Opinion
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Yolanda Won’t Hit The Top Ten Natural Disasters List
Opinion -With the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 19th Conference of the Parties meeting taking place in Warsaw November 11-22, there will be much consternation about cyclone Yolanda that hit the Philippine Islands November 8. -
24 Hours of Reality Forgot About People: Climate Change Efforts Should Focus on Adaptation
Opinion -Every year since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into force in 1994, the UN has held massive international conferences of representatives from countries that are Parties to the Convention. -
Put the Permanently Furloughed Private-sector Employees Back To Work
Opinion -Following a rough week for Obamacare, the President, understandably, wants to pivot to anything other than the devastating coverage of HealthCare.gov.On Friday, November 8, Obama arrived in New Orleans to talk about improving the U.S. economy. -
Mankind’s Impact on Climate Is Negligible
Opinion -Former vice president and current global-warming alarm entrepreneur Al Gore has found a new group to scare: investors. -
Taxpayers Thwart Worst, but Many Bad Ballot Measures Pass
Opinion -Despite what may have appeared to be a sleepy off-year election, a host of ballot measures compiled by National Taxpayers Union with national implications appeared on November 5 state and local ballots across the country, and the results might surprise -
Twitter, the JOBS Act, and Return to IPO Normalcy
Opinion -The headline read that the company's initial public offering price is "high," and "so is its valuation." The accompanying story explained that the latest tech sensation had yet to show a profit, and had in fact been losing millions per year. -
Obamacare Mandates Mean Cuts or Higher Costs for Minnesota Schools
Opinion -Thirty is the magic number in the Affordable Care Act for hard-pressed Minnesota school districts scrambling to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties and new health coverage costs. -
Minnesota Moves to License Interior Designers
Opinion -There’s no accounting for taste in Minnesota -- unless, of course, the government says so. Minnesota, like Florida, Louisiana and Nevada, wants to license interior designers. -
Heartland Institute Experts Testify at EPA ‘Listening Session’ in Chicago, Argue Against Adoption of Obama’s ‘Climate Action Plan’
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency today is hosting a “Public Listening Session” at the Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago, allowing the public to weigh in on the Obama administration’s “Climate Action Plan. -
inBloom to Depart CO, National Test Results, and More: Friday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsCOLORADO: An inBloom-promoting superintendent resigns as her board votes to jettison the student data collection system. -
Prominent Warmists Urge Allies to Support Nuclear Power
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #109Four scientists at the forefront of global warming activism published an open letter this week encouraging their fellow warmists to embrace safe nuclear power as a means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. -
Study: Fracking Cuts Energy Costs, Raises Living Standards
Opinion -The recovery of natural gas through smart drilling and hydraulic fracturing is cutting energy costs and raising living standards throughout the United States, a newly published study has found. Economists at IHS Inc. -
Wood-burning Power Plants: Misguided Climate Change Solution?
Opinion -Is wood the best fuel to generate electricity? Despite wood’s low energy density and high cost, utilities in the US and abroad are switching from coal to wood to produce electrical power. -
Playing Musical Chairs With World Economies
Opinion -The world’s largest economies seem engaged in something like the children’s game of “musical chairs. -
“Supplemental” Poverty Measure Shows Uneven Redistribution of Poverty by Government
Opinion -The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted in the media as indicating the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country. -
How The Republican Donor Class Gave Us Terry McAuliffe
Opinion -The story playing out in the wake of Ken Cuccinelli’s narrow loss is of a piece with the divisions that have dogged the right in races large and small in recent years. -
Seven States Sue EPA to Restrict Wood-Burning Stoves
Opinion -Seven states have filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency, seeking tougher restrictions on wood-burning heaters. Six of the states are in the Northeast, and the other is Oregon. -
Missourians Gather Signatures for School Choice Initiative
Opinion -Missourians are gathering signatures to put a school-choice proposal on the November 2014 ballot. -
Global Warming’s Mt. Rushmore Wisely Embraces Nuclear Power
Opinion -Four scientists at the forefront of global warming activism published an open letter this week encouraging their fellow warmists to embrace safe nuclear power as a means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. -
The Coming Obamacare Bailout
Opinion -Think back to the fall of 2008. Congress was asked to pass a $700 billion taxpayer bailout for Wall Street. We were told it had to be passed, or else the economy would collapse, perhaps into another Great Depression.House conservatives voted it down. -
Obama’s Executive Order on Climate
Opinion -By Alan CarubaOn the surface, it might seem to make sense for the President to want to “do something” about climate events such as hurricanes, but there have always been hurricanes and blaming them and everything from droughts to wildfires on “climate -
Heartland Daily Podcast: Health Policy Post Obamacare
Opinion -On Heartland’s Daily podcast, Senior Health and Policy Analyst Ben Domenech was interviewed to speak about the effects on health policy post Obamacare. -
Washington Voters Reject Mandatory Labels for Genetically Modified Foods
Opinion -Voters in Washington state soundly rejected a ballot initiative that would require labels on all foods containing genetically modified ingredients. -
Colorado Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Schools Tax Increase
Opinion -Colorado voters on Election Day crushed Amendment 66, a ballot initiative that sought to raise the state’s income tax $1 billion a year to pour more money into K-12. The measure lost by a 66.2 to 33.8 percent margin.
