Opinion
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Congresswoman Virginia Foxx Shares Insight into New Higher Education Bill
Opinion -Congresswoman Virginia Foxx Shares Insight into New Higher Education Bill -
Easter Island Myths and Realities
Opinion -The island’s demise was a human and Little Ice Age tragedy, not “ecological suicide.” -
Calls For Return Of Net Neutrality Are Hypocrisy At Its Worst
Opinion -The Internet Association (IA), a lobbyist organization that includes Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, and other Silicon Valley big businesses, is pressuring U.S. senators to use Congress' authority under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). -
Obama Policy Linked to School Shootings
Opinion -RealClearInvestigations cites a deliberate Obama policy of allowing thousands of troubled, often violent, students to commit crimes without legal consequence. -
Reasons for Anti-Capitalism: Ignorance, Arrogance, and Envy
Opinion -Why is the free enterprise or capitalist economic system so widely disliked, hated and opposed? -
UC San Francisco Authors Inadvertently Validate Our Call for Retraction
Opinion -The Chafee article must be retracted. -
Retract the UC San Francisco E-Cigarette “Gateway” Study
Opinion -Some published articles are so flawed that they deserve retraction. -
Science Catastrophe Scares and IPCC Ascent Explained
Opinion -This book describes how in the latter half of the 20th century, as government began to dominate science, scientists discovered they could get huge amounts of funding if they raised public terror over alleged crises in their fields of research. -
How Did Americans Lose Their Right to Privacy?
Opinion -Americans want their right to privacy restored. -
America’s Kids Need Sleep And Time To Play To Avoid Mental Health Problem
Opinion -As debate rages over possible ways to curb school shootings such the one that occurred recently in Parkland, Florida, increased attention to the mental well-being of young people often pops up as a recommended priority. -
California Says It Will Block Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan
Opinion -California government officials declared they will block President Donald Trump’s plan to include a portion of the outer continental shelf (OCS) off the state’s coast in his proposal to expand offshore oil and gas exploration and production. -
Indiana Utility Cuts Rate Request in Response to Federal Tax Cut
Opinion -An Indiana utility reduced its proposed rate increase, saying the recently enacted federal tax reform law allowed it to reduce its request. -
Entitlement Reform Would Give Wisconsinites a Real Helping Hand
Opinion -A package of bills approved by the Wisconsin Senate that are currently awaiting Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) signature. -
The Falsehoods and Truths About Libertarianism
Opinion -Duke historian Nancy MacLean made waves in 2017 with her book Democracy in Chains. -
President Trump Can End Drug Shortages, Reduce Prices By Promoting Competition
Opinion -The kickback scheme created by the "safe harbor" is directly responsible for drug shortages and price hikes because it has destroyed the economic incentive to produce many critical life-saving medicines. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to EPA Review of CAFE Standards
Opinion -“It is time to end CAFE standards entirely.” - H. Sterling Burnett -
Tennessee Should REIN in Regulations—Tennesseans Deserve It!
Opinion -Thanks to state Rep. Martin Daniel’s (R-Knoxville) proposed Regulations of the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act (REINS Act), Tennessee is now at the vanguard of a growing movement to bring transparency and accountability back to government. -
Are Parents to Blame for Distressed State of American Youth?
Opinion -We seem never to consider the role of parents -
Fossil Fuels Under Fire
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #282 -
Homeland Security Dept. Waives Environmental Rules for Border Wall
Opinion -To speed up construction of President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is waiving more than 30 environmental rules for a segment of the wall in New Mexico. -
(Hot) Air Let Out of California’s Climate Change Lawsuit
Opinion -California thought there might have been some kind of conspiracy by oil companies to hide secrets about global warming. Umm ... no. -
Mises the Man and His Monetary Policy Ideas Based on His “Lost Papers”
Opinion -One day in 1927 Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, stood at the window of his office at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, and said “Maybe grass will grow there, because our civilization will end.” -
EPA Rejects Connecticut’s Request for Limits on Pennsylvania Coal Plant
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rejected a request from the government of Connecticut to place new limits on ozone emissions from a Pennsylvania-based coal-fired power plant. -
New England Imported Natural Gas from Russia This Winter
Opinion -During the recent severe winter in the northeastern United States, utilities had to import natural gas from Russia to heat homes and keep the electricity on.