Opinion
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Heartland Institute Counters Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Panic
Opinion -Al Gore is using his considerable media muscle to express his frustration that people and governments the world over – but especially here in the United States – have increasingly rejected the notion humans are destroying the planet. -
Fourth Circuit’s Factual Error Throws Obamacare Decision in Doubt
Opinion -In a recent ruling that the Commonwealth of Virginia lacks standing to challenge the individual mandate provision of Obamacare, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit made a “rookie” factual error serious enough to call for -
Customers, Not Government, Determine Competitiveness
Opinion -The White House this week commanded the Department of Justice to scuttle a deal that would’ve combined two wireless carriers—fourth-place T-Mobile and second-place AT&T—and catapulted the merged companies into first place above Verizon. -
Competition from Charters Pushes All Schools Forward
Opinion -A large percentage of Americans do not know what to think about charter schools, even though these nontraditional public schools have begun quietly changing the way we all think about education. -
Correcting Al Gore’s ’24 Hours of Reality’
Opinion -Al Gore is using his considerable media muscle to express his frustration that people and governments the world over – but especially here in the United States – have increasingly rejected the notion humans are destroying the planet. -
Vaccine Fearmongers Exposed
Opinion -Review of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, by Seth Mnookin, Simon & Schuster, 448 pp, $15 In 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion and unsupported research results, published a -
Obama’s $50 Billion Infrastructure Proposal: We’ve Heard it All Before
Opinion -President Obama's new $50 billion infrastructure initiative -- part of his $447 billion American Jobs Act (AJA) which he announced during a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8 -- offered no surprises. -
Innovative Schools Shift Seat-Centered Academics
Opinion -While some education reformers are focusing on performance-based incentives and curriculum changes, others are trying to shift the very structure of schooling.Students traditionally attend school from September to June, five days a week, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. -
Genetic Enhancements Can Help Crops Absorb More Carbon Dioxide
Opinion -Modifying crops to grow longer roots deeper into the soil would allow plants to naturally sequester more carbon dioxide in soil, Douglas Kell, a scientist at the UK’s University of Manchester reports in the September issue of Annals of Botany. -
The 98 Percent Consensus of Nothing
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #19During last week’s Republican presidential debate, Jon Huntsman doubled down on Al Gorism, claiming global warming skeptics are making “comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate scientists have said. -
President Proposes Another Jobs Stimulus, $60 Billion for Education
Opinion -Before a joint session of Congress, President Obama proposed another $450 billion to stimulate the nation’s economy, including $60 billion for education. Rep. -
Consumer Power Report: Don’t Go Exchanging
Opinion -Welcome to the Consumer Power Report. -
Only One in Four Voters Considers Gore a Global Warming Expert
Opinion -Only 24 percent of likely American voters consider Al Gore an expert on global warming, according to a new poll released by Rasmussen Reports. More than twice that number – 59 percent – say Gore is not an expert, while 18 percent are not sure. -
LA Times Commits Huge Gaffe while Attacking Perry
Opinion -The Los Angeles Times has published a snarky editorial today, “Rick Perry and Galileo – pardners in science,” ridiculing the Texas governor for saying he doesn’t have all the answers on the evolution/creationism debate and the global warming debate. -
Michigan District Creates Evaluation Software, Moneymaker
Opinion -While other districts are taking their time implementing new, state-mandated systems that tie educator evaluations to student testing data, one rural Michigan district seized the opportunity immediately and now can begin profiting from its innovation. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Fourth Circuit Ruling on Obamacare Mandate
Opinion -A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday overruled a December 2010 decision striking down the mandate in Obamacare that individuals purchase health insurance. -
Analysis: Ron Paul is Right About the FDA
Opinion -In a debate hosted on MSNBC last night, Ron Paul was singled out repeatedly for criticism by NBC anchor Brian Williams for a number of libertarian views of the proper role of government in society. -
Kentucky Explores Education Options for ‘Digital Natives’ [BRIEF]
Opinion -Digital learning offers great potential for addressing two of Kentucky’s greatest education needs: high costs and dropout rates, says a new Bluegrass Institute report. -
Heartland Institute Experts Available to Comment on Obama’s Jobs Speech
Opinion -President Obama is expected to ask for some $300 billion in economic stimulus in his speech tonight at a joint session of Congress.Budget and tax experts at The Heartland Institute are available to provide comments after the president’s speech. -
SD Supreme Court Denies Funding Increase as Schools Wrangle Budget Cuts
Opinion -The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled against a lawsuit seeking increased state education spending as school districts cut programs and move to four-day school in an effort to manage significant budget reductions. -
Global Warming: A 98% Consensus Of Nothing
Opinion -During last night’s Republican presidential debate, Jon Huntsman doubled down on Al Gorism, claiming skeptics of “global climate disruption” (that’s the White House’s term) are making “comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate -
The 98 Percent Consensus of Nothing
Opinion -During last night’s Republican presidential debate, Jon Huntsman doubled down on Al Gorism, claiming global warming “skeptics” are making “comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate scientists have said. -
The Government Should Let the AT&T Merger Go Forward
Opinion -Last week, the White House commanded the Department of Justice to scuttle a deal that would’ve combined two wireless carriers — fourth-place T-Mobile and second-place AT&T — and catapulted the merged companies into first place above Verizon. -
Perry’s “Bad or Awful” Environmental Record
Opinion -I'm disappointed in this Erica Greider piece at the New Republic – titled, “Rick Perry’s Record on the Environment: Is It Bad, or Awful?” – for a number of reasons.