Opinion
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Vouchers’ Role Grows in Dayton’s Catholic Schools
Opinion -Kelly Mornhinweg believes in blending a Christian environment and values with traditional lessons in reading, writing, math, and other courses. -
Recovery.gov Transparency, Contract Award Questioned
Opinion -As a U.S. senator, Barack Obama cosponsored the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, designed to help Americans track where and how their tax dollars are spent. Now, many Americans are wondering why President Obama’s Recovery. -
States Put Public Safety and Taxpayers at Risk
Opinion -With nearly every state and locality dealing with some degree of budget strain, it is becoming increasingly commonplace for legislators to raid dedicated funds in order to finance shortfalls in their general funds. -
Why Stop at Health Insurance?
Opinion -How could we all have been so blind! The solution to all of our economic woes has been hiding in plain sight. It’s in the House health care overhaul legislation, which would require us to buy health insurance. -
Consumer Power Report #203
Opinion -With all the public opinion polls going against them and the likelihood of losing a very large number of seats in next year's elections, what in the world are the Democrats thinking? How can they be so suicidal, you might ask?It's not all that mysterious. -
Florida City Shuts Down Free Muni Wi-Fi
Opinion -St. Cloud’s city-owned and -operated free wireless broadband service was once touted as a feature that made the central Florida city unique. -
Problems in the Insurance Industry’s System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing
Opinion -Eli Lehrer, senior fellow for The Heartland Institute, examines the problems that are brewing in the insurance industry's mandatory System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing (SERFF) in the current issue of the Journal of Insurance Operations.Mr. -
Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Questions Texas FAIR Plan Rate Denial
Opinion -Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin raised serious and disturbing questions November 17 when he rejected a proposal from the Texas FAIR Plan to increase its rates, a Heartland Institute senior fellow says. -
Heartland Amicus Brief in Chicago Gun-Control Case
Opinion -Heartland's senior fellow for legal affairs, Maureen Martin, has just submitted an amicus brief in the case of McDonald et al. v. City of Chicago, seeking to overthrow the city's very strict and completely dysfunctional handgun ban. Her brief is attached. -
Stimulus Funds Go to Phantom Districts and Fictitious Jobs
Opinion -As news reporters and private citizens peruse records that supposedly track the federal government’s economic stimulus spending, they are finding huge exaggerations, errors, and apparent falsehoods, including jobs “saved or created” in -
Governor’s Proposal to Tax Candy and Soda
Opinion -Gov. Bill Ritter wants to transfer $132 million in taxpayer money into the government’s coffers by increasing taxes on soda, candy and Internet purchases. -
News Release: Galileo Silenced Again
Opinion -In a grim display of ham-handed censorship in the scientific debate over the causes and severity of global warming, the American Geophysical Union has canceled a previously approved conference session on climate change led by some of the world's elite -
Pelosi Rolled the Prolife Movement
Opinion -If President Barack Obama’s government-run health care plan comes to pass, he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have some longtime foes to thank for clearing the last stretch of the path: America’s prolife movement and the United States -
Consumer Power Report #202
Opinion -Well, now. Since our last visit Mrs. Pelosi did indeed come up with the votes needed to pass her bill in the House. Congratulations are in order. For her, but not for the American people, who clearly oppose this legislation. -
Florida Officials Propose High-Tech Driving Tax
Opinion -Florida transportation officials, worried about the state gas tax bringing in too little revenue, have proposed a high-tech alternative: Tracking where motorists drive and charging them by the mile. -
Galileo Silenced Again
Opinion -Four centuries ago, “heretics” who disagreed with religious orthodoxy risked being burned at the stake. Many were the dissenting views that could send offenders to a fiery end. -
Letter to the Editor: Regulatory Regime Stifles Innovation
Opinion -The following letter to the editor was published in the Nov. 12, 2009 edition of The Honolulu Advertiser.Your Nov. -
Proposed Florida Information Restrictions Bad Idea, Heartland Analyst Says
Opinion -The director of The Heartland Institute's Florida Insurance Project today criticized a state senator's proposal to ban the use of credit scoring, education, and occupation in the setting of insurance rates.On November 10, Sen. -
Lawyers Make It Onto Government Bailout List
Opinion -We have all heard of federal bailouts for our insurance companies, automobile companies, and even banks, but few realize that buried in a deep silo on Capitol Hill is a proposal which, as a practical matter, would be a bailout for trial lawyers. -
Federal Trucking Plan Could Benefit States, Taxpayers
Opinion -A bill before the U.S. House of Representatives could help tackle fiscal and environmental concerns without increasing taxes or spending more federal money.Rep. Mike Michaud (D-ME) has introduced the Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2009 (H.R. -
Health Care Bill a ‘Cruel Perversion’: Ferrara
Opinion -The health care overhaul bill passed by the U.S. -
Sales Tax Adds to Alcohol Tax Burdens in Illinois
Opinion -With taxes on beer, wine, and spirits in Illinois having jumped nearly 25 to 90 percent, depending on the item, on September 1, buyers of alcoholic beverages knew they’d have to open their wallets a lot wider. -
Wellness Programs Unlikely to Cut Costs
Opinion -Illustrating the importance of wellness promotion in the debate over health care reform, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee approved a version of the health care reform bill that includes a provision allowing insurers expanded -
VA a Poor Model for Health Care Reform
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical system—touted by some advocates of reform as a model for how government-run health care could work—in fact exposes deep flaws in the government-run health care model, policy experts say.