Opinion
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U.S. Senate Public Lands Bill Would Declare 1.3 Million Acres As Wilderness
Opinion -The U.S passed sweeping public lands conservation bill that would lock up more than one million acres in California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah as wilderness and impose additional permanent protections on federal lands in Montana and Washington. -
Trump’s Tweets Highlight Climate Contradictions
Opinion -As a polar vortex held much of the nation in its icy grip, with record-low temperatures recorded in many locations, President Donald Trump ridiculed global warming alarmism, highlighting contradictory climate claims. -
How Government E-Cigarette Restrictions Are Increasing Youth Tobacco Use
Opinion -Across the nation, lawmakers seem stuck in a tragic game of whack-a-mole. The more they try to reduce youth vaping, the more they increase youth combustible cigarette smoking. -
Oregon Teens’ State Climate Lawsuit Dismissed
Opinion -A three-judge panel of the Oregon state Court of Appeals dismissed a climate change lawsuit asserting climate change was harming the state’s natural resources and the state government had an obligation to protect them as part of a public trust. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Trump’s Order to Prevent States from Blocking Pipelines
Opinion -For years, far-left politicians have abused their authority and deprived America of much-needed energy infrastructure.” -
The ‘Green New Deal’ Is Dead. Long May It Stay Buried!
Opinion -Sponsors of the “Green New Deal” (GND) resolution—and the socialists who publicly supported it—got a black eye last week as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called their bluff and brought the GND to the Senate floor for a vote. -
Coloradans’ Votes Don’t Matter to State’s Democratic Leaders
Opinion -Empowered by their recent sweep of the state Legislature and governor’s mansion, Colorado Democrats are showing their true stripes. -
No, Beto, There is No Impending Climate Refugee Crisis
Opinion -2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke warned on his first campaign stop in New Hampshire of a mass refugee crisis due to climate change. -
Ohio Governor Proposes Big Gas Tax Hike
Opinion -The state’s tax on gasoline would rise 18 cents to pay for roads and bridges. -
Why Are Lawmakers More Concerned with Youth Vaping than Opioid Abuse?
Opinion -Why are lawmakers working so feverishly to limit their access to tobacco harm reduction products like e-cigarettes? The hypocrisy is seemingly endless. -
Finally, There Will Be an Objective Federal Climate Commission
Opinion -A PCCS is long overdue, and award-winning physicist William Happer, Ph.D., the administration’s senior director of the National Security Council office for emerging technologies, is the perfect person to run it. -
Charter Caps…and Gowns
Opinion -As charter schools continue to prove themselves, the threatened education monopolists try to kill them off. -
Proposed New Mexico Environmental Review Act Scuttled After Public Outcry
Opinion -A bill that would have required New Mexico state agencies to expand environmental assessments and public consultations concerning activities on state lands stalled in the state’s House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee. -
Name the State
Opinion -The number one problem of all public debate about politics and economics is the failure to name the state. If this would change, so would public opinion. -
Do You Have a Right to Repair? Yes and No
Opinion -There is a growing legislative movement – yes, elected politicians are always looking for something to do – to create and enforce a “right to repair” your stuff. -
A Classic Example of Regulatory Overreach
Opinion -Senate Bill 181 is the latest attempt by special interests to impose stringent regulations on the oil and gas industry. An earlier attempt, Initiative 97, was rejected overwhelmingly by voters. -
New England Curtails Amid World Natural Gas Boom
Opinion -Global usage of natural gas continues to grow rapidly. But states in New England, New York, and some nations seek to curtail the use of natural gas. -
Abolish the Welfare State to Solve the National Debt Crisis
Opinion -Why is it so difficult to win the case for freedom in modern American society? -
Medicaid for All?
Opinion -Democrats are calling the newest single-payer healthcare proposals “Medicare for All.” -
Taxes, Roads, and Limited Government
Opinion -The Alabama legislature kicked off its new term with a special session to increase the gas tax, a result which seemed foreordained. Nonetheless, the gas tax raises interesting economic and political considerations. -
Is Economic Freedom Killing People?
Opinion -I frequently extol the virtues of economic freedom, which generally produces prosperity and rising standards of living. However, could economic freedom possibly be contributing to America’s opioid crisis and its tragic deaths? -
Why Will It Be So Hard To Pull The Plug On Amtrak?
Opinion -My recent article arguing that we should cut federal subsidies to Amtrak got some very interesting and useful feedback on social media with at least one reader making the point that the highways and the airways are also very heavily subsidized by governme -
Now That the U.S. is the World’s Top Oil Producer, We Don’t Need NOPEC
Opinion -In 1890, to force the dissolution of cartels that had been formed in key American industries like oil, sugar and tobacco, the U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
Cherish Them From Afar
Opinion -Bayard Taylor wrote, “And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, the poppy’s bonfire spread.” He could have been describing the famous poppy fields in Lake Elsinore, California.
