Opinion
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Cuccinelli and Coakley Debate Constitutionality of Obamacare
Opinion -Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will debate the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law Thursday, February 9th at 10 AM at the National Press Club. -
Praise, Condemnation for $25 Billion Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement
Opinion -The deal to force the nation’s largest mortgage lenders to write down some home loans and refinance mortgages for “underwater” borrowers is drawing fire from various quarters. -
Commentary: Current Copyright Law Is Enough
Opinion -The sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act, Rep. Lamar Smith announced in late January he’s deferring action on the bill “until there is wider agreement on a solution. -
Schools Attach ‘Fat Monitors’ to Students
Opinion -Missouri’s Parkway School District recently purchased 400 electronic devices to track 2,500 elementary students’ physical activity, first during gym classes this spring and possibly 24/7 after that. -
Obama Administration Waives ‘No Child’ for Ten States
Opinion -The Obama administration will let ten states miss student proficiency targets required by the federal No Child Left Behind law in exchange for them enacting policies the administration prefers. -
Consumer Electronics Future Bright—If Government Doesn’t Interfere
Opinion -Every January, tens of thousands of technology industry leaders travel to Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics Show. -
New Heartland Institute Report Urges Reform of Texas’ Margins Tax
Opinion -The Heartland Institute has produced a new Policy Brief titled “Texas Margins Tax: Principles for Reform” by Eli Lehrer, vice president for Washington, DC operations at Heartland, and Julie Drenner, Texas director of Heartland’s Center on Finance, -
Digital Textbooks to Arrive in Utah Schools This Fall
Opinion -Days before the Obama administration pushed for connecting every child to an e-textbook by 2017, Utah officials announced plans to release statewide open-source, digital textbooks this coming fall. -
New Heartland Institute Report Urges Reform of Texas’ Margins Tax
Opinion -New Heartland Institute ReportUrges Reform of Texas Margins TaxThe Heartland Institute has produced a new Policy Brief titled “Texas Margins Tax: Principles for Reform” by Eli Lehrer, vice president for Washington, DC operations at Heartland, and Julie -
Freedom Leads to Hope
Opinion -Review of The Audacity of Freedom, by Dennis Hedke (Tate Publishing, 2011), 268 pages, ISBN- 978-1613464083Dennis Hedke is a skillful geophysicist with considerable knowledge of energy resources and a fiery desire to take back our country from our -
Illinois Had Nation’s Worst Jobs Record in 2011, Report Says
Opinion -Over the past year, Illinois has been dogged by numerous news stories about the state’s poor jobs climate and negative economic outlook. The latest employment numbers indicate the trend isn’t poised to end anytime soon. -
Heartland Vice President: Letting Credit Unions Lend More Is Good Public Policy
Opinion -WASHINGTON, D.C. - A vice president of The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank, today said he believes strongly in the ideas behind legislation that would make it easier for credit unions to lend more money to their members. -
Ruling that Anti-bullying Law is Unconstitutional is a Relief
Opinion -It is rather a relief for New Jersey school districts and students that a state panel has ruled a new anti-bullying law unfunded, and therefore unconstitutional, because the law itself would have constituted bullying, largely outsourcing it to schools. -
New Emissions Data Dampen Warming Fears
Opinion -U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to track lower than year 2000 levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on Jan. 23, extending this century’s downward trend in U.S. emissions. -
DoJ Opinion May Clear Way for Online Gambling
Opinion -States starved for revenue may have a new source of money after a U.S. Department of Justice opinion that appears to open the market for state-sanctioned online gambling such as Internet poker. -
SD Governor Proposes Teacher Bonuses, Ending Tenure
Opinion -Gov. Dennis Daugaard opened South Dakota’s legislative session by proposing to eliminate tenure for new teachers and to award $15 million in bonuses to the state’s best teachers and those teaching math and science. -
Florida Faces Crises in Auto, Property Insurance Markets
Opinion -Despite bipartisan support for reform over the last three years, Florida’s legislature has not effectively addressed the state’s dysfunctional property insurance system. -
Hundreds Kept Imprisoned in Georgia Despite Serving Their Sentences
Opinion -Georgia penitentiaries continue to feed, clothe, and pay medical expenses for hundreds of inmates who were approved for parole but cannot be released because they have nowhere to live. About two-thirds are convicted sex offenders. -
Consumer Power Report #308: Who Pays for Medicaid Expansion?
Opinion -Welcome to the Consumer Power Report. Actuarial firm Milliman, Inc. -
Report Offers Plan for Digitizing Kentucky Education
Opinion -Creating a digital learning system that provides access for all students could further Kentucky’s goals of equipping students for colleges and careers, says a report presented to the Kentucky Board of Education. -
Oklahoma Challenges EPA Haze Restrictions
Opinion -Oklahoma state officials are challenging a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mandate that will force the state’s two largest utilities to spend at least $800 million to install emissions scrubbers. -
Falik Symbol
Opinion -The law school at Harvard has a new building, where even the men’s room is named after a donor. Berkley law professor William A. Falik donated $100,000 to the law school. -
DHS Approves Government Collection of Social Media Info
Opinion -The Department of Homeland Security granted written permission to its National Operations Center Media Monitoring Initiative to collect and retain data gathered from news anchors, journalists, reporters, or any person using “traditional and/or social -
Mark of the Beast
Opinion -A San Antonio brewpub calls a step in its brewing process “Hopasaurus Rex,” a play on the name of the Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur. Evidently, a brew pub in another state calls its actual end-product beer the same thing.
