Opinion
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Heartland Institute Reacts to Override of Gov. Purdue’s Veto of North Carolina Fracking Bill
Opinion -Heartland Institute Reacts to Override of Gov. Perdue’s Veto of North Carolina Fracking Bill The North Carolina legislature Monday night overrode the veto of Gov. -
Aloha! Leave Your Plastic Grocery Bags at Home
Opinion -Honolulu County has joined Hawaii’s three other counties in enacting a ban on plastic shopping bags, making Hawaii the first state with a total ban on plastic shopping bags. The Honolulu County Council approved the ban in April. -
To Implement Or Not to Implement
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #333July 2, 2012 Welcome to the Consumer Power Report. -
American Medical Association Edges Toward Backing Soda Taxes
Opinion -The American Medical Association has voted to recommend taxes on sugar-sweetened sodas be used to combat obesity. But the policy statement adopted by the AMA’s House of Delegates did not recommend outright support for taxing sugar-sweetened beverages. -
Los Angeles City Council Bans Plastic Grocery Bags
Opinion -The Los Angeles City Council voted 13 to 1 to ban plastic grocery bags, making the City of Angels the largest in the nation to enact such a ban. -
Senator Calls for DOJ SWAT-ting Inquiry
Opinion -Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia has requested a federal inquiry into the practice known as SWAT-ting, after several conservative bloggers reported they were victims of it. -
Schools Spy on Suspected Out-of-District Kids
Opinion -A little-known but common practice among school districts has them hiring investigators to follow kids home, snap pictures and video, trace parents’ license plates, and follow their cars around in unmarked vehicles. -
Bank for International Settlements Sees Risks from Central Bank Stimulus
Opinion -The benefits from additional monetary stimulus by central banks in advanced economies are shrinking while the risks are likely growing, said Jaime Caruana, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). -
Reforming enrollment policies will ease a host of problems
Opinion -Kendall Bible was surprised and a bit frightened when a strange man lacking an I.D. showed up at her door and asked to see her 12-year-old daughter’s bedroom. He was checking student residency for the local school district, he said. -
Skeptic Magazine: Climate Change Q&A: Climate Deniers’ Arguments & Climate Scientists’ Answers
Opinion -The cover story of Skeptic Magazine (Vol. 17; No. 2) is titled Climate Change Q&A: Climate Deniers’ Arguments & Climate Scientists’ Answers and written by Donald R. Prothero. -
Report Identifies Higher Education Leaders and Laggards
Opinion -Public colleges and universities are remarkably poor at providing students and taxpayers transparent, objective measures of their worth even as tuition has grown three times the rate of inflation in the past three decades, according to a new report -
Study: Unprecedented Number of Employees Choose Certificates
Opinion -Americans are looking to certificates at an unprecedented rate as a quick, cost-effective way to better their wages and employment opportunities, a Georgetown University study reports. -
DISH AutoHop Sparks Network Lawsuits
Opinion -DISH Network’s “AutoHop” technology feature has prompted lawsuits from the ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC TV networks. -
Michael Mann Presentation Illustrates Flawed Warming Claims
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #55Climategate central figure Michael Mann gave a talk in Orange County, California last month that perfectly illustrates how global warming alarmists spread myths and misinformation to further their agenda. -
Obama Administration May Have Used CO-OP Grants to Reward Political Allies
Opinion -A prominent House Committee Chairman is questioning whether the White House has used President Obama’s health care law to direct hundreds of millions of dollars in support to political allies ineligible to receive it. -
Obamacare would also hike capital gains tax
Opinion -In “Relief from Taxmageddon” (Commentary, June 20), Emily Miller made a point that cannot be repeated often enough: Combined with the tax increases included in the Obama health care plan, allowing tax rates to ratchet up from 2001 levels would result in -
Taxing Power Gives Government Total Control
Opinion -The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision holding the Obamacare individual mandate is constitutional was based on grounds not addressed by the parties to the suit. -
New School Choice Programs Now Law in Virginia, New Hampshire
Opinion -Virginia and New Hampshire passed into law Wednesday statewide school choice programs funded by businesses' tax-deductible contributions to nonprofits that in turn pay students' private school tuition. -
Colorado, Feds Reach Agreement on Roadless Rule
Opinion -It took seven years, but Colorado and U.S. Forest Service officials have finally completed work on an environmental impact statement on the state’s roadless rule. -
Obamacare’s Day of Reckoning
Opinion -At long last, the day is here: we'll finally find out whether the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause has any restriction whatsoever, or whether it truly extends to all economic activity and inactivity. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Obamacare Ruling
Opinion -The United States Supreme Court today upheld most provisions of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, including the individual mandate. -
IT Poses Stumbling Block for ACA Implementation
Opinion -While policymakers and health care and legal analysts debate the constitutionality of U.S. healthcare reform, technology experts and medical doctors remain skeptical whether a nationwide data hub is desirable or even feasible. -
Gasoline Retailers Say Credit Card ‘Swipe Fees’ Fuel Higher Prices
Opinion -A growing practice among gasoline retailers is to offer cash and higher credit card prices to combat increasing numbers of card users, rising gas prices and high “swipe fees,” transaction fees set by credit card networks for banks. -
Supreme Court Shocker: Obamacare Mandate Upheld, But As a Tax
Opinion -In a result that surprised both the left and right, the Supreme Court ruled the individual mandate at the heart of President Obama’s health care law was constitutional, not on the basis of the Commerce Clause, but as a tax—an argument the White House