Opinion
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How Japan Empowered Patients with Free To Choose Medicine
Opinion -Editorial -Americans who are not in the very small test groups are denied access to safe, promising products. -
The Dangers of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present
Opinion -Editorial -While people say they want freedom, fight under the banner of freedom, and even sometimes die for its preservation and advancement, determining what it actually means to be free and to live in a free society seems often elusive and controversial. -
Federal Court Dismisses New York City’s Climate Lawsuit
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal judge dismissed New York City’s (NYC) lawsuit against five major oil companies to force them to help pay the city’s costs of dealing with climate change. -
California Voters Recall State Senator Over Gas Tax Hike
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In a recall election, California voters removed a state senator who voted to raise the state’s gas tax last year. -
Coal Leasing Program Does Not Need Climate Review, Federal Court Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal appeals court rejected environmentalists’ arguments the U.S. Department of Interior must evaluate potential climate change impact when leasing federal land for coal mining. -
Texas Supreme Court Strikes Down Plastic Bag Ban
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Texas Supreme Court struck down the City of Laredo’s ban on plastic bags, in a decision likely to overturn similar ordinances in nearly a dozen other Texas municipalities. -
Idaho Gains Control of Its Water Pollution Program
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached an agreement with the government of Idaho allowing the state to manage its own water pollution program. -
Manufacturing and Trump’s Deregulation Agenda
Opinion -Editorial -During Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, he made advancing American manufacturing a foundation of his economic platform and promised to reduce the sector’s federal regulatory burden. -
Luxembourg and EU-US Trade Relations
Opinion -Editorial -It was amusing, yesterday, to see the President of the United States with his counter-part from the EU, a Luxembourgian. -
Climate Alarmists 0 for 2 in Court—Time to End the Lawsuit Charade
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #293 -
What You Need to Know About EPA’s New Boss Andrew Wheeler
Opinion -Editorial -Former Administrator Scott Pruitt’s resignation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marked the end of a productive but tumultuous period for the agency. -
Will Teacher Unions Imitate Southern Segregationists?
Opinion -Editorial -The Supreme Court’s Janus ruling is bringing out the worst from the defeated Left. -
Pruitt Out, Wheeler in at EPA
Opinion -environment-climate-news -After months of increasing scrutiny, and under mounting pressure from Capitol Hill, Scott Pruitt resigned his position as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -
Delaware Assembly Passes Offshore Oil Ban
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Delaware’s General Assembly passed two bills seeking to restrict or ban offshore drilling in the state’s territorial waters and in federal waters off its coast. -
The Next Ice Age
Opinion -Editorial -While most people still worry about global warming, I am more concerned about the next Ice Age. -
FDA’s Anti-Smoking Strategy Puts Lives At Risk
Opinion -Editorial -The agency unveiled a two-pronged approach to reduce smoking. -
NASA: Sometimes A Little Government – Saves Us All A Whole Lot Of Government
Opinion -Editorial -I’m incessantly harangued by pin heads – about everything. -
U.S. House Passes Resolution Opposing Carbon Dioxide Tax
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution “expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy,” by vote of 229 to 180. -
Judge Rejects Challenge to Missouri Amendment Convention Resolution
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Cole County, Missouri Circuit Court Judge Jon Beetem dismissed a lawsuit challenging the General Assembly’s May 2017 approval of a resolution calling on Congress to convene an convention drafting an amendment to impose federal fiscal restraints. -
Oklahoma Becomes First State to Manage Coal Ash Disposal
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Oklahoma became the first state in the nation to receive approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to manage its program to dispose of coal ash. -
Carbon Tax: The Push is On… and its Coming from Republicans
Opinion -Editorial -On Friday (7/20/18), a Congressional Resolution introduced by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and West Virginia Rep. David McKinley condemning a carbon tax passed, mainly on a party line vote of 229 – 180. -
Some Confusions of Language in Economic Thought
Opinion -Editorial -Fifty years ago, in 1968, Austrian (and Austrian school) economist Friedrich A. Hayek published a monograph called The Confusion of Language in Political Thought. -
The Hidden War: Trump’s Battle Against Regulation
Opinion -Editorial -Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, once said “the chief business of the American people is business.” -
Streamlining the Future: Reducing Resistance to Broadband Everywhere
Opinion -Editorial -Next week, the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to move forward on the ''STREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act."