Opinion
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Heartland Institute Experts React to Detroit Filing for Bankruptcy
Opinion -The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon. Gov. Rick Snyder (R) filed the 16-page Chapter 9 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit. -
Schools Ditch Federal Lunch Subsidies Due to High Costs
Opinion -Approximately 200 school districts across the country have opted out of the federal lunch program, leaving them free from regulations Michelle Obama pushed in 2010, but without federal subsidies for school lunches. -
Nordex USA Closes Wind Turbine Plant Despite Millions in Subsidies
Opinion -Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex USA announced it will close its Arkansas production facility after accepting millions of dollars in subsidies and promising to create 750 jobs. -
Top FL Lawmakers to Tony Bennett: Drop National Common Core Tests
Opinion -Florida's legislative leaders want the state to withdraw from national Common Core tests, even though Florida is leading one of the two federally funded national Common Core testing groups. -
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy; Debt Could Total $20 Billion
Opinion -Kevyn Orr helped turn around Detroit-based automaker Chrysler LLC but apparently needs help turning around Detroit itself. The City of Detroit has filed for bankruptcy. -
Illinois Bets on Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -If the federal government keeps its promise to pay 90 percent of the costs for Obamacare, Illinois will have to find $1.8 billion a year to pay for the massive Medicaid expansion now on its way to Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk. -
Are We Rome? FreedomFest Explores the Question
Opinion -The theme for this year’s FreedomFest, which ended last weekend in Las Vegas, was “Are We Rome?” John Stossel explored that question while taping his show in front of 1,000 enthusiastic fans. It airs tonight, July 18, at 9:00 p.m. -
Sea Anemones and Microbes in a CO2-Vent-Induced pH Gradient
Opinion -Reporting on how the two life-forms respond in one of the first-of-its-type in situ studies, Meron et al. state that “it appears that elevated CO2 does not have a negative influence on A. viridis that live naturally in the [very CO2-enriched] site. -
Oklahoma Drops National Common Core Tests
Opinion -Oklahoma students will not participate in national tests corresponding to Common Core K-12 standards. -
The Meaning of the Zimmerman Trial: Progressives bring the French Revolution to America
Opinion -There has been only one responsible party in the entire Zimmerman affair. Everyone else in positions of power and authority has fallen into one of two categories. -
1G Government in 4G World
Opinion -Change is hard, especially for the federal government.In presenting a “New Management Agenda” for the federal government, President Obama said we need to “bring a government built largely in the 20th century into the 21st century. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Fed Chairman Bernanke Testimony
Opinion -Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified on Capitol Hill today that the Fed’s short-term interest rate is likely to stay near zero “for the foreseeable future. -
Obama Ignores Key Facts in Climate Speech
Opinion -In President Obama’s June 25 speech on climate change at Georgetown University, he said, “I’m directing the Environmental Protection Agency to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants and complete new pollution -
What Delaying Obamacare Means
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #381The conversation in Washington, DC this week centers on delaying and defunding Obamacare. -
Analysis: Time to Reconsider Cash for Organs?
Opinion -Sarah Murnaghan won her chance to get a new lung. After a saga that involved Pennsylvania Senators Pat Toomey (R) and Bob Casey (D), U.S. -
Kansas Teachers Opt Out of Big Unions
Opinion -Teachers in tiny Deerfield, Kansas this fall are no longer members of the Kansas National Education Association and the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union. -
Urban Poor Among Those Subsidizing Phones for Nation’s Wealthiest Locales
Opinion -Researchers are expressing skepticism toward Federal Communications Commission reforms that attempt to end waste in a federal phone subsidy program. -
Wind Turbines: America’s Vast, Ugly Sculpture Garden
Opinion -Brilliant scientific minds are not confined to the annals of scientific history. -
The Untold Unemployment Story: A Loss Of 162,000 Full-Time Jobs In June
Opinion -You would not have gotten the real story about the June unemployment report on the front page of any newspaper. If you can find a reporter who can think for himself or herself, he or she is a treasure who should be promoted to run the entire paper. -
Federal Court Rules Michigan Cannot Limit Out-of-State Power
Opinion -Michigan cannot exclude out-of-state power from its renewable power mandate, a federal court of appeals ruled. The decision will have far-reaching implications as several states limit or exclude out-of-state power from their renewable power mandates. -
Harvard Historian Warns the State Is Causing the West’s ‘Great Degeneration’
Opinion -The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 176 pages, ISBN: 978-1-59420-545-3 What causes rich nations to lose their way? -
Ohio Introduces Vouchers for Poor Families
Opinion -Ohio introduced its fifth school voucher program when Gov. John Kasich signed the state’s 2014-2015 budget. -
Fee-For-Service Again
Opinion -USA Today asked me to write a counterpoint to their editorial calling for the abolition of Fee-For-Service payment in health care. Their editorial is here, and my counter is here.Unfortunately, USA Today did not show me the article I was responding to. -
Green Energy’s Too Expensive
Opinion -On Wednesday, July 10, the House passed H.R. 2609—which Bloomberg News called a “$30.4 Billion Energy-Water Spending Measure.
