Opinion
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GAO Finds Unintended Consequences of Horse Slaughter Ban
Opinion -A backdoor ban on horse slaughter in the United States, initially supported by animal rights groups, has backfired, with inhumane conditions becoming more prevalent, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study finds. -
A Nuclear Power Plant Cannot Produce a Nuclear Explosion
Opinion -Conventional power sources produce electricity by creating steam to power a turbine. The turbine is attached to an electrical generator which creates electricity. The heat that turns water into steam in most plants is created by burning fossil fuel. -
Florida PSC Scraps Costly Energy Conservation Program
Opinion -The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) has pulled the plug on an aggressive—and expensive—plan by Florida Power & Light to prod its customers into meeting the company’s ambitious conservation goals. -
Floridians Fight Back Against EPA Water Nutrient Restrictions
Opinion -Burdened by a 10.6 percent unemployment rate and a collapsed housing market, Florida’s shaky economy now faces a new challenge: The Sunshine State is squarely in the bull’s eye of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory artillery. -
High Costs Preventing Conformance to Emergency Narrowband Deadline
Opinion -The Federal Communication Commission’s mandate that all U.S. emergency responder radios must switch to digital, narrowband systems by 2013 has prompted some local governments to complain the costs of complying are prohibitive. -
Record Number of Sea Turtles Counted in Texas
Opinion -A record number of nests of endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles have been counted along the Texas Gulf Coast this year, putting to rest fears that last year’s BP Gulf oil spill would further jeopardize the endangered turtles. -
RomneyCare Is No Model for the Nation
Opinion -Because President Obama’s health care law was partially modeled after Massachusetts’ 2006 health reforms, critics of the law have fixated on any piece of bad news they can find coming out of Massachusetts.RomneyCare does have numerous defects. -
ISPs To Monitor Online Copyright Infringment
Opinion -Five U.S. Internet service providers, partnering with Hollywood movie studios and record labels, will begin issuing online warnings to consumers sending or receiving pirated material. -
Olympic Spirit
Opinion -The Redneck Olympics was held early this month in Hebron, Maine for the 15th year in a row. But there may not be one next year.The U.S. -
Cold Killed More Florida Corals than Heat
Opinion -Corals off the coast of Florida died in record numbers in 2010 as a result of cold temperatures, scientists at the University of Miami report in the peer-reviewed science journal PLoS One. -
U.S. Appeals Court Overturns FCC Media Cross-Ownership Rule
Opinion -On July 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals Third Circuit overturned a 2008 Federal Communications Commission regulation allowing greater same-city media market cross-ownership. -
FDA Poses Far More Danger than Dietary Supplements
Opinion -With the nation’s pharmaceutical market already suffocated by the heavy-handed government regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Sen. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Keystone XL Pipeline Approval
Opinion -The U.S. State Department late Friday afternoon found that the TransCanada Corp. Keystone XL oil sands pipeline would have “no significant impact” on natural resources along its proposed route from Alberta, Canada to U.S. -
FCC Implements New Internet Closed-Captioning Rules
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission’s Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee recently set in motion a six-month time period for new rules requiring closed-captioning services on the Internet. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to N.J. Governor’s Fracking Moratorium
Opinion -New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed a permanent ban on a natural gas drilling method known as fracking, but imposed a one-year moratorium on the practice to study the issue. -
FDA Increases Pressure on Raw Milk Movement
Opinion -In the name of protecting public health, the Food and Drug Administration has stepped up its regulation of unpasteurized or “raw” milk over the last few years, raiding Amish farmers in Pennsylvania and shutting down organic co-ops in Los Angeles at -
Pell Grants Preserved, Graduate Student Loans Cut
Opinion -Federal debt-ceiling negotiations that originally targeted Pell Grants for reduction ultimately preserved the program while cutting federal loans for graduate students as part of the $1.5 trillion, ten-year deal. -
Landmark Experiment Supports Cosmic Ray Theory
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #17Researchers at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland report new evidence supporting the theory that cosmic rays may be enhancing the sun’s impact on global temperatures and climate. -
Do Fed’s $1.2 Trillion in Loans Indicate a Worse Crisis Than We Knew?
Opinion -Panic? Or prudence? That is the question in the wake of news that Wall Street firms secretly received at least $1.2 trillion in emergency loans from the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis. The revelation of $1. -
‘Green Scissors’ Would Cut $380 Billion from Environmentally Harmful Spending
Opinion -The federal government could cut $380 billion of spending over five years to save taxpayers money and protect the environment, say a group of environmental and fiscal watchdog organizations that call themselves the Green Scissors coalition. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Closed Investigation of Alleged Wisconsin Justice Scuffle
Opinion -The special prosecutor appointed to investigate the alleged fisticuffs between two justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided Thursday that no criminal charges ought to be filed. -
Critics: FCC CableCARD Mandate Requires ‘Outdated Technology’
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission is giving cable TV companies until Nov. -
Heartland Institute Insurance Experts Comment on Hurricane Irene
Opinion -Hurricane Irene, the first storm of the 2011 hurricane season to threaten the mainland United States, appears likely to make landfall in the Carolinas sometime in the next few days. -
Global Warming Debate Benefits Perry
Opinion -Public opinion polls show a minority of Americans believe humans are causing a serious and imminent global warming threat.