Opinion
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What Trumpnomics 1.0 Was and What 2.0 Could Be
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Trumpnomics is it's own unique mix of economics values. Darren Brady Nelson breaks down how this has worked for the United States. -
Blame? Who is Taking the Credit for the Government Shutdown?
Opinion -Editorial -This past Friday the deadline for an agreement on a "continuing resolution" on the federal budget expired, resulting in a temporary shutdown of the US government. -
Conservatives Split on Funding for Louisiana Gasification Plant
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Conservatives are split on whether to support the $3.8 billion Lake Charles Gasification project intended to turn waste from oil refining into synthetic natural gas while capturing various emissions and converting them into valuable chemicals. -
Appeals Court Places Hold on Activist-Backed Youth Climate Lawsuit
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A U.S. Appeals Court ordered a temporary stay in a landmark climate change lawsuit brought against the federal government by 21 youths backed by environmental activist groups. -
NRDC Study: Fracking Doesn’t Pollute Groundwater
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking,” is not a major threat to drinking water, according to a new study financed in part by the anti-fracking Natural Resources Defense Council. -
NY’s Over-Reaching, Micro-Managing Governor: From ‘Green Energy’ to…Charity Milk
Opinion -When politicians are over-reaching, micro-managing busybodies, they are over-reaching, micro-managing busybodies on…everything. -
Business ‘Savant’ Andrew Ross Sorkin Gets Elon Musk Very, Very Wrong
Opinion -Editorial -Musk isn't the genius he's propped up to be. -
Democratic Platform Calls for End to Fossil Fuels, Prosecuting Climate Skeptics
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The energy and climate sections of the Democratic Party’s 2016 platform calls for a national mobilization to fight climate change and ending the use of fossil fuels. -
Texas Sues EPA for its Methane Clampdown
Opinion -The State of Texas sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 29, 2016, to block the agency’s new rules aimed at reducing oilfield methane emissions. -
House Speaker Ryan Rolls Out ‘Better Way’ Reform Agenda
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The top lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a comprehensive reform agenda, in which he proposes a set of economic policy reforms to reduce the size of government using conservative principles. -
Stimulus Bill Bullies Poor DC Schoolkids
Opinion -Congressional Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for trying to strip school choice from 1,700 kids in the District of Columbia by quietly slipping a provision into the omnibus spending bill at the eleventh hour. -
Both Parties are Fractured, but on Energy, Each is Unified
Opinion -There is no shortage of news stories touting the splits within each party. The Democrat divide is, as NBC News sees it, between dreamers and doers—with the International Business Times (IBT) calling it: “a civil war over the party’s ideological future. -
Tax Oil to Subsidize Wind?
Opinion -If you want more of something, mandate it, subsidize it and exempt it from regulations. If you want less of something, punish it with taxes and regulations. Put more bluntly, the power to tax and regulate is the power to destroy. -
Lawmakers Pass Weakened Version of FCC Reform Bill
Opinion -By a voice vote, lawmakers in the U.S. House approved the FCC Process Reform Act, a bill adding new procedural oversight to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) rulemaking process. -
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 -
Community Schools are Not Just a Fantasy! – Part 2
Opinion -By Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil - We should have known America was in for major changes when Michelle Obama stated: “We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to -
Heartland Institute Joins Coalition Challenging Pope Francis’s Views on Global Warming, Capitalism
Opinion -In anticipation of Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia, the Independence Hall Foundation and The Heartland Institute will host a Constitution Day press conference challenging the pope’s views on global warming and the nature of capitalism. -
EPA Moves to Limit Methane Emissions
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its proposed regulations intended to slash methane emissions from oil and gas production by almost half. -
Ring the Curtain Down on EPA Ozone Rules
Opinion -“On November 25, 2014, the EPA proposed to strengthen the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone, based on extensive scientific evidence about ozone's effects. -
A Congresswoman Demands Peace, Love and Big Brother Internet, Man
Opinion -Democrat Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) just penned an editorial for the San Francisco Chronicle. That has the patchouli whiff of her writing while sitting at the corner of Haight and Ashbury – in August 1968. -
Florida to Sue Feds Over New Attempt to Force Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) will sue the federal government for trying to coerce his state to expand Medicaid. -
Gold Stars for Pushing Global Warming Folly
Opinion -Organizing For Action (OFA) is a non-profit and community organizing project formed after President Obama’s 2012 re-election to promote his agenda. -
Will Agenda 21 Continue to go Forward Despite Proven Deception?
Opinion -By Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil Man-made climate change alarmists continue to be caught revising history. -
Making Predictions
Opinion -If there is one thing pundits like to do it is to make predictions. If they turn out to be right you can always look back and quote them as proof of your prescience and if they are not, you can always ignore them.