Opinion
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Proposed Article V Amendment Would Limit Federal Health Care Spending
Opinion -The proposal leading the push for an Article V constitutional convention would change health care spending as we know it. -
Bill to Create ESAs for Native American Students Passes Senate Committee
Opinion -A U.S. Senate Committee has approved legislation that would give more Native American students access to education savings accounts (ESAs). -
Economic Ideas: The Institutions and Economics of the Middle Ages, Part 1
Opinion -In attempting to understanding the ideas and institutions of the period of history that is usually called the “Middle Ages” it must be kept in mind that this covers a time frame that easily is divided up into smaller periods. -
State Laws Force Pregnant Mothers to Rely on Black Market to Find Midwives
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #521 -
Indiana Lawmaker’s Support for E-Cigarette Bill Questioned
Opinion -According to media reports in Indiana, a state legislator who voted to approve e-cigarette restrictions benefitting a single company is now an employee of that company. -
Trump’s Tax Reform Is The First Step To Booming Economic Recovery
Opinion -Just as with the Reagan tax reforms, Trump’s lower rates on everyone would promote new jobs, rising wages and incomes, and long overdue booming recovery and growth. -
House Lawmakers Consider Bill to Roll Back Dodd-Frank Restrictions
Opinion -Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are considering a bill that would repeal some federal financial restrictions enacted six years ago in response to the 2008 financial crisis. -
Innovative Model, EMR Platform Help Doctors Center Attention on Patients
Opinion -Doctors who shirk insurers and federal electronic medical record regulations win big for their patients. -
University of Colorado Course Bans Climate Change Skeptics
Opinion -Three professors teaching a course titled “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, told students via e-mail man-made climate change is not open for debate. -
Public Support for Common Core Falls to New Low, Poll Shows
Opinion -Public support for school reform remains high and support for the Common Core State Standards continues to drop, a new public opinion poll shows. -
Congressman Offers Online Sales Tax Proposal
Opinion -An intergovernmental state agency is criticizing a congressman’s draft proposal to create a federal framework for collecting and remitting sales taxes on online purchases made across state borders. -
Study Falsely Touted as Proof Pharma Buys Doctors with Meals
Opinion -Meals pharmaceutical companies give doctors may not be as influential as a recent study suggests. -
Lawsuit Targets ‘Climate Alarmism Enterprise’
Opinion -Mathematician and software engineer Leonid Goldstein is suing more than 40 environmental groups, green investment funds, and foundations who he says is a “climate alarmism enterprise,” committing fraud, racketeering and witness tampering. -
The Right of Parents to Choose Their Child’s Education
Opinion -There is a growing divide within the education reform movement between the so-called technocrats and free-marketeers, causing confusion with parents and grassroots activists and making reform much more difficult to achieve. -
Government Ignores Human Nature – And Warps The World With Its Ignorance
Opinion -Socialism doesn’t work because it tries to root out human nature. Capitalism works because it harnesses it. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Court Ruling the CFPB is Unconstitutional
Opinion -Press Release -‘CFPB, created by lawmakers in a fit of panic called the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, has run amok for years, claiming to be above checks and balances.’ - Jesse Hathaway -
OPEC Agrees to a Production Decrease, Prices Increase—But Could Be Just Right
Opinion -At the end of September, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) surprised the markets by agreeing to a production cut. -
A Detailed Account of the War on Free Speech
Opinion -The right to engage in political discussions without government interference is one of the most basic American freedoms, but The Intimidation Game, a chilling book by Kimberly Strassel, details how the U.S. government works to silence political opponents. -
Heartland Weekly – Standing Room Only for Heartland’s ‘War on Guns’ Event
Opinion -Mark Levin says John Lott “is the nation’s preeminent expert on guns, and in The War on Guns he has done it again.” Lott delivered on that promise at an event Wednesday night about his latest book at Heartland’s Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center. -
18 States Mandate Data Collection to Curb Health Care Costs
Opinion -Whether mandated or voluntary, all-payer claims databases pull information from insurers to estimate health care costs. -
Clinton’s Fracking Policy Effectively Funds ISIS
Opinion -Defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was a key topic during the first and second presidential debates between candidates Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. -
President Obama Imposes Massive Expansion of National Monument in Hawaii
Opinion -Despite objections from many prominent Hawaiians and a federal regional fishing council, President Barack Obama quadrupled the size of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. -
Science, Democracy Casualties of the Climate War
Opinion -Transparency is a paramount virtue in science and politics, even more so when those two fields of endeavor overlap, as they do in discussions of climate change. -
Vouchers, Homeschooling Tax Credits Proposed on Atlantic City Ballot
Opinion -Atlantic City, New Jersey voters who go to the polls in November will decide whether to establish tax credits for homeschooling parents and school vouchers for the city’s children.
