Opinion
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Extreme Cold Outbreaks Defy Global Warming Predictions (01-30-14)
Opinion -This winter’s multiple extreme cold outbreaks are a stark reminder that global warming activists have routinely and brazenly exaggerated the effects of global warming. -
Mom at Center of Union Case Misses Supreme Court Hearing to Care for Disabled Son
Opinion -Pam Harris is an unlikely activist. She is just a Lake County, Ill., mom looking after her disabled adult son. Rather than place her son, Josh, in an institution, she entered a program where she receives state assistance to care for him at home. -
Oklahoma May Become Second State to Offer Education Savings Accounts
Opinion -Oklahoma lawmakers have proposed legislation which would create education savings accounts for students in low-income families, with special needs, or in military families. -
Extreme Cold Outbreaks Defy Global Warming Predictions
Opinion -This winter’s multiple extreme cold outbreaks are a stark reminder that global warming activists have routinely and brazenly exaggerated the effects of global warming. -
Obama’s SOTU Ranged Far and Wide, but Did It Get Him Anywhere?
Opinion -“A tiresome exercise in political exhibitionism” is how nationally syndicated columnist George Will recently described the State of the Union speech – all State of the Union speeches of modern times, not just the one President Barack Obama delivered this -
Senators Propose Redirecting Federal Money to Choice
Opinion -Tens of millions of children could attend schools of choice if $35 billion of their federal K-12 dollars follow them there, as two U.S. Senators proposed on January 28. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to President Obama’s State of the Union Address
Opinion -The following statements reacting to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night from staff, fellows, and policy advisors at The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution. -
The Case Against Early Voting
Opinion -To the delight of anyone who’s ever waited in line to cast a vote, a bipartisan election commission convened by President Obama concluded last week that states across the country should increase their use of early voting. -
IN Panel Votes to Repeal Common Core, NY Data Monster, and More: Thursday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Thursday's ed newsINDIANA: A Senate panel passes a bill to replace Common Core.NEW YORK: The state department of education is almost done creating a data system that will follow children "throughout their lives. -
Long-Term Effects of Elevated CO2 on Plant-Herbivore Interactions
Opinion -In the eternal war between earth’s plants and the herbivorous insects that feed upon them, the ongoing increase in the atmosphere’s CO2 concentration is proving to be a powerful secret weapon, which is helping the planet’s vegetation to sustain the -
Poll: What Americans Want in Education Policy
Opinion -U.S. adults say the most effective education reforms are smaller class sizes, increasing technology, and accountability, a new survey has found. -
North Carolina Renewable Power Mandate Pushing Electricity Prices Up
Opinion -North Carolina consumers are paying a steep price for the state’s renewable power mandates, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. -
Gore: Reduce African Women’s Fertility to Limit Global Warming
Opinion -Global warming activist Al Gore told the World Economic Forum “making fertility management ubiquitously available” is key to the future of civilization and efforts to limit global warming. -
Tennessee Legislature Mulls Making People Pay More to Puff
Opinion -Tennessee State Rep. Gary Odom (D-Nashville) wants smokers to pay an additional 44-cent tax on each pack of cigarettes to help fund Medicaid expansion. -
Economist: Americans Doing Better Than Many Analysts Say
Opinion -Much political talk these days bemoans a decline in the standard of living for middle-class Americans. Politicians and activists cite data from the U.S. -
No 1930s Regulations for the Internet – Let’s Modernize Instead
Opinion -The D.C. Circuit Court recently threw out the Barack Obama Administration’s huge 2010 Internet power grab - the all-encompassing uber-regulation known as Network Neutrality.The Left has since been giving birth to herds of live bovines. -
Heartland Institute Reaction to Obama’s State of the Union Address
Opinion -Below you can read the reaction of staff, fellows, and policy advisors at The Heartland Institute to President Obama's State of the Union Address. The comments may be used for attribution. -
Foundations Spend Millions Promoting Common Core
Opinion -This article is the second of three in a series on Common Core public outreach. A coalition of private foundations has spent approximately $2.5 million to promote Common Core, primarily by teaching teachers public messaging techniques. -
The Latest on the Republican Alternative to Obamacare
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #404 The latest post-Obamacare reform proposal, put forward yesterday by Senators Tom Coburn, Richard Burr, and Orrin Hatch, is likely to become the Obamacare alternative from the perspective of Republican Senate candidates and -
Ohio Renewable Mandates Driving Up Electricity Prices
Opinion -Renewable power mandates are driving up Ohio’s electricity prices, U.S. Energy Information Administration data show. Electricity prices in Ohio have risen more than twice as fast as the national average since Ohio enacted the mandates in 2008. -
NY Times Wrong About Rand Paul, Libertarianism Being on the ‘Fringe’
Opinion -A lengthy January 25 The New York Times piece titled "Rand Paul’s Mixed Inheritance" stated this: “As Rand Paul test-markets a presidential candidacy and tries to broaden his appeal, he is also trying to take libertarianism, an ideology long on the -
Feds Spend Millions to Promote Common Core
Opinion -This article is the first of a three-part series on Common Core public outreach. -
The Endangered Animal Act of Futility
Opinion -David W. Snook, 57, of Bridgewater, New Jersey died on January 15, when two deer leaped into the path of his Dodge Ram on Route 206. One of them was airborne when it smashed through the front windshield, striking him before exiting out the rear window. -
If You Like Your Light Bulb, You Can’t Keep Your Light Bulb
Opinion -Americans will be feeling a new and unexpected pain of government overregulation before they vote in November.
