Opinion
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The de-Americanization of the Internet
Opinion -America’s dominance of the Internet has peaked.America’s creation of the Internet, and the phenomenal innovation and benefits it has spawned, has changed the world. However, now that the Internet is maturing, the world is changing the Internet. -
The Fracking Fight Goes Way Left
Opinion -The fight against hydraulic fracturing has recently ratcheted up. -
Obama Changes The Subject Away From Obamacare, Whiffs On Income Inequality
Opinion -Earlier this month, President Obama tried to change the subject from Obamacare by pitching some rhetoric on “equality” to rally his Far Left base. -
Lessons From the Great German Inflation
Opinion -Inflation is a dangerous and devastating monetary policy to be followed by any government. -
Does a Mental Condition Impact Your Ability to Shop? The Government Mandates You Answer
Opinion -The ABC affiliate here in Chicago the other day aired a story on the constant efforts by the federal government to learn about … well, everything about you.Investigative reporter Chuck Goudie notes that what the U.S. -
Does a Mental Condition Impact Your Ability to Shop? The Government Mandates You Answer
Opinion -The ABC affiliate here in Chicago the other day aired a story on the constant efforts by the federal government to learn about … well, everything about you.Investigative reporter Chuck Goudie notes that what the U.S. -
Study: Anti-Bullying Programs May Increase Bullying
Opinion -A new study from the University of Texas-Arlington finds children who attend schools with bullying prevention programs are more likely to be bullied than those who do not. -
Federal Ed Tax Credit Stalls, PA Charters, and More: Friday’s Ed Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsFEDERAL: Marco Rubio’s tax-credit scholarship proposal has so far gone nowhere. PENNSYLVANIA: Why lawmakers should pass a bill to allow more charters, evaluated mainly by test scores. -
Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style
Opinion -The Tea Party/Republican House majority was elected in 2010 to stop the runaway Obama Progressive Democrat big government spending spree. And it has had a decisive effect in that regard, as recorded in the annual CBO budget report released last week. -
Skeptics Making Voices Heard at UN Meetings in Warsaw
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #110Skeptics of the United Nations’ asserted global warming crisis are making their voices heard this week in Warsaw, Poland, where the U.N. is holding global warming talks. -
Bill Threatens Private Schools’ Religious Liberties
Opinion -The U.S. Senate has passed and the House will consider a bill that may force private and religious schools to hire people whose sexual conduct violates the organizations’ beliefs. -
Dropped Coverage Subjects More Americans to Obamacare’s Medical Bills Tax
Opinion -As millions of families are facing cancellation of their health insurance plans due to Obamacare, many will be subject to higher-than-anticipated out-of-pocket medical costs. -
Global Warming Activism And Christianity: Beware Of Modern Inquisitors Toting Bibles
Opinion -In the latest iteration of the mainstream media fawning over left wing activists disguised as conservative or mainstream Christian leaders, Tuesday’s Washington Post published a bizarre Op-ed by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, identifying herself as the -
Green Execution: Solar Power Project Killing Migratory Birds
Opinion -Next generation solar projects in California’s Mojave Desert are creating next generation environmental destruction, scientists report, with solar panels luring migratory birds and then killing them with scorching heat. -
Heartland Daily Podcast: Dick Durbin and the Marketplace Fairness Act
Opinion -Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) has been trying for years to impose taxes on what you purchase on the Internet. But the so-called "Marketplace Fairness Act" is neither fair or helpful to the market. -
Heartland Experts React to Obama’s Press Conference on the Obamacare Fix
Opinion -President Barack Obama today announced a “fix” for his beleaguered health care law, allowing state health commissioners to allow the sale of insurance plans that don’t adhere to the mandates in the Affordable Care Act. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to President Obama’s Announcement about the Affordable Care Act
Opinion -President Barack Obama today announced a “fix” for his beleaguered health care law, allowing state health commissioners to allow the sale of insurance plans that don’t adhere to the mandates in the Affordable Care Act. -
Life-Long Exposure of Scleractinian Corals to Elevated CO2
Opinion -The six species of coral studied, plus the various Symbiodinium types associated with them, were all able to not only survive, but to function well throughout the full range of CO2-induced pH values to which they had been exposed throughout their entire -
The Adverse Effects of Monetary Stimulation
Opinion -A number of people have asked me to expand on how the rapid expansion of money supply leads to an effect the opposite of that intended: a fall in economic activity. -
A Message for Susan: Dynamic Markets Make Predictions Hazardous
Opinion -I was thinking of Susan and her book again this weekend. Yep, that would be Professor Susan Crawford of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law and her book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. -
Advocates Discuss How to Stop Charters from Cannibalizing Private Schools
Opinion -Charter and private school advocates met recently to discuss research and anecdotal evidence on whether charter schools reduce school choice by siphoning off private school students. -
Companies Can’t Lose, but Can Illinois Taxpayers Win With Incentives?
Opinion -Illinois lawmakers are determined to lower the state’s 9.2 percent unemployment rate, even it that means paying big companies to do business there. -
Is It Morally Evil to Question Climate Alarmism?
Opinion -Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, citing her 10 years in which she was president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, wrote a bizarre article in Tuesday’s Washington Post claiming Typhoon Haiyan was “evil” and the typhoon was caused by the “moral evil” of -
Moody’s Warns of Bankruptcy in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Opinion -Scranton, Pennsylvania could be headed toward another fiscal crisis like the one that resulted in city workers having their pay cut to minimum wage in 2012, according to a major credit ratings agency.
