Opinion
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The Obamas’ $50 Million Netflix Deal: Cronyism Comes Full Circle
Opinion -Editorial -When examined through a political prism rather than a business one, this move makes perfect sense for the Obamas and Netflix. -
Navy Sinks Obama-Era Green Destroyer Program
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Citing high costs and ineffectiveness, the U.S. Navy is cancelling a plan developed under former President Barack Obama to install hybrid electric drives in 34 destroyers. -
California, Activists Sue Trump To Enforce Obama Era Fracking Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The state of California and others are suing the Trump Administration seeking to force it impose Obama-era rules regulating fracking on federal lands requiring operators to disclose chemicals used in fracking and setting standards for well construction. -
President Trump Needs To Dump The Obama Holdover Puerto Rico ‘Fiscal Control’ Board
Opinion -Editorial -We have spent the last year-plus repeatedly stating that President Donald Trump’s biggest error – has been not having made many, many more people leave government after he arrived. -
We Need To Fully Populate FTC Leadership – To Stop Residual Obama Awfulness
Opinion -Editorial -Now as anyone who knows me knows – I am not one to lightly call for more government in any way, shape matter or form. -
Trump Administration Reverses Obama-Era Drilling Restrictions
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Department of Interior announced it is rescinding a policy implemented under former President Barack Obama placing large areas of public lands off limits for consideration of oil and gas leasing and development. -
Court Rules Trump Administration Must Enforce Obama Methane Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal judge ordered the Interior Department to immediately begin enforcing Obama era restrictions on the release of methane emissions from oil and gas exploration and production operations on public lands. -
Obama Holdovers Are Making Puerto Rico’s Recovery Much Less Possible
Opinion -Editorial -The most damaging and pernicious of the nigh infinite elements of the Washington, D.C. Swamp – which President Donald Trump has pledged to drain – is the leftover personnel. -
Senate Considers ‘Skinny’ Repeal of Obamacare
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Senate has rejected a full repeal of Obamacare twice in two days. -
Obama’s IRS 2.0 (Or 3.0…4.0?…Or Is It…?)
Opinion -Editorial -Remember the Barack Obama Administration’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal? -
Worse Than Domestic Obama Cronyism? Exporting It Globally
Opinion -Editorial -We just narrowly escaped the cronyism-infested eight years of the Barack Obama Administration. If you were a Leftist – the $4-trillion-per-year-government world was your oyster. -
Obama Cronies Discover Having Too-Much-Government Apply To Them – Is Awful
Opinion -Editorial -On the way out the door, Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) jammed through a massive new power grab – which changed the rules on data collection and sales. But only for Internet Service Providers. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to FCC’s Move to End Obama-era Net Neutrality Rules
Opinion -Press Release -"Government-directed net neutrality was, is, and always will be a solution in search of a problem. " - Jim Lakely -
ICCC Panel Critiques Obama’s ‘Social Cost of Carbon’
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The social cost of carbon is a calculation, meaning the price of the global “damage” caused by releasing an extra ton of carbon dioxide, developed by the Obama administration, overstates the harm caused by carbon dioxide and understates its benefits. -
Trump Is About To Shed An Obama Holdover – May It Be The Lead Of A Long Train
Opinion -We have spent just about the entirety of the nascent Donald Trump Administration imploring them to rid themselves of every single Barack Obama Administration holdover they can identify. -
Congress Overturns Obama Administration ESSA Accountability Rules
Opinion -school-reform-news -The U.S. Congress voted to end extensive Obama administration rules governing how states hold schools accountable. -
Obama’s Assaults On Trump – Are Assaults On Our Governmental System And Nation
Opinion -Editorial -There was once a long and fabulous tradition in American politics. A president, once no longer President, kept his trap shut about his successors. -
Why Most Patients Say ‘Hell, No’ to Obamacare
Opinion -Editorial -Professor and student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently argued Republicans in Congress are trying to send health care to hell in a handbasket by repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. -
Trump Qualifies to Scold Congress about Obamacare
Opinion -consumer-power-report, Editorial -Consumer Power Report #537 -
Michelle Obama And Chef Tom Colicchio Form A Misguided Partnership
Opinion -Editorial -Just when many of us hoped that we would soon be seeing the last of the Obamas, it appears that Michelle Obama will still be involved in what passes for public service in progressives' parallel universe. -
Another Notch In Obama’s Failed Education Legacy
Opinion -Editorial -A U.S. Department of Education study conducted at the end of Obama's tenure finds what has been obvious for the past decades: substantial federal spending alongside strict regulation helps schools improve not one iota. -
Trump Starts Rolling Back Obama Climate Programs
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #238 -
Rand Paul’s ‘Obamacare Replacement Act’ Deserves Trump’s Attention
Opinion -consumer-power-report, Editorial -Consumer Power Report #531 -
Undoing Obama: Who Should Do Which Government Rollbacks?
Opinion -Editorial -Donald Trump will on Friday be sworn in to succeed President Barack Obama. Trump is the incoming – in large part because he repeatedly promised to undo much of what has been done by the outgoing.