Opinion
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Classroom Forecast: Miseducated with a High Chance of Indoctrination
Opinion -Instead of American history, students now learn about the evils of capitalism, airplanes and cow farts. -
Culture and Community
Opinion -Human culture involves a set of beliefs and expectations informally transmitted across generations. Some of these become traditions that help define a community. Here is one to celebrate, visiting and bringing food and treats to “shut-ins”. -
No Sanitized Pages in History, Please!
Opinion -Imagine that in 1946 the general-secretary of the United Nations had submitted a resolution stating that Nazi crimes were so horrendous that the countries of the world needed to impose a blanket censorship on any reference to Hitler. -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland President Talks Socialism on Fox News
Opinion -Week of March 18, 2019 -
EPA’s Chemical Risk Assessments Rely on Flawed Science, Study Finds
Opinion -A new study concludes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a program assessing the toxicity of chemicals and any risk from exposure to them, often produces assessments based on flawed research. -
Americans Keep Moving to States with Lower Taxes
Opinion -The Tax Foundation analyzed patterns revealed in the National Movers Study. -
Bill Would Place 400,000 Acres of Colorado Off-Limits to Energy Production
Opinion -A bill under consideration in Congress would re-designate more than 400,000 acres of existing federal land in Colorado in ways that would limit access, mining, and oil and gas production. -
U.S. District Court Dismisses Kids’ Lawsuit Against Trump Climate Policies
Opinion -A federal district judge in Philadelphia dismissed a lawsuit by two Pennsylvania boys and an environmental group challenging the Trump administration’s rollback of some Obama-era climate regulations. -
NY Gov. Cuomo Bemoans High Taxes, Regulations That Are Forcing Wealthy to Leave
Opinion -Residents and businesses are leaving uncompetitive states like New York -
Most Washington State Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Disputed Gun Law
Opinion -Sheriffs of more than half the counties in Washington State reportedly will not enforce new gun law -
Expectations High for President’s Commission on Climate Security
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #318 -
Don’t Write Off the Internal Combustion Engine
Opinion -Given the media coverage of Tesla, the Chevy Bolt and the Nissan Leaf, one might think electric vehicles are a recent invention. In fact, they have been around for more than a century. -
Power Grid Serving 65 Million May be at Risk in East, Midwest
Opinion -Electricity is the most important and convenient way to consume energy. Without it, we’d literally be living in the “Dark Ages.” However, we often forget that it takes energy to make energy. -
Ten Years of Congress Members’ Spending Votes Now Available to the Public
Opinion -Few members of Congress voted for net spending cuts over the past decade -
Progressives Say No to Meat, But the World Thinks Otherwise
Opinion -Once again, meat consumption is under attack by progressive leaders. Politicians and the United Nations call on all of us to eat more plant-based foods and less meat and dairy products in the name of saving the planet. -
Cuomo’s Out of Control Craving for an Opioid Slush Fund
Opinion -Sometimes a bad idea is a bad idea, no matter how you package it. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying again, after his $600 million opioid tax was slapped down in December by an Obama appointed federal judge. -
Mike Trout’s $426.5 Million Contract Probably Doesn’t Say What You Think About Society
Opinion -Baseball phenom Mike Trout has inked a truly remarkable deal with the Los Angeles Angels: over the next twelve years, the Angels will pay him $426.5 million, or about $100 million more than the Phillies will pay Bryce Harper over the next thirteen years. -
Scientists Test Use of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria
Opinion -Medical entomologists have taken a significant step forward in combating the spread of malaria, the highly lethal mosquito-transmitted infectious disease. -
Hyping Climate Fears to Push Socialism
Opinion -We should not embrace energy socialism, which calls for the replacing of cheap, reliable fossil fuels with expensive, intermittent wind and solar power. -
Legislative Pulse: Taxing Rain, and Everything Else In New Jersey
Opinion -New Jersey state Rep. Hal Wirths says New Jersey's recently enacted rain tax is a symbol of all that it wrong with the state's business environment. -
Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Under Consideration in Texas Legislature
Opinion -Texas’ current civil asset forfeiture laws are rated among the worst in the nation. -
Senate Confirms Andrew Wheeler as EPA Administrator
Opinion -The U.S. Senate confirmed Andrew Wheeler as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by a party-line vote of 52 in favor and 47 opposed, on February 28. -
Alaska’s Donlin Gold Project Receives Crucial Permits
Opinion -The Donlin Gold project, a joint venture of Novagold Resources Alaska Inc. and Barrick Gold US Inc., is closer to becoming a reality with the state of Alaska having issued two critical permits. -
Fossil Fuels Are Good for U.S. National Security, New Study Reports
Opinion -A new study, “Global Warming Energy Restrictions Threaten U.S. National Security,” shows climate change is not a danger to U.S. national security.
