Opinion
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Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama’s Climate Change Speech
Opinion -President Barack Obama today delivered a speech laying out his energy and environment agenda for his second term – a plan that includes tighter regulations on power plants, mandates to increase vehicle mileage, and increased subsidies for solar and wind -
Sebelius’s Phone Soliciting May Have Been Illegal
Opinion -Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius confirmed in testimony to Congress that she had solicited funds from two groups for Enroll America, a nonprofit working to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and run by a former -
Feds, Anaheim Try to Seize $1.5M Building . . . With No Charges Against the Owner
Opinion -A controversy in California that began with the state’s medical marijuana law has evolved into a battle over civil forfeiture between a property owner and the state of California on one side, and the city of Anaheim and the federal government on the -
App with a Twist
Opinion -Ernest Evans, better known as “Chubby Checker,” had a huge success in the 1960s with the single “The Twist,” which reached number one on the charts in 1960 and again in 1962. -
IPCC Lead Author Says Climate Models Are Failing
Opinion -United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author Hans von Storch told Der Spiegel that climate models are having a difficult time replicating the lack of global warming during the past 15 years. -
Congressional Report Raises Spectre of FHA Bailout
Opinion -The Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) losses over the next 30 years could be much higher than originally projected, according to the findings of a congressional committee. The dismal forecast has some bracing for another taxpayer-financed bailout. -
Welcome to Health Care Hell
Opinion -Some blogs are tough to write and some just seem to write themselves. This is one of the latter. -
Obama’s Unaffordable Act
Opinion -When he was campaigning for President in 2008, President Obama told the American people his health reform plan would reduce family health insurance premiums by $2,500 a year. -
Greedy Africans are Starving Our Cars
Opinion -“You’ve heard of Live Aid? Well, this is Drive Aid,” an ardent young man says, as he approaches London pedestrians. “Greedy people in developing nations are eating huge amounts of food that could easily be turned into biofuel to power our cars. -
Cheap Energy: a Human Right for the Public Good
Opinion -A few months ago, in his State of the Union address, President Obama proudly pledged to tackle climate change—despite opposition from Republicans. -
The IRS and Obamacare: A Dangerous Combination
Opinion -Americans already are fearful and confused about the sweeping changes that ObamaCare will inflict, and the widening IRS scandal deepens concerns about the agency’s major role in implementing and enforcing the health overhaul law. -
New Jersey Signs Lottery Privatization Contract
Opinion -New Jersey has become the third state—after Illinois and Indiana—to privatize the management of its state lottery. -
Global Warming Prevented Several Recent 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 conducted by climate scientist Chip Knappenberger. -
Details Revealed of Fisker’s Waste and Mismanagement
Opinion -As NLPC has covered Fisker Automotive’s catastrophic flop over the last few years since it was granted a $529-million taxpayer-guaranteed loan from the Department of Energy, one big question that repeatedly came up was: How could a company that produced -
U.S. Competition Beats EU Regulation in Broadband Race
Opinion -They were so wrong. To justify FCC market intervention, U.S. proponents of EU-style, heavy-handed broadband regulation trumpeted the narrative that the U.S. was falling behind the world in broadband. -
Learning Latin in the ‘Hood
Opinion -Boys’ Latin Charter School sits in west Philadelphia, but despite the high-crime locale, it doesn’t employ metal detectors and security guards. -
Inglis Puts Stringent Conditions on Support for Carbon Tax
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #95Former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC), the most prominent advocate for a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, placed several important conditions on his support for a carbon tax during a debate in Washington, DC. -
Community Development in St. Louis: Potential for More Crony Capitalism?
Opinion -To amend or eliminate -- that is the question that should be facing the Department of Housing and Urban Development as it tries to rein in the crony capitalism of Community Development Block Grants in St. Louis, Mo. -
Dying of Exposure
Opinion -In the sort of lawsuit that probably even the late Robert Bork could not have envisioned while staying up late nights writing Slouching Towards Gomorrah, a certain “John Doe” in Chicago has made a federal case out of exposing himself over the Internet to -
The Effect of Elevated CO2 on Tomato Plant Lateral Root Growth
Opinion -Elevated CO2 increased both the number and length of the roots, and with more and longer lateral roots in a future CO2-enriched atmosphere, tomato plants (and likely other plants as well) should be better equipped to take up both major and micro -
U.S. House Sends Farm Bill to Bipartisan Defeat
Opinion -The federal farm bill usually receives bipartisan support because it includes food stamps and other programs desired by liberal politicians from urban areas, and commodity price supports and other programs desired by conservative politicians from rural -
U.S. Competition Beats EU Regulation in Broadband Race
Opinion -They were so wrong. To justify FCC market intervention, U.S. proponents of EU-style, heavy-handed broadband regulation trumpeted the narrative that the U.S. was falling behind the world in broadband. -
Farm Bill: After Three Failed Decades of No Reform, Isn’t it Time to Try A Different Approach?
Opinion -Unwinding the government’s crop protectionism regime has been a 30+ year-long nightmare mess. We who wish to make it all go away have in that time gotten absolutely nowhere in our attempts to do so. -
Amtrak Food Costs are Off the Rails, Congressman Says
Opinion -Amtrak trains featuring gourmet menus in their café cars are losing more than $400 per passenger ticket, and a leading House Republican wants an investigation.