Opinion
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The Promise of Child Safety Accounts
Opinion -Editorial -To reduce school violence, we must address its actual cause. -
Heartland Institute Provides Science to EPA to Back Up Pruitt’s Climate Change Views
Opinion -Press Release -"In the event an Obama-era ideologue at EPA disposed of or destroyed those volumes, we have enclosed them in this package for your use in answering Judge Howell’s order." -- Tim Huelskamp -
Intellectual Property: Everyone Loves Getting Paid For It – Everyone Hates Paying For It
Opinion -Editorial -“Hypocrisy: feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel.” -
States Challenge Constitutionality of Obamacare
Opinion -News -Twenty states have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare, based on provisions in the tax reform legislation President Donald Trump signed into law in December 2017. -
Bureaucracy Devours Funds that Could Support Teaching
Opinion -Editorial -While teachers have walked off their jobs in several states this spring to protest what they believe to be low pay and lack of classroom resources to support teaching, armies of bureaucrat have been bickering over implementing the massive ESSA. -
Ariz. Teachers Should Strike Against Administrative Bloat
Opinion -Editorial -Arizona teachers have finally returned to their classrooms after a six-day strike over salary increases. -
Once Again, the Farm Bill is Stuffed With Food Stamps
Opinion -Editorial -Every five years Republicans and Democrats somehow reach across-the-aisle — however farfetched this may seem — to reauthorize the gargantuan “farm bill.” -
Here’s Why Congress and Think Tanks Think a Carbon Tax Would be Disastrous
Opinion -Editorial -House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., recently introduced a resolution that explains why a carbon tax would harm the economy and why it should not be enacted -
The Only Real Regulation Reform Is Deregulation
Opinion -Editorial -Reducing means deregulation. Deregulation is about reducing the economic and ethical burdens on businesses and consumers -
Seattle’s New Business ‘Head Tax’ Hurts Job Creators And Limits Economic Growth
Opinion -Editorial -To the detriment of its residents and businesses, Seattle has been more active than any other city in pursuing new tax revenue. -
Silicon Valley Moguls: Google Lists ‘Nazism’ as GOP Belief – Doesn’t Pull ISIS Accounts
Opinion -Editorial -Google has a long history of defending its serving as an ISIS platform. -
Missouri Would Not Solve Transportation Funding Woes with Gas Tax Hike
Opinion -Editorial -Like many states, Missouri is struggling to pay for the maintenance of its roads and bridges, which is largely due to ineffectiveness of the state’s gasoline tax to provide much-needed tax revenue. -
Arkansas Judge Rules Six Farmers Can Spray Popular Pesticide on Their Crops
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Pulaski County Judge Tim Fox ruled six Arkansas farmers may spray a weed killer manufactured by Monsanto Co and BASF on their crops despite a ban on the pesticide imposed by the Arkansas Plant Board in 2017. -
Parents Deserve a Way to Get Their Children Out of Unsafe Schools
Opinion -Editorial -Roughly one in every 50 public school students in the United States was a victim of a physical assault, sexual assault, rape, attempted rape, robbery, or threatened with physical assault at school during the 2015–16 school year. -
Farm Bill Shows Republicans at Their Worst
Opinion -Editorial -Warning: Congress is preparing to pass a new farm bill. -
Striking Teachers a Boon for Homeschooling
Opinion -Editorial -Parents and their children can be the big winners once freed from statist baby-sitting controls. -
Progressivism and Climate Change
Opinion -Editorial -Is “Strive on—the control of nature is won, not given” a controversial statement? What does it mean for science if it is? -
Regulations Are Down But Not Out
Opinion -Editorial -Recently I attended the launch by Scott Pruitt of the EPA’s new Office of Continuous Improvement (and, as proof, you can see me in the background of this official photo). -
Trump Administration Sues California Over Land Sale Law
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The United States Department of Justice is suing the state of California to overturn a state law granting it the power to veto the sale of federal lands within the state to private individuals. -
FWS Must Do More to Protect Mexican Gray Wolves, Court Says
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A Federal judge in Arizona has ruled wildlife managers from the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed do enough to protect a subspecies of wolf native to the American Southwest. -
Trump Administration To Target Prescription Drug Prices
Opinion -News -The Trump administration has recently released a plan to target the price of prescription drugs by implementing free-market solutions to help bring down the cost of health care. -
Government Duplicates When It’s Stupid – And Doesn’t When It’s A National Security Imperative
Opinion -Editorial -“We could say the government spends like drunken sailors – but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. Because the sailors are spending their own money.” -
Heartland Institute President Dr. Tim Huelskamp Applauds President Trump for Signing ‘Right to Try’ into Law
Opinion -Press Release -Dr. Huelskamp, who suggested to the White House that President Trump include Right to Try in his State of the Union Address, attended the signing ceremony -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Chicago Alderman Pushing Vaping Flavors Ban
Opinion -“Alderman Ed Burke's proposed ordinance is nothing more than preening for moralizing anti-fun busybodies.” - Jesse Hathway
