Opinion
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Environmentalists Want You Powerless
Opinion -The power plant closures are coming; the power plant closures are coming; the power plant closures are coming; and while no one is riding through town to announce the news, the results to America could be nearly as dire as the coming of the Redcoats. -
Dump the Minimum Wage and Adopt the Free Wage
Opinion -Let us thank the union- and taxpayer-backed Restaurant Opportunities Center, which this month has been launching protests around the nation to demand a minimum wage of $15 an hour for restaurant workers. -
Obama is Denying Energy Independence to America
Opinion -Watching the events unfold in the Middle East, it occurred to me that, if we had a president who had even the slightest grasp of energy facts, we could be living in a nation that is not dependent in part on Middle East oil. -
New Taxes+Unusable Speed=Good for School? New Math For Politicians?
Opinion -What could possibly be wrong with the idea? It helps the kids. But when a politician uses children to justify a plan it is time to quickly grab your wallet and your liberties as at least one of the two is about to be taken away. -
The Compassionate Conservative Medicaid Push
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #386It’s worth reading Neil King’s profile of Gov. John Kasich, who’s rapidly become Obamacare’s biggest Republican cheerleader after Gov. -
Monopoly Is the Problem with the Nation’s Schools
Opinion -It took just eight years and 56 days for the United States to deliver on President John F. Kennedy’s pledge to put a man on the moon. But we’re still waiting on another Kennedy proposal: school reform. -
Obamacare Needs Young Enrollees, but Costs Increases Create Challenge
Opinion -Signing up younger, healthier Americans to government-subsidized coverage is key to the success of President Obama’s health care law. -
New York Legislature to Reconsider Testing, Common Core
Opinion -Lawmakers will review New York’s recent education reform agenda, including Common Core national education standards, in public hearings this fall. -
Local Investors Say No, Feds Say Yes to Restoring Town’s Theater
Opinion -If you can’t convince private investors to restore an old Tennessee theater, and if even state legislators refuse to put up half a million-taxpayer dollars, then the federal government is always good for that cash. -
Washington Ag Department Rejects Asserted Pesticide Link to Bee Decline
Opinion -The Washington State Department of Agriculture rejected a request to ban a garden pesticide that environmental activist groups have unsuccessfully attempted to link to declines in the honeybee population. -
The ‘Gore Effect’ Pays a Visit to The Heartland Institute
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #101One of the most embarrassing aspects of being Al Gore is the propensity of the weather to turn frigid virtually every time Gore schedules a public event to cry wolf about global warming. -
Three NCLB Waivers in Danger, WI Voucher Regulations, and More: Friday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsFEDERAL: Three states are at risk of losing their No Child Left Behind waivers, so must negotiate with the Obama administration over how much they can control their own ed systems. -
The Solution to Government Snooping? Privatize Collection and Search of Data
Opinion -It seems like every week since we first heard of Edward Snowden he delivers an even worse example of the federal government’s unconstitutional collection and abuse of our data. -
Virginia Hospitals Push for Medicaid Expansion While Taxpayers Feel the Pinch
Opinion -While Virginia studies whether to expand Medicaid eligibility under President Obama’s health care law, the state’s hospitals have lobbied hard to accept billions in federal funds as part of the expansion deal. -
Chicago Cuts 4 Percent of Teachers as Debt Skyrockets
Opinion -Some 2,100 Chicago Public Schools staff received layoff notices in July. The number includes more than 1,000 teachers, or approximately 4 percent of those in the nation’s third-largest district. -
Stairway to Heaven?
Opinion -First, you can sing in the church choir when the lights flicker on and off. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama Plan to Get FCC to Impose New Cell Phone Tax
Opinion -President Barack Obama’s “ConnectEd” program would raise some $5 billion to expand high-speed Internet access in public schools through a new tax on cell phone bills. -
California Legislators Propose $11 Billion In Higher Taxes and Fees
Opinion -While refusing to take responsibility for over $100 billion in unfunded pension and retiree health care obligations, California legislators spent the current legislative session coming up with new ways to extract money from their constituents. -
EPA Restrictions Force Carnival Cruise Lines out of Baltimore
Opinion -Carnival Cruise Lines announced plans to pull its Pride cruise ship from the port of Baltimore in the wake of new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency restrictions on cruise ship emissions. -
Obamacare Coverage Gaps Are Emerging
Opinion -Getting married or divorced, having a child, or even taking a second job could disrupt the health care coverage of 28 million low-income Americans as President Obama’s law takes effect next year. -
It’s Time to Restore EPA’s Original Purpose
Opinion -In 1968, when I was serving as the head of a groundwater professional society, it became obvious to some of my colleagues and me that the United States did not have any serious focus on potential problems with its air quality, drinking water quality, -
Louisiana Sets New Course for High School Classes
Opinion -Louisiana is pioneering a new way to conduct high school classes, and it’s so popular state leaders are scrambling to keep up with demand. In 2012, legislators established the Course Choice program. -
Chinese Translate Climate Change Reconsidered Volumes
Opinion -A division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences—the world’s largest science academy, ranked the12th most influential science organization in the world by Nature magazine—in June translated and published a Chinese edition of Climate Change Reconsidered, -
Seven Illinois Public Universities Hit With Credit Downgrades
Opinion -Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of seven public universities in Illinois. Illinois state government already has the worst credit rating of any state in the nation.