Opinion
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Heartland Institute Responds to General Motors’ Decision to Pull Funding
Opinion -General Motors spokesman David Barthmuss today confirmed the company’s foundation will no longer donate to The Heartland Institute. The following statement by Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, may be used for attribution. -
No April Fools’ Joke: U.S. Has World’s Highest Corporate Tax Rate
Opinion -On April 1 the United States earned the dubious distinction of having the highest statutory corporate tax rate of any industrialized nation. -
Heartland Institute Praises FDA’s BPA Ruling
Opinion -In a long-awaited response to a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Food and Drug Administration today announced it will not ban the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from food contact materials. -
Room with an E-ew
Opinion -Stonehill College, a Catholic educational institution near Boston, is being sued by a former student who claims the college didn’t protect her from a dormitory roommate who had too much sex in the student’s presence in their shared dorm room. -
Elite Soccer Teams Separate from School Sports
Opinion -Top young soccer players around the nation will now have to choose between playing a ten-month season with top teams and a shorter season with their public school home team. -
Bad Tax-the-Rich, Transaction Tax Ideas on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Opinion -This election cycle, some American politicians have insisted that, in order to solve the government debt problem, millionaires and billionaires must pay their "fair share," and bankers and financiers must be "held accountable. -
Public Comments Sought on BART Cell-Phone Shutdown
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on when it is appropriate for a local government to shut down mobile networks without notice, after San Francisco officials interrupted wireless services last August. -
Oregon Asks Federal Taxpayers for $2.5 Billion for Insurance Exchange and CCOs
Opinion -In March, Oregon Democrat Gov. John Kitzhaber signed two key pieces of legislation affecting the state’s health care system. -
Shell Oil Partners with Nature Conservancy to Protect Bird Habitat
Opinion -Shell Oil Company is partnering with the Nature Conservancy of Texas in an effort to rebuild an eroding island which is home to more than 24,000 nesting birds. -
Controversial Seven-State Medicare Bidding Program Set to Expand
Opinion -A year after a controversial new procurement system was introduced, many Medicare beneficiaries are facing difficulties or delays as providers are squeezed by dramatically lower prices on lifesaving durable medical equipment and services. -
New Jersey Tackles Teacher Tenure
Opinion -Legislation under consideration in New Jersey would require annual evaluations and evidence of student achievement growth for a teacher to earn tenure and would make it easier to fire ineffective teachers. -
EPA Triples Down on “None of the Above”
Opinion -Anti-energy crusaders are in a celebratory mood this week as the EPA effectively banned the construction of coal-fired power plants, and thus completed the federal government’s trifecta beat-down on affordable energy. -
Michigan Law Ensures Graduate Students Cannot be Unionized
Opinion -Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has signed into law an amendment to Michigan’s public labor law statutorily confirming that graduate student research assistants at state universities are not government employees. -
Big Banks Raising Fees in Wake of ‘Durbin Amendment’
Opinion -Growing numbers of bank customers are finding they no longer have no-fee accounts. -
Heartland Institute Responds to End of Obamacare Arguments at Supreme Court
Opinion -Three days of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, ended Wednesday. -
Opposition Grows Against Florida Renewable Energy Bill
Opinion -Opposition is growing to Florida House Bill 7117, which would give millions in taxpayers subsidies to Solyndra-style renewable energy companies, impose new obstacles on the construction of power plans utilizing inexpensive fuel sources like coal and -
Heartland Institute Experts Praise FDA Report on Smokeless Tobacco Products
Opinion -Heartland Institute experts today praised a new report from the Food and Drug Administration that says dissolvable tobacco products are less harmful than smoking cigarettes. -
AT&T Proposes App Companies Pay for Customer Data Use
Opinion -AT&T revealed it may implement a pay plan that would force providers of mobile services to pay for the cost of data usage associated with streaming movies and smartphone applications. -
Day Three at the Supreme Court: Severability and Medicaid
Opinion -The third and final day of arguments at the Supreme Court will focus on the severability of the individual mandate from the balance of the law and on the Medicaid mandate for the states. -
Verizon Spectrum/Cross-Marketing Deals Hit FCC Roadblock
Opinion -In a late-February filing, Verizon requested Federal Communications Commission approval of a $4 billion purchase of cable company wireless-spectrum licenses. -
EPA Poised to Block Coal Power Plants
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to release global warming restrictions that will effectively ban the construction of coal-fired power plants, the Washington Post reports this morning. -
Fakegate: Heartland Replies to Greenpeace
Opinion -Recently, a Greenpeace activist suddenly recalled that someone saying he was with a US environmental NGO recorded a brief phone conversation with her more than four years ago. -
A Guide to Severability and the Individual Mandate
Opinion -From the archives: A guide to severability and the individual mandate.Several state legislators have reached out to me recently with questions about the nature of severability and Obamacare. -
Heartland Institute Responds to EPA Emissions Rule
Opinion -Lisa Jackson, administrator of the U.S.
