Opinion
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Obama’s Contraceptive Mandate Will Snare Religious Organizations
Opinion -A proposed Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate emanating from President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act will require all private health insurance plans to cover contraceptive and sterilization prescriptions as -
Newton, NC, Implements City Wi-Fi
Opinion -The first phase of a public wi-fi service covering a portion of the downtown area of Newton, North Carolina, became active in August. -
Study: Public School Teachers Highly Overpaid
Opinion -Public school teachers make one-and-a-half times the salary and benefits of comparable professionals, a discrepancy that amounts to “overcharging” U.S. taxpayers $120 billion each year, according to a new study. -
Canadian-Style Health Care Coming to Montana?
Opinion -While governors of most states are deciding whether to implement or resist President Obama’s health care law, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is looking to do something completely different: bringing a Canadian-style single-payer system on his state. -
Auto Insurance Reform Must Tackle Fraud
Opinion -Motown’s home state is rocketing up the wrong sorts of charts these days. A recent survey from Insure.com shows Michigan jumped over Louisiana in 2011 to take first place as the state with the nation’s highest average annual auto insurance premiums. -
Oregon’s Medicaid Expansion Health Outcomes Examined
Opinion -With President Obama’s health care law mandating states expand their Medicaid programs dramatically by 2014, a Cato Institute forum in early October examined the government program’s effects on those enrolled in it—particularly whether the expansion is a -
EU Net Neutrality ‘Need’ for Internet Privacy Challenged
Opinion -European proponents of network neutrality have added privacy concerns to their call for government regulation of the Internet, an argument identified as a red herring by opponents of the rules. -
Heartland Institute Comments on Obama’s FCC Nominations
Opinion -President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel and Republican Ajit Varadaraj Pai to replace Michael Copps and Meredith Baker Atwell, respectively, on the Federal Communications Commission. -
Associated Press Links Early Snowfall to Global Warming
Opinion -Global warming alarmists are showing again this morning why poll after poll shows they have lost credibility with the American public. -
Auto Insurance Reform Must Tackle Fraud
Opinion -Motown’s home state is rocketing up the wrong sorts of charts these days. A recent survey from Insure.com shows Michigan jumped over Louisiana in 2011 to take first place as the state with the nation’s highest average annual auto insurance premiums. -
Consumer Power Report: The Emancipation from Health Care Costs Act
Opinion -On CNBC Friday, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi gave a glimpse into the glaringly incorrect mindset behind President Barack Obama’s health care law. -
FEE Conference Riles, Enlightens, Engages
Opinion -When someone as controversial as Rupert Murdoch, founder of News Corp. -
Muller Backtracks on Temperature Claims
Opinion -Georgia Tech climate professor Judith Curry, coauthor with Richard Muller of the BEST temperature reconstruction that has been dominating global warming media attention for the past 10 days, has posted a summary of a discussion she had last night with -
Nevada Develops Comprehensive Student Progress Tracking System
Opinion -Nevada is implementing a new data system to track student progress over time and pinpoint the state’s best and worst teaching practices and teachers. -
The Fed and the Financial Crisis: More Problems, More Failed Solutions
Opinion -Editor’s note: Last month, noted economist Robert Genetski explained how top policymakers’ erroneous assumptions led to actions that contributed to the start of the economic crisis. This month he analyzes the moves that deepened the crisis. -
Jobs Act Would Impose $4.77 Billion Spectrum Tax
Opinion -Among the provisions of President Obama’s “American Jobs Act” is authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to impose taxes on broadcast spectrum and on profits earned by telecommunications companies that voluntarily return broadcast -
Nobody’s tax scheme will fix Feds’ spending problems
Opinion -Trying to fill the federal government's gigantic budget hole with a 5.6 percent surtax on the tiny number of people with incomes greater than $1 million, as President Barack Obama proposes, is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with a spoonful of dirt. -
San Antonio Council Okays Streetcar Rail
Opinion -The San Antonio City Council has approved a multi-million dollar battery-powered streetcar service that critics say could put the city on “a dangerous fiscal path. -
Voucher Critics are Misleading the Public
Opinion -The usual suspects have again begun loudly denouncing Gov. Tom Corbett's push for a second chance at passing education vouchers for poor students in Pennsylvania's worst 5 percent of public schools. -
Motel Nix
Opinion -Once every four years in the past 20 years, persons staying at a family-owned motel in Massachusetts have been arrested for one kind of crime or another. This is 0.05 percent of the persons who stayed there. Only ten arrests were made. -
Legal Beagles
Opinion -Technically, this item isn’t about lawsuit abuse, but it may go a long way toward explaining why it exists.Above the law, a legal blog, engages in matchmaking from time to time. Its latest effort sent two Chicago lawyers on a blind date. -
U.S. Reps Raise Medical Device Hacking Concerns
Opinion -Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) asked the Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative arm, to evaluate efforts by the Federal Communications Commission and the FDA to protect medical devices using wireless technologies. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Friday Court Ruling on Cape Wind Project
Opinion -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday handed down a ruling that sets back the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts. -
WI Districts Raise Achievement, Cut Costs
Opinion -Three Wisconsin school districts have been boosting student performance while using less money and tailored technology, challenges for nearly every district in the nation as tax revenues remain low and U.S. K-12 academic performance remains mediocre.
