Opinion
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Online Gambling and Lottery Sales Banned by ‘Plain Language’ of Wire Act, DOJ Says
Opinion -budget-tax-news -DOJ reverses its 2011 opinion that the law applies only to sports betting -
Choice and Jordan Peterson
Opinion -Editorial -Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology and a psychotherapist, is taking the world by storm. -
Green Land Grabs on Steroids
Opinion -Editorial -Using bees to block human activities on land 15 times bigger than Virginia – or even more. -
Texas City’s Renewable Energy Goal Hikes Electricity Prices
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Georgetown, Texas’ plan to rely on 100 percent wind and solar power has resulted in skyrocketing electricity bills for consumers and the city’s budget suffering millions of dollars in losses in a few short years. -
Climate Socialism Is Dangerous and Must Be Defeated
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Democrats in Congress, are promoting a Green New Deal that would eliminate all fossil fuels in ten years, create a massive federal public works and jobs program, explicit proposals to replace market freedom and limited government with socialism. -
Heartland Weekly: Facts Sanders Doesn’t Want You to Know
Opinion -Editorial -Week of February 25, 2019 -
Senate Confirms Climate Realist, Reg. Reformer Wheeler as EPA Administrator
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #316 -
The Myth of Aggregate Demand and Supply
Opinion -Editorial -It has been more than 80 years since the beginning of the Keynesian revolution in economics with the publication of John Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936. -
U.S. Economic Freedom Score and International Ranking Improve
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Worldwide, economic liberty declined for the first time in six years -
Legislature, Governor Push Florida Fracking Ban
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Companion bills to ban hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, are under consideration in the Florida Legislature. -
South Carolina Taxpayers Lose on Clemson Tigers’ Salaries for Coaches
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Coaches at state universities earn high salaries and pension benefits -
Florida School Voucher Programs Show Positive Results, Study Finds
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Students more likely to go to and graduate from college -
The Negative Income Tax and Income Security in a Complex World
Opinion -Editorial -The Daily Caller is running an endearing story about a 56-year old Philadelphia woman who is on disability and who has been endorsed by the city’s Republican Party in their upcoming primary for mayor. -
If You Liked the Green New Deal – You’ll Love The Internet New Deal
Opinion -Editorial -The new wave of Democrats – with media darling New York Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) in the lead – are fully Socialist. -
House Bills Propose Medicare to Negotiate Prescription Drug Prices
Opinion -health-care-news -Congressional Democrats and one Republican are proposing a package of bills they say will lower drug prices, including a measure giving Medicare more power to set drug prices. -
Maine’s New Governor Expands Medicaid
Opinion -health-care-news -Maine’s newly elected chief executive, Gov. Janet Mills, has instructed the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to move forward with Medicaid expansion. -
U.S. Treasury Moving to Implement Opportunity Zone Tax Breaks
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Regulations to implement Opportunity Zone tax incentives in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) -
Medicaid Expansion Crowds Out Other Spending in Virginia
Opinion -For most of the past decade, Medicaid has been overwhelming Virginia’s budget to the point where the state is now expecting a $462.5 million shortfall over the next two years and lawmakers are torn over how to make up the difference. -
Heartland Weekly: Millennials: Quit Demanding Socialism
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of February 18, 2019 -
Virginia Bills Would Open Market for Telemedicine
Opinion -health-care-news -Virginia lawmakers passed a set of bills that would open the door for greater use of telemedicine. -
New Health Care Agenda for California Bolsters Obamacare, Eyes Single- Payer
Opinion -health-care-news -During his first weeks on the job, California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, restated his intent to turn his state into a single-payer health care system, provide “state-based support” for illegal immigrants ages 19 to 26, expand insurance subsidies and re -
Virginia Bills Would Open Market for Telemedicine
Opinion -health-care-news -Virginia lawmakers passed a set of bills that would open the door for greater use of telemedicine. -
Two Paths Forward for Healthcare
Opinion -Editorial -Numerous prominent Democrats now support Medicare for All, the most recent proposal for a single-payer healthcare system. -
Oregon Considers In-Home Visits to New Parents
Opinion -health-care-news -Oregon is considering taking the idea of “nanny state” to a new level with a program that would send government-sanctioned health care workers to the homes of new parents to make sure newborns are getting proper care and screening.