Opinion
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How to End the Tiresome Christmas Debate in Schools
Opinion -Every Christmas, schools make headlines by labeling their calendars for “holiday break,” “winter solstice,” and the like instead of “Christmas break. -
Arctic Clouds and Sea Ice in CMIP5 Climate Models
Opinion -How well are they represented? Based on the research findings of this study, not very well. -
Banning Plastic Bags Harms the Environment, Raises Costs
Opinion -Government bans on plastic grocery bags harm the environment and do not reduce consumer costs, the National Center for Policy Analysis reports in a new study.“Bag bans are bad for the environment. -
Can Illinois Schools Crack Their Property Tax Addiction?
Opinion -AURORA, Ill. — Illinois taxpayers, through local property taxes, pay $12 billion of the $20 billion it costs to educate kids in the state each year. State government chips in about $6 billion, and the federal government kicks in another $2 billion. -
Finally, Someone Said it: Stop Extending Unemployment Benefits
Opinion -This week, on Fox News Sunday, Senator (and likely presidential hopeful) Rand Paul (R-KY) came out against further extension of unemployment benefits, saying that ongoing extensions do a "disservice" to workers. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Budget Deal in Congress
Opinion -Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray Tuesday evening announced a budget deal they say restores “regular order” to the federal budget and spending process. Overall spending in fiscal year 2014 would be $1. -
The Right Response To Obama’s Inequality Concern Trolling
Opinion -Politically, the president’s inequality concern trolling push is just the latest MacGuffin: the distraction of an issue that does not poll as a high priority, but is designed as a sop to the media and his now-shrinking base of support. -
Obama Administration OKs Bird Killing— As Long As Its by Windmill
Opinion -Friday’s announcement by the Obama administration that it will allow wind energy companies to kill certain bird species for 30 years without legal ramifications shows that its $1 million paltry fine of Duke Energy for avian slayings a week earlier was -
Legal Nonprofit to Fight Federal Grab at Louisiana Vouchers
Opinion -The Goldwater Institute has appealed a court ruling that would let the federal government regulate a Louisiana scholarship program that allows low-income students to attend private schools if their local public schools are failing. -
If You Like Your Drugs, Can You Keep Them?
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #400One of the major sources of concern for those within Obamacare’s new exchange plans is a simple, problematic question: If you like your prescription drugs, can you keep them? -
Dispute Rising Over Credit Union Tax Exemption
Opinion -Keith Leggett doesn’t dispute credit unions should be allowed tax-exempt status to serve people of modest means. -
No, ObamaCare Is Not a Conservative Idea
Opinion -Even as ObamaCare is trying to self destruct, its advocates suggest a détente in which “Republicans recognize the conservative nature of the law,” in the words of Austin Frakt in Bloomberg News. -
Kansas Town Turns Aggressive Toward Landlords, Threatens 4th Amendment
Opinion -After ruling in 2013 that city residents aren’t capable of safely managing furniture on their own front porch, one Kansas community is considering taking its control of residents’ lives to the next level: mandated governmental inspections. -
FCC’s Special Access Delay of its IP Transition
Opinion -FCC staff just muffed an easy opportunity to advance the IP transition on the FCC’s timetable in the National Broadband Plan.Apparently FCC staff missed the big picture here.1. On November 25th, AT&T proposed a baby step forward in the IP Transition. -
Antarctic Ice Extent Resembling Hockey Stick
Opinion -Antarctic polar ice extent charts are increasingly looking like global warming alarmist Michael Mann’s discredited hockey stick temperature graph. -
Tallahassee Taxpayers Get Little Back from Red-Light Cameras
Opinion -Red-light cameras are supposed to make dangerous intersections safer. But at what cost? Recent data from the City of Tallahassee, Fla. -
Are Google Glass’ Recordings Illegal Wiretapping Too? — Part 19 Google Spying Series
Opinion -Google Glass’ easy eavesdropping on people may be illegal wiretapping. -
Climate Bullies, the Surrealists of Science
Opinion -Popular perceptions about climate appear surrealistic to me. I'm a seasoned science geek who has been involved in big-time climate modeling, serious mathematics, theory, and more. -
FCC’s Special Access Delay of its IP Transition
Opinion -FCC staff just muffed an easy opportunity to advance the IP transition on the FCC’s timetable in the National Broadband Plan.Apparently FCC staff missed the big picture here.1. On November 25th, AT&T proposed a baby step forward in the IP Transition. -
Harry Reid’s Green Energy Goldmine
Opinion -We are weeks away from being fully immersed in the 2014 election cycle. Predictions abound, likening the 2014 cycle to 2010—when the House flipped from Democratic to Republican. Only this time, it is the Senate that has the potential to change. -
GAO Report: DC Voucher Program Poorly Run
Opinion -A federal report says Washington, DC’s voucher program is poorly managed. -
GAO Blasts TSA Behavior Program, Calls for End of Funding
Opinion -In one of the hardest-hitting Government Accountability Office reports I've ever read, Congress's auditing organization has, in effect, said the Transportation Security Administration's Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program -
Time to End America’s Century of Central Bank Mismanagement
Opinion -One hundred years ago this month, on December 23, 1913, the Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, establishing a national central-banking system in the United States. -
Why Basel III Will Fail and Isn’t Necessary Anyway
Opinion -I recently "attended" an online webinar about Basel III's proposed new liquidity requirements for banks.
