Opinion
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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. -
A Turning Point in the Global Warming Debate?
Opinion -August 2007 may go down in the history of science as the month when scientific research made a decisive turn away from dubious warnings of climate catastrophes and toward a much different thesis, that the modern warming is moderate and not man-made. -
Our Moderate Climate Crisis
Opinion -Ours is a truly strange global warming crisis. The warming has been only about 0.7 degrees C, spread over 150 years. Our ancestors lived through much more dramatic climate changes. -
War Taxes Last Long After the Battle Ends
Opinion -Congressmen David Obey (D-WI), John Murtha (D-PA), and Jim McGovern (D-MA) have presented a plan for a “war tax” on income to fund military operations in Iraq. -
Bush SCHIP Veto Helps Minnesota’s Poor
Opinion -On October 3, The Associated Press reported that President Bush vetoed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expansion bill because he believes it will open the floodgates for socialized health care in America (“Bush Vetoes Bill To Expand -
Bush Has Good Reasons to Veto SCHIP Expansion
Opinion -“Showdown Looms as Child Health Care Passes,” (Sept. 28) does not address the problems with the current State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)--problems which explain the president’s rationale for vetoing it. -
SCHIP Designed for Kids but Adults Swell Enrollment
Opinion -In “Override the SCHIP veto,” (Oct. 5) the Tribune editorial staff urges Republican representatives in Illinois to look at the facts. Unfortunately, the editorial misses them. -
Wal-Mart Is Still Good for Consumers, Workers
Opinion -Gary McWilliams’ front page article about Wal-Mart’s demise as a retail giant did not cover the whole story (“Wal-Mart Era Wanes Amid Big Shifts In Retail”, October 3). -
Private Sector Is the Real Answer to Poverty
Opinion -In Mary Carmichael’s otherwise-excellent piece on remedies for Third World poverty (“Giving Globally: The Search for Solutions,” October 1) she gave short shrift to economic development and growth. -
Privatized Health Care, Not Health Scares
Opinion -The Tribune’s coverage of county board proceedings helps us figure out which are the least obscene of the proposed taxes (“City Sales Tax Hike On Hold,” October 1). -
Media Statement: Heartland Institute Deplores Nobel Foundation Choice of Albert Gore and the IPCC
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois - October 12, 2007) Early this morning (U.S. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #6-14
Opinion -Case of Beer Perusing some 1,500 decisions penned by Michael B. Mukasey, the nominee for U.S. -
Consumer Power Report #99
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 -
British Court Rules ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Represents Partisan Political Views
Opinion -On October 2, 2007 a British court found Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, to be politically biased, and it ruled teachers must warn students of that bias before showing the film. -
Media Statement: Experts Say Drug Re-importation Kills New Drug Discovery
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois - October 9, 2007) When President George W. Bush signed the "Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007" on September 27, left unresolved was whether the ban on importing foreign prescription drugs should be lifted. -
Medical Expert Opposes Proposed Federal Restrictions on Anemia Drugs
Opinion -(CHICAGO, October 5, 2007) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which pays the bills and writes the regulations for Medicare and Medicaid, has proposed new guidelines under which it will not in some circumstances pay for use of drugs -
Tax-free Internet Access Might End November 1
Opinion -(CHICAGO - October 5, 2007) If the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) is not extended, consumers may pay taxes to access the Internet this fall. -
Economic Markets and Political Markets
Opinion -Former Tribune editor and publisher, Jack Fuller, has described two markets for energy. One is political and the other is economic. He correctly describes how political markets often add substantial counterproductive costs on the energy markets. -
Experts Support President’s Veto of SCHIP
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois - October 5, 2007) On October 3, President George W. Bush vetoed a $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) approved by Congress the week before.
