Opinion
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Congressional Resolution on Physician Assisted Suicide Gets Bipartisan Support
Opinion -News -A congressional resolution to block the legalization of physician assisted suicide is receiving bipartisan support as states continue to legalize “death with dignity.” -
Scientists Committed False Alarming Climate Advertising
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #350 -
Feds Probe Red-Light Camera Corruption in Illinois, Legislators Back Ban
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Across the United States, 341 communities use red-light cameras, including 68 municipalities in Illinois, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. -
PRESS RELEASE: German YouTube Personality Naomi Seibt Joins The Heartland Institute
Opinion -Press Release -The 19-year-old influencer will concentrate on communicating climate realism to her generation in Europe and the United States. -
Politicized Veganism Threatens Human Health and Liberty
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Some politicians have joined anti-meat and climate change activists in a massive effort to restructure the American diet by mandating a worldwide plant-based diet. -
Democratic Presidential Contenders Push for Climate ‘Stress Test’ Requirement on Banks
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Several Democratic presidential candidates want the federal government to require periodic “stress tests” on large banks to ensure they can handle potential economic blows from climate change. -
Mandatory Union Bargaining Case Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -A teacher at at the University of Maine is contesting representation by the Associated Faculties of the University of Maine (AFUM). -
Bird Conservation Groups Sue over Lake Erie Industrial Wind Facility
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Two bird conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit claiming federal agencies did not follow federal law during the approval process for the Icebreaker Wind industrial facility on Lake Erie. -
Investors Clamoring to Advance Kidney Care, Says HHS Deputy Secretary
Opinion -health-care-news, News -President Donald Trump’s kidney care initiative has energized investors and innovators, Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan told The Heartland Daily Podcast, -
New York Overrides Municipal Ban on Industrial Wind Facility, Impacts Eagle Population
Opinion -environment-climate-news -State Regulators in New York approved a 124-megawatt Bluestone industrial wind facility, despite strong objections from the Delaware Otsego Audubon Society and a last-minute zoning ordinance enacted by the Town of Sanford to block the project. -
Prince of Hypocrisy: Charles Racks Up Private Flight Miles, CO2 Emissions
Opinion -Editorial -According to climate activists, air travel—and especially private air travel—is one of the most wasteful and unnecessary sources of carbon dioxide emissions and a major cause of climate change. -
Doomed Climate Lawsuits Waste Precious Time and Money
Opinion -Editorial -It’s time for federal and state courts to say enough is enough and block all such lawsuits. It’s the job of elected branches, not the judiciary, to determine United States climate and energy policy. -
NASA and NOAA’s Latest Climate Warning Is a Result of Purposefully Flawed Data
Opinion -Editorial -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 -Editorial -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 -health-care-news, News -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 -environment-climate-news -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 -Editorial -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 -Editorial -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 -budget-tax-news, Editorial -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 -News -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 -environment-climate-news -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 -budget-tax-news, Editorial -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 -environment-climate-news, budget-tax-news, Editorial -Meat is unlikely to be banned until many more Americans first become vegetarians. -
Stop Using Inadequate Climate Models for Policy Making
Opinion -Editorial -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.
