Opinion
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New York City Puts New Regulations on Housesharing
Opinion -budget-tax-news -An ordinance targeting peer-to-peer short-term housing arrangements has taken effect in New York City. -
South Boston, Virginia Proposes Cig Tax to Fund Government Pay Hikes
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The South Boston, Virginia City Council is considering levying a tax on tobacco sales in the city to fund pay hikes for city government employees and pad general revenue. -
The Walter Lippmann Colloquium and the Meaning of Liberalism
Opinion -Editorial -After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown its superiority to government planning. -
Rubio Introduces Taxpayer-Financed Parental Paid-Leave Bill
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would use Social Security to finance a new paid parental-leave benefit for couples with new children. -
Pro-Net Neutrality Big Tech – Is with Conservatives as Anti-Neutrality as You Can Get
Opinion -Editorial -Network Neutrality is absolutely awful policy. It is a huge government imposition on the entirety of the Internet. It has zero business being even considered - by any nation laying even the remotest claim to being a free market economy. -
National Labor Trends Continue Upward Trajectory
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Americans are continuing to return to work and stay employed in 2018 as the American economic machine continues to roar, according to new statistics released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). -
Colorado House Misses Chance to Break the Government-School Monopoly
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -As Colorado parents prepared to send their children back to school this fall, they faced yet another school year without a comprehensive educational tax credit system for those who wish to choose options other than the government-run school paradigm. -
CFPB Lawsuits Could Create ‘Circuit Split’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Two cases challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may require the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve conflicts between earlier decisions reached by judges in lower courts. -
Congress Approves Agricultural Subsidy Bill, Though Differences Remain
Opinion -budget-tax-news -With both chambers of Congress having approved House Resolution 2 (H.R. 2), also known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 or the “farm bill,” a congressional conference committee will reconcile differences between the two versions. -
New Book Examines Debate over American Government Principles
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Review of The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy, by Jay Cost (Basic Books, 2018), 256 pages, ISBN-13 978-1541697461, $16.20 on Amazon.com. -
Fracking Is Not Harming Groundwater in Pennsylvania, Studies Show
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Two new peer-reviewed studies show hydraulic fracturing to produce oil and natural gas is not contaminating groundwater in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania. -
Tesla Shutters a Dozen Solar Facilities
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Tesla announced it is laying off 9 percent of its solar workforce and shuttering a dozen U.S. installation facilities. -
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Heartland Weekly: Watch All of AFEC 2018
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of August 6, 2018 -
$1 Trillion Deficits and the Crisis of the Entitlement State
Opinion -Editorial -In case you have missed them since the early years of the Obama administration, the $1 trillion-a-year federal budget deficits are coming back, beginning with Uncle Sam’s new fiscal year for 2019, which starts on October 1, 2018. -
Government Must Put Innovation First in Communications Innovation, Including 5G
Opinion -Editorial -T-Mobile's CEO John Legere and Sprint’s Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure discussed at length their combined company’s plans for 5G deployment if the government approves their merger. -
New California Laws Restrict Residential Water Use
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Californians new water-efficiency standards mean residents accustomed to showering and doing laundry on the same day may have to change their ways. -
Pushing Sustainability for Orwellian Ends
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In Sustainable, DeWeese details the increasing efforts by socialist-leaning groups to remove our property rights and individual freedoms under the banner of “sustainability.” -
A ‘Revenue-Neutral’ Carbon Dioxide Tax Is a Lie Targeting Conservatives
Opinion -Editorial -It's targeting conservatives. Already, a few score congressional Republicans have fallen for it. -
Cloning California Car Mandates Will Cost Coloradans Dearly
Opinion -Editorial -In June, Colorado’s term-limited Democrat governor, John Hickenlooper, signed an executive order directing his bureaucrats in the state’s public health department to adopt California’s low-emissions vehicles (LEV) standards. -
The Perils of Success and How to Overcome Them
Opinion -Legacy Quarterly Report Newsletter -The Heartlander, Summer 2018 -
Is It Time to Reassess Affirmative Action?
Opinion -Editorial -In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925, which gave birth to affirmative action. -
U.S. Senate Launches Probe of NSF Climate Grants
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Four prominent Senators sent a letter to National Science Foundation Inspector General (IG) Allison Lerner requesting her office investigate a grant program administered by NSF designed to educate meteorologists about climate change. -
House Committee Probes Environmental Group’s Ties to China
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The House Natural Resources Committee has opened an investigation into ties between the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council and the government of China. -
Apple Gets to $1 Trillion – Trafficking in Goods They’ve Stolen
Opinion -Editorial -The world last week was rightly agog when Tech uber-giant Apple became the first company on the planet ever to top a $1 trillion market cap.