Opinion
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Red-Light Cameras Undermine the Rule of Law
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Among the constitutional issues raised by the use of these cameras is the potential violation of the Sixth Amendment. -
State, Federal Lawmakers Propose Child Safety Accounts
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -To address the widespread problem of sexual misconduct, as well as bullying and violence in public schools. -
What Was #Greta Thunberg Taught, and Who Taught Her About It?
Opinion -Editorial -Thunberg is hailed for her efforts while not meeting the mandatory minimum requirement for climate science speakers to be currently published in science journals, which activists regularly aim at those possessing PhD-level climate science knowledge. -
Earmarks for Congressional Pork-Barrel Spending Reach $15 Billion
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The largest amount of money directed to pet projects since Congress imposed a moratorium in 2011. -
PA Expands Tax Credit Scholarship Programs
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -After vetoing one bill that would have raised the state's tax credit cap, Gov. Wolf signed a tax cap increase. -
Declining Government Support for Electric Vehicles Could Boost Global Oil Demand, Report States
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Declining government support for policies promoting electric vehicles, and a slowdown in EV sales, could reinvigorate global oil markets, concludes a recent report by a Washington, D.C.-based firm specializing in global energy forecasts. -
Trump’s ESA Changes: A Good Start
Opinion -Editorial -Don’t let them tell you the Endangered Species Act has been a success. -
Price Controls Attack the Freedom of Speech
Opinion -Editorial -We increasingly live in a new “dark age” of economic ignorance, and even stupidity. -
Politicians Are Scapegoating E-cigs for Harm They Haven’t Done
Opinion -Editorial -When there’s an outbreak of deaths or illnesses from injected street drugs, do public health authorities demand diabetics and doctors stop using syringes? -
Failing Education, Lawsuits and Parental Choice
Opinion -Editorial -A literacy lawsuit is due to go to trial in October, but little will change if it is successful. -
Illinois Raises Gas Tax to Nation’s Third Highest
Opinion -budget-tax-news -After Illinois Doubled Its Gas Tax, the State Trails Only California and Pennsylvania. -
Legislative Pulse: Defending Climate and Energy Realism in Minnesota
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Minnesota state Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen (R-Glencoe) says energy socialism is just as bad as socialism in any other area of public policy. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to EPA Revoking California Vehicle Emission Standards
Opinion -Press Release -"This move by the administration just ensures that the climate zealots in the California Legislature don’t get to dictate policy to the rest of the country.” - Tim Benson -
Budget-Busting Debt Ceiling Deal Strengthens Argument for Convention of States
Opinion -Editorial -Congress just gave us 1.7 trillion more reasons why a Convention of States could be our last, best hope to stop the out-of-control, debt-financed federal spending machine. -
Americans Can’t do Math, But Policymakers Can and This Could Vaporize Tobacco Harm Reduction
Opinion -Editorial -It should come as no big surprise that Americans are not the world’s best mathematicians. -
Role Reversal: Government Searches Google
Opinion -Editorial -Nothing good can come from growing government interference with the internet. -
Student Debt Picture Varies Widely by State, Study Finds
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The states with the highest levels of student debt, on average, are all on the East Coast. -
Emotional Learning Perfectly Suits Democrats
Opinion -Editorial -Other than Harris weaponizing the failed desegregation relic of mandatory busing to bludgeon frontrunner Biden, the Democrats said little about their vision for transforming education in their first two rounds of presidential nomination debates. -
5G Wireless Makes Net Neutrality Even Dumber Policy
Opinion -The Left has spent the last five decades rigidly insisting the world was on the verge of imminent climactic collapse. We are constantly on the verge of warming ourselves into mass extinction. -
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Heartland Weekly: We Need Public Discussion on Climate Change
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of September 9, 2019 -
Twenty-Three States Push to Save California’s De Facto National Fuel Efficiency Standards
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The governors of 23 U.S. states have joined California in demanding the Trump administration reverse its proposal to withdraw California’s Clean Air Act waiver for automobile emissions. -
Report: Homeschoolers Much More Diverse Than Previously Thought
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -More than a quarter of homeschooling families are black or Hispanic. -
Will Climate Alarmists Accept Heartland’s Latest Debate Challenge?
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #335 -
More Colleges Are Adopting Free-Speech ‘Chicago Principles’
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression was composed by the University of Chicago to set a standard for protecting freedom of speech.
