Opinion
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Deflation is Not Depression, Something Our Federal Reserve Needs to Learn
Opinion -Testimony of Joseph T. Salerno before the U.S. -
Colorado School District Approves Pilot Voucher Plan
Opinion -Colorado’s third-largest school district has established a pilot program allowing up to 500 students to attend a public or private school of their choice. -
#264: Obamacare, Year One
Opinion -One year in to President Barack Obama’s national health care regime, what you think of his signature domestic policy accomplishment depends a great deal on if you’re listening to his allies or not. -
Georgia Legislature Considers iPad Investment
Opinion -Georgia legislators are contemplating a pilot program that would replace textbooks in the state’s public middle schools with iPads and other electronic readers, joining a burgeoning worldwide trend aimed at reducing education costs and engaging -
States Making More Budgeting Errors in the Tough Economy
Opinion -States have been making more serious errors in estimating their revenues during tough economic times, according to a new report by the Pew Center on the States and The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. -
Media Advisory: Heartland Legal Scholar Comments on Stay of Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Law
Opinion -Dane County, Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking a new law constraining the collective bargaining rights of most public workers in the state. -
Radiation Levels Still Safe in Japan
Opinion -A week after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed thousands of people in northern Japan, Japanese officials reported not a single civilian had been exposed to levels of radiation that would threaten human health. -
Media Advisory: Heartland Institute Comments on McRaith Appointment
Opinion -Washington, DC -- Eli Lehrer, vice president of Washington, DC operations for The Heartland Institute and national director of its Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, today praised President Barack Obama’s appointment of Michael McRaith -
Proposed Bill Moves Michigan Closer to Landline Reform
Opinion -A bill to reform Michigan’s 1991 Telecommunications Act regulating landline providers has moved to the state legislature’s House Energy and Communications Committee. -
Media Advisory: No One ‘Less Deserving’ than Obama for ‘Transparency’ Award
Opinion -President Barack Obama today accepted an award from a coalition of good government groups and transparency advocates to recognize “his deep commitment to an open and transparent government. -
Media Advisory: Heartland Applauds Gov. Deal for ‘Heeding the Call,’ Scrapping Health Exchanges
Opinion -Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Wednesday night announced he would reject legislation that would have set up an Obamacare-compliant health insurance exchange for the state. -
Harmful Myths About Vaccines Exposed
Opinion -Review of Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All, by Paul A. Offit, M.D., 288 pages, Basic Books, 2010. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Bipartisan Internet Poker Bill
Opinion -“This bill is indeed good news, but for now, if you’ll pardon the pun, I’m keeping a ‘poker face’ on at least one part of it." -
New-Home Construction Plummets, Construction Materials Prices Soar
Opinion -New-home construction has fallen to nearly the lowest level ever recorded, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.Home construction starts in February fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 479,000, down 22. -
U.S. Medical Innovation in Trouble, Study Finds
Opinion -Although the United States remains the world leader in medical innovation, a new study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers finds that lead has slipped and will continue to decline over the next decade. -
Arctic Study Finds No Recent Warming
Opinion -Climate alarmists contend the earth's near-surface air temperatures of the past decade were unprecedentedly high relative to the warmth of the entire past millennium, due primarily to human carbon dioxide emissions. -
#263: Transparency Matters
Opinion -One of the easiest things for a presidential challenger to promise as he or she is running for office is “transparency. -
Michigan Film Office Fails to Report $72 Million Handed to Hollywood
Opinion -The Michigan Film Office appears to have under-reported by 31 percent the amount of money it gave out to Hollywood’s film producers, according to James Hohman, fiscal policy analyst at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. -
Congress, Western Officials Protest Salazar’s Wilderness Order
Opinion -State officials and Members of Congress representing Western states are protesting efforts by the Obama administration to move large tracts of public lands into a state of limbo through a process the critics say requires approval of Congress. -
Cape Wind Struggling to Find Buyers
Opinion -NSTAR, the largest utility in Massachusetts, has struck an agreement to purchase electricity from three land-based wind power companies, but did not file a contract to buy from the controversial off-shore Cape Wind project. -
Study: Reusable Bags an Environmental Loser
Opinion -A new study from the United Kingdom entitled the “Life Cycle Assessment of Supermarket Carrier Bags” is casting doubt on the supposed environmental benefits of reusable shopping bags. -
American Farm Bureau Sues EPA over Chesapeake Bay
Opinion -The American Farm Bureau Federation is suing the U.S. -
Low-Flow Toilets Backfiring in San Francisco
Opinion -The City of San Francisco’s costly rebate program to induce installation of low-flow toilets is backfiring, with city officials scrambling to combat clogged sewer lines and a horrible stench near important tourist neighborhoods. -
Review: How Rising Carbon Dioxide Benefits Plant Life
Opinion -Review of The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment, by Craig D. Idso and Sherwood B. Idso (Vales Lake Publishing, 2011), 366 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0981969428The U.S.
