Opinion
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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. -
Thank You, Speaker Boehner
Opinion -A highly illuminating article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal by Stephen Moore explained the newly transformed federal budget realities, and the reasons for them. -
Massachusetts AG Coakley Sues NOAA over Fishing Limits
Opinion -Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed suit in federal district court claiming the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration violated federal law with newly imposed fish-catch restrictions. -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Delay of Obamacare’s Out-of-Pocket Cost Limits
Opinion -The Obama administration has delayed until 2015 the limits on out-of-pocket costs under the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. -
Citizen Journalist
Opinion -James O’Keefe, the young man who exposed the corruption within ACORN, an organization whose voter registration program and others were closely allied with the Democratic Party, has written “Breakthrough: Our Guerrilla War to Expose Fraud and Save -
Deep Cyclones Over Central Europe: Increasing or Decreasing?
Opinion -Climate models suggest they should be increasing, 110 years of real world data indicate otherwise... -
Meteor Dust and My TV Reception
Opinion -Throughout much of the last two days my Direct TV reception, fed via satellite, was disrupted as some stations were accessible while others were not. -
Uneconomical vs. Economical Net Neutrality at the U.N. Part 11, Uneconomics vs. Economics Series
Opinion -Information may want to be free, but physical networks are costly.Few proponents of net neutrality appreciate the trillions of dollars of investment it has taken to build and upgrade the Internet’s vast and varied infrastructure that we all enjoy today. -
Employer Mandate Delay Bolsters Legal Challenges to Obamacare
Opinion -The Obama administration’s one year delay of the employer mandate may strengthen two cases challenging parts of President Obama’s law. The two cases, Halbig v. Sebelius and Pruitt v. -
Climate Scientist John Christy Presents Powerful Data
Opinion -Climate scientist John Christy presented a series of charts and data at a recent scientific conference showing global warming is proceeding at a modest pace and is not causing significant harm. -
Southern Black Voters Overwhelmingly Favor School Choice, Poll Finds
Opinion -Approximately nine in ten African-American voters across Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi favor school choice policies, according to a survey published by the Black Alliance for Educational Options. -
Geothermal Power Plants Are Causing Earthquakes Near San Andreas Fault
Opinion -Geothermal power plants on the southern shore of southern California’s Salton Sea are causing earthquakes in the area, just 12 miles from the San Andreas Fault, according to a newly published peer-reviewed study. -
Déjà vu All Over Again
Opinion -No President in modern U. S. history has more self-consciously evoked the images of his predecessors than the incumbent, Barack Obama.
