Opinion
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State AGs to Waste Tax Dollars on ‘Climate Fraud’ Investigations
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #209 The theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is composed of three parts: 1) Earth is warming unnaturally, causing changes to the climate; 2) Human actions, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are causing this warming -
Thankfully, Survey Shows Many Science Teachers Reject Climate Change Dogma
Opinion -I recently found hope in an unexpected place: public schools. -
Utah Rep. Chaffetz Offers Bill Ending Land Agencies Law Enforcement Responsibilities
Opinion -In the aftermath of the recent standoff in Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) is offering legislation to end the Bureau of Land Management's and the U.S. -
Heartland Experts React to National Wave of Education Choice Expansion
Opinion -In the past few days, five states have created or expanded their education choice options. -
Proposed Canadian LNG Project Threatened by New Federal Climate Policies
Opinion -Frustrated over Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s delaying tactics slowing federal approval of its Pacific NorthWest Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) project, Malaysia’s Petronas is threatening to walk away if it doesn’t get federal approval by March -
Tennessee Lawmakers Pursue CON Reform
Opinion -Twin bills offered in the Tennessee House and Senate would make it easier for hospitals to add beds, perform construction projects, and acquire MRI machines, by removing the requirement to acquire a certificate of need (CON) from the state’s Health -
West Virginia Eases Homeschooling Paperwork Rules
Opinion -West Virginia has passed into law a bill easing homeschooling parents’ paperwork burden, reforming the way the state’s “notice of intent” process works. Gov. Earl Tomblin (D) signed House Bill 4175 into law in March. -
Lawmakers Leave New Hampshire Work Requirements Vulnerable to Removal by CMS
Opinion -A split in the New Hampshire House of Representatives prompted Speaker Shawn Jasper (R-Hillsborough County) to break a 181–181 tie on March 9 in favor of including a severability clause for work requirements in House Bill 1696. -
Feds Want States To Quell Anti-Testing Uprising
Opinion -Big government tamps down all optimism associated with springtime. As if the April 15 deadline for filing tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service wasn’t stressful enough, now comes the season of federally mandated K–12 standardized testing. -
Kentucky Gov. Bevin Will Dismantle State Exchange, Reform Medicaid
Opinion -News -Republican lawmakers are following Kentucky Gov. -
Intellectual Property Protection is a Fundamental Free Market Tenet – Not a Tax
Opinion -There was on Monday a quintessential example of the horrendously bad thinking of those opposed to all things intellectual property. An op-ed totally disconnected from Reality – and chock full of thought-free, pathetic anti-property platitudes. -
Yaron Brook Says America’s Fight Against Income Inequality is Misguided
Opinion -It was fitting for The Heartland Institute's President and CEO Joe Bast to feature Yaron Brook President of the Ayn Rand Institute, in a discussion of his new book, "Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality. -
Iowa Gov. Branstad Urges Repeal of State’s Certificate of Need Laws
Opinion -After an Iowa government board blocked a mental health facility from opening in the City of Bettendorf, Gov. -
Tennessee Lawmakers Offer Direct Primary Care as Alternative to Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -A year after rejecting Gov. Bill Haslam’s (R) plan to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Tennessee lawmakers are adopting free-market reforms to increase patient access to affordable health care, lower costs, and improve quality. -
Virginia Lawmakers Vote to Protect Direct Primary Care
Opinion -A bill that would protect patients and doctors who enter into direct primary care agreements passed the Virginia House and Senate with bipartisan support and awaits Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s (D) signature on or before April 15. -
Bipartisan Energy Bill Being Negotiated in Congress
Opinion -A bipartisan energy bill currently being negotiated in the U.S. -
Bill Offered to Block Washington State Carbon Cap Plan
Opinion -Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee’s (D) effort to impose a statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions through executive action has provoked some state lawmakers to offer legislation in the state’s Senate that would prevent such unilateral action.State Sen. -
California Channel Islands Foxes No Longer Endangered
Opinion -On February 12, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed removing the San Miguel, Santa Rose, and Santa Cruz fox subspecies from the Endangered Species List and downgrading the Santa Catalina Island fox from “endangered” to “threatened” status. -
Colorado Single-Payer Health Care Amendment Goes to Ballot
Opinion -In November, Colorado voters will decide by ballot initiative whether to amend the state’s constitution to mandate the creation of a universal, statewide, single-payer health care system. -
The Developing World Wants Natural Gas and Electricity, Hillary Clinton Sends Cookstoves
Opinion -Hillary Clinton’s “trustworthiness” problem is fed by a long history of “varying credibility,” as a recent Politico story delineated, including cattle-futures trading, law firm billing records, muddled sniper fire recollections and e-mail use. -
The Rise of Socialized Medicine
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #500 In August 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama expressed his hope for the growth of socialized medicine in the United States. -
Michigan Lawmaker Proposes Using School Buses for Traffic Enforcement
Opinion -A Michigan lawmaker has proposed a bill that would allow Detroit government school buses to serve as mobile traffic enforcement cameras, which he says will help boost revenue for Detroit Public Schools (DPS), the city government’s financially distressed -
Netflix’s Contribution to the Net Neutrality Big Lie
Opinion -Net Neutrality is a really stupid, anti-capitalism policy – that the Barack Obama Administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unilaterally (and likely illegally) jammed down our throats in February 2015. -
Lawmaker Vows to Fight Veto of Virginia Homeschooler Athletics Bill
Opinion -For the second year in a row, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has vetoed a law that would allow Virginia homeschool athletes to participate on public school athletic teams and in their facilities.