Opinion
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Patient/Doctor Choice Will End FDA Monopoly
Opinion -Dear Editor:Scott Gottlieb justifiably yearns for a return to patient/doctor control of medical treatment. His June 19 article, “Uncle Sam, M.D.,” points out the fundamental problem with FDA. -
Ethanol Not Viable Alternative to Gasoline
Opinion -Dear Editor: “Ethanol Producers Expect Consolidation” (June 18) illustrates just a few of the problems with large-scale ethanol production. A poor harvest can send prices soaring with little warning. -
State Law Restricts Charter School Admissions
Opinion -Dear Editor: Jamie Berndt asks, “What do we do with the kids who are not accepted by private schools and charter schools ... ?” [“Letter: Tolerant schools,” June 20] It is a popular misconception that charter schools have selective admissions. -
Local Land Use Causes Glacier Retreat in Africa
Opinion -An article in the July-August issue of American Scientist sheds an important new light on the May 23 Dispatch article regarding the global warming presentation by Al Gore followers at York College. -
Daley Just Talks the Talk
Opinion -Dear Editor: “Daley’s city not so ‘green’” (June 18) illustrates the difference between talking the talk and walking the walk regarding greenhouse gases. -
The Retreat of Kilimanjaro
Opinion -Dear Editor: As someone who hopes to visit Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro someday, I really enjoyed your May 15 article on David Boone’s trip to Kilimanjaro. The article did an excellent job of conveying Kilimanjaro’s beauty and Mr. -
Should FDA Regulate Tobacco Products?
Opinion -Proposals to give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory control over tobacco are getting a serious hearing in Washington these days. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, sponsored by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Rep. -
Ethanol Not Viable Alternative to Gasoline
Opinion -Dear Editor: “Ethanol Producers Expect Consolidation” (June 18) illustrates just a few of the problems with large-scale ethanol production. A poor harvest can send prices soaring with little warning. -
Time to End FDA’s Killing Ways
Opinion -Forever etched in golf fans' memories is not the remarkable 65 shot by Tom Watson in the first round of the 2003 U.S. Open, but the courage of his caddy, Bruce Edwards. -
NASA Global Warming Soap Opera Takes Dramatic New Twist
Opinion -The NASA global warming soap opera heated up again May 31 with another plot twist that would have viewers shaking their heads in disbelief if it were a fictitious television program. -
Energy Bill Requires Scientific Fact, Not Courage
Opinion -Dear Editor: The lead editorial in the June 14 Washington Post [“The Senate Energy Bill”] contains several misguided statements, but the one that made me re-read a few times says, “What Congress should do is find the courage to put a price on carbon -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #6-7
Opinion -Beating Up on Taxpayers It's a classic rite of passage into manhood. Schoolyard bully beats up boy. Boy develops muscle and courage. Boy beats up bully. Justice triumphs. But in 2007, it's the school, and ultimately taxpayers, who get beat up. -
Media Statement: Arizona School Voucher Programs Ruled Constitutional
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois - June 14, 2007) On Wednesday, June 13 an Arizona Superior Court judge ruled the state's 2006 special-needs and foster-care voucher programs constitutional. -
Al Gore Versus the Snows of Kilimanjaro
Opinion -The Guardian reported that, in his May 21 lecture at UCSD, Al Gore blamed receding glaciers atop Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro on global warming. Gore either doesn’t know what he is talking about or he is deliberately misleading his audience. -
Obama Kids Won’t Need Affirmative Action
Opinion -Your editorial, “Obama and Racial Preferences” (June 9) revealed a racial assumption that is simply not true. In speaking about college-level affirmative action programs, you ask, “Should she [Sen. -
Green Plan Restricts Denver Citizens
Opinion -In “Some see red on Denver’s green plan” (June 12), Mayor Hickenlooper justifies his radical global warming plan by asserting, “According to most polls, 70 percent of the people in Colorado recognize there is global warming. -
Consumer Power Report #84
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 -
Economic Disinformation Misleads Listeners
Opinion -Mr. Boyles: Your claim during the June 6 program that President Bush has to date presided over a net drop in U.S. private-sector employment is simply wrong. -
Charter Schools in High Demand
Opinion -The NC Center for Public Policy Research unfairly attacked charter schools in your paper on June 6 [“Group Backs Cap for Charter Schools”]. -
Africa Needs Public Works, Economic Development and DDT
Opinion -Health Minister Sam Zaramba of Uganda makes a compelling case for former colonial (G-8) countries to allow the use of DDT to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa (“Give Us DDT,” June 12). -
Media Statement: Heartland Senior Fellow Supports Missouri Supreme Court Ruling Against City of St. Louis
Opinion -(Chicago IL - June 13, 2007) On Tuesday, June 12, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled against the City of St. Louis in a public nuisance lawsuit against former manufacturers of lead paint. -
School Vouchers Offer More Options to Needy Students
Opinion -Dear Editor: Public school choice can be a useful reform if officials implement charter schools and other special programs with total dedication to giving all families excellent options. -
Media Statement: Heartland Senior Fellow Testifies Against Net Neutrality
Opinion -(Chicago IL - June 8, 2007) On Thursday, June 7, Heartland Senior Fellow Steven Titch submitted testimony to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to a Notice of Inquiry on broadband industry practices--more specifically, what is often -
Consumer Power Report #83
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
