Opinion
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Telemedicine Offers Remedy for Rising Travel and Wait Times
Opinion -Travel and wait times for health care cost patients $89 billion annually, according to an analysis by Altarum, giving new vigor to legislative arguments supporting telemedicine. -
Trump Administration Proposes Major Cuts in Federal Science Programs
Opinion -Setting up what is certain to be a bruising showdown with Congress over Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 spending, President Donald Trump’s budget proposal recommends significant funding reductions in science programs at a slew of federal agencies. -
Warming Temperature Measurements Polluted by Bad Data, Research Confirms
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #323 -
Create Socialism Over One Product, Then We’ll Talk
Opinion -That socialism as an idea could survive hundreds of years — even back to the ancient world — is a tribute to the capacity of the human mind to imagine it can create that which reality will forever decline to make possible. -
Should We Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%?
Opinion -Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have proposed capping credit card interest rates at 15% -
All Socialisms Are Antisocial
Opinion -Socialism is the antisocial system of politics over people, governmental power instead of peaceful and free association, and a handful of imposed political plans instead of a pluralism of as many plans as there are people in the world. -
National Association of Arrogant Calculating Phonies
Opinion -Renegade locals fight California state NAACP and national board over anti-charter school stance. -
States Should Abandon CON Laws And Put Patients First
Opinion -For decades, states have had certificate-of-need (CON) laws that require health care investors to get permission from an appointed board before they can expand, purchase a new device, or offer new medical technology. -
Do NASA’s Latest Figures Confirm Global Warming?
Opinion -It appears that the authors of the Susskind et al. paper were motivated by timing and opportunity. It was crafted to advance an agenda, not climate science. -
Wisconsin Professor’s Anti-Fracking Agenda Exposed
Opinion -A professor and group of student researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire claim they found elevated particulate levels associated with frac-sand mining. -
Colorado Adopts Strict Anti-Drilling Legislation
Opinion -Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into law sweeping oil and gas legislation which that allows imposing greater restrictions on new oil and gas exploration in the state than a proposition voters rejected in a 2018 election referendum. -
Heartland Weekly – Do NASA’s Latest Figures Confirm Global Warming?
Opinion -Week of May 6, 2019 -
Sorry Kids—The Next Energy Alternative Is Not Here Yet
Opinion -With present technology, renewable energy sources can’t replace energy from deep earth minerals and fuels. Global economies increase, not decrease, their use of fossil fuels each year. -
When Two Companies Control 90% Of The Market – It’s Not A Free Market
Opinion -Many self-described free marketeers vociferously oppose antitrust laws. -
No, Mr. President, Tariffs Do Not Cause Prosperity
Opinion -The prospect that the US president would conclude that tariffs cause growth has always been the downside of good economic numbers. -
The Weird Reality of World Climate Policy
Opinion -Climate policies vary greatly by country. -
The Fallacy of a Government Shutdown, the Reality of Freedom Lost
Opinion -Another partial federal government “shutdown” began on December 22, 2018. -
Hey Government: Stop Looking For New Ways To Tax Us – Instead Cut Spending
Opinion -The federal government is constantly setting new records for income tax money fleeced from We the People. -
L.A. City Council Votes to Require Contractors to Disclose NRA Ties
Opinion -“The First Amendment protects the right to free speech and association" -
Ayn Rand’s "The Fountainhead" Shows Us That There’s More to Life Than Money
Opinion -On this day in 1943, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was published. It tells the story of an impoverished architecture school dropout, Howard Roark, and how he navigates—or fails to navigate—the New York architecture scene. -
Indiana Utility Asks for Rate Hike to Replace Coal with Renewables
Opinion -The Northern Indiana Public Service Co. filed a plan with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to remove coal from its electric power mix by 2028 and replace it primarily with electricity generated by solar power. -
De Blasio’s ‘Glass Skyscraper Ban’ Reveals Dark Agenda of Climate Movement
Opinion -While visiting Central Europe in November and December 2018 in conjunction with the United Nations climate conference in Katowice, Poland, I was quite struck by the drab and depressing architecture. -
The Russian Collusion Hypocrisy of Northeast Democrats
Opinion -The Mueller report is in, and one thing couldn’t be clearer: Mueller’s team, despite its best (or worst) efforts, found no evidence Donald Trump or anyone on his campaign team colluded with Russia to undermine the 2016 U.S. election. -
Should We Shutter the U.S. Department of Education?
Opinion -The Department of Education has engaged in scores of dubious actions that have made millions of Americans yearn for its expulsion.