Opinion
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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. -
The Obamacare Propaganda Boom
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #378The latest polling on Obamacare is the worst it has ever been, with majorities of Americans saying they expect their family will be worse off under it and majorities saying it would be better to go back to the pre-Obamacare -
Why the Grand Common Core Compromise Is Dangerous
Opinion -Not everything worth doing should be done by the federal government. That may be the understatement of the millennium, but it’s the key to understanding why the current push for Common Core standards in education is a bad idea. -
School Choice Set to Grow, Financially Insolvent Districts, and More: Friday’s Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed newsSouth Carolina is poised to become the 23rd school choice state. Early this morning, Wisconsin's legislature also passed a school vouchers expansion inside the state budget. -
Greenbacks Beat the Greens in Uber-Green California
Opinion -If there is anyplace the gang green can expect to get its way, it would surely be California. -
Big Apple “Voluntary” Composting Idea Stinks: Carries Health Risks, Says New York-Based Risk Expert
Opinion -Mayor Bloomberg is planning on creating a "voluntary" composting program that will eventually become mandatory, the New York Times reported on Sunday. -
If 6 Was 9
Opinion -Also on the food front, you just knew this was going to happen back when Budweiser®, Schlitz®, and Pabst Blue Ribbon® brand beers became no longer good enough for the cognoscenti and everybody started getting into microbrews: more brands, more logos, and -
Debate Highlights Obstacles for a ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax
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. -
A Don’t-Miss Science Conference July 13-14
Opinion -An energetic group of medical doctors, nuclear physicists, astrophysicists, climate scientists, and just plain folks desiring to get up close and personal with some of our nation's greatest scientists will be meeting at the Houston Marriott South on -
California Assembly Rejects Fracking Ban
Opinion -The California State Assembly overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would have banned oil and natural gas fracking in the state. By a vote of 37-24, the Democrat-dominated Assembly voted down AB 1323. -
Models Predicted Too Much Warming, New Data Show
Opinion -Climate models used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other climate groups to predict future temperatures have failed miserably at predicting climate in recent years, new data show. -
Higher Education’s Changing Landscape
Opinion -There is one thing the professoriate in highereducation, generally, resist–change. In this narrow consideration, even the most “liberal” of colleges are quite conservative. -
Curbing the IRS
Opinion -Suppose you give your 30-year-old daughter a list of groceries to buy for you and $25 to pay for them. Does your daughter have to report the $25 to the IRS as income?Of course not. -
Feds Give Wind Producers Free Pass to Kill Condors
Opinion -Federal wildlife officials announced they will allow wind producers in California’s Tehachapi Mountains to kill endangered California condors without fear of prosecution. The U.S. -
ObamaCare Costs Hit School Districts, Employees
Opinion -School districts across the country are digging through the details to see how the Affordable Care Act, known as ObamaCare, will impact their budgets starting January 1, 2014. -
Frankenfood? Mutant Wheat Not a Health Threat
Opinion -There’s a new twist in the story of genetically modified wheat discovered growing rogue by an Oregon farmer. Monsanto, the company which developed the pesticide resistant strain, has now suggested the stalks were intentionally planted. -
Hospital Lobby Presses for Medicaid Expansion to Protect Subsidies
Opinion -Hospitals across the nation are threatening that unless state lawmakers implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s—Obamacare—Medicaid expansion, the law’s new taxes and spending cuts will lead to layoffs and closures. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Introduction of Wireless Tax Fairness Act
Opinion -The following statements from tax and technology experts at The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution. For more comments, refer to the contact information below. -
The Evil of Prior Restraint
Opinion -NSA’s excuse for snooping on innocent citizens -- namely, that it can prevent serious harm to us, might even save lives -- is spurious. If you incarcerated us all, that, too, might do all that. -
Why We Need ‘Calm’ Approach to Climate Change
Opinion -Last month, U.S. Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) hosted an unbiased climate change panel discussion in Fairmont, W.V. Experts from both sides of the climate debate participated without restrictions of any kind. -
Americans Saw Threat to Freedoms Before Scandals Came To Light
Opinion -In early April, the American Conservative Union commissioned a National Survey on Privacy and Free Speech. -
EPA Continues Imposing Costly and Unnecessary New Restrictions
Opinion -President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits but will impose high economic and unemployment costs, often to advance the -
Federal Judge Stops Kentucky from Enforcing Anti-Competition Law
Opinion -A Kentucky state law that requires new moving companies to prove to government bureaucrats there is a “need” for their services before they can obtain a license has been blocked by a federal judge. On June 13, U.S. -
Heartland Institute Statement on Chinese Edition of ‘Climate Change Reconsidered’
Opinion -JUNE 14, 2013 -- Earlier this week, the Information Center for Global Change Studies, a division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a Chinese edition of “Climate Change Reconsidered,” translating and combining the contents of two volumes in a
