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Health Care Reform: Now It’s Our Turn
Opinion -Legacy Quarterly Report Newsletter -Quarterly Performance Report Fourth Quarter, 2017 -
Lawsuit Challenges Border Patrol Phone Searches
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Ten American citizens are suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, alleging federal border patrol agents violated their constitutional rights by searching their personal electronic devices without first obtaining search warrants from a judge. -
Yet Another Local Battle In The Media-Left’s War On Oil
Opinion -Editorial -Because the federal government has so grossly exceeded its Constitution-delimited authorities, we pay way more attention to national politics than the Founding Fathers intended or wanted. -
When Media Becomes Part of the Problem
Opinion -Editorial -It should not be a surprise that Democrats are using every opportunity possible to criticize President Trump and members of his administration. -
Utah Political Organization Pushes Medicaid Expansion Ballot Question
Opinion -health-care-news, budget-tax-news -A coalition of political advocacy organizations in Utah is trying to place a ballot question before voters in 2018, asking them to approve expanding Medicaid eligibility in the state. -
State Lawmakers Ready to Follow Up on Amendment Convention Meeting
Opinion -budget-tax-news -State legislatures returning to work in January include 72 lawmakers from 19 states who attended a September 2017 national planning session authorizing rules and procedures for an upcoming national amendment convention. -
National Right-to-Work Ban Proposed
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Congressional Democrats are lining up behind two bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate to repeal right-to-work (RTW) laws in 28 states and prohibit states from passing such laws. -
Trump Administration Approves Pipeline expansion
Opinion -Federal regulators approved an expansion of Williams Partners’ Transco natural gas pipeline, allowing the Atlantic Sunrise project in Pennsylvania to move forward. -
Michigan House Approves Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Opinion -health-care-news, budget-tax-news -The Michigan House of Representatives passed a bill to join an interstate compact to synchronize its medical licensing regulations with those of 22 other states, allowing health care providers licensed in participating states to provide services. -
Temporary Puerto Rico Jones Act Waiver Expires
Opinion -budget-tax-news -President Donald Trump allowed his ten-day waiver of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 to expire on October 8, reinstating enforcement of the federal law restricting which maritime vessels are allowed to ship goods over the ocean between U.S. states. -
Heartland Institute CEO Corrects False HuffPost Story
Opinion -Press Release -The following statement can be attributed to Joseph Bast, CEO of The Heartland Institute. -
David Kelley’s Three Greatest Hits at The Atlas Society
Opinion -Editorial -Objectivism originated with Ayn Rand, is defined by certain principles, but has its own logic and implications that might even be at odds with some of Rand’s own thoughts. -
Trump Cuts Clean Power Plan, Boosts America’s Prospects
Opinion -Editorial -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a notice in the Federal Register that it is rescinding former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). -
Bill Banning Local Soda Taxes Gains Popularity in Illinois House
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A bill under consideration by the Illinois House of Representatives preventing future soda taxes from being enacted by local governments is picking up steam. -
High Court Could Boost School Choice
Opinion -Editorial -All the available evidence suggests a Supreme Court majority is now poised to deliver a death blow to a 40-year-old precedent that has allowed public-sector unions for decades to pick the pocketbooks of non-members to pay the costs of union bargaining. -
America Is in Dire Need of Mens Rea Reform
Opinion -Editorial -America is much less the land of the free than it is the land where everything is illegal, where, as John Stossel pointed out in 2012, “No one can know what is legal.” -
Don’t Call Climate Skeptics ‘Deniers,’ Call Us ‘Correct’
Opinion -Editorial -If it’s totalitarian and unresearched, it’s not a consensus. -
Heartland Weekly: Relearning the Tax Cut Lesson
Opinion -Editorial -Since President Reagan’s tax reforms of the 1980s, other countries around the world have been cutting their corporate tax rates and other taxes on businesses. -
Trump Reverses Bottled Water Restrictions in National Parks
Opinion -in mid-August the Trump administration reversed a policy implemented by former president Barack Obama attempted to ban or the restrict the sale of bottled water in National Parks. -
After Welfare Reforms, Kansas Childhood Poverty Rates Fall
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Childhood poverty rates in Kansas declined by 26 percent over the past five years, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, with the great majority of the improvement coming after the state government instituted work requirements for welfare. -
New Perry FERC Rule Helps Secure Reliability
Opinion -Editorial -Secretary Perry recently proposed a FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) rule that would help ensure grid reliability. -
Climate Battlefront Comes to New Mexico Schools
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #266 -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to U.S. House Approving Senate Budget Blueprint
Opinion -Press Release -"Last November the American people rejected the Washington establishment status quo. Today’s vote is a step forward toward ending that status quo and replacing it with real tax reform." -Tim Huelskamp -
A Defeat for Climate Change’s Unholy Alliance
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A coalition of crony capitalists and climate alarmists are fighting President Donald Trump's climate deregulatory agenda.