Opinion
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Republicans Shouldn’t Fall for Guaranteed Issue Mandate
Opinion -Every Republican is campaigning on a theme of “repeal and replace” when it comes to President Obama’s health care law. But given recent comments from some Republicans, maybe it should be “repeal and embrace. -
Unexpected Surge in Louisiana Voucher Applicants
Opinion -More than 10,000 students applied to attend private schools this fall under Louisiana’s statewide voucher program, five times more than State Superintendent John White anticipated. -
Eight and a Half Centuries of Snowpack Variations in the Andes of Chile and Argentina
Opinion -What do they reveal about the nature of snowpack conditions there over the past several decades of supposedly unprecedented global warming? -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Latest Parent Trigger Ruling in California
Opinion -Heartland Institute Reacts toLatest Parent Trigger Ruling in California San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Steve Malone ruled Monday that the Adelanto School District improperly allowed 97 parents at Desert Trails Elementary School to rescind -
Obama’s logic: a system that ‘allows’ us to thrive can disallow success
Opinion -Now we know what President Barack Obama really believes. -
Another Krazy Kardashian Kase
Opinion -What is the fascination with frivolous lawsuits against the Kardashians? In addition to the suits in West Virginia, the three sisters are also being sued in federal court in Tennessee by the friend of a former prison inmate and his client, the inmate. -
Impressed by Solyndra, Obama Triples Down on Solar Power
Opinion -The Obama administration apparently can’t get enough of Solyndra and the myriad other solar power companies that have colossally failed despite generous taxpayer subsidies. -
Election-Year Moves Stall Huge Farm Bill
Opinion -The U.S. Senate has passed the 2012 Farm Bill with a vote of 64-35 but the bill was pulled from the House calendar just before Members adjourned for their August recess after it became clear there were not enough votes to pass it. -
Half of Individual Insurance Policies Eliminated By Obamacare
Opinion -Although President Obama promised that if you like your health care plan you can keep it, a new report shows more than half of all insurance plans for individuals in the United States won’t survive under his health care law. -
How President Obama Is Deceiving You On Tax Policy
Opinion -The central theme of President Obama’s tax policy has been that “the rich” (whatever that is supposed to mean) do not pay their fair share of federal taxes, and the middle class pays more as a result. -
New Hampshire Legislature Overrides Governor’s Medical Malpractice Reform Veto
Opinion -New Hampshire’s House and Senate voted to overturn a veto from Democratic Gov. John Lynch of Senate Bill 406, a medical malpractice reform law. -
Lawsuit: Net Neutrality Regulations are Unconstitutional
Opinion -A group of free-market think tanks Monday filed a brief in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Communication Commission's 2011 "Preserving the Open Internet" Order. -
Large Numbers of Kids Say School Is ‘Too Easy’
Opinion -Between 30 and 40 percent of students in every grade level say school is “too easy,” according to a report from the Center for American Progress. -
About that Online Sales Tax ‘Loophole’
Opinion -From the Tech Liberation Front:Proponents of higher taxes have taken to calling the exemption that out-of-state online shoppers enjoy a “loophole,” as if it were an unintended flaw in two established court rulings that addressed the power of one state to -
Moody’s, Others Worry About Municipal Bankruptcies to Come
Opinion -First Stockton, then San Bernardino. Moody’s Investors Service worries more could be on the way. Stockton, California, filed for bankruptcy in late June, followed less than two weeks later by another major California city, San Bernardino. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Tuesday’s CBO Score of Obamacare
Opinion -The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office today scored the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the law. -
On Health Care Costs, Trust Consumers, Not Bureaucrats
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #336Last week the Washington Post had an extensive write-up about how an anemia drug cost taxpayers billions of dollars without making much of a difference for those receiving it. The piece is available here. -
Stranger than Truth
Opinion -Two lawsuits have been filed against Kim Kardashian and her family in West Virginia, with weird allegations. As if their reality weren’t already weird enough. -
Obama Quietly Implements Common Core
Opinion -New standards for math and English called Common Core are poised to hit public schools across the nation. -
Classical Charter School Startups Aim to Serve Poor, Revive Culture
Opinion -On his office wall, Phil Kilgore has pasted “100 different stickies” to a United States map. Each marks where a group of people want to open a “classical” charter school. -
Skeptic Magazine Needs to be More Skeptical of Man-Made Global Warming
Opinion -A quarterly magazine called Skeptic published a cover story a few weeks back by Donald Prothero titled "How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human-Caused." That struck us here at The Heartland Institute as rather strange. -
San Antonio Mayor Proposes Tax for More Pre-K
Opinion -San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro has proposed increasing the city’s sales tax to 8.25 percent to expand government-sponsored pre-kindergarten. -
Daily School Reform News Roundup, July 16 to 20
Opinion -A House panel approved a bill that would axe President Obama's signature education programs, Race to the Top and other grants. It would also reinstate the rule that allows alternately certified teachers to count as "highly qualified. -
Be skeptical of Skeptic’s skepticism of skeptics
Opinion -Editorial -Anyone who starts out by using the hate-speech term “Climate Deniers” – laden with political overtones of Holocaust denial – cannot expect to be taken seriously as an objective scientist.