Opinion
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Sebelius to Shame Insurers for Rate Increases—on Government Website
Opinion -With insurance premiums having risen across the nation since the passage of President Obama’s health care law, his administration recently announced a public relations response to the increases which will highlight rate hikes on a taxpayer-funded website. -
Climategate 2 Reveals More Destruction of Evidence, Scientific Flaws
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #29A little more than a week ago an anonymous source released more than 5,000 Climategate emails to supplement the initial batch of Climategate emails released two years ago. -
Missouri’s Mel Hancock, Friend to Taxpayer, Advocate of Freedom
Opinion -Many politicians, especially at election time, say they believe the size and power of government should be limited. Rare is the politician who both says it and means it. Mel Hancock of Missouri was one of the rare ones. -
Thorough Investigation
Opinion -A Nigerian comedian was imprisoned for three weeks after an airport body scanner indicated he had drugs in his stomach. He may sue. Or he may make a movie about it.The man was taken into custody after the airport body scan. -
Medicaid Freedom Is Solution to Texas Cost Problems
Opinion -Commentators have portrayed Texas’s uninsured rate as evidence of Texans’ lack of access to health care. However, the reality is that Texas’s problem is not care but cost. How does an uninsured individual receive care? -
UN Report Questions Link between Warming, Extreme Weather
Opinion -Extreme weather events have recently assumed a central role in the global warming discussion. Al Gore spent the majority of his recent “24 Hours of Reality” internet program on extreme weather. Peter Gleick last week wrote a Forbes. -
Heartland Offers Comments to Improve Insurance Regulation
Opinion -Insurance regulators should be encouraged to continue exploring ways to modernize and harmonize the state-based system of insurance regulation – particularly outdated and counter-productive rate controls that foment the undue build-up of risk in -
Speech Impediment
Opinion -It soon may be a crime in Massachusetts to “bully” a coworker. -
Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Lower Probability of Extreme Climate Change
Opinion -A newly publishede study in the peer-reviewed journal Science shows climate has historically been less sensitive to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide than United Nations computer models are programmed to assume. -
Congressman Calls for Hearings Into Fed’s Secret Trillions
Opinion -Revelations the Federal Reserve secretly doled out more than $7 trillion to financial institutions here and abroad during the height of the financial crisis – approximately 10 times more money than Congress approved in the Troubled Asset Relief Program – -
Ohio Considers Vouchers for Lower-Income Families
Opinion -An Ohio legislator has offered a bill to grant low- and middle-class students school vouchers. Ohio already offers vouchers to some special-needs students and those in the state’s lowest-performing schools. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Facebook Privacy Settlement with FTC
Opinion -Facebook today reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges it repeatedly broke promises of privacy to its hundreds of millions of users. -
CLASS Act Exposes ObamaCare Accounting Tricks, but Democrats Oppose Repeal
Opinion -A small but important entitlement within President Obama’s health care law has been rescinded by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. But Capitol Hill Democrats are opposing efforts to repeal the relevant language entirely. -
Implementing Common Core Could Cost States $30 Billion
Opinion -Cash-strapped state education budgets have another fiscal burden looming: the cost of implementing Common Core standards. -
Consumer Power Report: Farewell, Don Berwick
Opinion -Welcome to the Consumer Power Report. And goodbye to Don Berwick. As expected, Berwick will step down as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services next week. -
VIDEO: PROTECT-IP/Stop Online Piracy Act Gives Government Too Much Power
Opinion -According to the Congressional Budget Office, the PROTECT-IP/Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA/SOPA) bill currently gaining momentum in Congress will cost taxpayers $47 million a year. -
Nova Publishes Chart Showing Climate Alarmism Funding
Opinion -Funding for global warming alarmists dwarfs the much-publicized funding for climate crisis skeptics, science writer Joanne Nova explains in a global warming funding chart and accompanying text on her Web site, JoanneNova.com.au. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to AT&T Withdrawing Merger Application for T-Mobile
Opinion -On Thanksgiving morning, AT&T announced it was withdrawing its application with the Federal Communications Commission to merge with T-Mobile and will concentrate its efforts to complete the $39 billion deal with the antitrust division of the U.S. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Retirement of Rep. Barney Frank
Opinion -Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) announced Monday he would not run for reelection in 2012. -
Short-term Fixes Won’t End Cook County Woes
Opinion -Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has governed in a more fiscally responsible manner than her predecessor, Todd Stroger. Unfortunately, her most recent, $2. -
Indiana’s Innovative System Clings to Life
Opinion -As governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels has achieved remarkable success in a policy area that challenges every governor across the country: the desperate need for Medicaid reform. -
California Warming Law Hurts Job Market
Opinion -California businesses are being forced to purchase expensive new equipment to comply with the state’s global warming law, which impedes job-creation, legislators and business representatives reported in state legislative caucus hearings on Oct. 18. -
“Shut Up,” They Explained
Opinion -Don’t call your school administrators “douchebags.” Or, if you do, don’t try to sue them when they try to shut you up.The U.S. -
California Imposes Unprecedented Chemical Restrictions
Opinion -The California Department of Toxic Substances Control has tightened restrictions on chemicals alleged to impact human health.
