Opinion
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Colorado House Considers More Renewable Power Mandates
Opinion -The Colorado House of Representatives Transportation and Energy Committee is holding hearings tomorrow on legislation to dramatically increase the amount of expensive renewable power consumers are forced to purchase. -
Climate Change Conversation Aborted
Opinion -An editorial essay by American Chemical Society (ACS) officers Bassam Shakhashiri and Jerry Bell (Science 5 April 2013) extends a gracious invitation for a "respectful conversation" about Climate Change. -
Doctors Ask: Is a Charting Error a Federal Crime?
Opinion -As cardiovascular surgeon John Natale, M.D., sits in federal prison, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard his appeal on April 18.After a seven-year investigation, Dr. Natale was indicted for Medicare fraud. -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Cloture Vote of Marketplace Fairness Act
Opinion -The United States Senate today voted for cloture on the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), ending debate and leading to its likely passage soon in an up-or-down vote. -
Google Goes Shopping at a Dollar Store
Opinion -Last week Google went shopping at a dollar store — and came away with a fiber system. According to the April 18 Associated Press: "Google Inc. -
Heartland Institute Celebrates Earth Day with Release of New Book
Opinion -‘The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism’Describes Collapse of Global Warming Panic In celebration of Earth Day, The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank The Economist magazine calls “the world’s most prominent think tank promoting skepticism -
Spectrum Allocation: Time to Get on With It
Opinion -My new policy brief urges the Federal Communications Commission to get on with the business of allocating the necessary spectrum to meet the burgeoning demand for wireless services. -
States Respond to Common Core Science Standards
Opinion -States have begun to take sides on the new Common Core science standards released last week. -
Tennessee Rejects Medicaid Expansion—For Now
Opinion -Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced he will not pursue expanding TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program, under the auspices of President Obama’s health care law. He will, however, examine the possibility of expanding in the future. -
When Is an Entitlement Not an Entitlement?
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #370Last week, the Arkansas legislature finally approved the Medicaid waiver request that makes up their appeal for a “private option” within President Barack Obama’s Medicaid expansion: After three tense days, an initially-failed -
It’s Time to Make Teaching a Real Profession
Opinion -Teachers have somehow gotten themselves exempt from public accountability as a profession, avoiding independent requirements like those imposed on doctors, nurses, accountants, and others. -
Keystone XL Opponents Hypocritically Talk Property Rights
Opinion -Opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline are increasingly trumpeting private property rights as a reason people should oppose the pipeline. -
Report Raises Questions Over Student Debt Harming Housing, Auto Markets
Opinion -Are excessive student loans preventing young Americans from borrowing money to buy a home or new car? That is certainly one of the conclusions of a recent New York Federal Reserve study, “Young Student Loan Borrowers Retreat from Housing and Auto Markets. -
Major Online Sales Tax Bill Being Rushed Through Senate
Opinion -Early this week U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid began the process of pushing to the Senate floor an online tax bill originally titled the Marketplace Fairness Act, bypassing the committee process. -
Definition of ‘Tax Increase’ Debated in Washington State
Opinion -When the 2013 Legislative Session began this past January, tax increases in Washington State were a long shot. -
Yes, Let’s Please Have More Conversations About Global Warming
Opinion -Two scientist-activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published an article in Science last week calling for more “Climate Change Conversations,” as the article was titled. -
Climate Models Performing Poorly Compared to Actual Temperatures
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #88Climate models supporting predictions of rapid global warming during the next century have performed miserably predicting global temperatures during the past two decades, according to a just-published comparison of model -
Entitlement Reform, Obama-Style, Can’t Even be Called Bogus
Opinion -The biggest fallacy regarding Social Security is that it would be easier politically to cut Social Security benefits rather than to fundamentally reform the way the program works, so as to empower workers with the freedom to choose personal savings, -
EU Vote Sends Warning Signal on Carbon Tax
Opinion -The European Parliament this week rejected a plan to further restrict carbon dioxide emissions, dealing a severe blow to global warming activists. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Senate Debate of Marketplace Fairness Act
Opinion -This week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) began the process of pushing the Marketplace Fairness Act before the full Senate and bypassing the Senate Finance Committee. -
Is it Time to End Ethanol Vehicle Fuel Mandates?
Opinion -Last week, Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and other lawmakers introduced legislation in the House of Representatives calling for major changes in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The RFS is the reason why most US automobile fuel contains ten percent ethanol. -
President Obama’s Plan for A Socialist One Party State
Opinion -The last check and balance on President Obama is the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. He has made clear that he intends to remove that check on his power in the 2014 elections. -
Terror or Tragedy?
Opinion -In a nation that officially – officially, mind you, at the highest levels of government – can no longer distinguish between an act of terror and an act of workplace violence (the Fort Hood shootings) or a spontaneous celebration and a terrorist plot on -
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Call for Abolishing ‘Corruption Infested’ Turnpike
Opinion -Pennsylvania has two transportation agencies. One controls more than 40,000 miles of state roads and 25,000 bridges, and another maintains 545 miles of tolled highway.