Opinion
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Poland Sacks Environment Minister at UN Climate Summit
Opinion -Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk dismissed Environment Minister Marcin Korolec yesterday, adding insult to injury for environmental activists attending United Nations climate talks in Warsaw. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to New EPA Ethanol Rule
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a reduction of the ethanol mandate in America’s gasoline supply for 2014, dropping it from 18.15 billion gallons to about 15 billion gallons. -
Anheuser-Busch Plant Cuts Consumption, Still Sees Utility Costs Rise
Opinion -Moorhead, Minn. plans to charge its local Anheuser-Busch plant higher rates for power and water, adding tens of thousands of dollars to bills that already total about $1.75 million annually. -
Activists Hope to Take Winning Colorado Strategy Nationwide
Opinion -At the end of a hard-fought and expensive race, four conservative school board incumbents retained their majority in Douglas County, Colorado this November. Local and national political groups now hope to use their victory as a template nationwide. -
Washington Hands Boeing Billions; Union Hands Back Contract
Opinion -After a two-day special session, Washington State lawmakers in November approved approximately $8.7 billion of incentives for The Boeing Company to build the 777X jetliner in the state. -
The Latest Meteorologist Survey Destroys The Global Warming Climate ‘Consensus’
Opinion -Barely half of American Meteorological Society meteorologists believe global warming is occurring and humans are the primary cause, a newly released study reveals. -
We Must Repeal Obamacare To Make Society Much More Humane
Opinion -In a Wall Street Journal commentary on November 11, Alan Blinder purports to tell us why, despite a “botched roll out,” Obamacare is still worth it. “America cannot be a humane society if we leave 15% of our population uninsured,” he explains. -
Giving Thanks for the Right to Retail
Opinion -Retail stores are opening even earlier than usual for their annual Black Friday sales this year, in an intensifying competition for scarce consumer dollars. -
China – World’s Biggest Emitter – Demands Climate Reparations
Opinion -China led a bloc of 132 countries walking out of talks at the United Nations climate summit in Warsaw, Poland, today after the United States and other nations said they will not agree to discuss climate reparations until 2015, conveniently just after the -
A Tax Hike Al Capone Could Have Loved
Opinion -Councilmen in the City of Chicago recently passed a 50-cents-per-pack increase in the city's cigarette tax, and with it a likely increase in smuggling and related crimes.Chicago now charges a tax of $1.18 per pack. -
Arkansans Press for More School Choice
Opinion -School choice proponents hope a new Arkansas charter school will preface even more options for families once lawmakers reconvene in 2015. -
Chicago Again Hit With Triple Debt Downgrade
Opinion -First Moody’s Investors Service served Chicago with a triple-notch credit rating downgrade, and now Fitch Ratings Inc. has done the same. Fitch made the announcement in November and added its rating outlook on the city's debt is "negative. -
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Continue Dramatic Decline in 2013
Opinion -U.S. carbon dioxide emissions declined by 3.7 percent in 2013, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia (UK) reports. The decline in U.S. emissions continues a dramatic drop in U.S. -
Japan Repudiates Greenhouse Gas Cuts
Opinion -Japanese officials have announced the nation is going back on a pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Japan had previously pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 25 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2020. -
Obamacare Is the Dividing Line of Obama’s Presidency
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #397Should President Barack Obama fail in his effort to fix the problems with his signature domestic policy, Thursday’s press conference should serve as a dividing line: there is the presidency before it, and there is the after. -
Thousands of Chicago Students Still Stuck in Failing Schools
Opinion -In Chicago’s bottom tenth of schools, 75 percent of elementary students do not meet state benchmarks for reading and math, and 95 percent of high school students can hardly do basic algebra or summarize reading assignments, a study finds. -
Countless Government Operator Errors – And Obama Wants to Give Us More
Opinion -We are currently hobbled by a whole host of federal government debacles. An endless litany of Government Operator Errors (GOEs).Many are chronic. -
Washington versus Washington
Opinion -An amazing thing happened on Sunday in Washington.No, not Washington, D.C., or even Washington State (although the Seattle Seahawks did extend their NFL-best record to 10-1 with a 41-20 pasting of the Minnesota Vikings), but Washington, Illinois. -
The (Obamacare) Fix Is In
Opinion -President Obama’s Thursday press conference about a proposed “administrative fix” to the disaster that is Obamacare had the feeling of the last air leaking out of the “hope and change” party balloon. -
Nebraska’s Tax Dollars at Work: Promoting a New Outlet Mall
Opinion -A new outlet mall officially opened in Gretna, Nebraska before Christmas, and shoppers were enticed to buy Coach purses and Nike shoes with the help of $16.7 million of public subsidies for marketing and communication alone. -
The Fannie/Freddie Rescue: An Unconstitutional Bonanza
Opinion -In a previous column, Grand Theft Treasury, I highlighted the recent lawsuits (now numbering 17) brought against the United States in connection with its controversial conservatorship of two government-sponsored enterprises, The Federal National Mortgage -
Schizophrenia about High Deductibles
Opinion -You may remember that when Health Savings Accounts were introduced there was almost universal outrage among liberals about the horrendous burden cost-sharing places on all but “the healthy and wealthy. -
Laws Versus Regulations
Opinion -Many moons ago I directed a conference on government regulation, out of which the book edited by me and the late M. Bruce Johnson, Rights and Regulation (Ballinger, 1983) was created. -
Science and Journalism Take a Vacation
Opinion -A recent Times of London article claimed new “research” demonstrates that a “chemical onslaught is destroying Britain’s amphibians.” A “toxic cocktail,” it stated, is killing UK frogs, toads and newts.
