Opinion
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What Good is Another Parchment Barrier?
Opinion -Those who oppose states using their power to originate amendments under Article V often start with the question, “Why amend the Constitution when nobody follows the Constitution as written?” This question is flawed in two respects. -
HRC and the Left Loathe Businesses – Why Are Republicans Helping Undermine Them?
Opinion -The Left loathes business and businesses. But business and businesses are mere symptoms of the disease they REALLY loathe – capitalism. For which they bizarrely think the “cure” – is uber-failed Socialism/Communism.The Left is absolutely monolithic. -
Florida Legal Battle Reveals Danger of CON Programs
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #478 Few government policies are as destructive or as poorly understood as certificate of need (CON) laws. -
What Scientists Really Think About Global Warming
Opinion -Many scientists have either adopted the extreme “alarmist” or the extreme “denialist” view of human-caused global warming, but both are incorrect. -
Shaking Out the Lies Surrounding Earthquakes and Hydraulic Fracturing
Opinion -The Great ShakeOut, the annual “PrepareAthon” that advocates earthquake readiness, took place across the globe on October 15, at 10:15 AM—10/15 @10:15. -
New Ozone Rule is Unnecessary and Costly
Opinion -Most of what Americans “know” about air pollution is false. Polls show most Americans believe air pollution (1) has been steady or rising during the past few decades, (2) will worsen in the future, and (3) is a serious threat to people’s health. -
Liberal Arts Resurface in Vocational Schools
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #110 The Atlantic has an information-packed article this week detailing how and why high-powered vocational schools and military academies are resurrecting the liberal arts. -
Mississippi Taxpayers Fund Wasteful Projects With $5.3 Billion In Debt
Opinion -Mississippi owes more than $5.3 billion in bond debt. -
Sage Grouse Not Endangered, Fish and Wildlife Service Decides
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced it has declined to list the greater sage grouse as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. -
Science Tells a Story of Natural Climate Change
Opinion -Robert M. Carter, Ph.D., is a paleontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist, and environmental scientist. He served as professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences between 1981 and 1999 at James Cook University (Townsville). -
Elizabeth and Sheldon Torquemada: Agenda of Intolerance and Retribution Against Critics of Ultra-Liberal Policies
Opinion -As Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition for 15 years, Tomas de Torquemada presided over the interrogation, torture, imprisonment and execution of thousands, for the “crimes” of religious heresy and pretended conversion to Christianity. -
Individualism VS. Sacrificial Collectivism
Opinion -Free, competitive markets have been the engine for both freedom and prosperity. -
Scientists Expose Climate Shysterism and Flim-Flammery
Opinion -Review of A Disgrace to the Profession: The World's Scientists—In Their Own Words—On Michael Mann, His Hockey Stick, and Their Damage to Science, compiled and edited by Mark Steyn (Stockade Books, 2015), 320 pp. -
So Fat and Salt Aren’t So Bad for Us: Why We No Longer Trust the Government’s Food Guidelines
Opinion -Co-Authored by Jeff Stier & Julie KellyOver the past 30 years, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans have become as bloated as the nation's collective waistline, serving up a thick brew of revolving-door nutrition advice, confusing messages, and perhaps -
Quakes, Wastewater and Hydraulic Fracturing
Opinion -It turns out disposing of hydraulic fracturing wastewater may not be to blame for the earthquakes in Oklahoma after all. -
Desperation Breeds Contempt for Free Speech, Freedom Itself
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Desperation Breeds Contempt for Free Speech, Freedom Itself Climate Change Weekly #189 There’s an old legal adage, “When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. -
U.S. Economy Is Worse Than Claimed
Opinion -Courtesy of ShadowStats.comThe above chart shows a growing divergence between the Consumer Price Index and what it would be if the method of calculation had remained consistent. -
Fourth Amendment Ruling on Cell Phone Data Upheld
Opinion -In July, U.S. District Court Lucy Koh upheld a lower court’s ruling requiring law enforcement investigators to obtain a warrant before seeking location data from mobile phone companies. -
Free-Market Groups Call on Congress to Reaffirm ‘Internet Independence’
Opinion -A coalition of free-market organizations created the Declaration of Internet Independence, an online campaign calling on Congress to reclaim regulatory powers assumed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier in 2015. -
Heartland Institute Celebrates 31 Years
Opinion -The Heartland Institute, CEO, Joe Bast, celebrated its 31st anniversary with a reception and dinner at The Cotillion in Palatine, Illinois, on Thursday, October 8, 2015. -
Pope Francis Pushes for Climate Action
Opinion -While Pope Francis discussed many issues during his September visit to the United States, ranging from abortion to war, the issue he raised most consistently was mankind’s responsibility for global warming. In speeches at the White House, the U.S. -
Jeb Bush Offers Both ‘Tricks’ and ‘Treats’
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #477 Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush released a two-page policy outline for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Monday. -
Taxpayers Challenge Chicago’s ‘Netflix Tax’
Opinion -With the City of Chicago’s Finance Department having approved an expansion of the city’s “amusement tax,” a 9 percent excise tax on any “exhibition, performance, presentation or show for entertainment purposes,” Chicago taxpayers are suing city
