Opinion
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The Dangerous Delusion of a Global Transition to ‘Just Electricity’
Opinion -Eradicating the world of crude oil usage without first having a replacement in mind would be immoral and evil, as extreme shortages of the products now manufactured from fossil fuels will result in billions of fatalities from diseases, malnutrition, and weather-related deaths and could be a greater threat than climate change to the world’s eight billion population. -
Video: Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure – Climate Change Roundtable #81
Opinion -This week we look at green energy, and a book showing how it will likely fail in the near future. -
Proposition HH Is Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing for Colorado Taxpayers Bill of Rights
Opinion -Overall, any substantial benefits to the taxpayers in the form of property tax reductions would be overshadowed by long-term tax increases. As a good rule of thumb, if any liberal politician is pushing for “tax reform” it would inevitably take money out of taxpayers’ wallets. Proposition HH is, in fact, a wolf in sheep’s clothing for the rights the Colorado taxpayers have exercised since the implementation of TABOR. -
Under Biden, America Is Becoming a Police State
Opinion -Regrettably, at least for those of us who seek to maintain the values of separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism, and the like, the Biden administration has run roughshod over these sacrosanct constitutional principles. -
Video: What Happens If Trump Wins? – In The Tank #417
Opinion -What would happen to America if Donald Trump wins in November of 2024? -
Biden Administration Is Killing Whales and Covering it Up
Opinion -Between December, 2022 and May of this year, 60 large whales, including one right whale, washed up dead on the beaches of NY, NJ, and VA. -
School Kids Experience Long Covid
Opinion -The damage done by the lockdowns has been devastating, but with the arrival of a new Covid variant, what comes next? -
Biden’s Gun Violence Prevention Office Fails to Address Root Cause of Problem
Opinion -While it is true that gun violence is ravaging communities across the country, particularly urban communities, it is naïve to believe that yet another federal government bureaucracy will solve this complicated problem. -
The AI Revolution Is Bad News for Net Zero
Opinion -Total data center power requirements will increase by at least a factor of six and maybe by as much as 10 times by 2029. Greenhouse gas emissions from AI data centers will increase by similar amount. -
President Biden’s Offshore Wind Policies Make National Lobster Day a Day to Mourn
Opinion -Due to Biden’s offshore wind policies, National Lobster Day may soon become a day to memorialize the passing of a great industry, tradition, and a tasty meal. -
It’s the Spending, Stupid
Opinion -Congress, and the Republican-led House of Representatives in particular, controls the nation’s purse strings. With this being the case, it is imperative that the GOP play hardball concerning the looming budget showdown. -
Anti-Intellectual Property? The Socialists-Communists Are
Opinion -My long time joke is: What’s the difference between Socialism and Communism? About five years. -
Desperate Governors Beg for Offshore Wind Cost Relief
Opinion -Six Atlantic shore Governors are begging the Feds to bail them out of a huge looming offshore wind cost overrun. -
Russia and China Dominating the Race for Nuclear Electricity Generation
Opinion -America continues to relinquish control to Russia and China for the nuclear technology to generate continuous zero emission electricity. -
DC and Bidenomics: ‘Our Fake Solution Didn’t Work – So We’ll Do It Harder’
Opinion -As Big Gov and Big Biz settled ever more comfortably into bed together, Big Gov’s laws and regulations became more and more nakedly helpful for Big Biz - at the expense of everyone else. -
Video: Climate Empire vs. The Rebellion: The Farce is Strong with These Guys
Opinion -This week we look at another incident of academic harassmentt: The use of FOI requests by NASA's Dr. Gavin Schmidt to look into correspondence between authors, editors, and collaborators for for another paper they don't like. -
New Polling Shows Truth Is Defeating Climate Alarmism
Opinion -The Heartland Institute is proud to lead the charge for sound science and rational energy policy. With your generous support, we will keep on fighting and keep on winning. -
Video: Marching Toward a Technological Tyranny – In The Tank #416
Opinion -What does liberty look like in a world of AI, data collection, social credit scores, self-driving cars, CBDCs, and other developing technologies? -
Congress Must Fix the Broken Budget Process
Opinion -In 2000, our national debt stood at $5.6 trillion compared to our GDP, which clocked in at roughly $10 trillion. Today, those figures have almost reversed. Now, our national debt has ballooned to approximately $33 trillion, while our GDP has increased to $25 trillion. -
Fewer Hurricanes Are Hitting New England
Opinion -Rather than scaring the public into believing climate change is or will make New England hurricanes more frequent and deadlier, the media should report the welcome facts that New England hurricanes are becoming rarer and less deadly as the planet modestly warms. -
Joe Biden’s Email Alias Escorted Phone Numbers of Top U.S. Officials to Hunter
Opinion -Many journalists and “fact checkers” deny that the prosecutor who Joe Biden got fired was investigating the oligarch who was enriching Hunter, but this fact is irrefutably proven by validated emails from Hunter’s laptop. -
Imagine No Jets, Ships, Defense, or Space Program!
Opinion -Eradicating the world of crude oil usage would ground the 50,000 jets in the world and leave the 50,000 merchant ships tied up at docks and discontinue the military and space programs! -
All Aboard! Next stop: Prosperity Through Freight Rail
Opinion -While Americans grapple with stubborn inflation brought on by overspending and the bottlenecking of energy production, consumers and voters need to be aware that freight rail isn’t the boogeyman. -
A Tale of Two Whale Protection Groups
Opinion -The small group says that offshore wind development is killing whales, which I, too, believe, but NOAA denies.