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Georgia Considers Letting K-12 Students Bring PCs to School
Opinion -Georgia lawmakers are considering overturning a classroom technology ban to let K-12 students bring their own devices to class. -
ObamaCare Implementation Debate Empowers Idaho Democrats
Opinion -As Idaho’s 2013 legislative session got underway in January, the state’s overwhelmingly Republican legislature struggled with ideological divisions over how to proceed with implementation of President Obama’s health care law. -
An “Unserious” White House Transportation Proposal
Opinion -The Obama Administration's $476 billion six-year transportation reauthorization proposal -- included as part of its FY 2013 budget submission -- has met with indifference if not outright skepticism in the Washington transportation community. -
Mad Grads
Opinion -Class action complaints have been filed against 12 law schools, in addition to two sued previously, claiming the schools misrepresented the employment rates of their graduates. -
Heartland Institute Releases Peter Gleick Emails Detailing Fraud, Identity Theft
Opinion -Correspondence Began Same Day He Rejected Invitation to Debate FEBRUARY 24, 2012 - The Heartland Institute today released all the emails Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick sent to The Heartland Institute for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining -
Fakegate Illustrates Collapsing Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #39Why would a prominent scientist/global warming activist commit acts of fraud and theft against global warming skeptics and then send to the media a forged document containing fictitious, over-the-top schemes that would embarrass -
Congress Mandates FCC Spectrum Auctions
Opinion -Congressional passage of a bill extending payroll-tax cuts and jobless benefits on February 17 included a mandate that the Federal Communications Commission conduct auctions of wireless spectrum for commercial use. -
California School District Rejects Parent Trigger Petition
Opinion -Adelanto, California school district officials rejected a petition by parents to convert Desert Trails Elementary School into an independent charter under the nation’s inaugural Parent Trigger law. -
Florida Rep. Dennis Ross on Repeal and Replace
Opinion -“I reject the idea that we have to settle for a partial approach to getting rid of Obamacare. We have to follow through on what we promised the American people: repeal and replace. -
Study: School Choice Reduces Crime
Opinion -High-risk young men who are admitted by lottery to the schools they choose commit fewer crimes and remain in school longer, according to a new study of North Carolina students. -
Tipsy, or Just Top-Heavy?
Opinion -A Florida woman was stopped by police for erratic driving. They observed she was slurring her speech, had glassy eyes, and was staggering.Not surprisingly, they gave her a roadside sobriety test, which she told police she would fail. -
Fakegate Reveals Alarmists’ Lack of Credibility
Opinion -With the weight of damning evidence closing in on him, alarmist scientist Peter Gleick has admitted in his Huffington Post blog that he was the alleged “Heartland Insider” who committed fraud and identity theft, lying and stealing his way into possession -
Statement of Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast Regarding Wall Street Journal Online Interview
Opinion -FEBRUARY 22 -- The following statement by Heartland Institute President Joseph L. Bast may be used for attribution. For more information, contact Director of Communications Jim Lakely at [email protected] or 312-377-4000. -
Real Reforms Are Possible Upon Obamacare Repeal
Opinion -On March 23, 2010, President Obama forever altered the American health care system by signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. Its advocates promised the measure would reinvent the nation’s health care and reinvigorate the economy. -
Wearing of the Green
Opinion -A prisoner tipping the scales at 400 pounds is suing prison officials for $1 million for failing to provide him clothing big enough to fit him. -
In Milwaukee, Nation’s Oldest School Choice Program Sees Major Growth
Opinion -Enrollment in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, still the largest voucher program in the nation, grew 12 percent in 2011 after Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation to expand education options for Wisconsin families. -
Obama Wants Lower Tax Rates, Fewer Deductions, More Revenue Overall
Opinion -U.S. businesses would have a lower tax rate but an overall higher tax bill under a proposal by President Barack Obama. Obama proposes to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent while at the same time ending dozens of tax deductions. -
State Lawmakers Push Third-Grade Retention Policies
Opinion -Lawmakers in multiple states are considering legislation that would mandate holding back third-grade students who cannot pass state literacy tests. -
Senators Offer Blueprint for Comprehensive Medicare Reform
Opinion -Republican Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Richard Burr of North Carolina have unveiled a new comprehensive blueprint for Medicare reform in Washington, DC. -
Statement by The Heartland Institute on Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Reform
Opinion -AUSTIN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 21 - The Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate welcomes the announcement by Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman that she will name an advisory committee and hire consultants to propose -
Heartland Institute Comments on “Fakegate”
Opinion -FEBRUARY 20, 2012 - What began as the theft of documents from The Heartland Institute has become a major scandal involving DeSmogBlog, ThinkProgress, and the Huffington Post in which many other figures in the global warming movement are complicit. -
Florida Tea Party Rallies Against Renewable Energy Bills
Opinion -The Florida legislature is frustrating Tea Partiers and grassroots conservatives by fast-tracking legislation that would ramp up taxpayer subsidies to Solyndra-style renewable power projects. -
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Coburn and Burr Plant the Flag
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #316Washington, DC witnessed a confrontation last week that encapsulates, for good and for ill, the dire situation facing the United States – and the choice we must make if we are to recover and return our nation to prosperity.
