Opinion
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The Carbon Tax Rebate Scam
Opinion -A group of old-guard, “swamp” Republicans calling themselves the Climate Leadership Council (CLC) has joined climate alarmists, including failed Democratic Party presidential candidate Al Gore, in calling for a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions. -
Thousands of School-Choice Hungry Families Left Empty-Handed in Nevada
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #181 -
New Montana Law Restricts Police E-Surveillance
Opinion -Starting on October 1, local and state law-enforcement agencies in Montana will have to obtain a warrant from a judge before demanding records of people’s electronic data from third parties, such as internet service providers or mobile phone companies. -
Policy Diagnosis: Free-Market Principles Benefit Mental Health Patients
Opinion -Dr. Robert Emmons is a fourth-generation direct-pay psychiatrist who says free market principles serve mental health patients well. -
Texas Lawmakers Vote to Free Physicians from Forced Maintenance of Certification
Opinion -If the governor signs the bill, physicians will gain protection from expensive obligations that divert their attention from patients. -
AHCA Would Reduce Premiums by 20 Percent, CBO Estimates
Opinion -After causing premiums to rise temporarily, the American Health Care Act would result in lower health insurance premiums than Obamacare. -
Puerto Rico Collapses into Bankruptcy
Opinion -The government of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States in the Caribbean Sea, began negotiating with bondholders in federal court to discharge approximately $123 billion in public debt and unfunded pension liabilities. -
PBS’ Fake History: Greeks and Democracy
Opinion -Democracy did not advance progress in the U.S. It weakened property rights and sound money, both of which were distinguishing principles of the success of Greece and the United States. -
A Challenging and Worthwhile Exploration of the Fed’s Real History
Opinion -Review of Money: Free and Unfree, by George Selgin (Cato Institute), 2017, 382 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1944424299; $16.96 on Amazon.com. -
Science, Engineering and Leadership
Opinion -Creating balance and stability in a chaotic political and economic environment. -
Senate Revives Bill to Allow States to Impose Online Sales Taxes
Opinion -The latest incarnation of the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill to allow states to collect sales taxes on businesses outside their jurisdiction that sell goods and services to consumers inside their borders, is under consideration by the U.S. Senate. -
Trump Rejects Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
Opinion -President Trump kept his campaign promise to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement, but the fight for withdrawal was a difficult one. -
NFL Barber Shop Faces Same Kind of Threat Hurting Patients
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #548 -
Brownsville, Texas Gives Up Plastic Bag Fee
Opinion -As part of a settlement agreement, on April 11 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped the state’s lawsuit against the city of Brownsville over its first-in-the-state 2010 ordinance imposing a $1 per-transaction fee on plastic bags offered at stores. -
Economic Ideas: Karl Marx and the Presumption of a “Right Side” to History
Opinion -What does it mean to be on the "right" side of history? -
Texas Clean-Up Plan Could Cause Environmental Disaster, State, Army Corps Say
Opinion -The State of Texas and local business and city leaders are fighting a clean-up plan of a toxic waste site proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -
The Paris Climate Agreement, Not “Climate Change,” Is the Threat; Trump’s Pull-out Is Good for the Poor and for Our Health
Opinion -A consortium of medical societies is echoing former President Obama’s dire warning that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world and public health. -
Anti-Trumpism in the classroom at Butler
Opinion -“Donald J. Trump won the U.S Presidency despite perpetuating sexism, white supremacy, xenophobia, nationalism, nativism, and imperialism.” -
Will Public Schools Survive if Blaine Amendments Don’t?
Opinion -Blaine amendments, borne out of 19th-century anti-Catholic bigotry, have been the constant bane of the modern education-choice movement. -
Pittsburgh, Paris and the Possible
Opinion -Pittsburgh’s Democratic Mayor Bill Peduto recently claimed that despite Trump leaving Paris, the city is still committed to renewable energy. -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland Institute Experts in Rose Garden as Trump Announces Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
Opinion -resident Donald Trump invited three members of The Heartland Institute’s team – Joseph Bast, Fred Palmer, and Aaron Stover – to the White House to witness a historic moment on Thursday. -
Trump Challenges Monument Designations
Opinion -President Donald Trump issued two executive orders that could reverse or significantly revise the size and management of national monuments declared by presidents since January 1, 1996. -
Health Departments Lobbying Against E-Cigs Are Robbing Taxpayers, Harming Public Health
Opinion -As if the Food and Drug Administration’s deeming regulations weren’t enough to stall the future of the vaping industry, numerous county health departments have decided to lodge themselves in the war against electronic cigarettes. -
Freelance-Physician Market Growth Accelerates with ‘Nomad Health’
Opinion -Some are calling it the Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb of health care.
