Opinion
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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. -
Government Report Shows Little Return from Michigan’s Film Incentives
Opinion -In 2009, a year after signing the nation's most lucrative film incentive program, then- Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) of Michigan touted the jobs it would create. -
California Schools to Train Kids to Sell ObamaCare
Opinion -The Los Angeles Unified School District will use a state grant to train teens to promote ObamaCare to family members. Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, announced grants of $37 million to promote the nationally unpopular law. -
Maine Rejects School Choice Expansion
Opinion -Maine lawmakers shot down a bill that would have helped children from low-income families board at public charter schools and take public money to private, religious schools that meet state standards. Legislative Document 1529, sponsored by Sen. -
Peer-Reviewed Study Finds CO2 Not Responsible for Recent Global Warming
Opinion -Carbon dioxide emissions are not the primary factor driving recent global warming, a newly published peer-reviewed paper reports. -
Fast Food, Fast Thinking
Opinion -On a lighter note and also involving fast food, two suspects in Stockton, California failed to make their getaway after robbing a local Burger King® restaurant at gunpoint when a savvy employee sneaked out the back door, noticed the suspects’ getaway car -
Median House Size in U.S. Hits Record High
Opinion -There have been numerous press reports about the expansion of micro housing, and expectations that Americans will be reducing the size of their houses. -
Vanishing Snow: Should There Be A Law?
Opinion -Last month, more than 100 ski resorts joined the Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) Climate Declaration. -
‘Thousands of NSA Analysts Can Listen to Domestic Phone Calls,’ Read Emails, Texts, IMs
Opinion -UPDATES: Aplenty – from late last night – below. Please, indulge us and read from top to bottom – for clarity’s sake.—–That’s some good news right there. -
The Magic, Fairy Dust Naivete That Is Progressive Economics
Opinion -Let’s proclaim the Good News: Government money is free. No, not just to the beneficiaries of government programs. To society as a whole. Meaning there is no economic cost to government spending whatsoever. -
Conservatives Reach Common Ground On A Carbon Tax, And That’s The Problem
Opinion -A much-anticipated carbon tax debate in Washington D.C. last Thursday brought some much needed clarity to assertions that conservatives should or indeed do support a carbon tax. -
House, Senate at Odds on NCLB Rewrite
Opinion -Although Democrats and Republicans largely agree the largest federal education law is in shambles, House Republicans and Senate Democrats have different ideas about how to revise No Child Left Behind. -
Pennsylvania School Pension Burdens Reflected in Tax Requests
Opinion -Pension problems facing Pennsylvania school districts have come home to roost. As we wrote in a recent blog, “Unless there is agreement on pension reform legislation . . . most school districts in Pennsylvania face ruinous increases in pension funding. -
Breakthrough!
Opinion -This essay is based on remarks delivered on June 19, 2013 at Heartland’s annual President’s Council Retreat. -
California’s Environmental Tax Grab
Opinion -Well, well, well. It seems California is not all that interested in theenvironment after all. As this editorial in the Wall Street Journalnotes (June 18, 2013, p. -
‘Thousands of NSA Analysts Can Listen to Domestic Phone Calls,’ Read Emails, Texts, IMs
Opinion -UPDATES: Aplenty – from late last night – below. Please, indulge us and read from top to bottom – for clarity’s sake.—–That’s some good news right there. -
Kansas Common Core Opponents Look to 2014
Opinion -Although frustrated by a three-vote defeat of a bill to reconsider Common Core national education standards or related tests in 2013, former Kansas Board of Education member Walt Chappell is resolute: “House Bill 2289 [to repeal Common Core] is still -
Climate Alarmists Caught Doctoring ‘97 Percent Consensus’ Claims
Opinion -Global warming alarmists have been caught doctoring the results of a widely cited paper asserting there is a 97 percent scientific consensus regarding human-caused global warming. -
Detroit Offers Creditors Pennies on the Dollar
Opinion -Less than one month after Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr issued a report declaring the city’s finances to be in worse shape than nearly anyone suspected when he assumed the job in March, Detroit has defaulted on a scheduled debt payment of $39. -
Just Drop the Tacos and Step Away from the Counter …
Opinion -Taco Bell®, long a young person’s favorite place for inexpensive and tasty late-night snacks and likely an occasional target of late-night robberies, now finds itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit for alleged stealing--brought by a prisoner in the -
Marco Rubio’s Insider Problem
Opinion -What was Marco Rubio sent to Washington to do? The concern among Rubio’s team of the rising chorus of “Marco’s gone Washington” shouldn’t surprise them considering his approach to the gamesmanship of typical Senatorial give and take.
