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States Increase Spending Transparency
Opinion -On September 4, the one-millionth online search occurred at the Missouri Accountability Portal, or MAP, a Web site created just a few weeks earlier on order of Gov. Matt Blunt (R). -
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Where’s the Consensus on Secondhand Smoke?
Opinion -More than a year has passed since U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona said, "The debate is over. The science is clear: Secondhand smoke is not a mere annoyance, but a serious health hazard. -
Consumer Power Report #102
Opinion -Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory -
Arson Would Seem Likely Cause of California Wildfires
Opinion -(CHICAGO, Illinois - October 30, 2007) As firefighters battle to subdue the last of the wildfires that continue to ravage the Southern California landscape, arson has been suggested as a possible cause for at least some of the devastation. -
Climate Change Alarmist Resorts to Slander
Opinion -In the October 25 Independent, University of Montana forestry professor Steve Running says the global warming issue should be purely about science and without political overtones. -
Global Warming Is Not the Cause of the California Wildfires
Opinion -(CHICAGO, Illinois - October 30, 2007) As firefighters battle to subdue the last of the wildfires that continue to ravage the Southern California landscape, some observers have asserted those fires are the consequence of unchecked global warming. -
State-Run Insurance Is Bad For Florida Citizens
Opinion -Gov. Charlie Crist betrays his irrational contempt for Florida’s insurers by calling them “tenacious” and “greedy” [“Allstate enters state’s insurer investigation,” October 16]. Apparently Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty and Gov. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #6-15
Opinion -All Wet A Florida policewoman who slipped and fell in a puddle of water while on a 911 call to rescue a baby drowning in a swimming pool has dropped her personal injury lawsuit against the family. -
Beware of Information Technology ‘Miracle Cures’
Opinion -In the medical profession there are false positives, false negatives, and, unfortunately, false claims. It’s little different in the public policy context. -
Testimony to the House Committee on Small Business on Insurance Concentration in the Small Group Market
Opinion -The market for health insurance for small employers is dysfunctional, offering very few choices, very high prices, little innovation, and poor service. -
Transparency Is the Key to Government Accountability
Opinion -It’s an honor to be here today at The Heartland Institute’s Fourth Annual Emerging Issues Forum. -
The Problems with Rural Telecom Subsidies
Opinion -In October 2007 I had the privilege of attending the annual Rural Telecom Conference, or Rural TeleCon, held this year in Springfield, Illinois. -
Massachusetts v. EPA: Down a Dangerous Path
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is poised to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from mobile sources--which is to say, they are poised to create fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks. -
Key Global Warming Facts
Opinion -The Earth’s warming since 1850 totals about 0.7 degrees C. Most of this occurred before 1940. The cause: a long, moderate 1,500-year climate cycle first discovered in the Greenland ice cores in 1983. -
Consumer Power Report #101
Opinion -Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory -
1934 Is Once Again Our Hottest Year
Opinion -A global warming believer told me, "Of course global warming is dangerous. Every year gets hotter than the year before." Until recently that is, when NASA's Goddard Institute announced it had to revise its U.S. -
Veto Preserves Original Intent of SCHIP
Opinion -“House Sustains President’s Veto on Child Health” (Oct. 19) recognizes the stark differences between those on each side of the SCHIP decision. Yet, common ground does exist. -
SCHIP Victory for Smokers Only Temporary
Opinion -In a preliminary victory for much-maligned cigarette smokers and all Americans who value their few remaining freedoms, puffers have dodged the Congressional excise-tax bullet for the short term(“Bush Veto of Child Health Bill Sustained , -
Skeptics Help Us Search for Truth
Opinion -When global warming alarmists condemn skeptics as deniers, it is an unscientific and socially dangerous characterization. Skeptics are not the enemy. On the contrary, they are crucial to science because they help us search for truth. -
Failure to Warm
Opinion -At its simplest, the relationship between the solar magnetic field strength and the Earth’s climate is this: lower magnetic field strength means few sunspots, fewer sunspots means less solar wind, less solar wind means more galactic cosmic rays, -
Consumer Power Report #100
Opinion -Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory -
What Scientists Really Say about Global Warming
Opinion -Utah's Sutherland Institute is mailing to state citizens 10,000 copies of survey results of what climate scientists really say about global warming – and global warming alarmists don't like it one bit. -
Media Alert: George Will Rebuts Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -George Will Rebuts Global Warming Alarmism In his latest biweekly column in Newsweek magazine (circ. 3,118,432), Pulitzer Prize-winning writer George F.