Opinion
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Heartland Legal Expert Exposes Flaw in Virginia Obamacare Ruling
Opinion -Fourth Circuit’s Factual Error Throws Last Week’s Decision in DoubtThe Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals made a “rookie” error last week when it ruled the Commonwealth of Virginia was not a proper party to challenge the constitutionality of the Obamacare -
Heartland Institute Experts React to EPA CO2 Delay
Opinion -The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it has negotiated an extension of a court-ordered September 30 deadline for issuing rules governing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major sources. -
Obamacare Federal Exchanges Could Be Stymied by States
Opinion -The key question facing states regarding implementation of President Obama’s health care law is the creation of health insurance exchanges, scheduled to be submitted for approval by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by January 1, 2013. -
Gore Launches 24 Hours of Climate Deception
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #20On Wednesday evening Al Gore reminded Americans that nobody can annoy and alienate people through name-calling, condescension, misrepresentation of facts, and paranoid conspiracy theories quite like Al. -
Florida Policies Create Charter School Boom
Opinion -A new Florida law has sparked a 38 percent increase in charters applying to open, or nearly 100 more this year over last year’s 252. The state has more than 400 charter schools, the third highest number in the country. -
How Smart Growth and Livability Intensify Air Pollution
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to implement stronger air pollution restrictions on ozone (smog) for the stated purpose of improving public health. -
States Take Wide Variety of Approaches to Obamacare Exchange Mandate
Opinion -Perhaps the biggest state challenge recently has been whether to set up a health insurance exchange as required by President Obama’s health care law. States are all over the map—both literally and figuratively. -
Michigan Legislators Weigh Parent Trigger, Charter Expansion
Opinion -Parents and teachers in Michigan would have the power to petition their school district to convert a failing public school into an independent charter under a bill pending in the Republican-controlled state Senate. -
Proposed California Amazon Tax Grants One-Year Exemption for Internet Retailers
Opinion -Internet retail giant Amazon.com has given up its battle against a proposed sales tax bill in California in return for a one-year window that grants Internet retailers a reprieve from collecting the taxes until September 2012. -
House Passes Charter Expansion, First of Five NCLB Bills
Opinion -The House of Representatives passed 365-54 the first of five bills planned to reauthorize No Child Left Behind. HR 2218 would streamline and expand federal charter school funds and outlines a new monitoring process. -
Heartland Institute Counters Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Panic
Opinion -Al Gore is using his considerable media muscle to express his frustration that people and governments the world over – but especially here in the United States – have increasingly rejected the notion humans are destroying the planet. -
Fourth Circuit’s Factual Error Throws Obamacare Decision in Doubt
Opinion -In a recent ruling that the Commonwealth of Virginia lacks standing to challenge the individual mandate provision of Obamacare, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit made a “rookie” factual error serious enough to call for -
Customers, Not Government, Determine Competitiveness
Opinion -The White House this week commanded the Department of Justice to scuttle a deal that would’ve combined two wireless carriers—fourth-place T-Mobile and second-place AT&T—and catapulted the merged companies into first place above Verizon. -
Competition from Charters Pushes All Schools Forward
Opinion -A large percentage of Americans do not know what to think about charter schools, even though these nontraditional public schools have begun quietly changing the way we all think about education. -
Correcting Al Gore’s ’24 Hours of Reality’
Opinion -Al Gore is using his considerable media muscle to express his frustration that people and governments the world over – but especially here in the United States – have increasingly rejected the notion humans are destroying the planet. -
Vaccine Fearmongers Exposed
Opinion -Review of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, by Seth Mnookin, Simon & Schuster, 448 pp, $15 In 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion and unsupported research results, published a -
Obama’s $50 Billion Infrastructure Proposal: We’ve Heard it All Before
Opinion -President Obama's new $50 billion infrastructure initiative -- part of his $447 billion American Jobs Act (AJA) which he announced during a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8 -- offered no surprises. -
Innovative Schools Shift Seat-Centered Academics
Opinion -While some education reformers are focusing on performance-based incentives and curriculum changes, others are trying to shift the very structure of schooling.Students traditionally attend school from September to June, five days a week, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. -
Genetic Enhancements Can Help Crops Absorb More Carbon Dioxide
Opinion -Modifying crops to grow longer roots deeper into the soil would allow plants to naturally sequester more carbon dioxide in soil, Douglas Kell, a scientist at the UK’s University of Manchester reports in the September issue of Annals of Botany. -
The 98 Percent Consensus of Nothing
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #19During last week’s Republican presidential debate, Jon Huntsman doubled down on Al Gorism, claiming global warming skeptics are making “comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate scientists have said. -
President Proposes Another Jobs Stimulus, $60 Billion for Education
Opinion -Before a joint session of Congress, President Obama proposed another $450 billion to stimulate the nation’s economy, including $60 billion for education. Rep. -
Consumer Power Report: Don’t Go Exchanging
Opinion -Welcome to the Consumer Power Report. -
Only One in Four Voters Considers Gore a Global Warming Expert
Opinion -Only 24 percent of likely American voters consider Al Gore an expert on global warming, according to a new poll released by Rasmussen Reports. More than twice that number – 59 percent – say Gore is not an expert, while 18 percent are not sure. -
LA Times Commits Huge Gaffe while Attacking Perry
Opinion -The Los Angeles Times has published a snarky editorial today, “Rick Perry and Galileo – pardners in science,” ridiculing the Texas governor for saying he doesn’t have all the answers on the evolution/creationism debate and the global warming debate.
