Opinion
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Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #8-02
Opinion -Looniest Lawsuits The Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse "sick of lawsuits" campaign against frivolous litigation has announced its "top five 'looniest lawsuits' of 2008. -
02 Ten Principles of School Choice: Follow the Child
Opinion -This podcast series presents the 10 most important principles of the school choice movement, explaining each principle in plain yet precise language. -
What’s Wrong with Ben Bova?
Opinion -Science writer Ben Bova recently tried to take on Heartland’s James M. Taylor in a debate on the causes and consequences of global warming in the pages of a newspaper in Naples, Florida, and ended up looking pretty foolish. -
Consumer Power Report #162
Opinion -There is way too much going on these days. It's a full-time job just trying to stay up with it all. I'm beginning to wonder if these weekly missives are up to the task.I hope you were able to catch President Barack Obama's inauguration. -
EU’s Antitrust Ruling Hurts Consumers More than Microsoft
Opinion -Europe prides itself on being at the forefront of global trends, but the European Commission’s recent antitrust ruling against Microsoft shows the Continent’s regulators are still living in 1999. -
Antarctic Warming Claims Should be Greeted with Skepticism
Opinion -An article in today’s issue of the journal Nature argues that, in defiance of decades of raw temperature data showing Antarctica is cooling, the continent is actually warming. James M. -
Global Warming Survey Draws Skepticism, Ho-Hum Response
Opinion -A survey from the University of Illinois at Chicago purporting to show that a wide range of Earth scientists say humans contribute significantly to global warming was greeted with skepticism and suspicion Wednesday. -
Consumers Already Trumped the EU in its Pursuit of Microsoft
Opinion -The European Commission ruled on January 16, 2009 that Microsoft Corp.’s practice of bundling its Internet Explorer browser with the Windows operating system violates the antitrust rules of the European Union. -
Consumer Power Report #161
Opinion -And so it begins. The new administration hasn't even taken office and Congress is already going wild in health care. Last week the House passed its version of SCHIP expansion without allowing amendments and without hearings or "due deliberation. -
Anxiety Grows in Global Warming Alarmist Camp
Opinion -Heartland Institute media monitors have noted on several occasions that climate-change alarmists are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain their position that human activity has warmed Earth to crisis proportions. -
Lehr Gets Second Appearance on Lou Dobbs Program
Opinion -Several Heartland friends appeared January 13 on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" as the popular cable host delved a little deeper into the global warming issue -- and moved a little closer to the skeptic's point of view. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #8-01
Opinion -Dead Weight A pig sitter in Wisconsin is going to trial in March on criminal animal neglect charges for letting the potbellied pig she cared for gain 100 pounds. -
Consumer Power Report #160
Opinion -I was in a meeting where we were talking about Republican support in the Senate for an individual mandate. -
Aznar to Speak at Global Warming Conference
Opinion -Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar--an outspoken critic of global warming alarmism as a "new religion"--will be among 70 skeptics who will confront the subject of global warming at the second International Conference on Climate Change in New -
Cigarette Tax Hike Would Hinder Reform
Opinion -Raising any taxes in these tough economic times, even on cigarettes, is economically dangerous, but Gov. Beshear has already shown he views a cigarette tax hike as a "silver bullet" for the state's budget woes. -
Putting an End to Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -Global warming is the most important environmental issue of our time. -
Offshored Money Could Spur Recovery
Opinion -Three weeks ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was saying that the economy needed a stimulus package of $600 billion. -
Lee Walker Gets New Role with The Heartland Institute
Opinion -On January 1, 2009, the New Coalition for Economic and Social Change will no longer share offices with The Heartland Institute, marking a new stage in a unique partnership that dates back to The Heartland Institute's founding in 1984. -
Consumer Power Report #159
Opinion -Looking back on 2008, Time magazine made a mistake in naming Barack Obama its Man of the Year. Oh, certainly Mr. Obama was consequential, but the iconic figure of the year, in fact of our time, was not the President-elect, but Bernie Madoff.When Mr. -
Ten Global Warming Truths to Keep Us Sane in 2009
Opinion -Sound science put to rest numerous unsubstantiated global warming scares in 2008. -
Warmest October Claim Was Wrong, NASA Admits
Opinion -NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies—known as GISS—was forced to admit it committed an egregious error when it publicly claimed October 2008 was the warmest October in history. It turns out October 2008 was nowhere near a record. -
Top TV Networks Spread False Arctic Sea Ice Scare
Opinion -High-profile media reports predicting the North Pole would lose its ice cover failed to materialize in 2008, as less Arctic sea ice melted than in 2007 and open water came nowhere near the North Pole. -
Citizen Groups Continue Calls for Transparency
Opinion -Although the November election results mean taxpayers in some states will see an altered political landscape, the growing interest in government spending transparency is unlikely to change any time soon. -
Health Care IT Is Moving Forward
Opinion -Advocacy groups and politicians have raised a growing call for federal action to encourage increases in health care information technology in the past couple of years.
