Opinion
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Records Show Warrantless Collection of Personal Financial Data
Opinion -Judicial Watch announced in late June it has obtained records from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) revealing the agency has spent millions of dollars for the warrantless collection and analysis of Americans’ financial transactions. -
Heartland Institute Statement on Chinese Edition of ‘Climate Change Reconsidered’
Opinion -(June 27, 2013) -- A division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has translated and published a Chinese edition of Climate Change Reconsidered, one of The Heartland Institute’s many publications on the topic of global warming. -
Wisconsin Legislative Committee Affirms Walker Medicaid Decision
Opinion -Republican lawmakers in control of the state’s purse strings rejected federal dollars to expand Medicaid coverage in Wisconsin, backing up Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s decision not to accept the expansion. -
Wisconsin to Expand Voucher Program
Opinion -Wisconsin’s legislature has expanded school vouchers statewide in a budget measure that passed the Senate by one vote. -
Going Where No Law Firm Has Gone Before …
Opinion -As pornographers entice viewers with alluring images online, then sue downloaders for infringing on their copyrights, a federal judge in Los Angeles has taken a stand. Like former U.S. -
Obama’s Climate Plan: A Costly Solution Looking for a Problem
Opinion -President Barack Obama yesterday announced a new effort to impose harsh restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions. President Obama claimed the restrictions are necessary to address global warming. -
Student Debt Puts Millions Into Ranks of Lost Generation
Opinion -A recent New York Federal Reserve study has found that 11.2 percent of 39 million borrowers with student loans are 90 days-plus delinquent on making payments on the nation’s $986 billion of student loan debt. A pretty depressing statistic. -
Obama, not ‘Skeptics,’ Serve as President of the ‘Flat-Earth Society’
Opinion -I’m loath to even write about President Obama’s banal speech yesterday on his climate change/energy agenda — to be executed via fiat, of course, and not through a Constitutional legislative process he finds so frustrating. -
Cooling Looms As Earth’s True Climate Calamity
Opinion -Although we have been enmeshed in a long debate over global warming and climate change, this controversy has been politically motivated, not a response to actual global warming, as there has been no warming for 16 years. -
Modeling Climate Feedbacks Based on Short-Term Climate Variations
Opinion -What does the process reveal about the current status of the climate-modeling enterprise? That in the case of cloud feedback, it is difficult to come to “any firm conclusion” ... even on the sign of the feedback... -
Improvement, But More Needed, Among Mortgage Servicers, Monitor Says
Opinion -The nation’s largest mortgage servicers have improved their performance but most are failing to comply with parts of a national settlement that was designed to improve how they treat financially stressed borrowers, according to an independent monitor. -
IRS’s Auditor Slams the Agency for Credit Card Practices
Opinion -Dogged by accusations of partisanship and lavish spending, the Internal Revenue Service is under fire again for questionable credit card expenses, including $140 per-guest dinners. -
Obama’s Climate Obsession
Opinion -The bond market suffered a mini-crash following President Obama’s ill-considered words all but firing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during a television interview with Charlie Rose.Unemployment has been stuck over 7. -
Reconfirming the Constitution
Opinion -The June 25, 2013 Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder did not gut the Voting Rights Act. It merely ratified the idea that it is not eternally 1965 in America. -
Climate Alarmism’s 10,000 Commandments
Opinion -The United States will “do more,” before it’s “too late” to prevent “dangerous” global warming, President Obama told Berliners last week. -
What Consists of Well-Being? The Non-Study Study
Opinion -The Social Science Research Center has posted a lengthy report on what consists of good human development & well-being (read happiness) in the states. -
Michigan Governor Seeks to Raise Renewable Energy Mandate
Opinion -Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced he wants to increase the state’s renewable energy mandate, a 2008 law that requires utilities to produce at least 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2015. -
Teachers Celebrate Employee Freedom Week
Opinion -Teachers and think tanks are joining forces this week to spread the word that many people have the freedom to drop their union. -
Wireless Tax Fairness Act Returns to Congress
Opinion -A bill to impose a five-year moratorium on new state and local taxes on cell phones and other wireless services has been introduced in Congress. -
The Right Way to Fight Obesity
Opinion -Among the contentious food issues to be addressed by public policy this year is obesity, which affects Americans of all ages. It occurs in 12.4 percent of children ages 2 to 5, 17 percent of those ages 6 to 11 and 17.6 percent of those ages 12 to 19. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama’s Climate Change Speech
Opinion -President Barack Obama today delivered a speech laying out his energy and environment agenda for his second term – a plan that includes tighter regulations on power plants, mandates to increase vehicle mileage, and increased subsidies for solar and wind -
Sebelius’s Phone Soliciting May Have Been Illegal
Opinion -Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius confirmed in testimony to Congress that she had solicited funds from two groups for Enroll America, a nonprofit working to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and run by a former -
Feds, Anaheim Try to Seize $1.5M Building . . . With No Charges Against the Owner
Opinion -A controversy in California that began with the state’s medical marijuana law has evolved into a battle over civil forfeiture between a property owner and the state of California on one side, and the city of Anaheim and the federal government on the -
App with a Twist
Opinion -Ernest Evans, better known as “Chubby Checker,” had a huge success in the 1960s with the single “The Twist,” which reached number one on the charts in 1960 and again in 1962.
