Opinion
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Republicans Hope to Slim Chunky Federal School Lunch Regulations
Opinion -In response to public outcry and several “brown bag-ins” in schools across the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture loosened new meat and grain restrictions on school lunches in December. -
Federal Wind Power Subsidies Expire, but Lobbyists Aren’t Giving Up
Opinion -Congress allowed longstanding taxpayer subsidies to wind power companies to expire at the end of 2013, putting into doubt the long-term future of the lucrative subsidies. -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on $1.1 Trillion Federal Spending Bill
Opinion -House and Senate negotiators late Monday released a $1. -
It’s the Consumer, Stupid! – Part II
Opinion -In thinking about the brouhaha over AT&T's proposed "sponsored data" plan for its wireless service, I was reminded of a blog I wrote shortly after the oral argument in Verizon's appeal of the FCC's net neutrality regulations. -
Why Are the Media’s ‘Consumer Interest Groups’ So Leftist and Anti-Consumer?
Opinion -The Media’s double standard when describing political advocacy organizations is as obvious as it is unsurprising. The Media rarely if ever identify Leftist entities as Leftist - instead assigning them non-ideological descriptives. -
Study Shows America’s No Longer Near Top of Economic Freedom
Opinion -The United States is continuing to lose its economic freedom. That is the conclusion of the just-released Heritage Foundation 2014 Index of Economic Freedom. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Net Neutrality Ruling by DC Circuit Court
Opinion -The D.C. Circuit Court today struck down the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) 2010 “net neutrality” rule requiring Internet service providers to treat all traffic across their networks the same – discriminating against none and favoring none. -
Va. Gov. McDonnell’s Roadmap for Successful Environmental Policy
Opinion -Conventional political wisdom says Republicans are not interested in the environment. After four years as governor, a look at Bob McDonnell’s environmental record might suggest otherwise. -
Obamacare Isn’t Getting the Young People It Needs to Succeed
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #402 The latest analysis of the signups for Obamacare reveal the risk pool is far older and sicker than supporters had hoped, with young people lagging dramatically in signups. -
Arizona to Consider Four Bills Expanding School Choice
Opinion -With at least four school-choice bills likely on the table this session, Arizona families could see more options in education in the next school year. Arizona’s education savings accounts (ESAs)—often praised by reformers as being “school choice 2. -
Many Lenders Were Ahead of New Mortgage Rules
Opinion -The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new qualified mortgage stipulations, including the “ability-to-repay” rule, went into effect January 10, legally putting into effect some of the requirements lenders had already put into place on their own. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Net Neutrality Ruling by DC Circuit Court
Opinion -The D.C. Circuit Court today 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. -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on NLRB Recess Appointment Case Before Supreme Court
Opinion -The Supreme Court today heard arguments in Noel Canning v. NLRB, a case challenging President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012. -
Is Net Neutrality Trying to Mutate into an Economic Entitlement?
Opinion -Net neutrality activist opposition to AT&T’s new Sponsored Data offering exposes that the purpose of “net neutrality/open Internet” is not just about protecting consumers and free speech, or preventing anti-competitive behavior. -
EPA Inspector General Report Supports Agency Dropping Fracking Case
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General has ruled EPA acted properly when it initially imposed, then later withdrew, restrictions on fracking operations near two Texas water wells. -
Annoying Greenies on the Defense
Opinion -After decades of controlling America’s energy narrative, on January 5, CBS’s 60 Minutes fired a shot that has put the green lobby on the defensive. -
Obama Signs Bipartisan Bill to Expedite Bakken Fracking
Opinion -President Barack Obama signed legislation expediting the permitting process for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands in the Bakken Shale basin in western North Dakota. The legislation sailed through the House and Senate with only one dissenting vote. -
School Choice Educates Kids—and Parents
Opinion -One of the greatest challenges for school choice proponents is simply educating parents that they have a choice. -
U.S. Wireless Economics Beat EU’s Wireless Uneconomics
Opinion -A new European study from Britain’s Office of Communications tries to argue that the EU’s wireless regulation approach is better than America’s. -
Chris Christie’s Finest Hour
Opinion -In his Thursday morning press conference regarding “Bridgegate,” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie demonstrated the sort of leadership and responsibility-taking that has allowed him to be a popular Republican governor in a very blue state and the -
Effects of Elevated pCO2 on a Tidal Pool Coralline Alga
Opinion -New observations portend “a greater resilience” of such organisms to the projected “highly variable pH/pCO2 environments of future ocean acidification”... -
The Very Green Keystone Pipeline Delay
Opinion -Stopping the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from carrying Canadian oil, a major trading partner and ally of the United States, is just part of a much larger environmental agenda aimed at preventing access to this energy source, but it is larger -
Antibiotic surprise
Opinion -Almost everyone these days uncritically accepts that the solution to antibiotic-resistant disease is to use fewer antibiotics. What about using more antibiotics? More varieties that is. -
Alarmists Dump IPCC, Now Claim Global Warming Causes Cold
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #114Faced with the embarrassment of historically cold temperatures gripping most of the nation this week, global warming alarmists claimed the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was wrong in predicting fewer
