Opinion
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A Skeptic’s Primer on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
Opinion -Having won an Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore is headed to Capitol Hill on March 21 to perform before an even more important crowd: lawmakers who could pass legislation that would make energy unaffordable for many Americans. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #6-1
Opinion -We Report, You Sue An Irish newspaper whose food critic criticized a restaurant’s food was found guilty of defamation by a jury and must pay damages of £25,000 (about $49,000), the BBC reports. -
Truthy Claims About Gross Receipts Taxes
Opinion -Supporters of Illinois Governor Blagojevich's gross receipts tax have floated claims that have an air of "truthiness" about them. Here we analyze a number of those claims: Truthy Claim: Gross Receipt Taxes (GRT) are low rate taxes.Maybe. -
Consumer Power Report #73
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 -
Real Journalism Lacking When It Comes to Environment
Opinion -Seth Borenstein’s AP article, “Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming” [March 12, 2007], regarding a United Nations’ report that will be released at some undefined point in the future, is a shameless case of what used -
Thoes Chi-tonw Schoosl!
Opinion -Dear Editor: Eric Zorn's account ("The mark of true friends," Mar. 8) of how Chicagoan Michael Duplessis got a misspelled "Chi-tonw" tattoo shows how badly our public schools are failing, since that's an error a third-grader should catch. -
Consumer Power Report #72
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 -
Testimony: Science and Global Warming: What Do We Know?
Opinion -Presentation Delivered to the Minnesota Climate Science Symposium March 8, 2007 Thank you for the kind introduction, Senator Jungbauer. It truly is an honor and a privilege to speak with you here today. Dr. -
Testimony: Why Taxing Like Products Differently Is Bad
Opinion -Trevor R. Martin Director of Government Relations The Heartland Institute Testimony to the Texas House Committee on Ways and Means Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Why Taxing Like Products Differently Is Bad for Commerce and Bad for the Consumer Mr. -
State Should Not Fully Abandon Education
Opinion -Dear Editor: In "A call for separation of school and state" (March 4), columnist Jeff Jacoby astutely diagnoses what ails government-controlled education: winner-take-all politics in a society no longer united as to what schools should teach. -
Announcement: Dennis Avery On Hannity & Colmes
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois - March 5, 2007) If you are at home this evening tune into The FoxNews Channel at 8:00 p.m. CST (9:00 p.m. EST) for Hannity & Colmes. -
Consumer Power Report #71
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 -
Forgetting the Consequences of Totalitarianism
Opinion -Many states are now considering a statewide ban on smoking in public places. These bans have widespread support from local policy makers and opinion leaders. But they are based on bad science and even worse public policy. -
Utah House Passes Universal Voucher Bill
Opinion -On February 2, the Utah House of Representatives passed, by a 38-37 vote, a landmark measure that would give Utah the nation's first statewide universal voucher program. The Parent Choice in Education Act, H.B. -
State Court Won’t Take Up Az. Vouchers
Opinion -On January 9, the Arizona Supreme Court declined to hear a legal challenge to the state's newest educational voucher programs--one for foster children, the other for special-needs children. -
Illinois Teachers Seek Independence from State Union, Meet Resistance
Opinion -A decision by some Illinois teachers to seek independence for their local union has succeeded despite resistance from the state teachers union. -
Poll Shows Statewide Support for Choice in Arizona
Opinion -A strong majority of Arizonans support school choice, according to a poll released in early January on the eve of the state supreme court's decision not to hear the case against Arizona's newest educational voucher programs. -
Iowa Ponders Allowing Outside Experts to Teach
Opinion -School reform advocates are increasingly calling for schools to allow people with stellar experience and knowledge in fields such as math and science to teach in public schools without education degrees. -
Kansas School Offers Classical Catholic Education
Opinion -At Padre Pio Academy in Shawnee, Kansas, Catholic education is being redefined. Students in kindergarten through ninth grade are taking Latin and advanced mathematics, and the school community prays together thrice daily. -
Illinois Taxpayers Shouldn’t Pay for Tazewell County Schools
Opinion -Dear Editor: Critics are wrong to say Tazewell County's Central School District can't generate sufficient funds from local property taxes and thus suffers academically versus a "wealthy" district like Lake County's Rondout School District ["School -
Ill. Town Hires Private Firefighters
Opinion -The village of Lakewood, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, has hired a private company to provide fire protection and emergency medical services as part of a long-term program to protect taxpayers and homeowners. -
W. Virginia Launches Pilot Wellness Effort
Opinion -As the cost of health care continues to skyrocket, many health insurers are looking for ways to avoid using the health care system by keeping their clients healthy. -
ESA Listing Not Needed for Polar Bears
Opinion -Despite healthy polar bear populations upwards of 20,000 bears worldwide, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced on December 27 the Bush administration's plan to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. -
Climate Alarmist Quits British Government
Opinion -Sir Nicholas Stern, author of a controversial October 2006 report alleging global warming will wreak havoc on the global economy, on December 11 resigned his position as second permanent secretary in the British treasury department after the government