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Book Review: FAILURE : The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children
Opinion -By Vicki E. Alger -
Thanks, FBI: We Real Worlders Find Elite World Inordinately Annoying. Again
Opinion -How about that FBI no-indictment announcement yesterday? Makes perfect sense to you, I bet.Ok - I don’t bet that. At all.What does make sense to us Real Worlders - is seeing yet another Elite get yet another Get-Out-of-Reality-Free card. -
Parents, Declare Your Education Independence
Opinion -On July 4, 1776, American colonists declared their independence from a distant monarchy in Great Britain that had passed mandate after mandate without input from the people over which it ruled. -
DC Circuit Court Delays Clean Power Plan Challenge
Opinion -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit announced in May it is imposing a three-month delay on hearings, originally scheduled for June, related to challenges to the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). -
Time to Stop Pretending Tests Equal School Accountability
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #143 -
Gov. Christie Proposes New Jersey Charter School Reforms
Opinion -New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has proposed a series of reforms that he says would reduce regulation of charter schools in the state. Christie has showed support for charter schools since taking office. -
Cat Fight in North Carolina Over Health Care CON Law
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #511A play called late in the game in the latest session of the North Carolina General Assembly presented lawmakers with a bizarre choice: adopt a state cat or a vital health care reform proposal. -
New EPA Emissions Report Threatens Alabama Industries
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency's latest report on greenhouse gas emissions demonstrates shrewd political strategy -- and a wanton disregard for objective science. -
Obamacare Premiums Projected to Rise by 8 Percent in California
Opinion -Covered California, the State of California’s health insurance exchange, projects insurance premiums in the state will rise by about 8 percent in 2017, plus an additional 5 percent per year through 2020. -
India to Fight Climate Change Through Less Flatulent Livestock
Opinion -Despite its recent announcement it may not adopt the Paris Climate agreement before the end of 2016, India is moving ahead with a unique effort attempting to reduce the greenhouse gases its agricultural sector emits into the atmosphere: creating cows and -
Judge Rules South Dakota’s Adoption of Common Core Tests Is Legal
Opinion -A South Dakota judge has ruled in favor of the state government in a lawsuit brought by two parents alleging the state’s adoption of a compact with the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), a group providing states with tests aligned with the -
ACT: Common Core Does Not Prepare Students for College
Opinion -According to findings published by the American College Testing Inc.’s (ACT) National Curriculum Survey, Common Core State Standards (CCSS) fail to prepare students for college. -
Our Air Is Getting Cleaner, And Natural Gas Deserves Some Fracking Credit
Opinion -A new study released by the World Health Organization (WHO) says although outdoor air pollution worldwide has increased by 8% in the past five years, air quality in the United States has become cleaner. -
May Free Speech Reign and Scientific Inquiry Prevail
Opinion -Throughout the past four years, climate change activists have been secretly coordinating with one another regarding ways to prosecute individuals, organizations, and companies that are their ideological foes. -
Coal Power Under Pressure in Illinois
Opinion -Coal, once the bedrock of America’s energy supply, faces both regulatory and economic pressure increasingly making it an uneconomical electric power source, a fact bringing economic hardship to Illinois, which sits atop millions of tons of coal. -
Florida Supremes Bar Utility from Charging Customers for Natural Gas Production Venture
Opinion -In a 6 to 1 decision, the Florida Supreme Court reversed a Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) decision allowing Florida Power & Light (FPL) to charge its ratepayers for an oil and gas exploration and drilling venture in Oklahoma. -
Kansas Increases Funding to Avoid School Shutdown
Opinion -Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed legislation to increase funding for poorer school districts, ensuring his state’s public school system will avoid a shutdown. -
Washington State Insurance Premiums to Increase by 13 Percent
Opinion -Thirteen health insurance companies in Washington State are seeking government approval for premium increases, which would go into effect in 2017, averaging 13. -
Heartland Weekly: Early Bird Rates Now Available for Heartland’s 32nd Anniversary Benefit Dinner
Opinion -Heartland Weekly, Week of July 4 -
North Carolina District Pays Parents to Represent Schools
Opinion -A North Carolina school district that has been using federal money to provide expense payments for parental involvement is experiencing a valuable return on its investment, the program’s director says. -
Restoring ‘Diversity’ To The Supreme Court
Opinion -Liberals talk a great deal about “diversity” these days, so it is ironic that so many have lined up in favor of President Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland. -
Taxpayers Should Call Foul on Sports-Stadium Subsidy Handouts
Opinion -Lawmakers in Salt Lake City recently approved giving the city’s NBA team, the Utah Jazz, $22.7 million in tax revenue collected from businesses in the basketball arena’s zoning district. The subsidy will be doled out over the next 25 years. -
Medicaid Expansion Remains a Bad Idea for Georgia
Opinion -Thirty-one states, in addition to the District of Columbia, have chosen to expand their Medicaid programs under Obamacare, and 19 have refused to do so. -
Stephen Moore Exposes the Mad War on Energy
Opinion -On Monday, June 20, The Heartland Institute hosted a rare opportunity to hear one of the nation’s acknowledged leading conservatives, Stephen Moore, speak on his new book, Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy, which flies in the face of the