Opinion
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Climate Change Weekly # 589—National Academy Pulls Climate Chapter—for Now, at Least
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
The Free-market Case for AI Data Centers
Opinion -Heartland Institute President James Taylor was a guest on the Hugh Hewitt Show to make the positive case for building AI data centers. -
PRESS RELEASE: America Should Press European Union Over Extraterritorial Sustainability Regulations
Opinion -Press Release -Washington warns European Union that further action could follow if Brussels does not address burdens imposed on American businesses. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #157: Data Center Hysteria and the Decay of America’s Political System
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Public opposition to data centers has increased by 12 percentage points in just the past four months, with 61 percent now saying they oppose building new data centers ... -
PRESS RELEASE: European Union Begins Enforcing Sweeping Artificial Intelligence Act
Opinion -Press Release -New enforcement powers give European regulators greater authority over American AI companies and technologies -
Running on Medicare for All in Florida Is a Fool’s Errand
Opinion -Angie Nixon’s unexpected defeat of establishment Democrat Alexander Vinman yet again shows that moderate Democrats underestimate the raw political power of the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) “free” stuff agenda. -
California Is Running Out of Refineries – and Running Out of Time
Opinion -With no pipelines crossing the Sierra Nevada, California is an energy island, separated from the crude oil supplies and refinery infrastructure of the other continental states. As a result, the state’s transportation fuel needs—for airports, cars, trucks, and ships serving three of America’s busiest ports—must be met by in-state refineries. -
$40+ Trillion Debt: The Bell Tolls for the U.S. Dollar
Opinion -The US is adding $1 trillion to the debt - every ninety-two days. And in FY 2025, the US started paying over $1 trillion per year - just in interest on the debt. -
I Appoint Myself Spokesman for the Mountain
Opinion -What if you face difficult legal battles, and I announce that I’ve appointed myself as your lawyer? We have never met, and I don’t know anything about your needs. You know nothing of my credentials. You never agreed to hire me or signed any contract. No matter, I’m representing you anyway. -
Climate Change Weekly # 588—The Song Remains the Same: Politically, Climate Change Still Doesn’t Matter
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
The DSA Gives Workers a Load of Lip Service
Opinion -For a very long time, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has billed itself as a worker-oriented movement that is entirely devoted to fighting “for reforms that empower working people.” -
Electricity Policy Is Economic Policy: The Race for Reliable Power
Opinion -Electricity policy, at its core is economic policy. Nations that can produce abundant, reliable, and affordable electricity create the conditions for industrial growth, technological leadership, higher wages, and rising living standards. Those that fail to do so eventually discover that electricity shortages are a direct threat to national prosperity. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Launches State Campaign for Socialism Education Reform
Opinion -Press Release -‘Ensuring that the history of socialism is accurately taught to our children is an imperative goal for all states.’ -
The Biggest Garbage Heaps in Human History
Opinion -Daily news feeds present applause lines, and numerous movies include framing shots with wind turbines – blatantly or subtly promoting the “inevitable transition” from “dirty” fossil fuels to “low-cost, clean, green, renewable, sustainable” wind and solar power. -
The Math Ain’t Mathing on the DSA’s Medicare for All
Opinion -The Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) recently released “Workers Deserve More” program is full of silly policies that will probably never come to full fruition, fortunately. However, one of the more “mainstream” policies of the program, Medicare for All, absolutely could become the law of the land. -
If Any Agency Ever Needed Reorganization
Opinion -Earlier this year, U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Tom Schultz announced a major reorganization of the agency, prompting the usual opposition from employees predictably opposing any change in the status quo. A few environmental industry groups expressed skepticism, but the story was mostly ignored elsewhere. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #156: The (Current) Limit on Democratic Socialists’ Political Appeal
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Hong’s failure to get past the post in this Democrat primary illustrates a greater problem for the collectivist “democratic socialist” movement. -
The Coming Fuel Crisis: What Ukraine and California Have in Common
Opinion -Ukraine is using drone attacks on Russian refineries to reduce the supply chain of transportation fuels demanded by the Russian military and its economy. -
Democratic Socialists Seek to Cripple American AI
Opinion -The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are very busy winning Democratic primaries, but they still have the bandwidth to organize a national campaign this summer against AI and data centers under the “Ecosocialism Transition Committee.” -
Three Certainties: Death, Taxes, and Socialism Fails
Opinion -If failure is defined as not meeting an expected objective or outcome, socialist governments have not come close to creating Marx’s workers’ paradise. Some have barely lasted more than a few years. -
The Cultural Revolution Is in Full Swing
Opinion -It’s no secret that socialism is advancing in the U.S. The latest development in this ominous trend occurred on August 4, when Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive backed by democratic socialists, defeated the establishment-backed congresswoman Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. -
The Current Status of American Schools
Opinion -As we head into the new school year, what follows is a brief assessment of the sorry state of public education and what parents can do about it. -
Climate Change Weekly # 587— Climate Panickers Bemoan Realists’ Inspired Policy Wins
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
America Is Watching the World’s Movement to Nuclear Power Generation
Opinion -Most California politicians have hated the zero-emissions generated electricity from nuclear generations since 1976 when they passed the moratorium on new nuclear power plants.
