Opinion
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Seabed Gas Illustrates Energy-Rich Future
Opinion -The UK Times has published an article (republished in the Australian) explaining how scientists are hopeful of retrieving vast amounts of natural gas frozen in global seabeds. -
Commentary: SOPA/PIPA Bad Legislation
Opinion -The Stop Online Piracy Act and its counterpart in the Senate, the PROTECT IP Act, have gotten a lot of attention from Internet users in the past few months. Most of this attention has come in the form of opposition. -
Speed-Enforcement Cameras in Chicago—For Safety or Money?
Opinion -The Illinois General Assembly has sent to Gov. Pat Quinn (D) a bill that, among other things, would authorize speed-enforcement cameras on roads within one-eighth of a mile of Chicago's schools and parks. -
School Choice Proposition to Appear on Texas Primary Ballot
Opinion -Texas’s spring 2012 primary ballot will include a proposition asking Republican voters if the state should fund K-12 education by attaching money directly to each student, rather than school districts or agencies. -
Indiana Vouchers Constitutional, Federal Judge Rules
Opinion -A federal judge has ruled the nation's largest school voucher program constitutional, rejecting every legal claim brought against it, including the argument it represents state funding of religion. Judge Michael Keele ruled in Meredith v. -
FISCAL PODCAST with Yaron Brook: The Moral Case for Capitalism
Opinion -The Ayn Rand Center's Yaron Brook says to defend freedom in our personal and economic lives, we need to defend the morality behind acting in our own self-interest. -
Indiana, Amazon.com Reach Sales Tax Agreement
Opinion -Indiana government officials and the nation’s largest online retailer have reached an agreement to begin collecting Indiana sales tax on Internet purchases. Indiana will become the fourth state to reach such an agreement with Amazon.com, but Gov. -
To Improve Education and Economy, Legislators Must Strengthen Marriage
Opinion -When I (Cynthia) attended Logan Elementary School in Wilmette, Illinois, we students were sent home for lunch with the understanding our parents would feed and send us back for the afternoon session an hour later. -
Pay to Play
Opinion -A man who had to pay $1,000 for admission to a “Leather Meets Lace” party at the Playboy Mansion, while “gorgeous ladies” were admitted free, is suing Playboy for sex discrimination. -
TECH PODCAST with Randolph May: Free Markets Should Rule Technology
Opinion -In this week's Heartland Tech Podcast, Randolph J. May, president of The Free State Foundation, discusses his newly published collection of essays.He calls for free-market reforms of U.S. -
Peter Gleick Slammed for Attacks on Skeptics
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #34Global warming activist Peter Gleick is taking a beating for authoring a column in Forbes. -
Map of Ogallalah Aquifer and Extensive Network of Pipelines
Opinion -At this link is a map (PDF) depicting the underlying Ogallalah Aquifer (lavender background) and the overlying existing oil and gas pipelines, as well as the proposed Keystone XL. -
Colorado Teacher Unions Receive Millions Directly from Taxpayers
Opinion -Teacher unions in 20 Colorado school districts have spent more than $5.8 million in taxpayer dollars on union activities in the past five years, from union presidents’ salaries to paid teacher days off. -
The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression
Opinion -The record of President Obama’s first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. -
Dirty Deeds
Opinion -A Maryland man now has a criminal record for connecting a sewer line discharging from a backed-up sewer pipe inside a military retirement home in Washington, DC to an outside storm drain. -
Chicago-based Heartland Institute Reacts to Anniversary of Illinois Tax Hike
Opinion -One year ago today, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a tax package that raised personal income taxes by 67 percent and corporate taxes by 46 percent. -
Arizona Legislator Proposes Amending State Constitution to Allow Vouchers
Opinion -State Rep. Jack Harper (R-Surprise) has proposed legislation that would amend Arizona’s constitution to allow state-funded vouchers for disabled and foster children. -
Obama Nominee for Social Security Board Criticized for Supporting Rationing
Opinion -Henry J. Aaron, President Obama’s nominee to chair the Social Security Advisory Board, has come under fire for his support of health-care rationing, Obama’s health care law, and the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board. -
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Detroit Public School Reform a Model for the City
Opinion -Calling Detroit a mess is redundant.Even the City Council seems finally to have realized it can no longer continue the misgovernment that has been chasing people out of the city for decades — though it still postures about "retaining local control. -
Legal Disability
Opinion -Two companies are being sued for employment discrimination against the disabled by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over a prohibition on hiring an epileptic for a construction project in Georgia.Garney Construction Co. -
North Carolina Regulators Hound Food Trucks
Opinion -North Carolina Pastor Michael King is trying to start a food truck ministry. He’s converting old buses his church bought into food trucks to employ the poor and homeless in Rowan County. -
Consumer Power Report: The Good, Bad, and Ugly on Cancer
Opinion -The new year brings us good, if not great, news within the annual cancer statistical projections for 2012, according to an annual report from Dr. Ahmedin Jemal. Here is a USA Today article on the report, and here is the report itself. -
Wisconsin’s Ballot Laws Should Resemble Virginia’s
Opinion -Republicans attacking Virginia’s presidential primary ballot access laws as discriminatory, too strict and even unconstitutional are agitating for election laws more like those in Wisconsin. They should be careful what they wish for.
