Opinion
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MARTIN: Not Above the Law
Opinion -The legal immorality of the Obama administration and its Department of Justice now stands fully exposed. And even some lawyers are shocked.To be sure, many people think lawyers are unethical. -
State Should Target Insurance Lawyers’ ‘Special Bounty’
Opinion -Even if they enjoy the seemingly endless variety of cutesy television commercials advertising it, few Floridians really like paying the quarterly auto insurance bills that will soon show up in their mailboxes. -
Free Market, Environmental, Insurance Groups: Flood Insurance Privatization Is Possible
Opinion -WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives of the free-market, environmental, and insurance interests supportive of changes to the National Flood Insurance Program expressed their support of efforts to strengthen the free market’s role in providing -
Heartland Experts: Citizens Reform Bill Is a Good Start
Opinion -Tallahassee — Experts from The Heartland Institute, a national think tank with offices in Tallahassee, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Austin, Texas, today offered praise for Florida House and Senate bills intended to reform the Florida Citizens -
#262: Alas, Don Berwick
Opinion -Alas, poor Don Berwick, beset on all sides. Who will come to his aid in a time of need? Not, it appears, the Senate Democrats. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #10-5
Opinion -The Obama administration is actively aiding and abetting the litigation explosion. Three toll-free hotlines have been set up between the federal government and the American Bar Association (ABA) to refer cases to private lawyers. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Judge Vinson’s Latest Ruling on Obamacare
Opinion -Heartland Institute Experts React to Judge Vinson’s Latest Ruling on ObamacareU.S. -
Heartland Institute Experts On Florida Supreme Court, Gov. Scott Killing High-Speed Rail
Opinion -The Florida Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Florida Gov. Rick Scott was within his rights to reject $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money to fund new high-speed rail service between Orlando and Tampa. -
Social Security Woes
Opinion -If Jacob Lew, director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, believes what he wrote, the nation is in even worse trouble than I thought ("Social Security isn't the problem," Opposing view, Retirement debate, Feb. 22). -
Heartland Institute Scholar: “Wait and See on TWIA”
Opinion -AUSTIN, TX — A scholar at The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank with offices in Austin, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Tallahassee, Florida, says Texans should take a wait-and-see attitude toward the state Department of Insurance’s -
WI, IN Dem Lawmakers Still Hiding to Block Votes on Unions Bills
Opinion -March began as February ended in Wisconsin, with thousands of government workers staging sit-ins at the Wisconsin State Capitol building and more than a dozen Democratic state senators on the lam in Illinois, where runaway lawmakers from Indiana later -
More Spending, Taxes, and Deficits: The Obama’s Budget
Opinion -President Obama’s proposed budget calling for more than $3.7 trillion of spending—including deficit spending of $1.65 trillion—also projects $1. -
San Antonio’s Edgewood Voucher Program Shows Benefits of Choice
Opinion -States, cities, counties, or school districts could use a well-crafted school choice expansion to attract families and businesses at no net fiscal cost—and probably some long-term savings to taxpayers—while also improving their public school -
#261: Flexibility – Loved, Overused, Conflicting
Opinion -“Flexibility.” It’s a word everyone in politics loves. They love it so much, they overuse it, deploying it in situations where it conflicts directly with the facts. -
At NC Meeting, Charter Struggle Compared to Civil Rights Movement
Opinion -The vast majority of the 700 parents, grandparents, and educators crowded into the North Raleigh Hilton Jan. 24 were black. -
Can Monetary Policy Really Create Jobs?
Opinion -Testimony of Richard K. Vedder, distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University, before the House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, Feb. 9, 2011. Chairman Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)Dr. -
Study: Education Savings Accounts Would Create Robust School Choice Options
Opinion -Establishing education savings accounts in Arizona and elsewhere could make school choice a viable option for more families, a new report by the Goldwater Institute argues. -
Sinkholes are Big Business for Lawyers, Public Adjusters
Opinion -There's a rising tide of media reports covering the sinkhole threat facing Florida's homeowners. Don't believe the rhetoric that we have a sinkhole crisis in Florida, because we don't. -
Milwaukee Choice Students Have Higher Graduation Rates, Study Shows
Opinion -Students in Milwaukee’s Parental Choice Program have a better chance of graduating from high school than their peers, a study of the 21-year-old voucher program finds. -
Obama’s Budget Bust
Opinion -President Barack Obama on Feb. 15 held a news conference to defend his proposed budget, which features a deficit that nearly matches total federal spending just 10 years ago.Imagine if almost none of the federal spending 10 years ago had been paid for. -
‘Free’ Public Radio Is Anything But
Opinion -National Public Radio listeners are being inundated with warnings that they soon may have to drive to work every morning without the sonorous intonations of Morning Edition’s Corey Flintoff, Steve Inskeep, and Renée Montagne, and may be -
Service Trades Use Licensing to Reduce Competition, Raise Prices
Opinion -A bad haircut doesn’t pose a threat to your personal safety, nor does a floral arrangement you dislike or a wing chair that seems out of place. -
New EPA Data Show Futility Of U.S. Carbon Dioxide Restrictions
Opinion -Global carbon dioxide emissions may be rapidly rising, but the U.S. is not to blame, according to newly released data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.U.S. -
Idaho State Superintendent Pushes Online Learning, Teacher Tenure Reforms
Opinion -Idaho’s Superintendent of Public Instruction says he wants to put his state on the map with a comprehensive series of school reform proposals.Superintendent Tom Luna has a three-pronged plan to bring major changes to Idaho schools.
