Opinion
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New Obamacare Court Challenges Emerge
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #482 Hold on to your wallets America: It’s Obamacare’s open-enrollment season, and health insurance costs continue to go up across the board for consumers in nearly every part of the nation. -
Record Number of Florida Students Are Using Private School Choice
Opinion -The number of students in Florida’s three K–12 private school choice programs continues to grow. -
Heartland Institute, CFACT Announce Speakers for ‘Day of Examining Data’ in Paris for COP-21
Opinion -December 7 event to feature renowned scientists Fred Singer, Willie Soon, Robert Carter, and Christopher Essex The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and The Heartland Institute are joining forces with other allied organizations to bring some -
Common Core Testing Company Fails to Meet Testing Mandate in Three States
Opinion -New Hampshire-based company Measured Progress, which developed online Common Core tests used in Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota, has acknowledged a major glitch in the tests’ rollout. -
Report: Environmental Protection Agency Is Well-Armed and Anti-Business
Opinion -A newly released audit of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the Illinois-based watchdog organization Open the Books discovered hundreds of millions of dollars of questionable expenses, including high-end luxury furnishings, sports equipment, -
The Climate Agenda Behind the Bacon Scare
Opinion -Headlines blaring that processed and red meat causes cancer have made this steak-and-bacon-loving nation collectively reach for the Rolaids. Vegans are in full party mode, and the media is in a feeding frenzy. -
A University the Football Team Can Be Proud Of
Opinion -In the early glory days of University Oklahoma football – just after the school had won its first mythical national championship – then-University President Dr. George L. -
Get Oregon out of the Liquor Business
Opinion -There are still eighteen so-called “control states” in America that exert substantial control over the sale of liquor. -
National Education Association Calls for Fight Against Income Inequality
Opinion -The National Education Association’s (NEA) top union executives have claimed to take a stand against “income inequality” over the past few years. -
Net Neutrality Trumping Privacy Undercuts The U.S.-EU Data Safe Harbor
Opinion -The U.S. government’s Internet priorities in Europe are upside down. It has chosen bits over bodies, prioritizing protecting the neutrality of innumerable inanimate Internet bits over protecting peoples’ privacy and personal data. -
Study of Premature Births Fails to Show Fracking Connection
Opinion -Serious methodological errors render unreliable the findings of a recent study titled “Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Birth Outcome in Pennsylvania, USA,” which suggested pregnant mothers living near hydraulic fracturing sites could be at a -
College Tuition Costs Continue to Rise
Opinion -As students returned to college this semester, they found their tuition is higher than ever. -
Study: Common Core and Aligned Testing Consortia Illegal
Opinion -A study recently published by the Pioneer Institute says Common Core standards and associated tests are directing the country toward a nationally driven curriculum, in violation of federal law, and it says the Obama administration used stimulus money to -
Cronyism: For the Likes of Google, It is Really, REALLY Good to be a Friend of Obama
Opinion -If President Barack Obama doesn’t like you – his government tends to make your life really, REALLY miserable. -
House Votes to End Oil Export Ban
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to lift the nation’s decades-old ban on exports of crude oil. The move would strengthen the nation’s oil industry by allowing its product to be sold on the world market for the first time in 40 years. -
On Climate Change, Catholic Leaders Must Believe in Miracles
Opinion -For the first time, “Catholic leaders representing all regional and national bishops conferences” have come together in a “joint appeal. -
Oklahoma Legislature Fails to Pass ESA Program
Opinion -The Oklahoma Education Savings Account Act, coauthored by state Rep. Jason Nelson (R-Oklahoma City) and state Sen. -
Three Reasons COP-21 Will Fail
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #192 The goal of COP-21 – the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 21st Conference of the Parties – in Paris at the end of November is to produce an international agreement to ensure greenhouse gas -
Pushing Climate Truth in the Halls of Congress
Opinion -Republican Sen. James Inhofe (OK) has served in the U.S. Senate since 1994. He currently serves as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee and is the senior member of the Armed Services Committee. -
Federal Regulations Allow State Officials To End Unpopular Tolls On I-405
Opinion -State officials say federal regulators are forcing them to restrict the public’s access to HOV lanes on I-405. -
Government-Style “Fairness” for the 1%
Opinion -Liberals love to extol their deep compassion for the poor, whom conservatives allegedly don’t give a fig about. -
Bill Gates, Climate Change and the Capitalist System
Opinion -Bill Gates of Microsoft is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, so when he speaks it is not surprising that the world tends to listen. -
Heartland Institute Leads Contingent of Climate Realists to Paris for UN’s COP 21 Conference
Opinion -December 7 events with CFACT and CEI include ‘Day of Examining the Data,’ World Premiere of ‘Climate Hustle’ Documentary The Heartland Institute – known globally as the leading think tank debunking global warming alarmism and junk science – is partnering -
ACA CO-OP Failures Disappoint, Don’t Surprise
Opinion -One of the most ambitious efforts to replicate real-world competition in the Affordable Care Act has proven to be a growing failure.