Opinion
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European Union Restricts Transportation Biofuels
Opinion -By a vote of 356 to 327, members of the European Union Parliament approved a bill that would limit the use of biofuels in the EU’s transportation sector. -
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Opinion -One of my favorite off-Broadway shows is "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change." The show closed in 2008 after running for 12 years and 5003 performances. -
Increasing Clouds and Thunderstorms for Climate Alarmists
Opinion -What an Autumn it’s been. Rejecting claims of looming cataclysm, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) issued Climate Change Reconsidered-II on September 17. -
Iowa Looks to Expand Education Choice
Opinion -As Iowans look forward to the 2014 legislative session, lawmakers are set to address some big education measures. Iowa school choice advocates aim to expand the state’s tax-credit scholarships and develop Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). -
Sinking Islands: Fact or Fiction?
Opinion -The authors of this new study conclude that “despite the widely held perception that reef islands around the perimeter of coral atolls are eroding and will disappear as a consequence of sea-level rise resulting from global warming, the total area of reef -
Why the FCC Needs to Get With the Times, Finally
Opinion -We are in the midst of a transition away from copper wire-based communications services to broadband Internet-based services - a transition that then-FCC commissioner Michael Powell called the "Great Digital Broadband Migration" way back in the year 2000. -
Why the FCC Needs to Get With the Times, Finally
Opinion -We are in the midst of a transition away from copper wire-based communications services to broadband Internet-based services - a transition that then-FCC commissioner Michael Powell called the "Great Digital Broadband Migration" way back in the year 2000. -
Dial-up Rules for the Broadband Age?
Opinion -Eventually the truth comes out.The call for net neutrality is really a call for a return to monopoly common carrier regulation for broadband networks. -
Real vs. Contrived “Modern” FCC Policy Thinking – Part 20 Obsolete Communications Law Series
Opinion -Just like the wisdom that one cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear; one cannot make “modern” FCC policy from obsolete communications law. -
City Hall Legislating in the Shadows
Opinion -Is Mayor Bloomberg so devoted to his public-health drive that he’s willing to break the law?“Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made,” the German statesman Otto von Bismarck famously noted. -
New California Law Revises Electricity Rates, Cements Renewable Mandates
Opinion -California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation making sweeping changes to California’s electricity rate structure and cementing stringent renewable power mandates. -
$20,000 Flood Premiums? If True, They’re Signaling Big Risks
Opinion -Recent news reports on the roll-out of reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program have focused on astronomical increases in rates faced by some home and business owners. -
Mark Rhoads’ Collection a Must Read For Illinois History Buffs
Opinion -On October 30th, former State Senator Mark Q. Rhoads, the author of Land of Lincoln, Thy Wondrous Story, was featured at Heartland Institute’s ongoing author event series.Rhoads was born in Hinsdale, Illinois and raised in Western Springs. -
Young Workers, Small Balances, and ‘Extreme’ IRA Allocations
Opinion -Young workers with small balances and owners of Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are more likely than other IRA owners to make "extreme" allocations to stocks or money, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research -
Poll: Rhode Islanders Support School Choice
Opinion -Rhode Islanders want school choice and support vouchers for all students, according to a new poll. -
SCOTUS Revisits EPA Regulation of CO2
Opinion -On October 15, 2013, the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) granted 'Certiorari' to Petitioners who have been suing the EPA over regulations to control CO2. -
Screaming Murder
Opinion -Every day the headlines and the TV-radio news scream murder at us. My local daily out of Newark, NJ leads with a murder there and elsewhere in the state every day. Only the occasional mass murder gets national attention. -
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Opinion -One of my favorite off-Broadway shows is "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change." The show closed in 2008 after running for 12 years and 5003 performances. -
10 Lessons For Republicans From Virginia
Opinion -Today there will be a host of media analysts pre-writing their stories on the results of elections in Virginia and New Jersey to argue a couple of things: first, that just as Mitt Romney told us last week, Chris Christie may be the only guy who can save -
Mining Policy Designed to Benefit Our Own—Mighty Rare
Opinion -What is essential to modern energy production and management including oil-and-gas development, wind and solar, and LED lights, and has rare bipartisan support in both houses of Congress?The answer is something “rare. -
School Lunch Expansion: Another Wasteful, Unaffordable Entitlement
Opinion -Soon, all public schools will be allowed to enroll all students, regardless of need, into a new federal entitlement: “free” school lunches. -
Report: Young Borrowers More Responsible Than Older Borrowers
Opinion -The common perception is that young adults are not financially responsible, mainly because they lack experience in dealing with money. -
Forty Years Ago, Scarcity Was Our Reality
Opinion -October 17 was the fortieth anniversary of the oil embargo slapped on America by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). -
The Biggest Failure of Obamacare: Increasing the Number of Uninsured
Opinion -Some people have been surprised by the failure of the Obamacare web site and more broadly of the federal exchanges generally.But those of us who have followed this legislation closely weren’t surprised at all.
