Opinion
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NASA and NOAA’s Latest Climate Warning Is a Result of Purposefully Flawed Data
Opinion -NASA and NOAA are like toddlers trying to fit square pegs into round holes, and just as likely as toddlers to throw fits when their efforts are stymied by reality. -
Proposal to Lower Healthcare Costs Will Lower Air Ambulances to the Ground
Opinion -Air transport is the one service you hope you never need, but when you do, you thank God it is there -
New Medicare Payment Model to Incentivize At-Home Kidney Dialysis
Opinion -The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is finalizing rules for a mandatory payment model meant to improve kidney care and reduce costs. -
Providing 100 Percent Energy from Renewable Sources is Impossible
Opinion -It is impossible with current technologies to provide 100 percent renewable energy at reasonable prices. -
FDA’s Broken Drug Approval System Continues Hurting Patients
Opinion -There is no question that a means testing regime ought to be in place, but by what standards and who makes that determination is what must be reexamined and changed. -
AOC Finally Has Bipartisan Idea
Opinion -Bravo to AOC and others who dare defy party bigwigs — those in smoke-filled rooms who make the “big” decisions and pull the political strings from afar. -
Chicago’s Progressive Mayor Actually Abhors Progress
Opinion -Apparently, Mayor Lightfoot is willing to cast aside her progressive values in a rather desperate attempt to tackle the city’s out-of-control debt by nickel and diming her constituents. -
Presidential Politics Taking Toll on Young Doctors, Study Finds
Opinion -Young physicians are increasingly aligning with left-of-center political viewpoints, according to results of a recent survey by BMJ, an international medical journal. -
Federal Government Rejects Effort to Ban Bear Baiting on Federal Lands in Idaho and Wyoming
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asked the U.S. District Court in Idaho to dismiss a lawsuit filed by environmental groups demanding federal authorities ban black bear hunting using bait in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming. -
An Easy Choice
Opinion -Calling an for an open constitutional convention is much easier, more efficient, and holds the promise of better results than a limited-agenda one. -
Animal Welfare and Economics
Opinion -Meat is unlikely to be banned until many more Americans first become vegetarians. -
Stop Using Inadequate Climate Models for Policy Making
Opinion -The difference between the real world and the modeled world has already existed for 30 years. Unfortunately, instead of getting smaller due to a proper validation process, this difference has become bigger. -
A Vision for Tobacco Policy; 2020 Edition
Opinion -Overzealous health authorities in the U.S. have a lot to learn from their lackluster performance in 2019. But there’s hope. Hindsight is so 2020. -
The Real Threat of Viruses
Opinion -A few years ago, it was ebola. Today, the coronavirus. Tomorrow, because of mutation, it will be something else. -
Feds Nix Wyoming’s Plan to Regulate Air Ambulances Through Medicaid
Opinion -The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) denied Wyoming’s request to expand Medicaid so it can control the price and distribution of its air ambulance service. -
Too Many Regulatory Silos in Patient Care, Says HHS Deputy Secretary
Opinion -Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Director Eric Hargan says his agency is trying to eliminate regulatory barriers to health care in a way that would improve delivery and maintain “safeguards to patients.” -
Heartland Weekly: The Disastrous Socialist Revolution
Opinion -Week of February 3, 2020 -
The Green Oscars: A High-fashion Nightmare!
Opinion -Living high-flying lives of hypocrisy, while telling the rest of us how we should live. -
Virginia House Considers Repealing Education Tax Credit
Opinion -Control of the Virginia General Assembly flipped from Republican to Democrat in the November 2019 election, when Democrats won majorities in both the state Senate and the House of Delegates. -
Trump Administration Proposes Opening Alaskan National Petroleum Reserve to Oil and Gas Production
Opinion -The Trump administration proposed opening most of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil and gas production, reversing an Obama-era plan that closed much of the reserve. -
Kansas Lawmakers Bow to Pressure to Expand Medicaid
Opinion -Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) and Republican State Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning (R- District 8) announced a compromise proposal that would expand Medicaid to 150,000 Kansans, a step towards Kelly’s campaign promise to expand Medicaid eligibility in th -
CMS Approves Utah’s Medicaid Work Rules After Rejecting Partial Expansion
Opinion -The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a work requirement for enrollees in the state’s expanded Medicaid program. -
Nebraska County Puts Hold on Wind Facility Development
Opinion -The Hamilton County, Nebraska Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to place a six-month hold on all applications for wind turbine projects in the county. -
Climate Science Was Corrupted, Says Award Winning Climate Scientist
Opinion -Politics has corrupted climate science, with scientists in the field ignoring evidence a climate crisis is not occurring.
