Opinion
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Consumer Power Report #204
Opinion -This is going to be an abbreviated issue this week to accommodate Thanksgiving.I don't know about you, but I have a lot to be thankful for this year. I will spare you the details of my family, my church, and the people I am surrounded by everyday. -
NYPD Amassing Cell Phone User Database
Opinion -The New York Police Department is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing police officers to log serial numbers from suspects’ phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes. -
California’s New TV Regulations Deserve Booby Prize
Opinion -One would think it's a tall order to out-regulate the European Union. -
Million Person March: More News
Opinion -FreedomWorks led the organizing efforts for the September 12 march on the nation’s capital, probably the first mass march to demand fiscal responsibility and defend free markets. -
Million Person March?
Opinion -How many people participated in the Taxpayer March on DC on September 12? -
FCC Chairman Urges Wireless Industry to Innovate
Opinion -Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is urging the wireless industry to continue driving economic growth and job creation--while at the same time he’s advancing regulations many in the industry say work against that goal. -
IL Gov. Signs Video Poker Bill
Opinion -Lawmakers have approved a huge expansion of gambling in Illinois, but stiff opposition from local leaders and citizens is growing. -
2009 December Budget & Tax News (full text pdf)
Opinion -The December 2009 issue of Budget & Tax News offers a photo feature on the September 12 Taxpayer March on DC. Nearly one million people rallied on behalf of fiscal responsibility and free markets. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #8-21
Opinion -More than 550 lawyers were smiling last week. That's how many lawyers have a financial stake in the Katrina case, in which a federal district court ruled the federal government is liable for Hurricane Katrina damages in parts of New Orleans. -
Court Allows Corporate Program to Stand
Opinion -In the midst of the investigation over Arizona’s individual tax credit program, the Arizona Supreme Court on October 27 ended a long-standing legal challenge to the state’s corporate tax credit program, saying it is legal under both the state -
2009 December School Reform News: (full text pdf)
Opinion -The December 2009 issue of School Reform News reports a task force has been named by the Arizona legislature to investigate whether scholarship-granting organizations are playing by the rules or gaming the system. -
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
