Opinion
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Boeing Betrays Kansas Despite Promises, Contract
Opinion -Aircraft maker Boeing last year won a $35 billion military contract to build mid-air refueling tanker planes, a contract the company said would support 7,500 jobs in Wichita, Kansas, where Boeing has been building planes since the late 1920s. -
Heartland Institute Comments on Indiana Right-to-Work Bill, Democratic Boycott
Opinion -On Monday afternoon, House Democrats in the Indiana Legislature ended their boycott, which denied the quorum necessary to consider a right-to-work bill favored by Republicans. -
IL District Accuses Parents of Illegally Enrolling Kids in Better Public School
Opinion -An Illinois school board backed down from legal action against two parents it accused of “illegally enrolling” their twin fifth graders in the district though their father’s legal residence is in that district. -
Heartland Institute Tech Expert Reacts to FCC’s ‘Lifeline’ Proposal
Opinion -Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski today proposed reforming the Lifeline program that is part of the Universal Service Fund to provide telephone service to low-income Americans. -
Illinois Receives Nation’s Worst Credit Rating
Opinion -Despite having imposed a record 67 percent increase in the personal income tax and 46 percent increase in the corporate tax in January 2011, Illinois state government’s debt situation continues to crumble. -
Four Pinocchios for WashPost Fact Checker
Opinion -The Washington Post Fact Checker gave Rick Perry four Pinocchios for his August 17 denunciation of alarmist global warming science. Here’s what we think.Below is the WashPost Fact Checker’s article—our comments are in bold brackets. -
Hypothetically Speaking Too Much
Opinion -Here’s a vivid example of how far lawyers will go to explain their clients’ actions--even when they shouldn’t. -
Digital Textbooks Offer Students, Schools Significant Savings
Opinion -Teachers in Coon Rapids, Minnesota had all but disposed of their school district’s statistics textbook, constantly replacing its outdated information with their own notes and homework problems. -
Explaining the Myths and Dangers of Anti-Humanism
Opinion -Review of Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, by Robert Zubrin (Encounter Books, 2012), 312 pages, ISBN- 978-1594034763There have been many excellent books recounting how -
Heartland Institute Joins Gear Up Florida
Opinion -TALLAHASSEE -- The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank with an office in Tallahassee, announced today it would join the Gear Up Florida Coalition devoted to fighting auto insurance fraud. -
Pennsylvania Legislators Negotiating Fracking Bill
Opinion -High-level negotiators are attempting to reach an agreement on competing Marcellus Shale oversight bills that have passed through the Pennsylvania House and Senate. -
Independent Panel Sees ‘Immense Risk’ in California High-Speed Rail
Opinion -Transportation experts and taxpayer advocates are hailing an independent review panel’s recommendation against borrowing to build a high-speed rail line in California, but the state’s rail authority indicates it plans to keep rolling with its plans. -
Heartland Institute Scholars React to President Obama’s Recess Appointments
Opinion -President Barack Obama this week put Richard Cordray on the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Sharon Block, Terence Flynn, and Richard Griffin on the National Labor Relations Board, all as recess appointments. -
Unemployment Numbers Work
Opinion -As the federal government’s officially reported unemployment rate has trended downward in the past few months, many on the political right have noted that some of the decline comes from people who have stopped looking for work. -
With Time and Reflection, Fukushima Lessons Taking Shape
Opinion -2011 was a historically important year for the application of nuclear power on our planet. Two significant earthquakes occurred in the immediate vicinity of about a dozen nuclear power plants in Japan and also here in the United States. -
FL Gov. Considers Higher Education Incentives, Costs
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Penn State Professor Launches Ethics Attack on Skeptics
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #33Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics Donald Brown is accusing skeptics of “ethically abhorrent” behavior in the latest in a series of attack papers he is posting on the Penn State University -
A Devastating Verdict Against California High-Speed Rail
Opinion -Like many other observers, we have found the California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group to have made a convincing case for a fresh look at the feasibility of the California high-speed rail project. -
Inside Detroit’s Education Black Hole, a Few Stars of Hope
Opinion -There’s no surprise in hearing Detroit is a mess. -
Chinese Solar Companies Losing Money
Opinion -Chinese solar power companies reported larger-than-expected losses in the third quarter of 2011, with few buyers lining up to purchase solar power equipment. -
Attorney General: Renewable Power Driving Up Massachusetts Prices
Opinion -The 2008 Green Communities Act (GCA) will cost Massachusetts residents more than $4 billion dollars over the next four years, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. -
Federal Regs Eat up $231 Billion, 133 Million Paperwork Hours
Opinion -Federal regulations in 2011 added more than $231 billion in regulatory costs to private businesses and state and local governments and required 133 million hours of paperwork, according to a report by the Washington, DC-based American Action Forum. -
Florida Pursues Medicaid Reform
Opinion -Based on evidence Florida’s attempt to reform Medicaid is bearing fruit for the Sunshine State, Republican Gov. Rick Scott is seeking to expand it beyond its initial test counties. -
Half of U.S. Schools Fail to Make ‘Adequate Progress’ in 2011
Opinion -Forty-eight percent of U.S.
