New Rules Could Undermine Successful Medicare Part D Program
A new effort by the Obama Administration to change the Medicare Part D prescription drug program by imposing new rules on how the plans are set up and managed risk[...]
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Will the Supreme Court Permit EPA Climate Fraud?
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency. The case will determine how far EPA can extend its regulatory overreach, to control “climate changing” carbon dioxide from power plants and other facilities – by ignoring the Constitution’s “separation of powers” provisions, rewriting clear language in the Clean Air Act, and disregarding laws that require the agency to consider both the costs and benefits of its regulations and what it is regulating.
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Even When Government Power Grabs Are Overturned – The Left Wins
The Barack Obama Administration has been overstepping its Constitutional bounds since just about five minutes after its first inauguration.
Economics · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
U.S. Wireless Economics Beat EU’s Wireless Uneconomics
Without market economic thinking and pricing that plans ahead and continually funds infrastructure investment, the EU will continue to fall further behind other countries around the world.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Barack Obama’s Presidency Is A Complete Failure By His Own, Self-Imposed Standards
At the end of 2013, after serving five years, Barack Obama is a complete failure as President, by his own standards, as reflected in his own words.
The Supreme Court is Undermining Science and Society
The Supreme Court has taken up another case based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s campaign of lies that carbon dioxide is the cause of “climate change” and claims about the quality of air in the United States. The Court is composed of lawyers, not scientists.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast · Regulation · Science
Heartland Daily Podcast: Jay Lehr on Agriculture Appreciation
Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr was a guest on Brownfield News Radio, after delivering a speech at the Iowa Farm Bureau annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
Obama’s Inequality Fallacies
Inequality is his middle name.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
Why Chairmen Upton and Walden Plan a Communications Act Update
In sum, the need for modernizing America’s communications law is urgent and undeniable.
Featured · Government · Liberty · Random · Regulation
Is It Time to Let Adults Play Online Poker Again?
Two and a half years ago Eric Holder and the U.S. Justice Department applied dubious legal logic to shut down one of America’s quintessential pastimes – poker games among consenting adults. The Justice Department not only put a freeze on one of America’s fastest-growing forms of entertainment, it made the Land of the Free one of the few democratic nations in the world to ban consenting adults from playing online poker.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Science
Debate Is Heated, but Planet Keeps its Cool
Clearly, if the predictions made based on IPCC models are not supported by real-world observations, the models need improvement.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Regulation · Science
Faith-Based IPCC Turns Science into Sin
Though since environmental and climate activism has always been a matter of faith rather than science, perhaps such essentially religious formulations were inevitable.
Featured · Government · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
Thorner: EPA Power grab goes unnoticed while Obamacare burns
Notwithstanding, if the out-of-control EPA is allowed to get its way unchecked in rule-making by rubber stamping their predetermined regulatory agenda, its flouting of power will continue and will further violate this nation’s Constitution by ignoring its commitment to Congress and the American people.
Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Study Supporting New Internet Sales Taxes
A new study released by the Small Business Administration funded with taxpayer money examines the effects of Internet sales taxes on small businesses. The study has drawn swift criticism from[...]
Mischa Popoff on Canada AM: Is your food really organic?
You may not be getting what you’re paying for
Economics · Featured · Regulation
Bitcoin’s quixotic search for legality
Think immoveable force meets immovable object. The core conundrum of stateless Bitcoin and other virtual currencies is how to somehow gain legal acceptance by sovereign states. The central idea behind[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
Disability Quotas Handicap the Least Powerful
The Department of Labor (DoL) just implemented another crippling regulation on American businesses. All 171,000 federal contractors must now meet a seven percent hiring quota for the disabled. This quota[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Liberty
NSA, Net Neutrality, It’s All About Controlling the Internet – and You
Net Neutrality mandates that the government regulate the entire Web. Which means the government lords over every single website on the planet. No First Amendment problem there, right?
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media · Regulation
TV Anticompetitiveness, A La Carte
Senators McCain and Blumenthal are co-sponsoring a misnamed piece of legislation, the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, which aims to curb expensive cable bundles.
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