Opinion
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Heartland Institute Comments on Data Retention ‘Spy’ Bill in Congress
Opinion -The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a bill that would require Internet service providers to keep records of their customers’ online activities for one year, and hand them over to police upon request. -
Heartland Institute Comments on This Weekend’s Education March, Rallies
Opinion -The four-day-long ‘Save Our Schools’ rally began Thursday in Washington, D.C. and runs throughout the weekend. -
Net Neutrality Violates Property Rights Principles
Opinion -Network neutrality, a euphemistically labeled and insidious concept, is perhaps the biggest current threat to the Internet, chiefly because it threatens property rights by supplying the wrong answer to the question of “Who owns the pipes? -
Climate Change Weekly: NASA Data Show less Heat Trapped than Expected
Opinion -NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. -
State, Local Tax Deductibility Is a Tax-Hike Machine
Opinion -As members of Congress and the Obama administration creep ever closer to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, it becomes increasingly clear any plan that emerges will rewrite the nation’s tax code. -
Atlanta Cheating Scandal More Reason to Keep Testing
Opinion -The interwebs are ablaze with criticism of the "pressure to meet targets" on state standardized tests that allegedly led teachers and administrators in 80 percent of Atlanta Public Schools investigated to distort or falsify results. -
Walker’s Bargaining Limits Save Millions; Some Districts Still Short
Opinion -Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining limits enacted earlier this year are saving some school districts millions of dollars by requiring teachers to work more and contribute to pensions and health insurance. -
The Coming Fall of the Teachers Unions
Opinion -Review of Special Interest: Teachers Unions and American Public Schools, by Terry Moe, Brookings Institution Press (2011). $34.95, 513 pages, ISBN: 0815721293. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Congressional Probe of FCC’s ‘Improper’ Meetings on Net Neutrality
Opinion -Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski asking if the agency’s meetings with pro-network-neutrality advocacy groups meant the FCC “failed to develop -
Heartland Replies to ‘Nature’
Opinion -Nature, the well-known British science journal, has a feature story and an unsigned editorial in its latest issue addressing The Heartland Institute’s contribution to the global debate over climate change. -
NASA Data Show less Heat Trapped than Expected
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #14NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science -
More Private Insurers Using Medicare Rates for Out-of-Network Payments
Opinion -Patients may start having to pay more money out of pocket for health care if they do not pay attention to their insurers’ pricing policies. -
Colorado School Districts Swarm Teacher Evaluation Pilot
Opinion -Forty-one school districts volunteered to participate in Colorado’s statewide teacher evaluation pilot program this fall, an unusual response given tepid enrollment in similar programs in states such as New Jersey and Virginia. -
Washington’s Rebate Tax Would Be Paid By Seniors
Opinion -Guest Column for Kaiser Health News Leading congressional Democrats appear ready to impose a new tax on prescription drugs for seniors -- a tax that would increase Medicare drug plan premiums for some seniors by as much as 40 percent. -
Casey Anthony Verdict Doesn’t Require New Laws
Opinion -So-called “Caylee’s Laws” are already being introduced in dozens of states across America, and a petition for a federal version has gone viral on the Internet. -
Vermont Becomes First State With Single Payer
Opinion -Vermont is on a path to become the first state in the nation to have a government-run health care monopoly, as a result of a health care bill signed Democrat by Gov. Peter Shumlin in May. -
Doubling Down on Class Warfare
Opinion -In the course of negotiations over the debt limit, President Barack Obama’s rejection of his own bipartisan White House debt commission’s recommendations has become complete. -
BRIEF: Walker’s Bargaining Limits Save Millions, Some Districts Still Short
Opinion -Sixty-seven of Wisconsin’s 424 school districts have reported saving more than $140 million in total by collectively negotiating only salaries under Gov. Scott Walker’s bargaining limits enacted earlier this year. -
FTC Revamping Rules for Online Advertising
Opinion -The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment about proposed revisions to its guidance to businesses about online advertising. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Debt Ceiling Debate
Opinion -President Barack Obama and Congress appear to be getting closer to a deal to cut spending as a condition for raising the federal debt ceiling. -
Federal Funds Pump School-based Health Centers, State Burden
Opinion -The Department of Health and Human Services announced a federal grant rollout of $95 million to school-based health centers nationwide as part of a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. -
Government’s $7 Billion Broadband Waste
Opinion -As members of Congress and the Obama administration creep ever closer to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, it becomes increasingly clear any plan that emerges will rewrite the nation’s tax code. -
Georgia Senate Mulls Muni-Internet Referendum Requirement
Opinion -Georgia legislators introduced a bill in the State Senate that would require municipalities to hold referendums before launching high-speed Internet service. Georgia SB 313, according to bill cosponsor State Sen. -
AAI’s Analysis of Verizon-Cable Is Industrial Policy Not Antitrust
Opinion -Reading through The American Antitrust Institute's white paper on Verizon-Cable, it is striking how little analysis is relevant to antitrust/market-competition and how it is basically a thinly veiled tacit pitch for the DOJ and the FCC to pursue an
