Opinion
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Curbing EPA Abuses
Opinion -Russian President Vladimir Putin is outraged that the United States has indicted 14 FIFA soccer officials, accusing them of corruption, racketeering, fraud and conspiracy, involving bribes totaling over $150 million in kickbacks for awarding tournament -
Heartland Institute Experts React to $1.1 Billion Tax Hike in Nevada
Opinion -The Nevada Legislature this week approved a $1.1 billion tax increase that includes hikes on businesses, payroll, sales, and cigarette taxes. The Senate passed the package by a vote of 18–3 Monday; the Assembly approved it 30–10 on Sunday night. -
The Feds Want to ‘Reform’ Fraud-Riddled ObamaPhone – By Expanding It to the Internet
Opinion -Remember this woman?“Everybody in Cleveland low minority got ObamaPhone. Keep (Barack) Obama in President, you know? He gave us a phone, he’s going to do more. -
Nevada Considers Universal Education Savings Accounts
Opinion -Nevada legislators are considering something truly amazing nowadays: giving every student in their state an opportunity for a better education.Senate Bill 302 would create the first universal education savings account program in the nation. -
Low Energy Prices Help Those Who Need It Most
Opinion -Want to know how you can get another $1,300 every year? Support hydraulic fracturing.Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” has made the United States the world’s leading producer of natural gas and oil. -
Opinion: ‘Zero Rating’ Is Next Battlefield in FCC’s Digital War on Consumers
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent decision to claim full regulatory power over the way the Internet works was bad enough, but the next battle in the government’s war on consumer-friendly innovation is approaching fast. -
California Board Rejects Additional Delta Water Withdrawal
Opinion -The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWCB) rejected on February 3 part of a request to allow additional pumping of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to Southern California. -
A Taste of Things to Come for Electricity Consumers and Generators
Opinion -One year ago, Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, announced the controversial centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s climate change legacy: the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The rule is slated for finalization this summer. -
Working at Home: In Most Places, the Big Alternative to Cars
Opinion -Working at home, much of it telecommuting, has replaced transit as the principal commuting alternative to the automobile in the United States outside New York. In the balance of the nation, there are more than 1. -
Union Contract Agreements Bolster Case for Collective Bargaining Transparency
Opinion -The Wolf Administration finalized contracts with two government unions yesterday, perfectly encapsulating the failings of the current collective bargaining process. -
Saving Humanity from Catastrophic Global Cooling: A Task for Geo-Engineering
Opinion -There are two kinds of ice ages; they are fundamentally different and therefore require different methods of mitigation: (i) Major (Milankovich-style) glaciations occur on a 100,000-year time-scale and are controlled astronomically. -
Foes Of New Sandpiper Pipeline In North Dakota Funded By Putin’s Pals
Opinion -What happens when protesters learn they're being used by billionaires? They dig in their ideological heels and shout insults. -
Solar Inefficiency Is Economically Ruinous
Opinion -In a previous post we pointed out that alternative energies (solar, wind, ethanol and other biofuels) bump up against implacable physical realities which no amount of government spending or research can overcome, and which are environmentally destructive -
Scared Witless: Prophets and Profits of Climate Doom
Opinion -I met Larry Bell shortly after reviewing his 2011 book Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind The Global Warming Hoax. A book brought about through his friendship with renowned climate scientist Fred Singer to whom this new book is dedicated. -
Lessons from Europe: Recipe for a High-Cost Energy System
Opinion -While President Obama promotes renewable energy and members of Congress argue about energy policy, a renewable energy disaster is unfolding in Europe. -
A Handy Guide for Effective Marketing in Any Situation
Opinion -Review of Marketing Big … by Thinking Small: How Anything You Sell Can Be Helped by the Greatest Marketing Achievement of the 20th Century, by John L. Gann Jr., CarpeHoram, 2015, 64 pages, $59.75 at http://salesjobsandtaxes.com/thinksmall1.html. -
Environmental Journalism Has Become Ideological Warfare
Opinion -Why do so many climate-related news reports sound like propaganda written by zealous, even fanatical, environmentalists who could never be called impartial or objective? -
Are Right to Try Laws False Advertising?
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #462 Health Affairs posted a lengthy rebuke of state Right to Try laws arguing such laws create unrealistic expectations on the part of terminally ill patients and their families. -
First Universal ESA Program in the Nation Awaits Nevada Governor’s Signature
Opinion -On Friday, May 29, the Nevada State Assembly voted to create the first universal education savings account (ESA) program for K-12 students in the country. -
Illinois Should not Subsidize Exelon’s Nuclear Plants Study Argues
Opinion -Exelon Corp., one of the nation’s biggest utilities operating in 48 states with more than 32,000 megawatts of generating capacity and the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear plants in the U.S. -
‘Iris Effect’ Reduces Climate Sensitivity
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #174 A new paper by researchers Thorsten Mauritsen and Bjorn Stevens in Nature Geoscience lends credence to climate scientist Richard Lindzen’s speculation changes in cloud cover in the tropics in response to surface warming -
Markets, Not Janet Yellen, Should Set Interest Rates
Opinion -Financial markets in the United States and around the world are all waiting with “bated breath” for when the Federal Reserve modifies its “easy money” policy and starts to raise interest rates. -
Radical Eco-Activists Hijacking the Pope’s Message on the Environment?
Opinion -Radical activists are hijacking the forthcoming papal encyclical on the environment and the planned appearance by Pope Francis before the U.S. Congress and the U.N. General Assembly this Fall to promote their own secular, “progressive” agenda. -
Allowing Municipal Bankruptcy Could Save Cash-Strapped Illinois Governments
Opinion -Much attention has been given to Illinois’ growing state pension issues, but many municipalities in the state also face pension liabilities that could lead them to bankruptcy even if they cannot declare it.
