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Page -Sign the Petition to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin: “As a concerned American citizen, I urge you to REPEAL the Endangerment Finding immediately. It is an unconstitutional overreach based on flawed science, and it continues to hurt our economy, restrict innovation, and burden taxpayers. Let President Trump unleash American energy dominance—and free Americans from costly climate […]
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Life, Liberty, Property #107: Eminent Domain Case Tests Our Understanding of Federalism
Opinion -A New Jersey township’s plan to use eminent domain to seize a 175-year-old family farm has caught the Trump administration’s attention. It is an important case with critical implications about the purpose and conduct of government. -
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How Operation Warp Speed Helped Create RFK, Jr. – Commentary
Publication -Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) since mid-February. Despite being new to the job, Kennedy has made more statements to provoke public outrage than any HHS secretary in history. One example is when Kennedy once stated the measles vaccine (usually part of the combination measles-mumps-rubella […] -
Climate Change Weekly # 547 — Polar Ice Is Not Following the Climate Crisis Narrative
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
Research & Commentary: New Index Shows Florida Leading the Education Choice Movement, But Work Still Needs to Be Done
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A new report shows Florida is the leader in a nationwide education movement still building momentum. According to the 2025 EdChoice Friedman Index—a new measuring system released in April by the titular education reform organization, which is designed to measure how much educational choice families in a particular state actually have—Florida takes the top spot, […] -
The Milgram Experiments: Distressing Evidence of Human Nature or the Effectiveness of the Prussian Education System?
Opinion -Editorial -The harm done by the Prussian academic system, which we still use today, goes far beyond the poor academic results we see in schools. -
Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Legislation Is Advancing
Opinion -Editorial -ECCA would provide financial assistance to families in all 50 states that have incomes less than three times their “area’s median income.” -
Spain’s impossible dream of ‘green’ electricity
Opinion -Editorial -They’ve erected over 22,000 gigantic windmills, to harness the wind and generate electricity. Portugal has nearly 3,000. Together, when conditions are perfect, they can generate almost 38 gigawatts. -
The greatest oxymoron statement of all time: ‘Renewable Energy’
Opinion -Editorial -To date, none of the wind and solar projects around the world have ever been financed with private capital, as there is no return on such investments. -
Life, Liberty, Property #106: Inflation Report Belies Tariff-Inflation Predictions
Opinion -The consensus prediction about President Donald Trump’s massive program of tariffs was that it would cause rapid and highly damaging price inflation. The Wall Street Journal was prominent in conveying those claims, and the Federal Reserve (Fed), the U.S. central bank, concurred, forecasting that the tariffs would cause inflation. -
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Medicaid Is Not a Test Lab for Foreign Price Controls – Commentary
Publication -In a desperate bid to claim fiscal discipline without touching entitlements, President Donald Trump is pushing congressional Republicans to adopt a “most favored nation” (MFN) drug pricing model for Medicaid. This policy would tie Medicaid reimbursements to the lowest prices paid in other developed countries—countries where government officials dictate drug prices under threat of coercion, […] -
Research & Commentary: New Index Shows Georgia Lagging Behind Neighboring States on Education Choice
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A new report shows Georgia has gradually fallen well behind its neighboring states in a nationwide education movement still building momentum. According to the 2025 EdChoice Friedman Index—a new measuring system released in April by the titular education reform organization, which is designed to measure how much educational choice families in a particular state actually […] -
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Fauci’s Fortune Doubled While He Led COVID-19 Policy
Publication -Anthony Fauci, the retired director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), doubled his fortune from $7.6 million to more than $15 million from January 2019 and the end of 2023, the watchdog group Open the Books reports. Fauci earned $3.5 million in his first year of retirement in 2023 alone. In […] -
Research & Commentary: New Index Shows Education-Choice Pioneer Wisconsin Falling Behind
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Once the pioneering state in bringing choice to students and parents, Wisconsin is gradually falling behind in a nationwide education movement still building momentum. According to the 2025 EdChoice Friedman Index—a new measuring system released in April by the titular education reform organization, which is designed to measure how much educational choice families in a […] -
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Why Are Lower-Cost Biosimilars So Hard for Patients to Get?
Publication -The House Ways and Means Committee heard testimony on hindrances to the expansion of use of biosimilars, medications close in structure and function to a patented biologic medicine. Witnesses at the April 8 hearing told legislators biosimilars save patients and taxpayers money, that pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) middlemen often raise prices or limit availability for […] -
Research & Commentary: Report Finds New York’s Decision to Ban Fracking Had Serious Economic Consequences for Shale Counties
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 has had serious economic consequences for the residents of the Empire State living above the Marcellus Shale. It has resulted in a […] -
University Abuse of Taxpayers Must End
Opinion -Editorial -There is no constitutional principle that requires the government to provide funding to any private schools. -
Life, Liberty, Property #105: The Political Tide Against a Fiscal Rescue
Opinion -Last week I noted that even the U.S. economy, the best in the world, cannot support the current and upcoming federal debt. Here I explain the dismal political reasons why a reversal is so unlikely. -
The Uglier side of Electric Vehicles: disposing of the EV batteries
Opinion -Editorial -Lithium-ion batteries have become a growing concern following wildfires, particularly in California, due to the increasing sales of hybrid and electric cars. It is well publicized that California will require 35% of new vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2026, and all new vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035, However, the State lawmakers totally avoid any discussions about the uglier side of electric vehicles – how to dispose of the batteries from old or burned-out EVs. -
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Pfizer’s COVID-19 Shot Linked to More Deaths Than Moderna’s, Study Finds
Publication -Recipients of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine experienced more all-cause deaths within the first 100 days post-vaccination than those who received the Moderna shot, a new study of 1.47 million people found. Although all-cause mortality for either shot should have been the same, 230 more people per 100,000 who got the Pfizer jab died within the […] -
Tariffs and Domestic Taxes: Which Are More Harmful?
Opinion -Editorial -It seems strange that some people who do not want to cut government spending and do not complain about high domestic taxes are very excited about tariffs and predict horrible things happening if tariffs remain in place. Tariffs are just one kind of tax. Yes, tariffs can lead to some inefficiencies when we start producing […] -
Peer Review of Academic Articles: Gold Standard or Paper Money Standard?
Opinion -Editorial -The first time I heard that the current method used to accept scientific article submissions to academic journals—the peer review of academic articles—was the gold standard to ensure the quality of academic research, the statement sounded reasonable to me. It seemed that everybody agreed that peer review was the best method. However, watching poor decisions […] -
Climate Change Weekly # 546 — New Proof That Urban Heat Islands Bias Surface Temperature Measurements
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
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Best Way to End Medicaid Waste: Give Enrollees Cash – Commentary
Publication -In their paper titled “Leveraging the Medicaid Expansion,” David Hyman and Charles Silver write, “We propose that rather than adhering to Medicaid’s traditional structure, where states pay providers at unreasonably low rates for treating beneficiaries, expansion projects should be modeled on Social Security and the Earned Income Tax Credit, both of which distribute money that […]
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