Opinion
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With Its Soda Tax, Mexico Repeats The Mistakes Of Mayor Bloomberg:If Obesity Could be Outlawed, it Wouldn’t be a Problem
Opinion -By the middle of October, if everything stays on schedule, Mexico's legislators may well prove that they haven't learned a thing from policies that have been tried and failed, from Denmark to New York City. -
Get Rid of Ethanol Exchanges Too
Opinion -Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans have an unfavorable view of Obamacare. -
Who is Heather Zichal?
Opinion -The news on Monday, October 7th, included a notice that Heather Zichal would be leaving her White House job as Obama’s “top adviser on environmental and climate issues.” And I asked myself who is Heather Zichal? In fact, Ms. -
Heartland Institute Experts Respond to Supreme Court Acceptance of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Case
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to scrutinize a narrow aspect of the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources of pollution, including power plants and factories. -
Five Steps for a Larger Economic Pie
Opinion -The ongoing battles in Washington over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling are merely symptoms of a raging disease wracking the body politic: terminal government obesity. -
Why Would These Scientists Lie?
Opinion -The Heartland Institute Replies to Trenberth and OppenheimerOn September 18, two scientists sent emails to Media Matters for America denouncing a new report from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC). -
Feds Consider West Virginia Wind Farm Permit to Kill Endangered Bats
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering an industrial wind farm’s application to kill more than 60 endangered bats during the next 25 years. -
States Are Working to Avert Feds’ Transportation Funding Crisis
Opinion -A recent hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee on "The Need to Invest in America's Infrastructure and Preserve Federal Transportation Funding" made it painfully clear that neither the assembled witnesses nor any of the -
Nobel Prize in Economics for asset-pricers
Opinion -This year's prize goes to three economists who made contributions to the pricing of speculative assets such as stocks. -
How Much Longer Will the Dollar Be the World’s Reserve Currency?
Opinion -Editor’s note: China’s official press agency in October called for ending the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. -
Some Federal Contractors Balking at New Employment Rules
Opinion -When it comes to hiring the right person for the job, Tom Roeser prefers to do it his way over that of the government telling him how to do it. -
Gina McCarthy Gets Firsthand Look at Pebble Mine
Opinion -If EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy kept her eyes open during her late-August tour of the Pebble Group’s proposed mining site in southwestern Alaska, she saw a group committed to the most impressive environmental stewardship possible. -
Vermont Public School Goes Independent, Angers Bureaucrats [short]
Opinion -When North Bennington Graded School closed its doors and the Village School opened in the same building, it looked like a win-win. -
Environmental Activist Naomi Klein Slams Joe Romm for Ignorance, Hatchet Tactics
Opinion -Environmental activist Naomi Klein published an open letter eviscerating Center for American Progress front man Joe Romm for making ignorant statements and irresponsibly making hatchet-job attacks on people with other points of view. -
Philadelphia Created Its Own Fiscal Crisis
Opinion -Philadelphia School District finances are a nightmare, and there’s no shortage of horror stories about the layoffs. What isn’t included in those stories is how the hiring practices of recent years exacerbated today’s cuts. -
We Need Zero Tolerance for ‘Zero Tolerance’
Opinion -When I was a youngster a prize possession of every boy was a set of toy cowboy six-shooters and, if you were especially blessed, a belt and holsters as well. -
Scientists Release ‘Climate Change Reconsidered’
Opinion -The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) released a major new report on climate change science produced by an international team of 40 scientists at a press conference on Sept. 17, 2013, at the James R. -
The Science Fiction of IPCC Climate Models
Opinion -The human race has prospered by relying on forecasts that the seasons will follow their usual course, while knowing they will sometimes be better or worse. Are things different now? -
AFL-CIO Turns Against Obamacare
Opinion -The nation’s largest union federation has turned against President Obama’s health care law, calling for it to be reformed or repealed. -
Top Public Schools Demand More than Common Core
Opinion -The best U.S. public schools—including those with high numbers of poor and minority kids—require more of students than state standards and Common Core, and school leaders attribute their success partly to these high expectations. -
‘Lukewarmist’ Judith Curry Calls for End of IPCC
Opinion -Climate scientist Judith Curry, who has gained a reputation as a “lukewarmer” for agreeing with many climate assertions by global warming activists but calling for more scientific scrutiny of alarmist claims, has called for an end to the United Nations -
Wyoming Stays Best, New York Stays Worst in Tax Climate Ranking
Opinion -The best: Wyoming. The worst: New York So says the Tax Foundation in its annual State Business Tax Climate Index, which enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare. -
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall As Global Emissions Rise
Opinion -U.S. carbon dioxide emissions fell 8 percent between 2007 and 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports. The decline in U.S. emissions stands in stark contrast to a 9 percent increase in global emissions during the same time period.The U. -
The New Vicious Cycle of Student Loan Debt
Opinion -Generally, the idea of going to college is not to just get a job but to begin a career.
