as the speeches roll out for a snapshot of what governors are proposing in education.HAWAII, Neil Abercrombie: Says it's time to spend more on government preschool. -
Heartland Daily Podcast: The Future of Obamacare
Opinion -We live in a post-Obamacare world now. The only questions are what we do about it. Avik Roy and Benjamin Domenech discuss the future of Obamacare in this cross-post to the Heartland Dailiy Podcast. -
Obama Administration Proposes 30-Year Eagle Kill Permits
Opinion -The Obama administration announced a proposal to grant 30-year permits for wind turbine facilities to kill bald and golden eagles, causing an uproar among environmentalist groups. -
Alarmists: Americans Too Stupid to Understand Climate
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #115 New polling data show the American public is growing increasingly skeptical of an asserted climate crisis. Alarmists have responded by claiming Americans are not smart enough to make proper decisions on climate policy. -
Congressmen Accuse SEC of Violating Law Over Volcker Rule
Opinion -The shoe is on the other foot at the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is being accused of violating federal law because of its failure to do “any economic analysis” of the so-called Volcker rule. -
Jimmy Kimmel Ridicules Obamacare
Opinion -ABC's Jimmy Kimmel slammed Obamacare on Tuesday night, ridiculing the Obama administrations expectation that young people would buy health insurance.The whole segment, including Kimmel's commentary, is worth watching in the player below. -
Bean Bag Justice?
Opinion -Like the Chicago Tribune, we too were surprised to see Ty “Beanie Baby” Warner, who pleaded guilty last fall to evading taxes on part of his income, receive from U. S. -
Colorado Bill Would Roll Back Renewable Mandates As Prices Soar
Opinion -A Colorado Senate committee is in the process of discussing and debating a bill to roll back renewable power mandates enacted just last year. -
‘Free’ Phones Have Hefty Price for Other Telephone Users
Opinion -Fraud and abuse continue in a government-run phone service for low-income Americans, and the cost of the Lifeline program continues to escalate in Minnesota, a Watchdog Minnesota Bureau review shows. -
Why Economic Growth Is Exponentially More Important Than Income Inequality
Opinion -In 1900, we had no airplanes, no computers, no cellphones, no internet. We had only rudimentary versions of cars, trucks, telephones, even cameras.But in the last century, 1900 to 2000, as Stephen Moore and Julian L. -
Seahorses in a Future Warmer World
Opinion -Adult seahorses appear to show great resilience to heat stress and are “not expected to go through any physiological impairment and behavioral change with the projected near-future warming,” but juveniles in their early life stages “display greater -
Private Charleston School May Manage Failing Public School
Opinion -Once construction of a new downtown Charleston, South Carolina elementary school is complete, the Brentwood Middle School now housing its students will be empty. Local leaders are considering using it as a model for a new experiment in school flexibility.
