Opinion
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Carbon Dioxide Restrictions are Costly, Pointless, Symbolic Gestures
Opinion -Substantial restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions, such as those proposed by President Barack Obama and contained in the Waxman-Markey bill in the U.S. -
Look Who’s Talking
Opinion -Here’s a rundown on the speakers at the third International Conference on Climate Change set for June 2 at the Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington DC:Dr. -
Property and Casualty Insurance: Where Does Massachusetts Rank?
Opinion -Consumers in Massachusetts are paying higher premiums for homeowners insurance than necessary thanks to ill-advised regulation, according to a new report card jointly released by The Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute. -
Property and Casualty Insurance: Where Does Idaho Rank?
Opinion -Consumers in Idaho enjoy more attractive homeowners insurance at better prices than citizens in most other states, according to a new report card jointly released by The Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute. -
Property and Casualty Insurance: Where Does Utah Rank?
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois) Consumers in Utah enjoy more attractive homeowners insurance at better prices than citizens in most other states, according to a new report card jointly released by The Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute. -
Higher Taxes Drive Small Company out of Buffalo
Opinion -Their plight also drew two very different reactions from local economic development officials. In Erie County, the Bells said, help or even encouragement was, at best, lacking. In Nassau County, a rural spot north of Jacksonville, Fla. -
Cut Sugar Subsidy, Don’t Add A Tax
Opinion -The call by "health advocates" for a new federal "sin tax" on sugary drinks is yet another example of special interests trying to use shoddy social-engineering tax policy to grow the size of government ("Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care," U.S. -
Jackson’s Auto Solution Lives In Past
Opinion -When the Detroit branch of the NAACP hosted its Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner, the Rev. Jesse Jackson's remarks about the future of the U.S. -
Inhofe Joins Skeptics’ Conference
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Consumer Power Report #179
Opinion -We had a terrific call with Professor Regina Herzlinger on the monthly Health Policy Call we sponsor with the Council for Affordable Health Insurance and State Policy Network. -
Bad Tax Policy
Opinion -Gov. Charlie Crist's approval of a higher tobacco tax by calling it a surcharge is bad policy by any name (Gov. Charlie Crist to approve cigarette tax, May 20). -
Vouching For Vouchers
Opinion -D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty supports President Obama's disingenuous ploy to allow students already enrolled in the D.C. voucher program to continue until they graduate, so long as no new vouchers are provided to their younger siblings ("D.C. -
Obama’s Cap-and-Trade: Lifeline or Noose?
Opinion -Throughout his presidential campaign, Barack Obama pledged to address the “crisis” of anthropogenic global warming. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #8-10
Opinion -Suing Like Drunken SailorsThe survivors of a fatal boating accident are suing the boat manufacturer for the boat’s alleged unsafe design, even though the craft was crammed with more passengers than design capacity, and most of them were drinking. -
Obama Extortion Shatters Rule Of Law
Opinion -Until earlier this month, this was a nation of laws, not of men, a nation where justice was blind, meaning we are all equal under the law. -
Property and Casualty Insurance: Where Does Florida Rank?
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois ) Consumers in Florida are paying higher premiums for homeowners insurance than necessary thanks to ill-advised regulation, according to a new report card jointly released by The Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute. -
Climate Change Reconsidered?
Opinion -As Congress debates global warming legislation that would raise energy costs to consumers by hundreds of billions of dollars, The Heartland Institute is about to publish an 880-page book challenging the scientific basis of concerns that global warming is -
Perfect Storm Threatens Internet Tax Freedom
Opinion -A perfect storm is brewing that may end the days of the Internet being a relatively tax-free zone, threatening to wash away one of the last remaining redoubts of economic enterprise in the United States. -
Consumer Power Report #178
Opinion -I'm not going to spend much time this week on the meeting President Barack Obama had with some industry groups. There has been plenty of gushing about it already--far more than the event deserved. -
Where Would Legal-pot Road Lead?
Opinion -Re "Governor asks: What if pot's legal and taxed?" (Page A1, May 6): Facing a budget crisis of epic proportions, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the practicality of legalizing recreational marijuana and taxing its smokers. -
Perfect Storm Threatens Internet Tax Freedom
Opinion -A perfect storm is brewing that may end the days of the Internet being a relatively tax-free zone, threatening to wash away one of the last remaining redoubts of economic enterprise in the United States. -
‘Green Jobs’ Skeptic To Keynote Conference
Opinion -Economist Gabriel Calzada, who ignited a controversy by challenging the purported benefits of "green job" creation, will keynote the Third International Conference on Climate Change June 2 in Washington, D.C.Dr. -
Watts Study Featured On WBZ-TV
Opinion -Mish Michaels, prominent meteorologist on WBZ-TV in Boston, featured Anthony Watts' new study "Is the U. S. Temperature Record Reliable?" on May 13 with an online news article and a video presentation. A link to both is here: http://wbztv. -
Property and Casualty Insurance: Where Does Louisiana Rank?
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois ) Consumers in Louisiana are paying higher premiums for homeowners insurance than necessary thanks to ill-advised regulation, according to a new report card jointly released by The Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise
