Opinion
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Pokemon Go Re-Reveals The Left’s Anti-Free Market, Pro-Government Fetish
Opinion -Congratulations to Google on Pokemon Go. Google’s parent company Alphabet incubated and spun out this latest highly successful data-collection-device - for sale to advertisers everywhere.Pokemon Go is a phenomenon. -
California Charter School Advocates Spend Millions on Primary Candidates
Opinion -Groups supporting charter schools were responsible for nearly one-third of the record $27.9 million of independent expenditures spent on California’s primary races this year. -
North Carolina Windfarms Receiving Blowback
Opinion -North Carolina, home to three military airbases, is emerging as a major battleground in the ongoing war over wind farms. -
Add Intellectual Property Protection To The List Of Rights The Government Is Eviscerating
Opinion -The Constitution is an extraordinary document. Life for most humans for most of human history has been poor, nasty, brutish and short. The Constitution acknowledged this past (and present) - and transformed our future. -
San Antonio Housing Prices Rise As City Plays The ‘Market’
Opinion -Free-market advocates say San Antonio’s “market rent” program is boosting consumer costs and amounts to a “subsidy for the rich. -
GOP VP Candidate Mike Pence Praises The Heartland Institute
Opinion -“The Heartland Institute is the very picture of American innovation.” — Mike Pence -
More Mixed Voucher Results in Ohio
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #145 -
Pennsylvania Bill Would End Union Leave for Teachers
Opinion -The Pennsylvania General Assembly is considering a bill that would prevent public school districts from enacting policies that allow for “ghost teachers,” individuals who accrue seniority and receive monetary compensation and benefits, including -
Free-Market Principles Should Guide Road-Funding Solutions
Opinion -As Americans hit the road during summer driving season, one thing that’s probably not on their minds is how the maintenance of those roads gets funded. -
Heartland Institute Policy Brief: States Have a Duty to Defend Against Federal Excess
Opinion -Heartland Institute Policy Brief: States Have a Duty to Defend Against Federal ExcessThe Framers of the U.S. Constitution included a failsafe to stop federal overreach that threatens the sovereignty of the states and the liberty of the people. -
Obama Administration Raises Royalties on Fossil Fuels from Public Lands
Opinion -With little fanfare, on June 30 the Obama administration overhauled how it calculates royalties for fossil fuel extraction on federal land closing what it referred to as a "loophole. -
Making American Medicine Great Again
Opinion -The Republicans are at it again: trying to tweak a bad idea, make it “bipartisan,” and set a flawed system more firmly in concrete. What we really need is a Republican reform – one that can restore the republic, along with medicine. -
Pennsylvania Tweaks Government Alcohol Sales Restrictions
Opinion -Pennsylvania Gov. -
Let’s Get Smart About Classroom Technology
Opinion -Online retail giant Amazon established itself more firmly in the education technology market this week by introducing Amazon Inspire, an online resource that will offer teachers and students free instructional materials. -
BLM Plan Would Permit Thousands of New Oil and Gas Wells in Utah
Opinion -If the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has its way, nearly 6,000 new oil and gas wells will be drilled in on federal, state and private lands in an area of Utah where production is already common. -
Michigan Moves Two Bills to Replace Common Core
Opinion -Two bills that would repeal and replace Common Core State Standards in Michigan are progressing through the two chambers of the state’s legislature. Senate Bill 826, sponsored by state Sen. -
The ACLU is Anti-Patient and Anti-Student
Opinion -In April 2015, Nevada implemented the nation’s first universal education savings account (ESA) program, which is designed to allow parents to use some or all of the funding that would go toward their child’s traditional public education on things such as -
Double-Digit Health Insurance Premium Spikes Loom for Maine Individual Market
Opinion -Insurers in Maine are proposing to raise individual health plan premiums by as much as 22 percent to cover rising costs imposed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). -
Colorado Ballot Initiatives Wrong on Fracking
Opinion -Colorado activists attempting to effectively ban hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” are pushing a new campaign labeled “Yes For Health and Safety Over Fracking” -
Michigan Officials Spilt on Mercury Regulation Challenge
Opinion -Two of Michigan's top elected officials have split over whether to continue a three year old legal battle challenging an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mercury and air toxics rule (MATS) requiring stricter pollution controls for coal-fired power -
Contact Lens Prescription Bill Would Increase Optometrists’ Market Power
Opinion -Contact lens providers could be fined up to $40,000 per violation for filling prescriptions without first verifying them with prescribers by a modified verification process that could prolong patients’ wait times, if Congress passes a bill under -
The Hillary Treatment for Climate Fraudsters?
Opinion -State AG actions reveal double standard for scientists who promote alarmist climate claims -
The Dying Fish with Cedric Keith
Opinion -Cedric C. Keith’s “The Dying Fish: A Sojourn to the Source,” is a retelling of Keith’s 4,000-mile walk through the eastern wilderness prompted by his desire to save the Eastern Brook Trout. -
Missouri Court Reaffirms Students’ Rights to Transfer to Better Schools
Opinion -The Eastern District Missouri Court of Appeals ruled students from the failing Normandy School District have the right to transfer to higher-performing schools in other districts.