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Are Americans Ready for Kamala Harris’s California Cost-Hiking, Business-Killing Policies?
Opinion -For years, California has received extensive press coverage for its high cost of living and the most expensive electricity and fuel prices in America. California’s increasingly high cost of living, housing, and transportation, coupled with an increase in crime, smash-and-grab robberies, homelessness, pollution, and congestion, has caused many people and companies to relocate to more […] -
The Golden State of California Is Turning Brown Without Continuous Electricity
Opinion -As a resident of California for more than six decades, I am aware that the availability of continuously generated electricity in California is deteriorating and will get worse! The “Green New Deal” and “Net Zero” policies in California that are supported by Governor Newsom and the Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris have led to the state’s most expensive electricity […] -
PRESS RELEASE: About Trump Highlighting Our Polls and Research Revealing Widespread Illegal Mail-in Voting in 2020
Opinion -Press Release -Trump is right: Results of a Heartland/Rasmussen poll found more than one-in-four mail-in voters admitted casting illegal ballots in 2020. -
Climate Change Weekly #518: The High Cost of the Biden/Harris IRA Climate Rules
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -IN THIS ISSUE: The High Cost of the Biden/Harris IRA Climate Rules The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed on August 16, 2022, contained billions of dollars in spending on green energy initiatives intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to fight climate change. A new analysis of the literature by Tim Benson of The […] -
Research & Commentary: Report Shows Oil & Gas Industries’ Emissions Continue to Fall as Production Increases
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The recently released annual report from The Environmental Partnership (TEP), a voluntary collective of oil and gas companies “committed to continuously improving the industry’s environmental performance,” details the serious progress the industry has made in emissions reductions, especially in reducing flare intensity. TEP describes its mission as “to continuously improve the industry’s environmental performance by […] -
Research & Commentary: Despite Naysayers’ Warnings, Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account Program Was Under Budget for 2024
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The Arizona Department of Education (ADOE) has released data showing state education funding has come in under budget, which should dispel claims that the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) program, a universal education savings account program open to all Arizona children, would blow open the state’s education spending. According to ADOE, Basic State Aid payments […] -
Capital Gains Taxes?
Opinion -Listening to our politicians talk about increasing capital gains taxes makes one wonder whether these politicians and their economic advisors do not understand modern economics and finance, or whether they just hope that education in these fields is so poor that most people do not understand what is going on. Modern capital gains taxes are […] -
Research & Commentary: New Report Details Environmental and Human Rights Problems of ‘Green’ Energy and Electric Vehicles
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A new report from the American Consumer Institute (ACI) details, for all their touting as “green” sources of energy, wind and solar powered electricity generation is much more environmentally harmful than most people realize. The report, Clearing the Air: Honest Truths about Clean Energy, details the environmental hazards during the production processes of these green […] -
New Heartland Institute Report: The 2024 American Health Care Plan (State Solutions)
Opinion -Press Release -In this paper, The Heartland Institute outlines reforms from which all states could benefit, several of which some states have already begun to implement. -
Joe Armendariz
Profile -Joe Armendariz is the director of political and government sales (West) for Salem Media Group. Armendariz is also the managing director of Armendariz Partners, LLC, a government and public affairs consulting firm. He was a city councilman in Carpinteria, California from 2004 to 2012 and has been a volunteer chairman for the California Center for […] -
The 2024 American Health Care Plan: State Solutions
Publication -In this paper, The Heartland Institute outlines reforms from which all states could benefit, several of which some states have already begun to implement. -
Climate Change Weekly #517: Net Zero Efforts Destroying Forests and Reefs
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -IN THIS ISSUE: Net Zero Efforts Destroying Forests and Reefs Many of our readers are probably aware of the tremendous amounts of lithium and cobalt needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, among other supposedly green technologies. Climate Change Weekly has previously discussed the environmental destruction and human rights violations inherent in the production of these […] -
Looming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters Off Our Coasts
Opinion -Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental and stop-oil movements. Some 90,000 barrels polluted ocean waters and yet, when I was scuba diving beneath it two decades later, the same production platform support structure once again hosted a magnificent ecosystem with millions of anemones, mussels, starfish, crabs and […] -
The Pain of Inflation
Opinion -Inflation is a top concern of voters. Yet economists generally argue that the costs of inflation are exaggerated. Can we reconcile these views? To begin, inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has fallen significantly since hitting 9.1 percent in June 2022. Inflation was 7 percent for all of 2022 but only 2.9 […] -
Americans Deserve to Know How Kamala Harris’ Energy Plan Stacks Up Against Trump
Opinion -The public deserves to learn about the differences in energy literacy between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris BEFORE the elected one is allowed to set energy policies for Americans. It is apparent that the architects of the ‘Green New Deal’ are clueless that “renewables” such as wind turbines and solar panels ONLY exist to generate […] -
Research & Commentary: New Survey Shows Education Choice Still Incredibly Popular, But Parent Awareness of Available Programs Is Lacking
Publication -Research and Commentaries -EdChoice recently released the results of their 12th annual Schooling in America survey, a “nationally representative survey of the general public and parents of school-age children [which] offers an in-depth look at the opinions and trends shaping K–12 education in America.” The survey, in partnership with Braun Research, was fielded across April 2024 and “obtained […] -
Utah Republican Leadership Pushes Climate Alarmism
Publication -Many of Utah’s leading Republican politicians have defied conservative voters and bought into Al Gore’s and the Biden-Harris administration’s climate alarmism. In doing so, they have promoted policies that will increase Utah energy prices while limiting consumers’ energy choices. The state of Utah is experiencing no net harm from purported human-caused climate change. Despite this […] -
Expanding School Choice Benefits All Students
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Over the past decade and particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic, an increasing number of American families have become dissatisfied with government-run public schools and desire robust school choice options. During the pandemic, most public schools, at the behest of teacher unions, decided to close their doors for in-person learning. Meanwhile, private and parochial schools generally […] -
Election-Related Deepfakes: Understanding the Threat and Exploring Potential Solutions
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Election-related deepfakes involving audio, photo, and video manipulations have become a significant concern in the digital age. Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI) to create convincing but false representations of individuals, making them appear to say or do things they never said or did. These manipulations pose significant threats to the integrity of public debate and […] -
Research & Commentary: New Report Sheds Light on Climate Activist Group’s Shady Influencing of American Court System Against Energy Providers
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The American Energy Institute (AEI) has released a new report detailing how the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) at the Environmental Law Institute is “influencing the courts and destroying the rule of law to promote questionable climate science.” The Climate Judiciary Project’s stated goal is to “provide neutral, objective information to the judiciary about the science […] -
Who Is Directing the War on Agriculture and Nutrition?
Opinion -Elite billionaire organizations and foundations, government agencies and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern agriculture, nutrition, and Earth’s poorest, hungriest people. Instead of helping more families get nutritious food, better healthcare and higher living standards, they’re doing the opposite, and harming biodiversity in the process. The World Economic Forum wants […] -
Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Battle: Seize Land for Green Energy?
Opinion -A battle is underway in five Midwest states over construction of carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines as part of the green energy transition. Opposition to wide-area pipeline networks is rising from farms and communities. But utilities and state governments intend to seize land over landowner protests. On June 25, the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) granted the petition of […] -
First, Let’s Define Our Terms
Opinion -Years ago as a high school and college debater, I was trained to begin making my case by defining key terms. A debate gets incoherent if the two sides don’t agree on what the topic is, or what is being proposed. Voltaire famously wrote, “Define your terms… or we shall never understand one another.” The […] -
Research & Commentary: Newly Updated Report Collects the Overwhelming Empirical Evidence of the Benefits of Education Choice Programs
Publication -Research and Commentaries -EdChoice, one of the national leaders in education choice advocacy and research, has released a new, updated “in-depth review of the available research on private school choice programs in America.” The 123s of School Choice, originally published in 2019 and updated this June, gathers information from 188 empirical studies on choice programs—vouchers, education savings accounts (ESAs), tax-credit […]
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