Opinion
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Textbook Vendor: Common Core Standards ‘All About the Money’
Opinion -An undercover journalist for a nonprofit organization captured candid video of a national textbook company’s sales executive making inflammatory remarks about federal Common Core standards and textbook companies’ support of them. -
Obamacare Paperwork: A Multi-Billion-Dollar Cost Americans Can’t Afford
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Interview: Flawed Measurements Undermine Temperature Record
Opinion -Editor’s Note: Anthony Watts is a 25-year veteran of broadcast meteorology. In 2006, Watts established the blog Watts Up With That (WUWT), which has won awards for “Best Science Weblog” and “Best Science Blog. -
Heartland Institute Panel Discusses the Urgency of School Choice
Opinion -National School Choice Week is held every January. This year's event took place from January 24 – 30, 2016. Throughout the U.S. over 16,000 events were held, with Illinois having 918 events, the most of any state. -
California Education Board Approves New Charter School
Opinion -California’s State Board of Education (CBOE) unanimously approved a request to transform an alternative education program at a local traditional public school into a public charter school, now called the Ross Valley Charter School. -
Trump Vows to Cut EPA If Elected President
Opinion -In a campaign-stop interview, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reiterated statements he first made in early October about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) being a prime target for budget cuts if he is elected president. -
Federal Reforms Hit Sweet Note for Music Educators
Opinion -Reforms passed by lawmakers in Congress as part of legislation that has replaced the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), a law that gave the national government significant influence on education and curricula at the local and state levels, include a -
Popular Health Care Plan Will Soon Be Extinct in Obamacare Marketplace
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #490 According to PolitiFact, the Obama administration, in at least 37 separate instances, promised Americans they would be able to stay enrolled in a health care plan if they enjoyed the coverage they were receiving prior to the -
Parents, Children Celebrate National School Choice Week
Opinion -Parents, children, and educators rallied at events across the nation to celebrate the progress made over the past five years in the school choice movement and to promote pro-liberty school reform and parent empowerment. -
Tax Cuts to Cut Carbon, an Idea Whose Time has Yet to Come
Opinion -Some on the political right are floating a new “supply-side” idea for reducing carbon dioxide emissions without creating more market distortions: clean tax cuts. -
Individual Rights Must Be Preserved Without Interference From The Government
Opinion -What is the role of government in society? This has been and remains the most fundamental question in all political discussions and debates. -
It’s Too Early to Prove Absolute Safety, But Smokers Shouldn’t Wait to Vape
Opinion -Tobacco opponents say that we’ve had too little experience with e-cigarettes to know whether they are safe. While it is true that we don’t yet know the health consequences of long-term use, that should not discourage smokers from switching. -
Electric Cars: Another Failed Obama Campaign Promise, and That’s a Good Thing
Opinion -While campaigning in 2008, President Obama called for 1 million plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (EV) on the road by 2015.Once in office, he backed that up with a March 2009, executive order that offered “$2. -
The Mystery of Prescription Drug Prices
Opinion -How can it be that the same exact prescription drug can have such markedly different prices?Recently, my patients with commercial insurance were paying $15 out of pocket per vial for analogue rapid-acting insulin. -
Renewable Energy’s Growth Threatens the Power Supply
Opinion -Editor's note: This column was co-authored by Donn Dears ([email protected]), a retired senior executive at General Electric. This article is based on his new book, Nothing to Fear, the Story of Fossil Fuels and Climate Change. -
Heartland Institute Commends Chairman David Clark on the Georgia Welfare Fraud Study Committee Report
Opinion -The Georgia House Study Committee on Welfare Fraud, chaired by Rep. David Clark (R-Buford), released its final report today highlighting the committee’s findings and its concerns about welfare waste, fraud, and abuse, as well as the need for reform. -
Colorado Unveils First Statewide Water Plan
Opinion -Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) is pushing the state legislature to provide funding for the state’s first comprehensive water plan, which was first announced in November 2015. -
School Choice Means Not Asking Politicians For Permission To Educate Your Child
Opinion -Parents, students, educators, and pro-liberty activists across the nation will be celebrating National School Choice Week, which began on Sunday and will wrap up on January 30. -
Why FCC Title II Telephone Privacy Rules Can’t Work with an Open Internet
Opinion -Square peg meet round hole.The FCC is poised to try and force-fit inherently-irreconcilable, telephone closed-ecosystem privacy rules into a broadband open-system Internet. Good luck with that. -
‘Tis the Season for Parents to Explore School Options
Opinion -Exercising school choice is at or near the top of parental to-do lists as the new year starts rolling. -
HillaryCare Terminates in Sanders’ Single-Payer Socialism
Opinion -As the self-described socialist Bernie Sanders remains strong in his challenge to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sanders boasts the unusual distinction of making Clinton appear to be a -
Feds, New Mexico Take Next Step in Gila River Development Project
Opinion -The U.S. Department of the Interior and New Mexico State water managers agreed to take the next step to develop the Gila River as a source of water for municipal and agricultural uses. -
Supreme Court Hears Landmark Forced-Unionism Case
Opinion -Lawyers representing a group of California teachers challenging the constitutionality of deducting union fees from government teachers’ paychecks have presented their opening arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS). -
Dear Bernie: Oil Fuels Your Beloved Scandinavian Spending Spree
Opinion -Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has often talked about his desire for the United States to emulate the socialist welfare states of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by providing free college and health care and expanding Social Security.
