Opinion
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Global Warming Alarmists Seek to Restrict Air Conditioning
Opinion -Goodbye, incandescent light bulbs that provide bright white light rather than the nauseating yellow of compact fluorescents. Goodbye, affordable coal-powered electricity under EPA’s current and upcoming carbon dioxide restrictions. -
America’s Detroit Future: Obama’s politics and policies promise nothing less.
Opinion -In the 1950s, Detroit was the fourth largest city in America, with a population of nearly 2 million. It was also a middle class paradise, with the highest median family income of all major cities in the entire country. -
Detroit Bankruptcy: Missing The Point
Opinion -Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman tells us that “sprawl killed Detroit” in his The New York Times column. -
The Coming Delay and Defund Battle
Opinion -The House votes to delay the employer and individual mandates, teeing up a battle in the fall over the CR which could be explosive. -
Boxer’s Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change
Opinion -Expert witnesses called by Sen. Barbara Boxer to testify during Senate Environment and Public Works hearings Thursday contradicted a key assertion made by President Barack Obama on climate change. -
Nothing to Snicker About
Opinion -“De minimis non curat lex” – the law does not concern itself with trifles – except, of course, when it does. -
Economist Laffer Backs Internet Tax; Opponents Fear Precedent
Opinion -Economist Arthur Laffer has released a study claiming a measure requiring online and catalog retailers to collect and remit sales taxes regardless of where their customers are located is a pro-growth, pro-jobs economic policy. -
Washington City Moves Toward Nation’s Highest Minimum Wage, Other Perks
Opinion -The city of SeaTac, Wash., might boast the nation’s highest minimum wage if voters pass an initiative this November. -
Common Core Testing Costs Increase; Georgia Withdraws
Opinion -It will take only three more states to withdraw from PARCC national Common Core tests to jeopardize the group’s $186 million federal grant. -
From Repeal and Replace to Delay and Defund
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #382The House voted last week to delay the employer and individual mandates, teeing up a battle in the fall over the continuing resolution, which could be explosive. -
Global Economy Demands Education Diversity
Opinion -My brother has a job that did not exist until the year before he graduated college. He’s a social media manager for a large company in New York. Essentially, he visits Facebook and Twitter all day. -
America’s Detroit Future: Obama’s politics and policies promise nothing less.
Opinion -In the 1950s, Detroit was the fourth largest city in America, with a population of nearly 2 million. It was also a middle class paradise, with the highest median family income of all major cities in the entire country. -
Study: Consumers Unwilling to Pay More for Renewable Energy
Opinion -Relatively few consumers are willing to pay extra for renewable energy offered under voluntary ‘green’ pricing programs, according to a newly published report from the Institute for Energy Research. -
Global Warming May Have Prevented Several Weather Disasters
Opinion -Global warming may have prevented several deadly weather disasters from striking the United States during the past year, according to an analysis by climate scientist Chip Knappenberger. -
Organic crops are tested for pathogens, right? Nope
Opinion -The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits synthetic nitrogen fertilizer in organic production and encourages natural compost. But it does not test for un-composted feces, relying instead on record-keeping and record-checking. -
Samuel Insull: Getting The Story Straight
Opinion -Samuel Insull died at the age of 78 in the Paris subway on July 16, 1938. He was a remarkable man. He started his career as the stenographer for Thomas Edison and later in 1892 became head of Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. -
Thanks To Obamacare, Doctor Shortages Set To Quintuple
Opinion -Obamacare is set to provide some 16 million people with health insurance through Medicaid or the new exchanges next year. Unfortunately, their policies may not be worth much, because they may not be able to actually get care. -
EPA Strikes Out in Anti-Fracking Campaign
Opinion -The EPA has worked mightily to demonstrate that oil and natural gas production from hydraulic fracturing causes water contamination, yet it has struck out again. -
Boxer’s Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #98Expert witnesses called by Sen. Barbara Boxer to testify during Senate Environment and Public Works hearings Thursday contradicted a key assertion made by President Barack Obama on climate change. -
Cigarette Smuggling Sends Washington Tax Revenue Up In Smoke
Opinion -The State of Washington has a smuggling problem, exacerbated by a large tax gap with its neighbors. The state’s tax on cigarettes is $3.02 a pack, compared to $1.18 in Oregon and 57 cents in Idaho. -
Satellite Data Show Global Greening from Carbon Dioxide Increase
Opinion -Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are bolstering plant life in arid regions throughout the world, environmental scientists report in a newly published peer-reviewed study analyzing satellite data. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Detroit Filing for Bankruptcy
Opinion -The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon. Gov. Rick Snyder (R) filed the 16-page Chapter 9 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit. -
Schools Ditch Federal Lunch Subsidies Due to High Costs
Opinion -Approximately 200 school districts across the country have opted out of the federal lunch program, leaving them free from regulations Michelle Obama pushed in 2010, but without federal subsidies for school lunches. -
Nordex USA Closes Wind Turbine Plant Despite Millions in Subsidies
Opinion -Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex USA announced it will close its Arkansas production facility after accepting millions of dollars in subsidies and promising to create 750 jobs.