Opinion
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FDA Proposes Plan for Streamlining Approval of Mobile Medical Apps
Opinion -health-care-news -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a plan to update regulation of mobile medical applications, including a proposed precertification program to streamline the development of “software as a medical device” (SAMD). -
Senate Passes Spending Bill Funding HHS
Opinion -health-care-news -The U.S. Senate passed a massive, $857 billion spending bill funding the departments of Defense, Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services (HHS) for FY 2019. -
No, Trump’s Clean Power Plan Replacement Doesn’t Free Coal Industry to Pollute
Opinion -Editorial -CPP, the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s climate change agenda, forced the premature closure of dozens of coal-fired power plants and deserved to be eliminated. -
The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers
Opinion -Editorial -Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.” -
There’s No Time Like the Present for Tax Reform 2.0
Opinion -Editorial -This summer, youth employment reached its highest rate since 1966, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. -
Climate Alarmists Get Two Strikes In Court — They Should Be Out
Opinion -Editorial -In July, federal Judge John F. Keenan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed New York City's lawsuit against five major oil companies. -
Irony Alert! ‘Progressive’ Democrats Embrace Obsolete Socialism
Opinion -Editorial -Karl Marx’s brand of socialism, an unequivocal disaster that has produced mass poverty, tyranny, and untold deaths, is mounting a comeback among so-called “liberal progressive” Democrats. -
Should We Watch Wile E. Coyote Go Off the Cliff?
Opinion -Editorial -For generations, one of the great joys in life has been watching Roadrunner cartoons, during which the Roadrunner always manages to find a way to trick Wile E. Coyote into running off a massive cliff. -
Medicare For All Would Be A Fiscal Nightmare
Opinion -Editorial -As the 2018 midterm elections approach, growing numbers of progressive candidates have endorsed a single-payer health insurance program that will supposedly cover all Americans and deliver better medical care than our current health care system. -
Oh, the Humanity!
Opinion -Editorial -How we long for the good old days! That is the tone of some environmental industry leaders who are screaming bloody murder (literally, not figuratively) about the Interior Department’s interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. -
New Challenges for Old Rules
Opinion -Editorial -Like many cities, Troy is trying to figure out how Airbnb rentals fit into the existing legal and regulatory environment. -
Congress Should Invoke Revised Inherent Contempt Procedure in DOJ Subpoena Standoff
Opinion -Editorial -The U.S. House should invoke a revised version of its historical inherent contempt enforcement power to address the refusal of DOJ officials to comply with congressional subpoenas seeking information. -
Keep Carbon Taxes in the Ground
Opinion -Editorial -Permanently bury these job-killing proposals, after pounding wooded stakes through their hearts. -
Google Execs’ Trump Meltdown Reminds: There’s No Such Thing As ‘Unbiased’
Opinion -Editorial -We have for years been chronicling the extreme anti-conservative bias of the massive Big Tech companies – Google, Facebook, Twitter and the like. -
Interior Department Proposes Endangered Species Reforms
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a series of policy reforms altering how it fosters species recovery under the 1973 Endangered Species Act, to reduce conflict between species and people while enhancing species recovery. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Applauds NSTA’s Demand for Evidence-Based Climate Science
Opinion -Press Release -'Appeals to dogma and supposed scientific authority equate to pseudoscience and must be vigorously compared and contrasted with empirical evidence.' - James Taylor -
Heartland Weekly: Rebutting Climate Alarmism in San Francisco
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of September 10, 2018 -
Court Rejects Nuns’ Lawsuit Intended to Halt Pipeline
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a religious-freedom lawsuit brought by a group of Roman Catholic nuns from Pennsylvania to halt the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline, which is under construction through land they own. -
Heartland Institute Rebuttal of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco
Opinion -Press Release -Events from the Bay Area with Scientists, Other Experts Countering Climate Alarmism Were Streamed LIVE Sept. 13 and Sept. 14 Across the Bay in Oakland, California -
The Anti-Property Mindset The Internet Has Helped Foster – And Expand
Opinion -Editorial -The Internet is almost undoubtedly the most expansive, impressive creation in the history of a humanity creating things. -
Reforming the Culture of Science at EPA
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #298 -
A Weatherman Reveals Climate Truths
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Meteorologist Joe Bastardi provides readers a short course on weather forecasting, in the process, he uses global warming alarmists’ own words to refute their claims humans are destroying the earth. -
The De-sciencing of American Medicine and What It Means to You
Opinion -Editorial -With all the talk about “evidence-based medicine,” you might think that doctors were becoming much more focused on rigorous science. -
Interest Rates Need to Tell the Truth
Opinion -Editorial -In the middle of July 2018, President Donald Trump said in an interview that he was “not happy” with the Federal Reserve nudging up interest rates and threatening economic growth in the United States
