Opinion
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California Considers Implementing Individual Mandate
Opinion -health-care-news -The California Legislature is considering an individual mandate that would effectively force young, healthy Californians to purchase health insurance. -
Report: Occupational Licensing Is Costly to the U.S. Economy
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Institute for Justice finds licensing barriers may cost the national economy more than 1.8 million jobs. -
USGS Finds Vast New Oil and Gas Reserves in Texas, New Mexico
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the Permian Basin in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, contains much more oil and gas than government and industry experts previously estimated. -
USDA Secretary Perdue Proposes Tighter Food Stamp Work Requirements
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Proposed rule focuses on tightening loopholes in SNAP’s work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents -
Governing Without Congress
Opinion -Editorial -If America’s founders had been forced to choose between having no Congress, or no President, they would quickly have chosen the latter. -
When Environmentalism Becomes Corruption
Opinion -Editorial -Environmental principles are too often used to stop lawful, responsible, vital land uses. We need rational rules to protect environmental values – and meet essential societal needs. -
Climate Hysterics Skyrocket
Opinion -Editorial -Increasingly absurd disaster rhetoric is consistently contradicted by climate and weather reality. -
Heartland Weekly – Four Glaring Examples of the Socialist Agenda
Opinion -Editorial -Week of January 14, 2019 -
Commentary: This Little-Known Fact Will Make It Harder to Tackle the National Debt
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Federal Reserve contributions toward national debt payments are falling -
Don’t Ban Plastic Bags!
Opinion -Editorial -Learn the facts about plastic versus paper bags – and bag the bans, instead. -
What Professionals Considering ‘Sustainable Investment’ Policies Should Know
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #311 -
Wisconsin Attorney General: ‘Wedding Barns’ Subject to State Liquor Laws
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says barns rented for weddings and other events require liquor licenses. -
Climate Doom Ahead? Think Twice.
Opinion -Editorial -It’s one word – but it could change the course of the world for decades to come. -
New Jersey Considers Defined-Contribution Public Employee Pensions
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Legislators are considering moving new state and local public employees from the Garden State’s underfunded pension systems to defined-contribution plans. -
Trump Signs Bipartisan ‘First Step’ Criminal Justice Reform
Opinion -budget-tax-news -One of the largest reforms of the federal criminal justice system in generations is now law. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Introduction of Child Safety Account Legislation
Opinion -Press Release -“No child should be forced to remain in an unsafe education environment.” - Lennie Jarratt -
The US Should Ban Spying China From Selling Us Commuter Trains – Especially In DC
Opinion -Editorial -This Donald Trump-Russia Collusion nonsense – is nonsense for about nine million different reasons. -
Florida Supreme Court Rebuffs Challenge to Public School System
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Court ruled that the adequacy of the schools is a political question, not a judicial question -
Leftist Radicals to Blame for Decline of Small Colleges like UW-SP
Opinion -Editorial -Who needs "history" -- all that irrelevant focus on dead white men -- anyway? -
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Consider Property-Tax Swap Bill
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Bill would slash property taxes, hike state personal income tax -
States Sue Companies Over 2015 Health Care Data Breach
Opinion -health-care-news -Twelve state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against several information technology companies and their subsidiaries, alleging poor business practices led directly to the theft of private health care data of 3.9 million people in a 2015 data breach. -
Unions, Hospitals Doubtful About Proposed New York Universal Health Care Plan
Opinion -health-care-news -The New York City Council is supporting a proposal from Albany to take over the state’s health care system by creating a “Medicare for All” program, over the objections of hospitals and labor union leaders. -
Sweden as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Socialist Role Model
Opinion -Editorial -The much maligned Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might have been on to something, although possibly inadvertently, in her interview January 6, 2019 with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes. -
Wisconsin School Choice Students Outperform Government School Peers
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -Students in statewide school choice program ace ACT test
