Opinion
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Higher Education’s Changing Landscape
Opinion -There is one thing the professoriate in highereducation, generally, resist–change. In this narrow consideration, even the most “liberal” of colleges are quite conservative. -
Curbing the IRS
Opinion -Suppose you give your 30-year-old daughter a list of groceries to buy for you and $25 to pay for them. Does your daughter have to report the $25 to the IRS as income?Of course not. -
Feds Give Wind Producers Free Pass to Kill Condors
Opinion -Federal wildlife officials announced they will allow wind producers in California’s Tehachapi Mountains to kill endangered California condors without fear of prosecution. The U.S. -
ObamaCare Costs Hit School Districts, Employees
Opinion -School districts across the country are digging through the details to see how the Affordable Care Act, known as ObamaCare, will impact their budgets starting January 1, 2014. -
Frankenfood? Mutant Wheat Not a Health Threat
Opinion -There’s a new twist in the story of genetically modified wheat discovered growing rogue by an Oregon farmer. Monsanto, the company which developed the pesticide resistant strain, has now suggested the stalks were intentionally planted. -
Hospital Lobby Presses for Medicaid Expansion to Protect Subsidies
Opinion -Hospitals across the nation are threatening that unless state lawmakers implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s—Obamacare—Medicaid expansion, the law’s new taxes and spending cuts will lead to layoffs and closures. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Introduction of Wireless Tax Fairness Act
Opinion -The following statements from tax and technology experts at The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution. For more comments, refer to the contact information below. -
The Evil of Prior Restraint
Opinion -NSA’s excuse for snooping on innocent citizens -- namely, that it can prevent serious harm to us, might even save lives -- is spurious. If you incarcerated us all, that, too, might do all that. -
Why We Need ‘Calm’ Approach to Climate Change
Opinion -Last month, U.S. Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) hosted an unbiased climate change panel discussion in Fairmont, W.V. Experts from both sides of the climate debate participated without restrictions of any kind. -
Americans Saw Threat to Freedoms Before Scandals Came To Light
Opinion -In early April, the American Conservative Union commissioned a National Survey on Privacy and Free Speech. -
EPA Continues Imposing Costly and Unnecessary New Restrictions
Opinion -President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits but will impose high economic and unemployment costs, often to advance the -
Federal Judge Stops Kentucky from Enforcing Anti-Competition Law
Opinion -A Kentucky state law that requires new moving companies to prove to government bureaucrats there is a “need” for their services before they can obtain a license has been blocked by a federal judge. On June 13, U.S. -
Heartland Institute Statement on Chinese Edition of ‘Climate Change Reconsidered’
Opinion -JUNE 14, 2013 -- Earlier this week, the Information Center for Global Change Studies, a division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a Chinese edition of “Climate Change Reconsidered,” translating and combining the contents of two volumes in a -
Heartland Institute Statement on Chinese Edition of ‘Climate Change Reconsidered’
Opinion -(Updated release from June 27, 2013, can be found here. -
Stanek: Political Left and Right Wings Support the Same Bird of Prey
Opinion -We put curtains and drapes over windows and doors to keep people from looking in our houses. It doesn’t matter that we’re doing absolutely nothing wrong. We don’t want people watching us. -
Health Insurance Tax and Employer Mandate to Hit Small Businesses Hardest
Opinion -Beginning in 2014, the effects of a new Health Insurance Tax under President Obama’s health care law could result in the loss of jobs and employer-provided health insurance for many employees in small businesses above the fifty employee threshold. -
SolarCity Sues Federal Government for More Subsidies
Opinion -The Obama administration’s efforts to promote renewable energy took an unexpected turn in May when it was revealed a major recipient of Washington’s largesse had turned on the hand that had been feeding it and sued the federal government, claiming it had -
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School Choice in IA, NC, WI; Common Core Internet Tax, and More: Thursday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -There will be no roundup Friday, as we're on vacation.Thursday's ed newsIowa's governor has signed an expansion of the state's tax-credit scholarships. The North Carolina House passed a budget that includes a voucher provision.Wisconsin Gov. -
Lower, Flatter, Easier Taxes Proposed in Wisconsin
Opinion -Wisconsin business owners will get tax cuts and simplified paperwork if a bill sponsored by state Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, passes. The bill was expected to go to a vote in June. -
How Warming Impacts Male Capelin Choice of Spawning Habitat
Opinion -The fish responds as most any logical creature would. It seeks a cooler location. -
Consumer Financial Board Probing Bank Overdraft Practices
Opinion -The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is now investigating bank overdraft practices since consumers paid $32 billion in overdraft fees in 2012. -
Homeschooling and Charter Schools Growing, Give Families Options
Opinion -Our education system is broiling with two major, conflicting trends: Centralization and school choice. The most rapidly growing trend is the explosion of growth over the past decade of enrollment in charter schools and homeschooling. -
We Should All Do What We Do Best
Opinion -The more things change the more they stay the same, we suppose, and the tiger does not change its stripes.