Opinion
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Arizona Congressmen Fight Uranium Mining Ban
Opinion -Members of Congress from Arizona are squaring off with the Obama administration over uranium mining near the Grand Canyon. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has said he would like to impose a 20-year moratorium on new mining claims in 1. -
Study: Graduates from Certain Teacher Training Programs Boost Student Achievement
Opinion -Some teacher training programs graduate better teachers than others and improving such programs can lift student achievement, reports a new study from the University of Washington’s Center for Education Data & Research. U.S. -
Obama Exchange in Virginia Would Be Expensive Mistake
Opinion -Is Bob McDonnell about to become Barack Obama’s favorite governor? If polls are any indication, McDonnell is one of the most popular governors in the country. -
Study: Global Warming Not a National Security Threat
Opinion -Global warming is unlikely to damage U.S. national security, but expensive programs implemented to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will weaken the nation’s economy and military, concludes a new study published by the George C. Marshall Institute. -
Citizens Insurance
Opinion -As Florida's economy struggles to recover, there is one issue brewing below the surface that if left unattended may erase any recovery, or worse. I commend Gov. -
EPA Proposes Ban on Rat and Mouse Poisons
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to ban 20 rat and mouse control products because they use loose bait. -
Feinstein, Issa Join Forces to Support Oyster Farm
Opinion -Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) are criticizing the scientific analysis in a preliminary environmental impact statement the National Park Service may utilize to halt oyster farming in the Point Reyes National Seashore. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Resignation of Obamacare Point Man Don Berwick
Opinion -Don Berwick, the controversial head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will step down from his post next month. -
Impact of Obama’s Health Care Law Raises Concerns in Ohio
Opinion -A new report projects dramatic impact of President Obama’s health care law on consumers, businesses, and the insurance market in Ohio. -
Obama and the Crash of 2013
Opinion -Most people do not know that already enacted in current law for 2013 are increases in the top tax rates of virtually every major federal tax. That is because the tax increases of Obamacare become effective that year, and the Bush tax cuts expire. -
Pension Lock-Ins: Bad for Teachers, Taxpayers Alike
Opinion -It’s a common story, one Bay Area residents know particularly well. You bought a shiny new iPhone late last year that can download all sorts of cool apps. -
Save Housing, Kill Fannie and Freddie
Opinion -Four years after its collapse, the housing market continues to crumble. The National Association of Realtors on Nov. 9 reported that housing prices fell in 111 of 150 metropolitan areas in the third quarter of the year. -
America’s Energy Future is Bright, If Government Doesn’t Shut It Down
Opinion -With the exception of our declining public education system, the single greatest obstacle to our nation’s future economic growth is a near-total lack of understanding of our vast energy resources. -
Taint of Political Corruption Wafts from Jefferson County Bankruptcy
Opinion -Jefferson County, Alabama’s financial struggles have taken the local government into the largest municipal bankruptcy in national history as nearly two dozen persons associated with the county’s financial troubles have been convicted of criminal conduct. -
Government Handouts Always Followed by Takeaways
Opinion -President Barack Obama apparently does not understand basic economics or even simple math. Such as: There are two sides to every equation. -
Surprise: Teachers Are Overpaid
Opinion -A new study concluding public school teachers earn, on average, 152 percent of what comparable private employees do has enormous implications for today’s state deficits and public policy. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to ‘Climategate 2’ Emails
Opinion -Another shoe dropped in the Climategate scandal today with the release of thousands more emails revealing how the scientists who contributed to the U.N. -
Arkansas State Health Exchange on Hold
Opinion -In the face of widespread opposition from top Republicans in the House and five other lawmakers, Arkansas Democrat Gov. Mike Beebe has declined the Obama administration’s $3.8 million grant to research how to establish a new health insurance exchange. -
Pinellas County Removes Fluoride from Tap Water
Opinion -The Pinellas County Commissioners voted 4-3 to stop fluoridating tap water for some of the county’s residents. -
Faith of Our Fathers?
Opinion -A suburban Chicago school district may pay $75,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. -
Consumer Power Report: The States Lead By Example
Opinion -Last week I told you about the Obama administration’s denial of the Medicaid waiver extension request for Mitch Daniels’ Healthy Indiana Plan. -
A Look Inside the EPA’s Assault on Common Sense
Opinion -Review of Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA Is Ruining American Industry, by Richard Trzupek (Encounter Books, 2011), 160 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1594035265When Richard Trzupek asked me to write the foreword to Regulators Gone Wild, little did he know the -
CO Voters Reject Education Tax Increase
Opinion -Lopsided defeats of proposed education tax hikes across the nation, including a 64-36 drubbing in Colorado, indicate a decidedly anti-tax attitude among voters as states struggle to pay for rising education costs and teacher pensions. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Super Committee Failure
Opinion -The so-called “super committee,” a bipartisan panel of members of the House and Senate, announced Monday it would not reach agreement on a plan to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget over 10 years.
