Opinion
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Michigan Democrat Governor Hopeful Pushes ‘Medicare for All’
Opinion -Michigan Democratic gubernatorial primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed says he wants to impose single-payer health care statewide, to be called “Michicare: Medicare for All.” -
Environmentalist Scare Stories – Never Mind!
Opinion -Solid evidence shows there is no “bee-pocalypse,” but alarmists allege new pesticide threats. -
U.S., Not Paris Participants, Cuts Carbon Dioxide
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #294 -
Tobacco Funds Fill Government Coffers, Not Help People Quit
Opinion -Using the tobacco settlement to pay for public employee pensions, while doubling down against safer tobacco products. -
Big Banks Using Tax Reform to Lobby Against Credit Unions
Opinion -Bankers claim credit unions are similar to mutual savings banks and should therefore be regulated in a similar manner. -
The Future of Health Care Is Free-Market Tech
Opinion -If the United States fails to advance its digital health care industry well beyond its current state, it will not remain the world’s leader in health care. -
California Billionaire’s Radical Initiatives Advance in Three States
Opinion -With the financial support of a California billionaire, efforts to use government power to force a radical increase in the use of renewable energy have advanced in three states. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to EPA Proposal to Reverse Obama-era Clean Car Ruling
Opinion -“If adopted, this regulation would be another promise kept by President Donald Trump.” - Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D. -
Global Warming is Not People’s Most Pressing Concern
Opinion -Most people don’t really care, don’t think it affects them much, and don’t believe the hype. -
Sportsmen Benefit from Interior Sec. Zinke’s Leadership
Opinion -The Department of the Interior (DOI), under the leadership of Secretary Ryan Zinke, has reversed Obama administration policies that hindered state wildlife management, harming hunters and anglers in the process. -
Welfare Programs, Promises, Pensions and Problems
Opinion -Everyone knows that Social Security and Medicare are underfunded. They can only provide the benefits they have promised by borrowing from future taxpayers who are obligated to pay for them. -
How Japan Empowered Patients with Free To Choose Medicine
Opinion -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 -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 -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 -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 -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 -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 -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 -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 -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 -Climate Change Weekly #293 -
What You Need to Know About EPA’s New Boss Andrew Wheeler
Opinion -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 -The Supreme Court’s Janus ruling is bringing out the worst from the defeated Left. -
Pruitt Out, Wheeler in at EPA
Opinion -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.
